Security reminder: If you use kubernetes-el, don't update for now, and you might want to check your installation if you updated it recently. The repo was compromised. (Analysis, Reddit discussion, lobste.rs) If you use Emacs 31, please consider enabling package-review-policy.

There were a number of lively conversations around Emacs Solo (142 comments on HN), Emacs and Vim in the age of AI (52 comments on Reddit, 138 on HN), and agent-shell 0.47 (62 on Reddit). Also, Prot has posted the video and text of his talk Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs (YouTube 42:40, Video with Q&A, more links in the community section).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313776893/ Sat Mar 21 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 25 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 26 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Making Emacs Your Own « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • Emacs Redux: use-short-answers: The Modern Way to Tame yes-or-no Prompts (Irreal)
  • Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • minimal-emacs.d Release 1.4.0​ (Reddit)
  • Brainiac v1.2 released — Kemal's Braindump (Codeberg, Reddit) - note-taking and task-management-centered Emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • futur 1.2 (Reddit) futur-abort, futur-funcall, futur-p, preliminary support for running Elisp code in subprocesses and sandbox
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Taming Font-Lock with font-lock-ignore
  • Emacs Redux: Buffer-Local Face Remapping with face-remap-add-relative
  • Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter (Reddit)
  • andros/comet.el: Cursor comet trail effect for Emacs - comet.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Navigation:
  • Nifty little modal editing implementation - selected.el, special keymap when region is active
  • Emacs Redux: isearch-lazy-count: Built-in Search Match Counting
  • kramo/scroll-beyond.el: An Emacs package to enable scrolling the point beyond window bounds - Codeberg.org (@kramo@chaos.social)
  • vmargb/arrow.el: Elisp implementation of arrow.nvim per-project and file-local bookmarks · GitHub (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Moving and Renaming Files
• Writing:
  • Re: markdown-ts-mode maturation for Emacs 31 - Rahul Martim Juliato - roadmap for markdown-ts, help wanted
  • lorniu/gt.el: Translator via engines such as Google, Bing, deepL, StarDict and Youdao, also support LLMs like ChatGPT, DeepSeek and so on. · GitHub (@kf@sonomu.club)
• Org Mode:
  • Thaodan/org-note-auto-save: Auto-save org-note buffer - Codeberg.org (@thaodan@mastodon.social)
  • niqc/org-dynamic-templates: Package for define template folder for org files - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp and NodeJS: Getting the bolded words from a section of a Google Document
  • mjamagon/arrow-lang: Arrow DSL for emacs · GitHub (Reddit) - dataflow pipeline language for Org Babel
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Export HTML, copy files, and serve the results via simple-httpd so that media files work
  • Building a cli app to query org with clime v0.3 (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Mike Olson - Beta: Emacs Multi-LSP support for Python and Typescript frameworks - looking for Emacs users to try it out (@mwolson.org, @mikeozen)
  • Emacs Redux: Code Formatting in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Removing Paired Delimiters in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Einar Mostad: Fix error with Cider Clojure REPL in Emacs on Guix
  • [EMACS LAB #2] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 2) (01:17:59)
  • Philip Kaludercic: Emacs after Magit
  • Rebasing in Magit (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
  • Перебазирование в Magit / Хабр (@habr@zhub.link)
  • Release v0.4.0 · bbatsov/neocaml · GitHub - bugfix (@batsov.net)
• Shells:
  • rwc9u/emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt (Ghostty's terminal engine) · GitHub (Reddit)
  • cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el: Display images in terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) via the Kitty graphics protocol
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Comparing pronunciation recordings across time
  • Sacha Chua: Small steps towards using OpenAI-compatible text-to-speech services with speechd-el or emacspeak
• Fun:
  • Solo-RPG-mode for Emacs - TTRPG-Hangout.com (Github, @enfors@ttrpg-hangout.social)
  • vkazanov/elcity: A simple SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp · GitHub (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Using Terminal Coding Agents from Emacs
  • Randy Ridenour: Convert Claude Quizzes to Emacs Org Mode (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
  • agent-shell 0.47 updates (Reddit)- claude-code-acp renamed, bootstrapping and resuming
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - In-Buffer LLM Streaming
  • 038 Ollama Buddy - Tool Calling and modifying files with an ediff session #emacs #ollama (02:12)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-03-10 / week 10
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs (YouTube 42:40, Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal, Video with Q&A, other post)
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • Emacs Carnival de Marzo - Confusiones y prejuicios | Texaco blog (@texaco@defcon.social)
    • Emacs carnival: Mistakes and misconceptions (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
    • noa ks: You don't not need the mouse
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-02 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Low Tech High Life: Emacs magia y liberación · Inicio (Spotify, @alvarmaciel@mastodon.social)
  • Humanities in the Machine - Blain Smith - mentions RMS, GNU, and Emacs
• Other:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Create Directories
  • Indexing Info Manuals — Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs Internal #03: Tagged Union, Tagged Pointer, and Poor Man's Inheritance | The Cloudlet (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • reka: A window manager inside of Emacs for the Wayland world (Reddit) - mentioned in Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager
  • chaoswork/appine: using a dynamic module that allows you to embed native macOS views (WebKit, PDFKit etc.) directly inside Emacs windows (Reddit)
  • My little Emacs OTG setup (Reddit)
  • Emacs running on my iPad. - using ish
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: long discussion about deprecated code, warnings, and compat release schedule
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/error-API'
  • Add new function 'ensure-proper-list' (bug#80598)
  • Add references to "User Lisp" Info node where applicable
  • etags-regen: Don't try to generate tags during completion, by default
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce 'package-vc-install-from-checkout' obsoletion
  • Add 'xref-mouse-mode' minor mode
  • ; Add missing documentation for new 'cus-edit' bindings
  • (smerge-refine-regions): Refactor a bit and work between buffers
  • Improve the error API
• New packages:
  • buffer-guardian: Automatically Save Buffers Without Manual Intervention (MELPA)
  • ekg-agent: Agent tools for ekg (MELPA)
  • ekg-denote: Denote integration for ekg (MELPA)
  • markdown-table-wrap: Word-wrap GFM pipe tables to fit window width (MELPA)
  • stan-ts-mode: Major mode for editing Stan files (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!