Might be a good opportunity to set up better auto-saves, with buffer-guardian.el inspiring an update to super-save 0.5. Also, there were a couple of interesting experiments embedding Chromium (Reddit) or native macOS views in Emacs (Reddit), and one about embedding Emacs in a webpage (Reddit).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313720093/ Thu Apr 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Apr 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • decoupling C-m (aka RET) and <return>
• Emacs Lisp:
  • elisp-2025/el-xeger.el (Reddit)- generate text from a regex
  • [20] Working on Canvas Patch (Contd..) - 3/22/2026, 2:31:11 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Writing:
  • miljko/microbe.el: A high-performance, offline-first Emacs manager for Micro.blog · GitHub
  • blogmore.el v1.7 - davep (also 1.4 update, other post)
• Appearance:
  • Chris Maiorana: Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting (Irreal)
    • Tip about setting hl-line-range-function to identify current line in visual line mode
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.1.0
• Navigation:
  • repo-grep.el – update
• Dired:
  • Emacs - Rename currently opened file in Dired mode (03:21)
• Org Mode:
  • Which org-related packages do you use?
  • Taking Notes With Emacs Org Mode (It's Easy!) (15:35)
  • Reading your Emacs notes on-the-go, minimally. (12:07, (Reddit)
  • Srijan Choudhary: 2026-03-18-001: move Org heading title into body
  • Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management — Workshop Documents (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social)
• Coding:
  • aspiers/madolt: magit-like emacs mode for dolt · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Emacs VC-mode in action (01:34)
  • Projeto Omega - Cifra de Cesar (Emacs+Magit) (14:39)
  • Lycomedes1814/temme-mode: A rewrite of emmet-mode for Emacs, aiming for a clean and modern codebase · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: surround.el: Vim-Style Pair Editing Comes to Emacs (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Tree-sitter Font-Lock and Indentation in Comint Buffers
  • Tip about using python-indent-def-block-scale - mutliplier applied to indentation
  • Einar Mostad: Use virtual environment in Emacs' Python Mode if in a project with a venv
  • Monday Live Coding with Emacs. 3/16/2026 #coding #livecoding #emacs #learnc (01:16:08)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • newsflash.el I built a lightweight RSS news reader for Emacs with split-screen reading (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • emacs-os/elcava: Cava clone in emacs lisp · GitHub (Reddit) Audio spectrum visualizer
  • jellyfin-emms-mpv.el - Browse and play music/video from a Jellyfin server via EMMS + mpv (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • emacs is really good for ascii-art (Reddit)
  • Run Emacs in your browser with v86 (Reddit)
  • zenitsu7772000/manga-reader - Manga & Comic Reader for Emacs (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Agile & Coding: The tools of an Agentic Engineer (Reddit)
  • jlouisbiz/rcd-mcp-emacs-documentation: get_documentation, list_functions_by_prefix, search_functions, rcd_elisp_function_definition
  • MCP for Emacs - Improve your notes with ORG MODE 🦄 (10:27)
  • agent-shell-notifications released! (Reddit)
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/emacs-gptel-slim-tools: leverage etags for precise code fragment extraction (Reddit)
  • Fritz Grabo: acp2ollama in Emacs for fun and profit
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Seven Lines to Any LLM Provider
• Community:
  • I tried Neovim, but I keep coming back to Emacs
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions
• Shells:
  • Making Emacs output true 24-bit color in the terminal: a two-line terminfo fix
• Other:
  • buffer-terminator.el - safely auto terminate buffers for performance and reduced clutter [Release 1.2.1]​ (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: buffer-guardian.el – Automatically Save Emacs Buffers Without Manual Intervention (When Buffers Lose Focus, Regularly, or After Emacs is Idle) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • super-save 0.5: Modernized and Better Than Ever (Reddit)
  • Much Ado About Emacs 012: kirigami, visible-mark, javelin, opml, appine, buffer-guardian, isearch-lazy-count, markdown-table-wrap, surround
  • chaoswork/appine: embed native macOS views (WebKit, PDFKit etc.) directly inside Emacs windows. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • emacs-os/embr.el: Emacs is the display server. Headless Chromium via CloakBrowser is the renderer. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Why fork+exec Takes 100ms on My Mac: Debugging Slow Emacs with Instruments (Reddit)
  • exlee/emacs-reporter: Emacs data collector for macOS · GitHub (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: MacOS/NS Events Processing Queue - Przemysław Kamiński - VM compacting patch in case anyone wants to try it out
    • Re: Tree-sitter: Correctly parsing template-like embeddings - Yuan Fu - trade-offs for performance?
    • Re: feature/igc3 44f854bad09 2/5: Avoid remote references in face cache (analogous to bug#80601) - Eli Zaretskii - challenges with igc branch
    • Re: some Eglot-related options to consider for newcomers-presets - João Távora - language servers and newcomers-presets?
  • (Fmakunbound): Break aliasing, if present (bug#80538)
  • hideshow: Fix 'hs-hide-block-behavior' set to 'after-cursor'.
  • hideshow: New minor mode 'hs-indentation-mode'. (Bug#80179)
• New packages:
  • async-http-queue: Async HTTP queue with parallel fetching (MELPA)
  • consult-symbol: Consult-based symbol search with narrowing (MELPA)
  • flymake-zizmor: Flymake backend for zizmor, a Github Actions static analyzer (MELPA)
  • org-snitch: Project-specific org-capture and link faces (MELPA)
  • org-tag-cloud: Easily maintain a tag-cloud of org-mode tags (MELPA)
  • tiles: Tagged Instant Lightweight Emacs Snippets (MELPA)

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