It's not too late to write about mistakes and misconceptions as part of the Emacs Carnival for March and not too early to think about the theme of "Newbies/Starter Kits" which Cena will be hosting for April. Who knows, maybe those ideas can become part of the newcomers presets. It could be fun to explore something like notes for Emacs beginners and see where you end up.

Also, I'm looking forward to seeing if these tips for reloading Emacs Lisp code can help me avoid little bugs from leftover code.

Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #4 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c4ee8c26-c668-491e-91b3-b466578b83e2 Mon Apr 6 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Apr 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Getting Started - notes in org-roam
  • Emacs Describes Almost Everything Within It 2026 03 30 03:29:50 (10:02)
• Emacs configuration:
  • general.el to Conquer Emacs Keybindings - Bicycle For Your Mind
  • compile-angel.el - Ensure that all Emacs Lisp files are always byte-compiled and native-compiled [Release 1.2.0]​
  • Emacs Redux: Emacs Prelude: Redux
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Redux: Reloading Emacs Lisp Code (Irreal)
  • rossabaker/better-calculate-lisp-indent.el: Improves indentation of quoted and backquoted lists in Emacs lisp - Codeberg.org (@ross@social.rossabaker.com)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Automatic Light/Dark Theme Switching
  • Emacs Redux: Creating Emacs Color Themes, Revisited
  • A small victory: Emacs core modification in C to set line-height less than the default
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Batppuccin: My Take on Catppuccin for Emacs
• Navigation:
  • treesitedit-mark-sexp is useful
• TRAMP:
  • The new TRAMP alternatives are probably not worth it
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: Let the commits tell the story
  • my minimalist emacs setup for writing (21:43)
  • blogmore.el v2.0 - davep - setting up multiple blogs (@davep@fosstodon.org) and 2.1
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: another spontaneous live stream for denote-sequence (YouTube)
  • Emacs: spontaneous live stream to implement a denote-sequence feature (02:13:01)
• Org Mode:
  • Sacha Chua: Categorizing Emacs News items by voice in Org Mode
  • Curtis McHale: Goodbye Longform Hello Emacs (YouTube 16:59, Irreal)
  • Chris Maiorana: OrgFolio | Turn your scattered interests into cultivated obsessions (Irreal)
  • aleksozolins/org-taube: Email-first capture pipeline for Org mode · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • Fixed org-babel-execute:awk to work on remote machines
    • ox-latex: Make brackets around LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS optional
• Coding:
  • iquiw/emacstreak: GitHub streak stats on Emacs · GitHub (@iquiw@mstdn.jp)
  • Migrating from asdf and direnv to mise | Masutaka's ChangeLog Memo (@masutaka@mstdn.love) - fixing ruby-lsp not working in Emacs
  • neocaml 0.6: dune major/minor mode, flymake backend (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Emacs Redux: Paredit’s Keybinding Conflicts (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Disabling Eslint in one line with Tide
  • James Dyer: Simply Annotate 0.9.8: Threaded Conversations on Your Code (Github, Reddit)
  • flymake-janet: A Flymake backend for the Janet language [v0.2.0]​
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.6: Opam, Dune, and More
  • Einar Mostad: Use python shell from virtual environment if there is one in Emacs
  • Bozhidar Batsov: fsharp-ts-mode: A Modern Emacs Mode for F#
  • Monday Live Coding with Emacs. 3/23/2026 #coding #livecoding #emacs #learnc (01:20:11)
• Shells:
  • Edit Shell Commands in Emacs with CTRL-X CTRL-E (15:43)
• Web:
  • Emacs Webpaste Is A Tool To Use Online Pastebin Services 2026_03_25_03:57:04 (18:01)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Code for reminding you about forgotten attachments
  • andros/meshmonitor-chat.el - chat client for Meshtastic mesh networks (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Fun:
  • Random Character Generator | Citizens of the Imperium (@kensanata@tabletop.social)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-03-24 / week 12
  • Emacs as a programmable workbench (Reddit)
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • EWW fragments: fixing my own mistakes | acdw.net
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and learning to reach out
    • My Emacs misconceptions - box.matto.nl
  • Emacs Redux: Happy 13th Birthday, Emacs Redux!
  • Prot Asks: Arkadiusz about blindness, Emacspeak, Hyperbole, Chinese and Slavic culture | Protesilaos Stavrou (YouTube 01:57:23)
  • xenodium wants to know if people want to sponsor Org Mode + Google Sheets sync (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
• Other:
  • Fix idle timer leak when saving buffers by kommen · Pull Request #165 · Malabarba/aggressive-indent-mode · GitHub (@kommen@hachyderm.io)
  • Emacs on the go on a Zinwa Q25 on Android
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • new branch scratch/ert-play-keys lets ERT interactively play keystrokes during tests
    • How can we improve shorthands? - Richard Lawrence
    • monitoring GC
    • "GNU ELPA packages with NonGNU ELPA dependencies" (a very long thread) that people who maintain packages in GNU ELPA might want to know about (Reddit)
  • Implement new Dired handling of errors from 'ls'
  • Add predicate for initial_terminal
  • New user option 'whitespace-global-mode-buffers'
• New packages:
  • ancient-theme: A theme about ruins (MELPA)
  • anju: Mouse UX Customizations (MELPA)
  • clj-doc-browse: Browse Clojure library docs from classpath JARs (MELPA)
  • eglot-typescript-preset: Eglot preset for TypeScript (MELPA)
  • eldoc-mouse-nov: Preview epub link for mouse hover (NonGNU ELPA)
  • flywrite: Inline writing suggestions via LLM (MELPA)
  • fsharp-ts-mode: Major mode for F# code (MELPA)
  • llm-test: LLM-driven testing for packages (MELPA)
  • ros-face: Syntax highlighting for ROS files (MELPA)
  • tetris-60: Retro ASCII Tetris (MELPA)
  • vterm-editor: Edit text in a buffer and send it to vterm (MELPA)

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