Lots of little improvements in this one! I'm looking forward to borrowing the config tweaks that bbatsov highlighted and also trying out popterm for quick-access shells. Also, the Emacs Carnival for April has a temporary home at Newbies/starter kits - feel free to write and share your thoughts!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313909207/ Tue Apr 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Apr 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/314166900/ Sat Apr 18 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • What is the absolute minimum to cover in first emacs session
  • Cómo aprender Emacs gráficamente gracias a Sacha Chua (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • video demo of anju 1.1.0 - enhance mouse interactions (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • YE13: Working on modularizing my config (01:23:26)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Dave Pearson: expando.el v1.5 - macroexpand and pretty-print
  • Charles Choi: Computing Days Until with Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Listful Andrew: Counting Words V: More solutions in Emacs Lisp
  • Listful Andrew: Phones-to-Words Challenge V: Clojure-inspired Emacs Lisp
  • collect-alist-from-tree
  • Emacs Redux: The Many Faces of flet: cl-flet, cl-labels, and cl-letf
• Appearance:
  • Dave Pearson: quiz.el v1.7 - how to use :extend t to make a face extend to the edge
  • Ember for Emacs - A warm, nearly monochrome Doom Emacs theme. (Reddit)
  • I've now created a theme for Emacs, inspired by the Yotsuba B theme from 4chan. (Reddit)
  • Dave Pearson: fasta.el v1.1 - bioinformatics: font-locking sequences
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs modus-themes live stream (YouTube 02:44:36)
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Redux: Live Regexp Feedback with minibuffer-regexp-mode
  • ediff config tips
  • Tip about closing multiple Emacs buffers
  • easysession.el 1.2.1 (Reddit) - frame names, bugfixes, elpaca, daemon mode
  • vincentjgoh/avy-dashboard: avy keys for emacs dashboard · GitHub (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Charles Choi: Calming Mouse Interaction in Dired
• Writing:
  • Tip about using Emacs to enter Unicode
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.0 more public utility functions
  • overleaf.el 1.1.5 3-way conflict resolution
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs live stream for writing Denote tests and more (YouTube, 03:06:26)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Should org-forward/backward-sentense respect element boundaries?
  • Org-Better-Agenda (Reddit)
  • [EMACS LAB] #3: Introduction to Org Mode (01:57:55)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Tangle Emacs config snippets to different files and add boilerplate
  • org-mindmap — simple inline mind maps for Org (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • Org ediff config tips
  • The issues with issue trackers — Bastien Guerry (@ThierryStoehr@framapiaf.org) - Bark is what Org Mode uses
  • Emacs 31.x Orgmode version mismatch - Blog In Isolation (@andyc@mastodon.me.uk)
  • [EMACS LAB] #4: "literate" programming (org-babel) (01:38:44)
  • I built a Things 3-inspired web frontend for org-agenda (looking for feedback) (Reddit)
  • Tutorial para blogear como Notxor (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • GitHub - steve-downey/surround: Surround Source Code for org-transclusion (Reddit)
  • Tip about org-babel-remote-temporary-directory
  • Embark Org shortcut for displaying difference between timestamp and today
  • Org development:
    • ox-icalendar: Add export blocks and keywords
    • ox-html.el: support line numbers as a :before element in code blocks
    • org-support-shift-select: Allow forcing shift-select-mode on timestamps
• Coding:
  • djgoku/compilation-history: Automatic compilation history tracking for Emacs with searchable SQLite-backed storage. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Wiring Flymake Diagnostics into a Follow Mode
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/flymake-kubeconform: real-time validation of Kubernetes manifests using kubeconform (Reddit)
  • Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too) (lobste.rs)
  • Stop Jujutsu from auto-committing everything (03:34)
  • Making a major mode - ocaml (Reddit)
• Math:
  • ESR v1.0.0: An R tree sitter mode (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Tip about shell-command-on-region
  • [Ann] New package Popterm [posframe+terminal]​ (Reddit)
  • Show: How I added a list of other vterm buffers in the modeline
  • kitty-graphics.el v0.4.0: Sixel support, text sizing protocol, agent-shell integration (Reddit)
• Web:
  • EWW! A Web in My Editor! « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 2.0.16 - featured tags (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Evil mode:
  • evim — multiple cursors for evil-mode, inspired by vim-visual-multi (now on MELPA) (r/emacs, r/DoomEmacs)
  • evil-matchit 4.1.0 is published (Reddit) - Julia, skip lines that match regex
• Multimedia:
  • [21] Working on Canvas Patch (Contd..) - 4/6/2026, 3:33:42 PM - Dyne.org TV and 5:51:25 PM
  • laNotte excerpt (08:18)
• EXWM:
  • EXWM on termux! (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • tamagotchi on emacs! (Reddit)
  • Server play support in nethack-el (Reddit)
• AI:
  • ann new packages: agent-shell-dispatch and agent-shell-ediff
  • bajsicki/gptel-got: Tooling for LLM interactions with org-mode
  • Emacs Codex IDE integration (Reddit)
  • I forced Claude to play Tetris in Emacs. (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-04-07 / week 14
  • Raising a few $thousand to keep version control magical (Reddit, Irreal) - support tarsius
  • Sacha Chua: YE12: Categorizing Emacs News, epwgraph, languages
• Other:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Deleting Files
  • Erik L. Arneson: Emacs as the Freelancer's Command Center
  • senchawizard/emacs-polydiceware: generate passwords with dice (@senchawizard@gotosocial.social)
  • I built an Emacs auth-source backend for 1Password (tested on macOS) (Reddit)
  • Few tips for faster Emacs install with MSYS2
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility - Jonas Bernoulli - it would be great to get where-is to work with transient suffixes
    • Terminology changes from a long time ago: window, pane; frame, window
  • ; New function 'ns-process-is-accessibility-trusted', no message (bug#80624)
  • Support 24-bit TrueColor on MS-Windows console
• New packages:
  • agitjo: Manage Forgejo PRs with AGit-Flow (MELPA)
  • ben: Asynchronous buffer-local environments via `direnv' (MELPA)
  • popterm: Posframe terminal toggler with smart backends (MELPA)
  • struct-completion: Keyword slot completion for cl-defstruct constructors (MELPA)
  • taskjuggler-mode: Major mode for TaskJuggler project files (MELPA)
  • tokyo-night: Shared infrastructure for Tokyo Night themes (MELPA)
  • trust-manager: Convenient trust management (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!