People are getting Emacs 31 ready for release. Looking forward to that! See emacs/etc/NEWS.31 for details.

Lots of posts for the Emacs Carnival theme of "May I recommend…", yay!

• Emacs 31:
  • The emacs-31 branch has been created! (Irreal)
  • openSUSE package for emacs-31 (@thaodan)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/314540885/ Tue May 12 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue May 12 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat May 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: describe-personal-keybindings (Irreal)
  • My Dotfiles: macOS Bootstrap and an Emacs Distribution (Reddit)
  • Backpack Emacs hits version 0.5
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Amin Bandali: FFS code review with Protesilaos (Prot)
  • The Emacs's Gamegrid library #1, #2, #3, #4
• Appearance:
  • Recent Commits to emacs:master: Introduce 'margin' face for window margin background
  • Emacs theme that looks like v0.10+ Neovim's default dark theme (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • TAGS, Etags and system headers
  • Emacs: writing a project.el backend
  • Emacs Buffer Comparison Made Easy With Ebuffers 2026 05 10 02:31:35 (05:31)
  • LIVE: bribing myself to work on async Rust TCP connections (02:35:52, Emacs navigation chapter at 2:00:15)
• TRAMP:
  • Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment (lobste.rs)
• Dired:
  • James Dyer: A Zoomed in vc dir for the Current Directory in dired
• Writing:
  • markdown-ts-mode got a major overhaul and is now part of Emacs 31
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.5.0 - add blogmore-set-as-cover
    • v4.4.0 - blogmore-become-like
  • jw.el: Just Write, a microjournaling tool (uses external binary) (@liberty@mathstodon.xyz)
• Denote:
  • Organising Series with denote-sequence — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] ox-md: Export custom-id search strings (::#) as anchors
  • grove.el - an Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs (r/emacs, r/orgmode, Irreal, HN, HN)
  • mon workflow emacs (18:31)
  • Spacemacs | Org-mode Table Spreadsheet Formula | Productivité (05:19)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Tiny package for org links which base64 embed files into HTML export for sharing (Reddit)
    • Note about needing to escape things in Org macros (@pabryan@mathstodon.xyz)
    • LuaLaTex y fontspec (Orgmode) - FediverseTV (@emacs_org@fediverse.tv)
    • Config for using multiple org-publish projects (@yugaego@fosstodon.org)
    • Blog-Umzug? | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
    • sync.el - sync Org files with git automatically (Reddit)
    • Andros Fenollosa: twtxt vs Org Social: the evolution of an idea
    • Descubriendo la red Org-social - FediverseTV (@emacs_org@fediverse.tv)
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex.el: New variable org-latex-descriptive-environment
    • ob-tangle: Make tangling from archived trees optional
• Completion:
  • Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC (video) (YouTube 01:08:43, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Follow-up: vertico-buffer-frame, a child-frame experiment for vertico-buffer (Reddit)
  • fzf-async (Reddit)
  • Yuta.el: native fuzzy finder, Lsp Completion, and command palette for Emacs (uses external CLI tools) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • My Doom Emacs setup for Rust development in less than two minutes (01:36)
  • emacs-forgejo | Thanos Apollo (@csantosb@sigmoid.social)
  • hprpl-mode for the HP-48G
  • Finally go-to-definition w/ Eglot on JVM languages (Kotlin and Java)! do you know how to improve it?
  • Using our new Lua debbuger: LuaProbe, we made an Emacs package for it (Reddit)
  • Configurando o Windows para Programar Jogos em C | Indie Game Dev (48:38)
  • Sweep: SWI-Prolog Embedded in Emacs (@PuercoPop)
  • jao: geiser moved to codeberg - Scheme interfaces
• Math:
  • The Simple Emacs Spreadsheet
• Shells:
  • Toggle an Emacs terminal with a single keystroke using shell-pop (Recently Refactored) (Reddit)
  • Just a quick "Eat" survey
  • termit: Terminal emulator for Emacs (@hajovonta@mastodon.online)
• Web:
  • Einar Mostad: Speed improvement hack for dired with EWW - browse-url-handlers
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • What improvements would you like to see in elfeed? (@minad@mastodon.world)
  • Add elfeed-tree-mode · emacs-elfeed/elfeed@072a609 · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
• Multimedia:
  • contrapunctus/sxiv.el: Launch (n)sxiv ((Neo) Simple X Image Viewer) (@contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org)
• AI:
  • I made elisp-quality-ai: AI-friendly quality reports for Emacs Lisp projects
  • Emacs with Org-Mode and Claude for Apple MacBook (HN)
  • ox-skills: manage AI agent skills in Org-mode (Reddit)
  • display-buffer-alist config for claude-code (@cyberwolf@infosec.town)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-05-05 / week 18
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival May 2026: "May I recommend…"
    • May Emacs Carnival: Carlos Pajuelo
    • May I Recommend EWM | Dilip's Log
    • Sacha Chua: From David Dimagid: What we talk about when we talk about recommending Emacs packages
    • May I recommend… escaping the minibuffer (@vanni@mibl.vannilla.org)
    • May I recommend… vibemacsing? | Giampaolo Guiducci (@gosub@fosstodon.org)
    • May I recommend… to only add items to your init files you understand and document? Martin Stemplinger
    • Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival: May I recommend…
  • Amin Bandali: Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua (YouTube 01:12:31, Irreal, Sacha)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 22: Shae Erisson (YouTube, 01:02:36)
  • I just dont get it… - long discussion about Emacs Lisp and customization
  • Emacs ATX Meetup. May 2026. GNU Hyperbole. (01:44:31)
  • Thread about what makes Emacs easy for you (@chiply@fosstodon.org)
  • Kent Pitman, Ramin Honary, Screwlisp #climate #emacs autocomplete #lisp #unix_surrealism #logic #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Curtis McHale: The gravitational pull of familiar tools
• Other:
  • veer66/ya-sort-lines: Yet-another sort lines - Codeberg.org (@veer66@mstdn.io)
  • jamesendreshowell/ramb: Emacs package Really Actually Make Backups - Codeberg.org (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: save any buffer as PDF (my new buffer-to-pdf package)
  • Corwin Brust: last-rev.pl - find the most recent commit to each Emacs branch (or other Savannah projects)
  • James Cherti: A Technical Guide for Compiling Emacs and its Packages for Maximum Performance on UNIX or GNU/Linux systems
  • Protesilaos: Re: Emacs and keyboard ergonomics (Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Re: Tail recursion - Lynn Winebarger - emacs-31 probably not going to have igc
  • New variable 'completion-frontend-properties' (bug#80990)
  • Bump master Emacs version to 32.0.50
  • Introduce 'margin' face for window margin background
  • nadvice.el: Make it easier to find how to change an interactive-form
  • keyboard.c: Allow SIGINT to `quit` in batch mode, instead of exit
• New packages:
  • apple-container-tramp: TRAMP integration for apple container (MELPA)
  • claude-code-context: Share buffer context with Claude Code (MELPA)
  • folgezett: Folgezettel IDs for org-roam (MELPA)
  • gnus-browse-url-in-article: Smarter browse-url for Gnus articles (MELPA)
  • har-viewer: Major mode for viewing HTTP Archive (HAR) files (MELPA)
  • indigo: Emacs interface to the Indigo cheminformatics library (MELPA)
  • nucleo-completion: Nucleo-backed completion style (MELPA)
  • shannon-max: Analyze your keybindings with information theory (MELPA)
  • verdict-dart: Dart runner for verdict (MELPA)

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