Emacs Carnival May 2026 wrap-up: "May I recommend..."
| emacs, community: Thanks to everyone who participated! I've included the links below.
It's May and I like puns, so I'm going to suggest "May I recommend…" as our Emacs Carnival theme this month, building on lively conversations about people's favourite packages on lobste.rs, Reddit, and Hacker News. Let's go beyond packages and talk workflows, tips, practices, perspectives… whatever you'd recommend!
It was pretty nice having a wiki page that people could edit without needing to wait for me, so if you write about this topic, feel free to edit the wiki page and add your link. If you run into problems doing that, please e-mail me and I can add the link for you.
People have already started sharing their recommendations:
- May Emacs Carnival, Carlos Pajuelo
- May I Recommend EWM, Dilip
- What we talk about when we talk about recommending Emacs packages, David Dimagid
- May I recommend… escaping the minibuffer, Alessio Vanni
- May I recommend… vibemacsing?, by Giampaolo Guiducci
- May I recommend… to only add items to your init files you understand and document?, by MartinStemplinger
- May I recommend… Stop messing around and get work done., by Curtis McHale
- May I recommend declaring bankruptcy from time to time, by Case Duckworth
- May I recommend eww for Emacs's innovative UI?, by Omar AntolĂn Camarena
- May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns, by Charlie Holland
- May I recommend using your thumbs on Meanwhiling
- May I recommend thinking of Emacs as your Fortress of Solitude, by Martin Sosic
- Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: May I Recommend…
- May I recommend… Treating Emacs as Emacs, by SouthFox
- May I recommend: lesser known org-modes, by tusharhero
- May I Recommend: org2blog, journaling & reading hacks, by Wenshan Ren
- May I recommend… less stretching for your common commands, by Neil M
(Still got ideas, just a bit late? Let me know and I can add it here as well as to Emacs News!)