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• Help wanted:
  • elfeed getting ready for 4.0 release, bug reports welcome (@minad@mastodon.world)
  • Help wanted: testing canvas patch on Windows and Mac OS (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/67d716c3-6c04-4530-9c1a-f67aa44d31bc Mon Jun 1 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Jun 4 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/314809959/ Thu Jun 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Jun 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jun 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jun 9 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 12 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • May I recommend… less stretching for your common commands, by Neil M
  • Charles Choi: Anju v1.5.0 Update - mouse context menus
  • Kemal: Brainiac v2.0 released (Codeberg, Reddit)
  • dotfiles/emacs/.config/emacs/configuration.org at main · hrs/dotfiles · GitHub (@hafner)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Wanna give a shout-out to Exercism.org's Emacs Lisp track (Reddit)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep787. emacs lisp. add width height to all thumbnails (01:01:25)
• Appearance:
  • vim-file-locals: A small package to support some of Vim's modelines in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Senka07/turboc-emacs-theme · GitHub (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip: bind scroll-up-line and scroll-down-line to shortcuts to make it easy to read when a cat is blocking part of the screen (@lightspill@tailswish.industries)
• Writing:
  • Raymond Zeitler: zap-to-char M-z (Irreal)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Installing Harper on Kubuntu: The Right Way. Maybe. - grammar check
• Denote:
  • Using Denote for Email: A manual workflow | The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
• Org Mode:
  • I Replaced Obsidian with Doom Emacs & Org Mode (14:37, Reddit)
  • Refining Org-mode Deadlines - Wai Hon's Blog (@whhone)
  • Speeding up org-agenda by keeping org-agenda-files to a minimum
  • tusharhero: May I recommend: lesser known org-modes: org-num-mode, org-toggle-pretty-entities (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
  • May I Recommend: org2blog, journaling & reading hacks, by Wenshan Ren
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Memacs: added module for getting PodcastAddict episods into Org Mode (@publicvoit@graz.social)
    • tnalpgge/ox-wikidot: org-mode exporter for Wikidot markup - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
    • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Journelly and OSM for Emacs are good together - OpenStreetMap locations
    • Notes from #29 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, March 11, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development: etc/ORG-NEWS: Announce about internal changes in org-colview
• Coding:
  • Tip about using show-paren-context-when-offscreen (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Tip about using magit-git-show-refs (@shoshin@buzz.cicadas.surf)
  • James Dyer: Stashing a Single File, and Why I Was Too Quick to Blame vc-mode!
  • Tip about using phpantom_lsp to improve performance of php-mode - @django@kowelenz.social
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • The Best Worst Email Client (Irreal)
  • TIL: Reading Gmail in Emacs with mu4e on macOS | The Cloudlet (Reddit, Irreal)
• Fun:
  • oantolin/luggage: A Largely Undesired Gadget: a Generative Art Gallery for Emacs · GitHub (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Andros Fenollosa: Playing chess online with Emacs
    • Jugando al ajedrez en red con Emacs | Andros Fenollosa
• AI:
  • What’s the least painful Emacs + AI coding agent setup right now?
  • Built a lightweight, zero-dependency interactive file aggregator (with token estimates) to gather LLM context (Reddit)
  • Turning agents on their head: LLM help for human authorship (Reddit)
  • Announcing space-tree: Workspace Management Trees in Emacs (Github, YouTube 27:56, Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • May I recommend… Treating Emacs as Emacs — 狐狸反走矣 (@SouthFox@foxsay.southfox.me)
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 32: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: May I recommend… (Prot, YouTube 01:01:41)
  • Emacs Chat 24: Omar Antolin Camarena (YouTube 01:08:11)
    • Sacha Chua: Karthik's notes on Emacs Chat 24: Omar Antolin Camarena
  • Emacs with Dr. Howell - FediverseTV (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • From GNU Emacs to code gouv fr (38:59) - Bastien Guerry
  • Shibuya.lisp lispmeetup #118 2026-05-28 (01:42:20)
• Other:
  • Carnival for June: Ross A. Baker: Underappreciated Emacs built-ins (@ross@rossabaker.com)
  • real-backup-mode: a package to backup files at each save point, never lose your changes again (Reddit, EmacsWiki)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Ignoring pdfs when auto-reverting files (Irreal)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs view- Commands
  • Emacs bra size calculator - pulusound (@ahihi@anticapitalist.party, HN, lobste.rs, programming.dev)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Where to find out what happens when a menu is created or handled
  • Allow optionally disabling the use of TABs for TTY cursor movement
  • dbus-call-method-asynchronously supports also an ERROR-HANDLER
• New packages:
  • elot: Emacs Literate Ontology Tool (ELOT) (MELPA)
  • f90-ts-mode: Tree-sitter based Fortran 90 mode (MELPA)
  • lsp-ltex-plus: Grammar and spell checking for LaTeX, Markdown, Org and more (MELPA)
  • mac-ime: Seamless macOS IME integration without any IME patches (MELPA)
  • ox-zola: Org export to Zola static site generator (MELPA)
  • phony: Speech bindings for Elisp (MELPA)
  • sysml-mode: Major mode for SysML v2 (Systems Modeling Language) (MELPA)

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