It's Emacs Built-ins appreciation month! I'm coming to appreciate the menu bar more. What built-ins do you appreciate? Write about it and send Ross a link!

• Emacs updates:
  • Emacs 31.0.90 pretest is available (Reddit, Linux Compatible, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to Install Emacs on a Chromebook in 2026 (07:15)
  • How to Setup Emacs on a Chromebook Without Elisp in 2026 (10:37)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Useful Emacs key bindings (@spnw@plexwave.org)
  • function to list bindings
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs and the Numeric Keypad
  • new embark-automatic-prefix-help-mode (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • How I structure my Emacs init.el file (27:05, GitHub)
  • minimal-emacs.d: A Customizable init.el and early-init.el for Optimized Startup and Better Emacs Defaults [Release 1.5.0]​ (Reddit)
  • dotfiles/OpenBSD/.emacs.d at main · scovl/dotfiles · GitHub (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • k3jph/stops-el: stops: Guards in Emacs Lisp · GitHub (@k3jph)
  • imarko/vared.el: Emacs command for interactively editing a variable - Codeberg.org (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
• Appearance:
  • vim-tab-bar: A Vim inspired Emacs tab-bar that adapts to any Emacs theme [Release 1.1.5]​ (Reddit)
  • svg-line: Better Status Bars for Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Change Emacs Cursor to Indicate Overwrite Mode
  • tykayn/emacs-theming (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
  • Emacs themes inspired by pixel art palettes (Reddit)
  • How to Change Themes in Emacs (01:31)
  • How to Inhibit the Welcome Screen in Emacs (01:12)
  • How to Maximize Emacs' Screen Upon Startup (01:24)
  • How to Hide the Tool Bar, Scroll Bar, and Menu Bar in Emacs (02:00)
  • Nicolas Rougier's Talk at 39C3 - The art of text (rendering) (Reddit) see discussion for more thoughts on SVG in Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Post a solution: embark-act-on-last-message
  • Project-x revived with Emacs 30+ support! (Reddit) - session persistence
  • Little LLM helper function for copying file:line coordinates
  • kirigami: A unified Emacs method to fold and unfold text in Emacs: outline, outline-indent, org-mode, markdown-mode, vdiff, hideshow, treesit-fold… [Release 1.1.2]​ (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • mmarshall540/electric-sentence: Automatically add the extra space between sentences in Emacs. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • quick-sdcv: Emacs offline dictionary using 'sdcv' [Release 1.0.5]​ (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Notes, Linking and Tagging systems in Emacs
  • blk: creating and navigating titles of text files, linking between them
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.6.0 - show toc, show toc inline
• Org Mode:
  • Much Ado About Emacs 014: Org-Mode and the Capture System, creating headings at different levels, and changing bindings
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Correcting photo orientation for org-mode in Linux (Irreal)
  • Citing with Citum in Emacs org-mode | News | Citum (@bdarcus@mas.to)
  • How I wrote an Emacs plugin to build my blog (@evgandr@bsd.cafe)
  • Migrating a Zola blog from Markdown to Org-mode — with a lint/export/check pipeline to keep them in sync | The Cloudlet
  • Org development: Generate images in TOC for HTML export
• Completion:
  • Beyond ICR: Incremental 'Suggesting' Read in Emacs (YouTube 20:10, Reddit, @chiply@fosstodon.org)
• Coding:
  • Introducing magit-difftastic: integrate difftastic into magit (Reddit)
  • inline-review: review merge/pull requests directly within emacs (Reddit)
  • Building alc-jj-log-view-mode — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
  • Building IOS Apps With Doom Emacs | Wassim Mansouri (HN)
  • CEDET for Plan 9 coding (01:14)
  • Tim Heaney: Ziglings
• Shells:
  • A Simple jj Integration for eshell — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
  • Raymond Zeitler: exeln: EXEcute LiNe
    • Follow-on to exeln
• Web:
  • Irreal: My Growing Appreciation For EWW
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Setting up offline email for Microsoft O365 with notmuch and emacs | Ashish Panigrahi (@paniash@ioc.exchange)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Super Simple Spam Splitting for Gnus
  • New Elfeed 4.0.0 release (Irreal, HN)
  • Chatting via Meshtastic in Emacs | Andros Fenollosa
• Multimedia:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Copying images in Emacs
  • Kokoro-onnx with Cuda for text to speech with Emacs (01:26:56)
• Fun:
  • I ported GNU Emacs 30.2 to the browser with WebAssembly (Reddit)
  • Emacs Appearance in Pop Culture (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Structural diffing in Emacs; deterministic agent harnesses (GitHub)
  • Emacs client for Pi Coding Agent (Reddit)
  • jaketothepast/codetutor: An AI Pair Programmer, that teaches you to code as you write, for Emacs · GitHub (HN)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-06-02 / week 22
  • Learning Emacs with Progressive Vision Loss
  • Amin Bandali: Free software activities in May 2026
  • Emacs Chat 25: Ben Zanin (@gnomon@mastodon.social) (YouTube 59:30)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival May 2026 wrap-up: "May I recommend…"
  • Sacha Chua: Transcript of chat with Matei Candea about Emacs and AI
  • This perfect text editor doesn't exist (15:57)
  • From TECO to Neovim: 50 Years of Text Editing on Unix and Linux (Reddit)
  • PceEmacs is an Emacs written in Prolog instead of Lisp! It also seems to support LSP (Reddit)
• Emacs Carnival: Underappreciated Emacs Builtins:
  • Emacs carnival: rec mode, an all-text database system (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
  • Jakub Nowak: Radical Builtins
  • Emacs DWIM case commands by spnw
• Other:
  • phony.el: Define voice commands in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Bicycle for Your Mind: Much Ado About Emacs 013 - anddo.el (todos), substitute
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Todo Lists and Procrastination
  • jamescherti/inhibit-mouse.el 1.0.4 (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Charles Choi: Revisiting Emacs Keyboard Macros with a Mouse
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs PDF View: Replace current page with file using PDFtk
  • conquering the Emacs daemon - Blog In Isolation (@andyc@mastodon.me.uk)
  • tanrax/emacs-gpu: GNU Emacs with a GPU-accelerated display backend · GitHub (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
    • emacs-devel re: overlap with Canvas patch, can't accept LLM-generated contributions
  • emacs | extensions.fcos.fr (Fedora) (@alcarney) - emacs sysext for Fedora image-based systems
  • I built a floating HUD for Emacs, rendered in Rust egui via WASM (Reddit) macOS
  • Charles Choi: Opening macOS Finder Folders in Emacs with Scrim (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Damn! Emacs Regex problem | Unixbhaskar's Blog (@unixbhaskar@fosstodon.org)
  • самый хайповый гайд на Emacs (15:40)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: markdown-ts-mode and markdown-ts-view-mode demoted on the release branch
  • project-vc-dir: Use truenames
  • (Fmarkers_in): New function (bug#81153)
  • Support Ansible messages in compilation-mode
• New packages:
  • bluesky: A Bluesky client (MELPA)
  • cui: AI-LLM chat blocks for org-mode (MELPA)
  • desert-theme: A warm earthy port of Vim's desert theme (MELPA)
  • flamegraph: Flame graphs for Emacs's native profiler and folded stacks files (NonGNU ELPA)
  • sleek-modeline: Minimal and elegant modeline (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!