2026-06-08 Emacs news
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- Emacs updates:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- AI:
- 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:
- 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 | 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:
- 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)
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