2026-06-22 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsThere was lots of discussion around Rahul's post on Emacs 31. It's the first link in the list below, so I won't repeat the links here. Also, I like visualizations, so I thought these force-directed graphs (Reddit) and text-based mindmaps (Reddit, lobste.rs) were pretty cool. Enjoy!
- Emacs 31:
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 24 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 25 0100 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jun 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091677/ Thu Jul 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Jul 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #7 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/88d59360-d89a-42cc-b567-ed39ac5186fb Mon Jul 6 1900 CET
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Ghosting cursor effect
- Some cursor flare (Reddit)
- Dave Pearson: More mode line tweaking
- Modus Nordic (Mid-)Night: high-contrast themes using the Nord color palette using Modus Themes as the base
- Protesilaos: Emacs: testing common colour values with the doric-themes
- Protesilaos: Emacs: ef-themes version 2.2.0
- Protesilaos: Emacs: modus-themes version 5.3.0
- Navigation:
- Emacs Redux: Essential Structured Navigation and Editing Commands (Irreal)
- Underappreciated Emacs built-ins: hideshow 6.0
- Emacs HideShow Minor Mode For Folding And Unfolding 2026_06_21_03:01:51 (07:02)
- Amazing bookmarks (or quick keymaps) (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: Scrolling pdfs in other windows (Irreal)
- How to Split the Screen in Emacs (02:02)
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- RFC: Ideas for clearer Org clock idle resolution prompts? (Reddit)
- [RFC] org-agenda log-mode is very confusing - Morgan Smith (Reddit)
- [FR] add :company-doc-buffer, :company-kind etc properties for pcomplete in org-mode - stardiviner
- devops.el - Infrastructure as an org file (Reddit)
- v1.6.0 · kickingvegas/anju · context menu support for Org agenda (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival: diary, Part 2 (Irreal)
- org-mindmap v0.3.0 (Reddit, lobste.rs)
- Exporting org files to PDF with the Eisvogel latex template (Reddit)
- Org Mode requests: [FR] Exporter for ltx-talk
- Notes on recent OrgDevMeetup (Reddit)
- Org development: org-colview: Add quick help for column view
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Meta Redux: CIDER 1.22 (“São Miguel”)
- Start Guile shell script that listens on a port for REPL client - box.matto.nl (@mattof@snac.lab8.cz)
- hgrsd/ztags: Generate ctags-based tags for your Zig project, including Zig sources and stdlib. (@hgrsd@hachyderm.io) - now supports etags output
- ~shoshin/ruby-khipu - Implementation of the Inka Khipu as a data structure in Ruby. - sourcehut git (@shoshin@buzz.cicadas.surf) - literate programming
- Shells:
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Evil mode:
- Multimedia:
- AI:
- Community:
- Other:
- Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival: diary, Part 1
- Dave Pearson: become.el v1.4.0 - tidying files before saving
- Document View (GNU Emacs Manual) (@annamalai@mathstodon.xyz) - can open PDFs as plain text
- Monadic Sheep: Hello there! - Emacs Reader, PALE (picture and animation), canvas patch, Insidious YouTube client
- Switching from the Mac port Build of Emacs to the Standard NS Build | Masutaka's ChangeLog Memo
- Emacs development:
- New packages:
- clatter: An IRCv3-compliant IRC client (MELPA)
- countdown-modeline: Display a color-coded countdown in the modeline (MELPA)
- leadkey: Translate leader keys to key sequences (MELPA)
- notmuch-multi: Prettified Notmuch UI For Multiple Accounts (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!
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