This week, lots of people were talking about FSF's policy of not accepting LLM contributions to Emacs core (see the last two items in the AI category). Comments seem generally supportive of FSF's caution.

• Help wanted:
  • EmacsConf - 2026 - Call for Participation
  • Monadic Sheep: Canvas patch: we need testers! (lobste.rs, emacs-devel)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • New transitional MELPA channels: snapshots and releases (@minad@mastodon.world) - version numbers will be release.0.date.count, which will be compatible with other package archives
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs disabled Commands
  • From Doom Emacs to Vanilla/Custom Emacs — Saved by Claude Code (Reddit) - annotated config
  • Firemacs Update (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs' lispy-mode: Convolute real-world example! - DEV Community (@vindarel@framapiaf.org)
  • Regular expressions that work “everywhere” (HN, lobste.rs)
  • Scheduling Future Tasks in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • commonmark-gfm.el: a pure Emacs Lisp CommonMark/GFM renderer (Reddit)
  • vui.el: declarative, React-style UIs in Emacs buffers (v1.2, now with inline forms and flex layout) (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • an attempt to create a theme inspired by Nerv from Evangelion (Reddit)
  • Kusanagi: a Ghost in the Shell-inspired dark theme for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs with Ghostty-like Liquid Glass Effect (Reddit)
  • svg-margin: Better Gutters for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: new ‘doric-tiger’ and ‘doric-lion’ for the ‘doric-themes’
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: fontaine version 3.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Preventing Errant Navigation
  • Overriding Emacs' Broken Bookmark Position Code (Updated) (Shallow Thoughts) (@akkana@fosstodon.org)
  • Randy Ridenour: Toggle Ghostel (Irreal)
• Dired:
  • dired-clipboard.el: Copy and paste files in Dired with M-w / C-y (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Link diary Event to Org Heading (Irreal)
  • Chai 2.0 — Emacs reading workflow, stripped down to what actually matters (Reddit)
  • Jakub Nowak: org-roam Orphans
  • I built a stats dashboard for org-roam (org-roam-stats) (Reddit)
  • Vulpea v2.4: unlinked mentions, schemas, and renaming - Boris Buliga (changelog, Reddit)
• Coding:
  • flymake-sqlite v0.3.0 (@gemmaro)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.9: A Better REPL, Dune/Opam Completion, and More Robustness
  • Ankit Gadiya: which-function-mode displays the current function in the mode line
• Web:
  • Browsel: a two way communication between the web browser and emacs (YouTube 10:28, (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Jakub Nowak: New Package: Gomuks.el - Matrix client written in Go
• Multimedia:
  • as-sound-switch: blazingly fast audio i/o switcher for Emacs (Reddit) MacOS
  • luqtas/csound-score-emacs: my take on navigating the Csound score paradigm with Emacs · GitHub
• Fun:
  • the learning cliff and the View from the Top (Reddit)
• AI:
  • For scientists and learners: agent-shell renders equations as you chat (Reddit, YouTube)
  • emacs-opencode: native Emacs client for OpenCode (Reddit)
  • emacs-jail-mcp: MCP server with disposable Emacs sandbox (Reddit)
  • macher-agent updates (emacs native agent orchestration) (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: copilot.el 0.7
  • Andros Fenollosa: How I built a GPU backend for Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Community:
  • Emacs Blog Carnival July 2026 "Programming" | Plain DrOps (@SpaceCadet@chaos.social)
  • Emacs anniversary (@EFLS)
  • An example would be handy right about now - how to shave yaks with great efficiency . — Willem van den Ende (@mostalive)
  • Do all emacs veterans that started from doom eventually roll out their own vanilla config?
  • Hristos N. Triantafillou: Ten Years Of Emacs
  • Neovim user trying to learn Vanilla Emacs properly, what should I focus on first? (Reddit) - linkarzu
    • Ok, so Now we're Really Installing it (01:50:14)
    • Follow The Emacs Tutorial (Day 3) (01:25:38)
    • Emacs Tutorial part 2 (Day 4) (02:07:00)
    • 0012 | Learning Emacs with The Professor from University of Victoria (01:34:35)
      • Learning Emacs with The Professor from University of Victoria (12:50)
  • Doom Emacs: Why I Chose It Over Vim and Never Looked Back (27:03)
• Other:
  • Helixel - Another Helix Emulation Layer (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Limit VC-Dir status process output processing
• New packages:
  • fzfa: Async fuzzy completion via `fzf-native' (MELPA)
  • git-overleaf: Clone, push, and pull full Overleaf projects with Git (MELPA)
  • lisp-ts-mode: lisp-mode with tree-sitter support (GNU ELPA)
  • musicbrainz-interactive: Interactive commands for MusicBrainz related things (MELPA)
  • youtube-music: YouTube Music client (MELPA)

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