2026-07-06 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsWow, the June Emacs Carnival gathered 22 entries on the topic of Underappreciated Emacs built-ins. Looking for something to write about next? "Programming" is the Emacs Carnival theme for July. Thanks to Ross for hosting in June and Andy for hosting in July. Also, there was a fair bit of discussion about The GNU Emacs Architecture : Unlocking the Core. Have fun!
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- 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
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315050696/ Tue Jul 14 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jul 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jul 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jul 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
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- Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] ob-core: org-babel-call – a documented way to call a block from Lisp
- Wai Hon: One-Line-Per-Day Diary in Org-mode
- org-clock-lock: Mandatory task focus based on org-clock (Reddit)
- Seamless view/editing of markdown as org-mode (18:51)
- Memorize vocabulary on the go on Emacs Android org-srs
- [BLOG] #30 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, May 13, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Org development:
- Coding:
- Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival July 2026 – Programming
- Browse GitHub repos directly from find-file dialog (29:11)
- Jonas Bernoulli: Magit 4.6 released (Irreal, Reddit)
- tusharhero: Underappreciated builtin: Grand Unified Debugger (lobste.rs)
- TIL: Flycheck can explain errors
- Meta Redux: Sayid Redux
- Meta Redux: CIDER 2.0 is Brewing…
- Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: May and June 2026
- Shells:
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Doom Emacs:
- Multimedia:
- LLMs:
- Removing a special cause of variation in small steps — Willem van den Ende (@mostalive)
- Emacs and AI, the combination you've been missing
- New experimental feature of gptel (33:20)
- AI-driven keyboard macros in emacs (01:06)
- Glasspane: A proof of concept for a transparent bridge between mobile interaction and executing Elisp (Reddit)
- Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-06-30 / week 26: language detection, meow and ghostel, debug-on-variable-change, …
- What do you do in emacs?
- New contributors to GNU Emacs over time
- Sacha Chua: Re: React to Sacha and Prot Newbies and Starter Kits Emacs Video - linkarzu (YouTube, 14:26)
- Finish Prot and Sacha Video | Should I Take Emacs Coaching Sessions with Prot? (05:09:08)
- Planet Emacslife now has Org Social output (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- Other:
- The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core (full-text PDF, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
- Anju 1.8.0: Right-click context menu additions like Copy Link Address (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Marcin Borkowski: opening pdfs in pdf-tools emacsclient.desktop file for making Emacs the default PDF viewer in Linux
- Raymond Zeitler: Create Date Books, Planners and Calendars with Emacs
- neofetch.el (Reddit) - system information
- Printing with Emacs under recent MacOS releases (@root42@chaos.social)
- How to Connect Official Android Emacs to the Pixel Linux Terminal (No Root!) (00:20) - toybox nc (netcat) to make a local connection
- Installation and Setting up Emacs on Windows 11…. (15:17)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Re: SDL terminal type - Eli Zaretskii - theoretical benefits of changing the way the main loop is handled
- Delete dir-mode VC backend method
- VC-Dir: Let backends supply a custom mode and key binding hints
- Keep Rmail collection buffers unibyte
- New macro 'elisp-scope-define-function-spec' (bug#81355)
- elisp-scope.el: Support associating analyzers with multiple symbols
- Improve commit log entry creation from ChangeLog (bug#80928)
- Update to Android 17
- Clicking mode line menus in inactive windows now switches the window
- New packages:
- browsel: WebSocket bridge to a Chrome/Firefox extension (MELPA)
- denote-solo: Switch the active Denote directory (MELPA)
- hutch: AI code review for magit (MELPA)
- jal: Java Agent Loader (JAL) for JDTLS (MELPA)
- kusanagi-theme: Ghost in the Shell inspired dark theme built on Modus (MELPA)
- ol-locate-file: Locate-based file links for Org mode (MELPA)
- sendai-theme: A cool blue color theme (GNU ELPA)
- srs: Spaced repetition in plain text (MELPA)
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