There's some more buzz about spell-checking with Jinx (Bozhidar Batsov, Marcin Borkowski). Also, quite a few people have signed up for the Human Emacs initiative.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jul 18 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Learning Vanilla Emacs from Scratch with Prot as a Neovim User (Reddit)
    • Summary of the keymaps and lessons learned in the first coaching session | linkarzu
• Emacs configuration:
  • Bring back the Insert key on Emacs (Irreal)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: global keybinding overrides (YouTube 12:46, Irreal)
  • Hel — Helix emulation layer for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Kristoffer Balintona: emacs-guix-starter: I’m glad this exists
  • Elegant Emacs (Reddit)
  • My emacs config. (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • TIL `remove-hook` is interactive!
  • In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service (Reddit, HN)
  • Emacs Redux: Reading syntax-ppss State Without the Magic Numbers
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.2.0
• Navigation:
  • How to search among all files in, or below, a directory find-name-dired, consult-find-fd, fzfa
  • Srijan Choudhary: 2026-07-12-001 tip about global mark ring, C-x C-SPC, consult-global-mark
  • wisp: Whitespace to Lisp now supports sexp-movement
• Writing:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Fast spell-checking in Emacs with Jinx
  • Emacs Redux: Replacing Flyspell with Jinx (Irreal)
  • HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext (YouTube 23:24, r/emacs, r/orgmode)
• Org Mode:
  • Help wanted:
    • Feedback requested: minor mode for precise editing of hidden text
    • Org Mode requests: [FR] Re: [DISCUSSION] Restructuring LaTeX output: the bigger picture => a) ox-beamer.
    • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Help with PDF/UA2 accessibility tests for ox-latex
  • [02] Vanilla Emacs with Prot: I’ll Repent for My Markdown Sins - YouTube (Protesilaos) Beginner coaching session
  • Sacha Chua: Chatted with John Wiegley and Karthik Chikmagalur about personal information management (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz) dealing with 40,000 entries, of which 818 are open TODOs
  • Raymond Zeitler: Numeric Priorities in Org Mode
    • Raymond Zeitler: One Hundred Times the Highest Priority (Irreal)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Chris Maiorana: Org mode as a gantt chart generator
    • Raymond Zeitler: Comment on Org Source Blocks (Irreal)
    • Randy Ridenour: Beamer-Style Typst Slides Using Org Mode (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
    • Vulpea sync is finally, actually async (opt-in)
• Completion:
  • emacs fido frame (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • A Emacs library to display magit changes in treemacs view (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: VC Shuttle: Advice-Based Git Sync for Air-Gapped Emacs
• Math:
  • Underappreciated Emacs built-ins: Emacs calc embedded
• Shells:
  • Ghostel 0.43.0 released: native Windows support (Reddit, @dakra@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Aimé Bertrand: Preserving email dates when moving messages in Mu4e
• LLMs:
  • agent-shell-dashboard (Reddit)
  • OrgA, An LLM agent's logic, knowledge, and chat all in one file (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Human Emacs (@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org, lobste.rs)
  • Emacs ATX meetup. July 2026. pi; gptel; completion-preview; prisma; remoto. (02:06:40)
  • History of Emacs the Text Editor/Operative System (14:47)
  • Andros Fenollosa: An alternative to Webmentions for the Emacs Carnival (@andros@activity.andros.dev) org-social
• Other:
  • A Tree and a Server Walk Into a Core… (July Emacs Carnival)
  • Jetpacs: A Jetpack Compose GUI wrapper for Emacs — Quick Showcase (Reddit)
  • EmacsURL.app lets Emacs open local or remote files via URL on the Mac
• Emacs development:
  • Make woman-topic-history an obsolete alias
• New packages:
  • folio-theme: Warm paper-like theme built on Modus and Ef (MELPA)
  • mise-tasks: Run mise tasks and highlight lockfiles (MELPA)
  • ox-mom: Groff MOM Macro Back-End for Org Export Engine (MELPA)
  • synaxis: Feed reader with SQLite storage (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!