Completion seems to be the topic of the day. Check out the new videos and resources people have shared on both completion in buffer and in the mini-buffer. Also, there's been lots of discussion for or against Human Emacs; links are in the Community section.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Sacha Chua: 6 août: Emacs Chat: Richard Bonichon
  • Sacha Chua: 20 août: Emacs Chat: Abdallah Maouche
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Docs: The modern documentation website Emacs deserves (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN)
  • How to Undo in Emacs (01:24)
  • How to Find and Replace Text in Emacs (02:52)
  • One shot modifiers, then emacs tutorial (02:08:22)
  • Let's Finally Finish the Emacs Tutorial (02:03:47)
  • New to Emacs? Learning Vanilla Emacs with Protesilaos | Coaching Session #2 (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Redux: which-key is Now Built-in
  • Stop Installing Every Emacs Package You See (04:07)
  • Emacs Redux: All Aboard Embark! (Irreal)
  • Tip about using embark-bindings-at-point to find available commands (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Tip about setting describe-bindings-outline-rules (@plantarum@ottawa.place)
  • Gentoo Simp Demonstrates Beacon Mode With Meow On Emacs. (03:30)
  • casual 2.17.0 (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • skewed-emacs: containerized Emacs + Lisp environment — now starts with a single curl command, no clone required (Reddit)
  • Emacs literate config (@rickwysocki@mas.to)
  • initialisation d'emacs - (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Redux: Tree-sitter Modes Still Need a Syntax Table
• Appearance:
  • sleek-modeline - A minimal and elegant modeline for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ‘doric-lilac’ and ‘doric-borage’ coming to the ‘doric-themes’
  • Diffs.com emacs themes (Reddit)
  • New modus-alabaster themes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • jroimartin/outline-occur: Navigate the buffer's outline using occur. · GitHub (@jroimartin@fosstodon.org)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile 3.2
  • Ayuda de vim cscope, emacs y global. (05:05)
• TRAMP:
  • Gentoo User shows you How to edit your make.conf in Emacs (02:25) - using TRAMP to edit files as root
• Writing:
  • ispell-word to fix spelling (@shapr@recurse.social)
  • Irreal: Jinx Reconsidered (Irreal)
  • Emacs on Windows: Display CJK IME composition inline without librime — just hook into the system input method
  • Preview command for gemtext-mode (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename options controlling recursive statistics
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Small restriction in BEAMER_HEADER: WDYT?
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Font control as of today
    • @paaguti@ecoevo.social
  • [RFC] Help with PDF/UA2 accessibility tests for ox-latex - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • [02] Vanilla Emacs with Prot: I’ll Repent for My Markdown Sins (02:09:15) - beginner exploring Org
  • Mike Hostetler: Why Org's agenda ignores your start day
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
  • Sacha Chua: Mon flux de travail de programmation
  • Comment j'organise mon emploi du temps avec org emacs / tablette eink BOOX (16:19)
  • Tip: Use org-mark-ring-goto to return after opening a link
  • Drawing inside Org-mode using iPad (or any device using tldraw on the browser) seamlessly (YouTube 01:16, Reddit)
  • screwlisp/ickle: Org babel for complex embeddable common lisp interactions i.e. ansi common lisp as a C (or C++) library with duplexed embedding and interleaving. (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Notes from #2 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, July 18, 11:00 UTC+3 (video, Reddit, @yantar92@fosstodon.org) -
• Completion:
  • [Article] Guide to Modern Emacs Completion: vertico, corfu & friends (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: Completion in the buffer with completion-at-point-functions (YouTube, 22:53)
  • Emacs Redux: Inline Completion with completion-preview-mode
  • Emacs Redux: Cape: Corfu’s Best Friend
  • Vadzim Shender: Making backspace in vertico behave like ido
  • New corfu-mouse extension · minad/corfu@3cacdaf · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
• Coding:
  • New package: region-pin.el for floating code snippets (Reddit)
  • dape toolbar (use child-frame and nerd icons) (Reddit) - debugger controls
  • Tip about using consult-lsp-diagnostics (@shivjm)
  • How Emacs Uses Nix — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Emacs .dir-locals.el File for Python Projects (@zelphirkaltstahl)
  • Tip: consult-lsp-diagnostics from the consult-lsp package (@shivjm)
  • Full IDE Power Over SSH: Remote C++ development - Terminal Emacs, No GUI (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: CIDER 2.0: Sky is the Limit
  • Meta Redux: clj-refactor.el 4.0
  • Pair of functions to send things to the tap inspector in clerk and clojure (@otfrom@functional.cafe)
  • Meta Redux: Stepping Through Macros in CIDER
  • Meta Redux: Sayid 0.8
  • Emacs Redux: Flymake Can Now Show Diagnostics at the End of the Line
  • Hide module imports in Scheme buffers using an overlay (@ryuslash@goto.ryuslash.org)
  • Emacs Eglot for Scala and Kotlin (JVM) and some nifty workarounds for day-to-day usage (Reddit)
  • gemmaro/cwmrc-mode: Emacs major mode and Flymake backend for cwmrc format. - Codeberg.org (@gemmaro)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Gnus: Call custom functions when formatting message lines in summary buffers (@lhp)
• Multimedia:
  • Controlling a YouTube video from emacs (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
• Fun:
  • tnalpgge/cabrillo-el: Parse Cabrillo format amateur radio contact logs in Emacs - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
• LLMs:
  • The state of agentic coding tools in Emacs (2026)
  • Spacemacs layer for ai-code-interface.el (Reddit)
  • gptel-permit: rule-based permissions for tool calls (Reddit)
  • Automatically get Openrouter model catalog in gptel (Reddit)
  • Jetpacs-Composer: Emacs as a No-Code platform proof of concept. (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-07-14 / week 28
  • Things that made me come back to Emacs (Reddit)
  • Why Emacs is still my interface to my computer - Upsun Developer (@upsun)
  • Human Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org)
    • Andros Fenollosa: Human fear in Emacs
    • Jakub Nowak: Response to Human Fear in Emacs
    • @evgandr@bsd.cafe
    • #lispyGopherClimate w/ KMP, Ramin and screwlisp. #climate #oil #pipeline reimaginings, human #emacs, #commonlisp #elisp @screwtape@toobnix.org
  • Sacha Chua: Voulez-vous parler d'Emacs avec Prot et moi ? (YouTube, 03:54)
  • The Search for Knowledge: Emacs Carnival August 2026 (@chiply@fosstodon.org, Reddit)
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Tip Of The Day in a Popup Frame
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: SDL terminal type - Sean Whitton - Lucid build still relevant because of issues with GTK build
    • Local treesit parsers with disjoint ranges - Ruby Iris Juric
  • Create macro 'pcase-let*-strict'
• New packages:
  • blamee: Chunked git-blame overlays with popup details (MELPA)
  • context-clues: Easily copy context like the current file name and path (MELPA)
  • flex-x: Extended flex completion style (MELPA)
  • hnview: Standalone Hacker News client (MELPA)
  • moonbit-ts-mode: MoonBit tree-sitter major mode (MELPA)
  • nostr-publish: Publish Markdown to Nostr (MELPA)
  • org-habit-ng: Full RRULE recurrence for org-habit (MELPA)
  • org-history: Show Dates for Org headers from vcs + auto-commit (MELPA)
  • org-mindmap: Editable mindmap visualization in org-mode (MELPA)
  • sema-mode: Major mode for editing Sema files (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!