I particularly enjoyed the tweaks for EWW (Emacs Web Wowser) in this edition. Could be fun to take whatever page you're looking at in a different application and open it within Emacs, with syntax highlighting and maybe even the ability to copy or execute bits of code more easily. Could be handy during your search for knowledge, which is incidentally the Emacs Carnival theme for August. Enjoy!

• Help wanted:
  • pkal is looking for feedback on the jit-lock-stealth-load thread in emacs-devel on how to annotate changelog entries with release info (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • Ihor Radchenko's looking for insights from other maintainers on reviewing large feature branches (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Testing patches for input methods:
    • [patch] GNU emacs bug#68339 (w32 ime font size)
    • [Patch] Implement preedit text rendering for Windows
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3944ee8f-6da1-4720-b086-b9217e4f5c7b Mon Aug 3 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091679/ Thu Aug 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Aug 7 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315859503/ Tue Aug 11 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Aug 11 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Aug 15 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to Cancel a Command in Emacs (01:28)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Customize: hook to focus search field after entering customize mode (@SpaceCadet@chaos.social)
  • Handling environment variables in Emacs on OSX and Linux • Ben Mezger
  • Kakoune recipe using hel-mode https://github.com/helheim-emacs/hel/ (Reddit)
  • My Dotfiles Are an Org File | Dotfile Management with Emacs (02:38)
  • Rewriting my Emacs config (03:39:31)
• Appearance:
  • Marcin Borkowski: A fancier splash screen in terminal Emacs
  • Nice GTK tooltips for Flycheck. Works on GTK builds (Linux: Wayland/X11). (Reddit)
  • tjammer/modukai-sun-theme: Monokai Pro Light Sun based on modus-themes - Codeberg.org (@tjammer@mastodon.gamedev.place)
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Outlining in programs (Irreal)
  • Tip about using helm-multi-swoop-projectile for large-scale renaming in localization files (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
  • Project-x now on Melpa! (+ window layouts and tabs) (Reddit)
  • I decided to customize imenu-list a bit more (Reddit)
  • Flash.nvim For Emacs (16:07) - jump to locations with search labels
• Hyperbole:
  • Hyperbole Question: What do you need to better capture and navigate your knowledge base?
  • Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse (YouTube 34:21, (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • dired configuration similar to yazi keymaps. This is my dired config, share yours please:D (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • How to Turn on Word Wrap in Emacs (01:28)
  • Bicycle for Your Mind: Much Ado About Emacs 015 (Irreal) tabs, newlines, two-space shortcut
  • Raymond Zeitler: One Space or Two?
  • md-mode 0.2 — Add LaTeX, Mermaid, PlantUML and Graphviz rendering support (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Simpler file ID links in HTML export
  • Emacs with Prot: Org Mode Basics Before Projects and Capture (21:16, Protesilaos)
  • I made an Org Mode Advanced Concepts Tutorial, please check it out (Reddit)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Style & Emacs Config: A Semantic HTML Reckoning
  • grid-table 0.3.0: editable tables with horizontal and vertical merged cells for Emacs and Org (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Notes from [EVENT] #31 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, June 10, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development:
    • org-agenda-todo: Add more visual feedback on repeating tasks
    • LaTeX export: New option org-latex-fontspec-config
• Completion:
  • The Completions Buffer Is Now Enough (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: default minibuffer completions overview (Emacs 31) (YouTube, 30:56)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Em Dashes in org-mode and the Nuances of Abbrev
• Coding:
  • Tip about using magit-commit-extend or magit-commit-instant-fixup (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Emacs Redux: Flycheck 38: Might & Magic (GitHub, Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • 4coder like scope hint implementation (Reddit)
  • Repeat-mode config for easier indent/dedent in Python (@jap@mastodon.nl)
  • Meta Redux: Leveling Up CIDER’s ClojureScript Support
  • tusharhero: Guix shell now inside Emacs! (HN, lobste.rs)
• Shells:
  • Using nix-shell in eshell (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Irreal: A Quick EWW Hack - retrieve URL from Safari, open in EWW
  • Is there a way to highlight code blocks in eww mode? - shr-tag-pre-highlight package
• Fun:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Smiley Functions
• LLMs:
  • Ram Krishnan / elisp-agent · GitLab (@kriyative@functional.cafe) - uses eval as its sole tool
  • New package: agent-shell-hq (Reddit)
  • Vibe-coded a simple vterm wrapper to make pairing AI agent sessions to projects easier (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-07-28 / week 30
  • The Prot Effect (Reddit)
  • 0015 | New Keyboards, Emacs, Neovim, Catching up (02:11:56)
• Other:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: tmr version 1.4.0
  • andros/lirve.el: Learn irregular verbs in English with Emacs - lirve.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • chmouel/komga-sync.el: Emacs mode to sync nov-mode reading progress with a Komga server · GitHub (@chmouel@fosstodon.org)
  • tnalpgge/org-hamlog: Log amateur radio contacts with Org tables - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
  • adif-mode: Major mode for viewing and editing amateur radio ADIF log files
  • linkarzu's videos:
    • Cashmere’s Emacs Workflow: Denote, Org, and Terminal Emacs (19:17)
    • [03] Emacs Projects, Org Capture, and My Workflow with Prot (02:00:05)
    • What I Need From Emacs: A Video for Prot (16:48)
      • Protesilaos: Reply to @linkarzu about ‘What I Need From Emacs’
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Looking for reasons to keep letf considering symbol-function
    • Re: eglot-tests fail for emacs-31 branch - Stefan Monnier note about needing to ensure different package managers (ex: apt, npm, package.el) interoperate correctly
  • Canvas patch resubmitted to bug tracker after lots of polishing (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Don't immediately show *​Completions* for icomplete-in-buffer
  • * lisp/cus-start.el (completion-ignore-case): Make customizable.
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce support of Kmscon. (Bug#81428)
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/intern-without-shorthands'
  • New variable comment-start-line-regexp (bug#80837)
• New packages:
  • now-playing: Interface for the macOS Music app (MELPA)
  • nu-ts-mode: Major mode for Nushell scripts, powered by treesitter (MELPA)
  • ob-agent-shell: Org-babel backend for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • promptu: Compose LLM prompts from building blocks (MELPA)
  • r-ts-mode: R treesitter mode (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!