Emacs 31.1 has been released, whee! Also, Divya's post An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs is really cool and I'm looking forward to that becoming generally available in Emacs 32. =)

• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31.1 is released! (Reddit, HN, HN, HN, Irreal)
  • Mickey Petersen: What's New in Emacs 31.1? (Reddit)
  • EmacsWiki : Emacs Thirty One Highlights (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 26 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 27 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316144053/ Sat Aug 29 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316121976/ Thu Sep 3 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Sep 4 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • laech/emacs-esc: Emacs escape key to behave like a normal escape key, in both GUI and terminal. · GitHub (@ohmrun@techhub.social)
  • Charles Choi: Simplifying Setup for Casual (Irreal)
  • Emacs startup: Why setq beats setopt, customize-set-variable, and use-package :custom (Reddit, Irreal)
  • My vanilla Emacs to IDE writeup (Reddit)
  • elpacman – a package manager for the CLI (Reddit)
  • emacs config - Day 15 of using emacs (Reddit)
  • Weekend init file hacking (Reddit)
  • Publishing My Emacs Config - Output Error
  • My Emacs configuration (Mastodon) (@evgandr@bsd.cafe)
  • Studium Emacs - The Universe of Joshua Blais
• Emacs Lisp:
  • mattiase/xr: Inverse of rx: convert Emacs string regexps to rx form · GitHub (@aethor@fosstodon.org)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Omarchy Quattro dynamic theming support (Reddit)
• TRAMP:
  • Emacs Tramp Mode for SSH (00:18)
• Writing:
  • Emacs: Configuring Flyspell, Ispell, and Aspell to Minimize False Positives in Source Code and Prose (Reddit)
  • Comprobado de Faltas de Ortografía en Emacs - MoiDev - Blog personal de Moises Gallego (@jdrm@social.linux.pizza)
  • (not very new) package: latex-table-wizard (Reddit)
  • emado: manage 100k+ markdown entries from Emacs at native speed (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • No Graph Needed — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Denote Dynamic Org Block | Advanced (15:02)
  • denote-spatial (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Include :var expansion in expanded noweb references (was: ob-clojure :var header argument not work when src block is noweb called by another src block)
  • Easy Research with Emacs and Org Mode (3:32, Reddit)
  • Org mode para GNU Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Tracking Reading in Emacs - Output Error (@rickwysocki@mas.to)
  • org-other-agenda: render the same Org agenda data as a board (Reddit)
  • Introducing pandoc-org-reader - Nemin's Blog (@nemin@ohai.social)
  • pdf text reflow (Reddit) - extract PDF text into Org
  • Randy Ridenour: HTML Preview for Org Files (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • KallDrexx/emacs-zero-to-ide-journey · GitHub (@jamescherti)
  • GHA Status badge in Magit buffer (Reddit)
  • How to Use HTML Mode in Emacs (12:04)
  • I decided to give eglot a try after using lsp-mode for a while. (Java focused) (YouTube 07:49, (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Display comments of a reddit post inside elfeed
• Spacemacs:
  • Spacemacs | Bug fixing & Package updates (07:16, in French)
• Multimedia:
  • An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Canavs Patch is Merged! Long Live Emacs! - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • A REPL for learning SVG (with a variant of eepitch; 2026)
• Fun:
  • nosrednayduj/moo-el: Emacs library for connecting to MOO servers. - Codeberg.org (@nosrednayduj@hachyderm.io)
• LLMs:
  • Play your LLM like an instrument (stdin | LLM | stdout) (28:24, Reddit)
  • Thanos Apollo: My Emacs Agentic Workflow
  • Donovan R.: 💭 I Smell Emacs and Smalltalk on DSH (DeepSeek Harness)
  • Matt Maguire: AI Agents Take Over Lesson Prep
• Community:
  • What made you try Emacs?
  • Prot Asks: Per Nordlöw about his Emacs extensions (01:50:38)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 29: Abdallah Maouche (en français) (YouTube, 58:41)
• Other:
  • Emacs: Copy-paste without org-mode formatting bleeding into other buffers | James Cherti (@jamescherti) - face and yank-excluded-properties
  • warnings-timestamp-mode.el (@mosu@hachyderm.io)
  • andros/efinger.el: Finger protocol (RFC 1288) client for Emacs with an Elfeed-inspired reader. - Forgejo: Beyond coding. We forge. (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • My phone is now just an emacs interface - The Universe of Joshua Blais
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: SDL terminal type - limitations of GTK 4
    • Re: current-time-list now defaults to nil in Emacs master - Paul Eggert - notes on convert-time and encode-time
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Document improved Emoji support on text terminals.
  • viper-ex: Implement list and number commands
  • Allow evaluating Eshell forms using lexical binding
  • Document Eshell's Lisp pipes feature
  • Make electric-pair-mode respect field boundaries (bug#50236)
• New packages:
  • auto-capitalize: Automatic capitalization with batteries included (MELPA)
  • browser-gt: WebSocket bridge to a Chrome/Firefox extension (MELPA)
  • cypher-ts-mode: Cypher editing mode (MELPA)
  • doom-game: DOOM on Emacs (NonGNU ELPA)
  • efinger: Finger client and .plan feed reader (MELPA)
  • flymake-harper: Flymake backend for Harper (GNU ELPA)
  • gptel-agent-harness: Autonomous coding-agent harness for gptel-agent (MELPA)
  • guard: Custom modular init framework (MELPA)
  • hel: Helix Emulation Layer (MELPA)
  • minibuffer-frame: Minibuffer in centered child frame (MELPA)
  • mu4e-autotask: Email automation for mu4e (MELPA)
  • peppers-theme: Custom dark theme based on modus framework (MELPA)
  • sapling: Magit-like interface for Sapling (NonGNU ELPA)
  • schlau-compile: Git-root-aware interface to `compile' (MELPA)
  • shazam: Shazam Interface (macOS only) (MELPA)
  • vc-sapling: VC backend for Sapling (NonGNU ELPA)

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