The Emacs Carnival theme for September is "Games". Enjoy! Other really cool uses of graphics in Emacs: org-timegrid, poimap, canvas-minimap.

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• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/316294538/ Tue Sep 8 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Sep 8 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 11 1800 Europe/Paris
  • PDX Emacs (in person) https://pdx.social/@howard/117147689957341583 - Tue Sept 15 6:00 pm in Portland, OR
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme? (April 2026, Irreal)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Guide to Deferred Package Loading with use-package (Optimizing Emacs Startup) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • auto-side-windows now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Emacs Meep-mode Model Editing (57:41) modal editing
  • Casual Suite 3.0 (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • wakib-emacs: Emacs for the rest of us: v2 released! (Reddit)
  • Bedrock 2.0 released! (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Extending imenu for elisp (YouTube, Reddit, @benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • Zoom in/out slider on the modeline (Reddit)
  • the emacs theme I use: N Λ N O Theme (06:24)
  • [Theme] Vulkanite: 26 atmospheric dark theme variants for Emacs with Kanagawa-inspired balance (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.3.0 (Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • windmove tinkering (@ljwrites@writeout.ink)
  • auto-tab-groups: tab groups that open and close with your commands (now on MELPA) (Reddit)
  • poimap.el - Visual buffer map with points of interest (Reddit)
  • canvas-minimap: a pixel-based minimap using Emacs 32's canvas image type (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Emacs Canz Spell Goodly Know
  • Thysrael/markdown-ts-appear: Reveal Markdown source at point and preview math in Emacs markdown-ts-mode · GitHub (@thysrael)
• Org Mode:
  • My Note Taking Setup With Emacs Org-Mode (33:26)
  • Writing year in review: My 2022 writing habit on Emacs | Semi-author-ized writer (@ljwrites@writeout.ink)
  • A beautiful SVG weekly calendar for Emacs, backed by Org files, with full mouse and keyboard support and an optional day strip for Org Agenda (Reddit)
  • Emacs Org-Mode PDF Quicksheet now available in PEL (Reddit)
  • org-draw is now available on MELPA! (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Improving the styling of emacs tables with tabularray (programming.dev)
  • org-table-widget: I finally found a way to make Org tables easier to read without changing how I edit them (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • Factor out export-and-show in ox-latex.el and ox-beamer.el
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: Git Worktrees Without Leaving Built-in VC
  • Emacs Redux: Working with Git Worktrees in Magit
  • Dave Pearson: next-gh-pr.el v1.1.0
  • Joar von Arndt: Emacs does not need LSP
  • Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-09-06 emacs-multi-compile, consult-kith for jumping to tests/etc.
  • Xdebug for PHP on Emacs with Dape | Artful Robot (@artfulrobot@floss.social)
  • gaudy-cl: Colorful semantic font-locking for Common Lisp (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • cooked - a comint based terminal emulator (Reddit)
• Evil mode:
  • evil-twin: key-chords that actually behave under evil-mode (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • New package: supersonic.el (Music player for subsonic-compatible servers) (Reddit)
  • Integrating Emacs with Music Player (01:32:18)
  • Bioscoop demo: split screen to visualize color grading - YouTube (@danielsz.bsky.social)
• Fun:
  • andros/nonogram.el: Play nonogram puzzles (also known as picross, griddlers or hanjie) in Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Games: The Emacs Carnival Post For September 2026
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival September 2026: Games
    • Playing with Emacs | Dilip's Log
  • Process Footage: Randomized Greeting from Dipskits Greets Me at My Terminal (05:23)
• LLMs:
  • Pimacs - An Emacs UI for Pi · Anantha Kumaran
  • El Yayster — a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs (HN)
• Community:
  • BEWARE: doomemacs.com is not associated with doomemacs (Reddit)
  • Question about things that surprised you about Emacs.
  • Emacs in fifty keystrokes five years later (2026 edition featuring meow and agent-shell)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 30: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2) (YouTube, 01:05:56)
  • Talking About Stuff I Use on Linux (not a dev, just a human perspective) (01:00:02) Doom Emacs at 15:24
• Other:
  • Jeremy Friesen: How I’m Feeling Emacs Command
  • The Emacs Security Settings that might Silently Compromise your System (Reddit)
  • I finally got Emacs to render Markdown tables properly (md-mode 0.4.1) — and I think the same trick can work for Org tables (Reddit)
  • epub-reader: an EPUB reader for Emacs that reflows, breaks CJK lines properly, and keeps highlights across re-layout (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Pasting primary selection from keyboard
  • thkoch2001/rau: Emacs/Wayland based Window Manager in pure elisp with the help of River (HN)
  • Building Emacs into a systemd-sysext — Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master e630bc4fd72: ; Fix some recently added docs. - Dmitry Gutov - xref docs?
  • Improve presentation of query-replace-show-preview
  • Let 'query-replace-show-preview' be a function (bug#81583)
  • Make log-edit-headers-separator inherit from separator-line
  • Merge branch 'xref-find-by-kind'
• New packages:
  • agent-shell-math-renderer: Display-math rendering for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • api-credit: AI API balance in the modeline (MELPA)
  • auto-tab-groups: Simple auto tab group creator for specified commands (MELPA)
  • cursorfree: Complex editing through voice (MELPA)
  • material-icons: Material Icon Theme integration (MELPA)
  • metropolis-light-theme: Light theme based on the Metropolis Beamer palette (MELPA)
  • mode-line-path: Abbreviate file paths in the mode line (MELPA)
  • nix3: Frontend to experimental commands of Nix (MELPA)
  • org-roam-gt: Improvements for org-roam (MELPA)
  • pilish: Emacs frontend for pi coding agent (MELPA)
  • surveyor: Survey your code with LLM-generated diagrams (MELPA)

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