The Emacs Carnival for October is about looking into your crystal ball. I'd love to see what you're looking forward to exploring. Thanks to George Jones for hosting!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 5 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Oct 13 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • A list of Emacs learning materials and references (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Customize Me (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • [ANN] package-load-indicator: instantly see which packages are loaded within your init file (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Reading the emacs compilation mode source code (01:29:41)
  • Reading some emacs package source code (e.g. comint) (01:20:07)
  • Desafio #1 | Divisão por 5 (Emacs+Elisp) (19:53)
• Appearance:
  • Tip: increase text scale for modes like elfeed-show - @citizen428.net on Bluesky
  • jamescherti/persist-text-scale.el: Emacs: Persist and Restore Text Scale (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ‘doric-meadow’ and ‘doric-mountain’ coming to the ‘doric-themes’
• Navigation:
  • Tip about C-r RET to turn isearch into a minibuffer prompt (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How many screens left
  • Overriding project.el project root in Emacs | Blog | Jade Michael Thornton (@artfulrobot@floss.social)
  • preview-tab: VS Code's preview tab for Emacs, now on MELPA (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Tip: dired-async-mode when you're doing long-running actions @citizen428.net on Bluesky
• Writing:
  • Emacs: Obsidian without external packages - citizen428.net
  • Christian Tietze: Watch My EmacsConf Talk: Zettelkasten for Regular Emacs Hackers
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: status update on the ‘denote-data’ cache for Denote
• Org Mode:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Opening org-capture in a new frame
  • org-incremental-writing package (Reddit) - written with agent assistance
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 31: Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez - Org LaTeX export with fallbacks (YouTube)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Now org-toggle-timestamp-overlays is Disabled
  • Org-roam-tree update: jit rendering, arbitrary search and more! (Reddit)
  • inline backlinks for org-roam (Reddit)
  • excali-mode 0.2.0: a diagram DSL with explicit placement and Org Babel support (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Github does not preview Org mode files any more (bug)
• Coding:
  • I've used emacs successfully for decades without using LSP or Eglot. Tell me what I'm missing.
  • A package using rope to do python code refactoring in emacs
  • Clutch update: a video walkthrough (PostgreSQL, JDBC, row editing, JSON hover preview) (YouTube 04:17, GitHub, Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Ankit Gadiya: Fix nested Emacs frames (Irreal)
• Web:
  • canvas-browser: a Chromium page in an Emacs buffer, drawn on an Emacs 32 canvas image (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • tootle: A tiny, text-only, read-only, emoji-free Mastodon client for Emacs. (Reddit) Also rougier's experiment in vibe-coding
  • Andros Fenollosa: How I built a WhatsApp client for Emacs without an API
• Multimedia:
  • nfdn: Announcing triode.el - control an app for playing Internet radio (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Fun:
  • Zippy in the mists of time · Curious Musings (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • Raymond Zeitler: What is spook?
  • el-gpu demo pix-el.mkv
• LLMs:
  • LLM release 0.33.0, with decisions! (Reddit, Reddit)
  • AI built my Emacs plugin (01:31)
  • Emacs ollama agent demo 01 (02:22)
    • introduction (配音版) (06:04)
    • change font and size (02:22)
    • 網站內容擷取 (01:14)
    • 排序 (02:17)
• Community:
  • EmacsWiki : CarnivalOctober2026 - Crystal ball (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • Matei Candea (social anthropologist) is looking for interviewees for a research project on Emacs, its users and its community (@emacs_london@hachyderm.io)
  • Looking for people who want to have a Lisp meetup in Hamburg (@omidmash@social.tchncs.de)
  • Chris Maiorana: M-x and the future of Emacs
  • Roman and Editors ⋄ ffloyd.space (@ffloyd)
  • Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Yay Emacs 39: Testing my new streaming functions (01:54:59) working on Emacs News, tinkering with speech commands
    • Yay Emacs 40: Tinkering with my speech commands and working on the schedule for EmacsConf (58:14)
• Other:
  • Let Emacs make you happy (12:05) - Highlight mode, sentences, split windows, Org mode, functions, and navigation.
  • Emacs is now my new rofi (Reddit) - emacsclient + vertico for launching applications
  • nfdn: Announcing Aquí (Irreal) - location finder
  • isled - a personal issue ledger (Reddit) see also org-edna if you want to have task dependencies; mostly AI written
  • Emacs bufferfile.el: Rename, Delete, or Copy Files and Associated Buffers (e.g., clones/indirect buffers) [Release 1.0.9]​
  • qrencode-el 1.6: export QR codes as SVG, get the SVG DOM using Elisp (@ruediger@hachyderm.io)
  • [22] Emacs Reader: Rendering Architecture Refactor and Other Fixes - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Getting rid of pathologically slow regexp matches - Stefan Monnier
    • Library for exporting PDF - Cecilio Pardo
    • Explanation of quoting in docstrings
  • * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face.
  • Add a 'syntax-propertize-function' to 'lisp-mode'
  • Indent HTML lists by a consistent width in SHR
• New packages:
  • ebuild-mode: edit ebuild and eclass files (NonGNU ELPA)
  • triode: Interface to Triode app, macOS internet radio (MELPA)
  • pyfun-mode: Major mode for the Pyfun language (MELPA)
  • neofetch: Pretty system information tool for the Eshell (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-latex: Preview LaTeX math as SVG in LaTeX buffers (MELPA)
  • gptel-annotate: Annotate files or buffers with LLMs (MELPA)
  • clel: Runtime library for ClojureElisp (MELPA)
  • brewpage: Publish buffers/regions to brewpage.app (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!