People have been having lots of fun playing Emacs Golf over in r/emacs. Check out the "Fun" category for some examples of people comparing how few keystrokes they need in order to get something done.

• 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 12 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Oct 13 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • 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
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Oct 17 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Oct 18 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Keith Waclena's "Use GNU Emacs the Plain Text Computing Environment" (Reddit)
  • Tips for beginners (@andyc@yakshaving.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Repeating commands
  • Tip about setting whitespace-global-modes so that it excludes some modes (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Desafios em Elisp | Emacs / Magit (01:47:11)
• Appearance:
  • [NEW] emacs32 master branch support scaling for underline, overline… face
  • Ayu themes for Emacs: night, dusk and day, built from the official palette (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using C-x 0 to delete the current window (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Tip: Use registers to save window configurations with C-x r w (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Tip about setting scroll-conservatively (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • persp-mode-tab-bar: Tab bar for persp-mode / Doom workspaces (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • joc-toggle-case.el: toggles case at point (@vnikolov@ieji.de)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 6 - abbrevs, grammar, Harper, LanguageTool
  • markdown-ts-appear: Rendered Markdown, editable in place (Reddit, lemmy.ml)
  • GitHub - rjprins/markdown-modern: Modern visual styling for Markdown buffers in Emacs (fork of mark-graf) (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again. — baty.net (HN)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: spontaneous live new ‘denote-data’ feature (2026-10-07 at 18:00 Europe/Athens) (YouTube, 01:22:16)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs ‘denote-data’ testing live today, 2026-10-12, at 16:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: orgmode: do textsec-url-suspicious-p for http and https links
  • James Dyer: Org Speed Keys: Making t Land After the TODO Keyword
  • Deeper layers of Org Mode laziness explained (Reddit)
  • org-retroclock: Log CLOCK entries retrospectively without starting a timer (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Bringing micro-timers, checklist budgeting, and monotasking focus to Org-mode (org-focus-hud) (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Des commandes vocales pour ajouter des tâches sur Emacs (YouTube, 02:44)
  • excali-mode 0.3.0: an Org-mode whiteboard inside Emacs (Reddit, HN, Reddit) - excali-board-mode: Org headings as cards; diagram DSL
  • Comparing org-roam, org-node, Supertag and vulpea, with a benchmark you can re-run
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: safe and keyword for org-latex-table-scientific-notation
    • Enhance prefix argument to org-open-at-point on URLs
    • ox-latex: pass :align to table.el tables
    • Announce 'org-latex-listings-env'
• Coding:
  • What I use Eglot for in GNU Emacs and what good it is (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Magit Fast Mode [fast use magit]​ (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs for Javascript development - skewer-mode for evaluating CSS and HTML (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu4e-send-later: A "Send Later" functionality for mu4e (Reddit)
  • aerc-mode: make it easier to use emacsclient within the aerc mail client (@PuercoPop)
• Multimedia:
  • supersonic.el Music Player v0.6.0 Update (added UPnP support) (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Oct 2026: Exploring keys and voice input in Emacs
  • Sacha Chua: Using Emacs to visualize speaking and target words/phrases in real-ish time
• Fun:
  • # Emacs Golf #028 Rectangle Wizard
  • # Emacs Golf #026 We Only Need The First
  • # Emacs Golf #023 — Case-Insensitive Assassin
  • # Emacs Golf #011 Number Cruncher Category: B. Multi-line transformations
  • Emacs Golf: fixing misplaced spaces
  • 004BEGINNINGS THE CATTLE ARE LISPING lambdamoo moo.el VR puppets with common lisp emacs slime (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • 3D in MY Emacs!? (Hack and overview) (14:21)
• LLMs:
  • Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 Minutes (YouTube, 01:11)
  • M-x Machina — a workspace for coding agents inside Emacs (Reddit)
  • Voice AI Editing and an Emacs Plugin (01:33)
  • Emacs ollama agent compare (01:29)
  • Update: ecc 0.4, Claude Code in Emacs: Spaces and an agentic diff review (release notes, Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-06 / week 40
  • Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival - Will we change how we interact with Emacs? (Irreal)
  • Clojure Corner: Interview with Bozhidar Batsov (01:18:53)
  • I Asked Prot If I Should Switch to Emacs (13:02)
  • Protesilaos: Live: Ask me ANYTHING (2026-10-10 16:00 Europe/Athens) (5:04:50)
  • Accessing Reddit from Emacs will be impossible after November 13th - or use emacs-reddigg
• Other:
  • emacs-reader: Help wanted with testing PR #199 - Refactor rendering pipeline architecture to avoid race conditions and other multi-threading issues (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Tip about using negative prefix arguments (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Parse page ranges, insert issue references (Irreal, Irreal, Irreal)
  • New Emacs keepass package (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Lock mode
  • A small change in xdisp.c reduced allocations by ~42% in a boxed-text workload
  • Configuring the Emacs UI for Better Latency and Perceived Responsiveness (Reddit)
  • Fixing the tree-sitter syntax highlighting bug in Emacs 31+ indirect buffers (The Emacs maintainers will not fix it, so I did) (Reddit)
  • Rust bindings for Emacs dynamic modules support canvas_data API (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Fix/enhance prefix arguments to browse-url functions
  • Fix browse-url-chromium and browse-url-chrome NEW-WINDOW
  • Produce "!MEM FULL! " for %e in mode lines
  • Underline, overline, and strike-through can now be scaled with text.
  • New Tramp connection method "wslc"
  • * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face.
• New packages:
  • project-terminal: Per-project terminal management (MELPA)
  • org-timegrid: SVG week calendar with mouse and keyboard editing (MELPA)
  • markdown-ts-appear: Reveal Markdown source at point (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!