2026-10-19 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsThere are a bunch of Eglot related resources in the Coding category today. Nice to see people working on lots of cool stuff!
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- 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
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/317043388/ Sat Oct 24 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 29 0200 Asia/Singapore
- Beginner:
- Why Emacs Is For Beginners (04:33)
- Taller de Configuración de Entorno (25:36)
- Emacs Lisp:
- A Mode for Every Occasion (@marcin_bielewicz)
- Randy Ridenour: Finding Unbalanced Parens in Emacs (Irreal)
- tree-guide.el: short editing demo (20 seconds, no audio) (00:22)
- Marcin Borkowski: Using timers to perform weekly tasks (Irreal) - updating Org clock tables
- Deleting variables in code with Emacs Lisp by using the face properties (@zwol@masto.hackers.town)
- ETAF: a framework and ecosystem for building full text applications in Emacs - music player, RSS and ebook readers, desktop, games (Reddit)
- Appearance:
- Header-modeline: move your modeline to header-line (top of your window) (Reddit)
- au-themes: calm, low-glare themes I made because most themes are too loud for me (Reddit)
- foxglove-themes: academic-inspired modus themes that support e-ink (Reddit)
- I created a dark modus theme centered around teletype green (Reddit)
- More fun with modus themes. #emacs (02:08)
- Protesilaos: Emacs live extracting the Modus themes core at 2026-10-17 14:30 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:47:00)
- emacs-init/lisp/modus-vivendi-matrix-theme.el at main · benleis1/emacs-init · GitHub (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Denote:
- Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: Suggestion: Document `org-extend-today-until` in Clock Table section
- Org Mode requests: [FR] LaTeX preview between #+begin_equation/#+end_equation
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] a small patch for the brave on emacs32
- Quickly Copy Code and Example Block Contents in Emacs Org Mode | Helen Chong, Web Developer (@helenchong@social.lol)
- org-diff-src: character-level diffs inside Org source blocks (no Ediff) (Reddit)
- James Cherti: org-ibullets.el - Display Emacs org-mode heading stars as UTF-8 bullets (Irreal)
- [Package] org-slideboard: An improved interactive presentation tool for Org mode (Reddit)
- Supertag for Emacs: write first, organize when you need to (09:05, Reddit, Reddit)
- org-semantic: embedding search for org-mode (Reddit)
- [EVENT] #5 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, October 17, 19:00 UTC+3 - notes and recording
- Import, export, and integration:
- My org-attach config, only place files go (paste / drag / download), with names I can actually read (Reddit)
- New latex preview merged into org mode! (Reddit)
- Introducing ical-buddy.el (Reddit)
- Omarchy Org Agenda Plugin: Your Org Agenda schedule at a glance, directly on the top bar (Reddit)
- My Personal Intranet to Replace Cloud Subscriptions (30:21)
- Org development:
- Coding:
- Auto rename compilation buffer if another process is still running (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de)
- Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-10-11 - compilation commands, git
- Configuring Eglot to auto format code on save in Emacs (Reddit)
- New refactor.el: code actions, rename and quickfixes, out of Eglot (Reddit)
- Emacs: Configuring Eglot for Python with .dir-locals.el and python-lsp-server (Pylsp) (Reddit)
- kubect: A text focused Emacs interface Kubernetes workflows through kubectl (Reddit)
- Shells:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Evil mode:
- Fun:
- LLMs:
- I can't express how happy I am with emacs and LLM-assisted emacs-fu
- roost: Run coding agents in Git worktrees and tmux, from Emacs (Reddit)
- Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.87 updates (Reddit)
- jdblair/waves-dashboard: bead-waves tooling for beads projects: the wave CLI, an Emacs dashboard (waves-dashboard.el) and the bead-waves Claude Code skill · GitHub (@jdblair@hachyderm.io)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: all my packages have an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to restrict use
- Community:
- Other:
- wizard.el: A lightweight suite of useful Emacs functions (Reddit, Irreal)
- eludom/talk-tools: This is an emacs minor mode for use when giving talks · GitHub
- wordwise.el - Kindle-style in-line vocabulary hints above words in Emacs Reading Buffer (Reddit)
- Readq - incremental reading for emacs (Reddit)
- Emacs Reader submitted to ELPA (Reddit)
- Introducing Portal (Reddit, lobste.rs) - macOS-only
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: UX IS US
- Emacs development:
- New packages:
- agent-shell-attention: Mode-line attention tracker for agent-shell (MELPA)
- devops: Infrastructure as an org file (MELPA)
- magit-nix3: Nix3.el integration for Magit (MELPA)
- org-semantic: Search org notes by meaning, or by word (MELPA)
- supersonic: Music client for Subsonic servers and Music Assistant (MELPA)
- ttl-ts-mode: RDF Turtle editing mode (MELPA)
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