The coolest thing I saw this week is Clerkenwell, a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464081/ Thu Nov 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 6 0000 Etc/UTC - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years
• Emacs configuration:
  • welkomscherm v1.2.1: a small, calm, extensible dashboard for Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Eric MacAdie: I Updated My Emacs Number Package
  • Flymake for Emacs Lisp (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Better lisp editing with `tree-guide.el` (and other packages) (28:53)
• Appearance:
  • region-cursors - Cursor overlays at both ends of the region (Reddit)
  • Flick: a quick and simple font picker (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.4.0
• Navigation:
  • Some recent changes I've made to tab-config my tabbing package for emacs built on top of tab-line (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs finally folds to my liking - jointhefreeworld
  • Emacs - Ripscope - search C symbol definitions
• Writing:
  • Letters to Auntie: spell-checking in Emacs (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • Emacs for obsessive word lovers (10:40)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v5.4.0
  • Sacha Chua: Dictating blog posts into Emacs (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • modeorg.org: a human guide to Org Mode (@pablo@murad.social)
  • Martin Schell: Using Org-Capture Templates with Elisp Evaluation to Set Values Depending on User Input (Irreal)
  • How to export your org-mode and org-agenda to Apple Reminders · GitHub
  • Building a website with Org mode (Reddit)
  • Denden: Emacs Lisp SSG based on org-publish | Dilip's Log (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Adding Caching to org-publish-rss.el (@tiang)
  • org-constellation (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • cmd-rewind: resume last completing-read with saved input (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Using Typescript V7 With Emacs Eglot (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Auto apply Emacs Eglot safe Code Actions (fixes) on Save
  • Video 3 - Configuring Emacs, Arrays, Slices, Vectors, and the Borrow Checker (15:47)
  • Back to Emacs with the SCSS workflow I always wanted
  • Writing an mTLS server in Go using Emacs (Reddit)
  • Clerkenwell: a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github)
• Shells:
  • Ghostel integration in Emacs (10:27)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Irreal: A Small Improvement - deleting cookies after using elfeed-webkit
• Evil mode:
  • evil-matchit 5.0.0 is published (Reddit) jumping between paired structures
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: subed.el and quoting snippets of YouTube videos from the auto captions
  • Yay Emacs 44: More conversational voice interfaces (01:11:04)
• LLMs:
  • nmagko/gptel-web: Web search tools for Emacs gptel · GitHub
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-20 / week 42
  • 40c3 - organizing a Lisp assembly for self-organized workshops (@nmeum@chaos.social)
  • Emacs Historical Archive (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Are keyboards and M-x here to stay?
  • Can your Vim do that? starts beatboxing (00:53) having fun with multiple cursors.
  • Sacha Chua: Upcoming chat with linkarzu about using Emacs for 25 years
  • Github PR box * tech chats * conference outfits * Emacs Conf prep (05:35:41)
  • Linkarzu clips:
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (01:30:34)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why He Switched for Good (12:27)
    • vim user admits emacs is better (14:08)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Analyzing Emacs News: 564 posts over 11 years, > 34k items, ~60/post
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: A Point-Based Tooltip for Emacs
  • Chai v2.1.0: Read Books in Emacs, Highlight, Search & Ask with Sources (01:36)
  • exc.el — Runs Excel in Emacs (18:48, Github)
  • Comparing file with autosaved file (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • anju 1.9: mouse menus for storing frameset, setting macro counter, fill functions (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • buffer-snapshotter: keeps snapshots of changed versions buffers (visiting files or not) written to disk (@morix@loci.onl)
  • Learning an Ancient Language with an Ancient Text Editor - SeaGL 2026 - pretalx
  • Profound anguish and Emacs persistent undos — (^ω^) (@jadedctrl@jam.xwx.moe)
  • returning nonzero exit code from emacsclient (@amy@ice.ch3.st)
  • Emacs and rust on an ASUS Eee PC 1000HA (03:51)
• Emacs development:
  • ekp-fill - line-breaking algorithm; some parts were LLM-generated, so the author is rewriting
• New packages:
  • ctftime: CTFtime dashboard (MELPA)
  • difflayer: Overlay diffs on selected regions (MELPA)
  • elark: Emacs interface to Lark/Feishu via lark-cli (MELPA)
  • fz-index: Sublime-style fuzzy file open with a native index (MELPA)
  • isbn: ISBN library (GNU ELPA)
  • modern-tab: The common part of the two tab modes (MELPA)
  • region-cursors: Display point and active mark using overlays (MELPA)
  • straight-overview: Selective upgrade UI for straight.el packages (MELPA)
  • typst-overlay: Overlay Typst equations (MELPA)
  • xc: Emacs interface for xc (GNU ELPA)

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!