Belated happy 50th birthday, Emacs!

In other news, you can now reach Emacs News at https://emacs.news. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • [emacs-berlin] 40c3 Assembly? (@emacs@toot.berlin)
  • 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
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b6afef85-3b06-44b8-af29-e8dcaabcab8a Mon Nov 9 1900 CET
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Nov 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Nov 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Nov 12 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 13 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs for the curious: install it, survive it, keep it · Pablo Murad (@pablo@murad.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • init.el - emacs - My EMACS configuration (@dakkar@s.thenautilus.net)
• Appearance:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Highlight Active Emacs Window (Irreal)
  • meeting-mode: Highlight the what's in focus during screen sharing (Reddit)
  • Test-Driving Fonts in Emacs with a Transient Menu
  • terminal-colors.el - Make your Emacs terminal color scheme look like a real terminal (vterm, eat, term, and ansi-color) (Reddit)
  • Greenit – a green-shifted terminal + Emacs theme family (dark & light) and more. (Reddit)
  • au-mysterium: a new low-glare theme for Halloween (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ef-halloween-dark is in ef-themes.git
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live refining ‘ef-themes’ Diff/Magit colours at 2026-10-29 18:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:14:56)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live new Halloween theme for ‘ef-themes’ at 2026-10-31 14:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:35:51)
• Navigation:
  • quick-fasd.el - Easily navigate your file system by using Fasd [Release 1.0.4]​ (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Stop Going to the Top: isearch-allow-motion in Emacs (Irreal)
• Hyperbole:
  • GNU Hyperbole Release 9.3.2 is available (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing mdired, or adding a chainsaw to Dired
  • emacs-weirdware/dired-mime: MIME support for Emacs and Dired - Codeberg.org (@ieure@retro.social)
  • jwiegley/dired-filetags: Add-on for dired that implements Karl Voit's filetags utility · GitHub
• Writing:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Unicode punctuation in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Improvements in mw-thesaurus (Reddit)
  • "Obsidian is bloated," so use XML (07:48)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live refinements for Denote at 2026-10-30 14:45 Europe/Athens (YouTube, 01:51:30)
• Org Mode:
  • This Month in Org: November 2026: Fabulously Fancy Fragments (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Understanding Org's LaTeX previews - karthinks (Reddit)
  • org-gcal - Google Calendar 이벤트도 Emacs 품 안으로 - (emacsian ohyecloudy) (@ohyecloudy.bsky.social)
  • DOrg 0.2: a structured query-and-edit API for your Org data plane, from Elisp or the CLI (Reddit)
  • Orgmode LSP - Language server for Orgmode (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Leaving asdf for mise - dev tools, env vars, tasks
  • Emacs: Git Rebase with Magit (4 Real Scenarios) (12:29, Reddit)
  • fj.el 0.49 - forgejo / codeberg client: jump to issue, own repo (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • EmacsConf 2026: El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning them - Ag (12:11) Ag is sharing this talk early as an experiment, feel free to to start trying it out
  • licensel an Emacs package for inserting common software license texts into the current buffer. (Reddit)
  • Better lisp editing with `tree-guide.el` (and other packages) (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Run interactive Clojure workflows from Emacs w/ Admin Delux (09:01)
• Web:
  • proxymacs.el - An Emacs package that configures the HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy with optional authentication (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf: Using message-sent-hook to run buffer-specific code to keep track of e-mailed schedules
  • Reading RSS feeds with Emacs (2014, @swrogers@social.lol)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Revisiting My Doom Emacs Configuration
• Multimedia:
  • Emacs and its many (inter)faces (Reddit)
• EXWM:
  • EXWM as default session on Guix with slim
• LLMs:
  • hutch: local code reviews in emacs for the mildly disenfranchised — kitallis.in (lobste.rs)
  • How I streamlined PRs waiting for review with mu + Org-mode + AI
  • Supertag 0.4 for Emacs: one sentence, one interface for each kind of Org note (09:19)
    • (update) Supertag 0.4.0: lifestreams-style stream-agent, summary (03:47, Reddit)
  • aavanian/claude-archive.el: Browse, search and read your claude.ai conversation exports in Emacs. · GitHub (@alexandre.avanian.net)
• Community:
  • EMACS turns 50 (HN, r/emacs, lobste.rs, r/emacs again, programming.dev Irreal)
    • 'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50
    • Emacs a 50 ans - LinuxFr.org (@benzogaga33@mamot.fr)
    • Emacs cumple 50 años: la historia del editor que sobrevivió a cinco décadas de informática - Somos Libres (@elfolio.bsky.social, @dogvilia.bsky.social)
  • Emacs for Everything - Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years (01:47:55, Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: My chat with Linkarzu
    • Yay Emacs 47: Editing the VTT for my chat with Linkarzu (01:56:24) livestream includes some Q&A on voice
    • Emacs Voice Control With Local AI on a 2018 Laptop - Sacha Chua's Setup (Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: Clip: Emacs voice control - describing my setup during Linkarzu's livestream
    • Yay Emacs 46: Tinkering with my speech+typing workflows (02:05:58)
  • I Was Seven Months Pregnant With an Emacs Config | Psy-Q's Braindump (@psy-q.ch)
  • Badore: (message "hello world")
  • Sacha Chua: emacs.news
• Other:
  • teleprompter.el: turn any Emacs buffer into a teleprompter
  • Badore: M-x keep-lines
  • v1.10.0 · kickingvegas/anju - mouse menus: single/double-click behavior, Org block context, window layouts (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Raymond Zeitler: The Future of Human Interface for Emacs
  • Emacs + Termux Builder (Reddit)
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Emacs Everywhere on macOS with Shortcuts
• Emacs development:
  • Support Kitty Keyboard Protocol disambiguation of escape codes
  • Add mass unit 'stone' to calc (bug#82145)
  • etc/emacsclient.desktop: Replace –display with –reuse-frame
  • Add refactor.el; move generic code actions machinery out of Eglot
• New packages:
  • japanese-menu: Japanese menu translation (MELPA)
  • mdired: SIMD-style commands for marked Dired items (MELPA)
  • perl-live: Evaluate Perl in persistent project sessions (MELPA)
  • refactor: Language-agnostic refactoring interface (GNU ELPA)
  • xdg-redirect: Redirect Emacs files to XDG directories (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!