The Emacs Carnival theme for November 2026 is Discovering Emacs features. Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

There is a very long discussion about Human Emacs and LLM-assisted contributions on emacs-devel. It is a lot. I don't want to throw fuel on the fire. I'm mentioning it because it's a topic that a lot of people care very strongly about, and because there's a subdiscussion about slavery that might ripple out into the wider community. If you do decide to weigh in, please be kind and thoughtful. Thank you!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • 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
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Editing at the Speed of Thought in Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • blog.fidelramos.net – Supercharging Embark: custom actions for Org, Magit and gptel (@fidel)
    • blog.fidelramos.net – Potenciando Embark: acciones personalizadas para Org, Magit y gptel
  • Protesilaos: Reply to Emacs questions about configuration, Evil, and more
  • Emacs set-transient-map (without sacrificing my key-chord muscle memory) (18:51, Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A writeup on flymake + elisp (Reddit)
  • et: An experimental type-checker for elisp (GitHub, Reddit)
  • A Short Conversation About Types in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Bookmark – Just a Bitmap in the Fringe
• Hyperbole:
  • New Hyperbole Intro Videos - Hyperbole Teaser and Cross-Window Linking
    • Hyperbole Teaser (00:58)
    • Hyperbole Rapid Cross Window Links (08:01)
• Writing:
  • texpresso-view: live LaTeX preview inside Emacs, updated as you type (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Why Use A Word Processor When You Have Org?
  • Irreal: BYOK - talking about a writer deck for focusing on writing
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] LaTeX preview support Emacs without SVG support
  • Org mode from zero: a complete, friendly guide · Pablo Murad (@pablomurad.com on Bluesky)
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Tracking issues with Emacs and Org mode dynamic blocks (Reddit)
  • Word counting cookies
  • Diego Zamboni: My blogging setup in 2026: reducing friction
  • Einar Mostad: Adapting to text-based browser
  • Charles Choi: Beautifying Org HTML Export
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Add links to blogs from authors of the feature
    • ox-latex: Escape commas in :alt
    • org-hide: Inherit from fixed-pitch on most platforms
    • Add LATEX_FONTSPEC_DEFAULTS
• Coding:
  • Magnus: Follow-up: Switching to project.el
  • ZeniesQis/rrepo-fj: Integration with the fj package for managing Forgejo repos. - Codeberg.org (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Made a package to query linux syscalls from my api.syscall.sh project (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: September and October 2026
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.11: OxCaml, Indentation Styles, and odoc
  • looking at a sqlite database without using sqlite (04:38:13) livestream coding, also mentions exwm
• Math:
  • Randy Ridenour: Emacs Literate Calc Mode (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Emacs beyond the basics, part I: feeds, gopher, the fediverse and mail · Pablo Murad (@pablomurad.com on Bluesky)
• Fun:
  • [ANN] I made an 'Emacs piano' that knows when you let go of a key (Linux) (Reddit) - Linux-only; listening to evdev directly to get keyup events
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Who’s That Actor? Revisited
    • Lars Ingebrigtsen: OK, OK, I’ll just use tmdb - actor profile
• LLMs:
  • emacs-devel: Human Emacs - Phil Hagelberg
  • hutch: local code reviews in emacs for the mildly disenfranchised (Reddit)
  • Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 Minutes (YouTube, 01:11, Reddit)
  • Are there lessons to be learnt from neomacs? (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-11-03 / week 44
  • Mehrad Personal Website | In pursuit of the perfect IDE (@Mehrad@fosstodon.org)
  • Philip Kaludercic: On Whether Emacs Is Here To Stay?
  • Emacs vs Neovim - Why the Emacs Community Is So Nice (Sacha Chua) (19:35)
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf: Thinking about the community panel
    • Yay Emacs 52: Drafting my responses for the community panel (14:45)
  • Protesilaos: EmacsConf 2026 community panel comments I made
  • I Hate Emacs | danielfm.me (HN) - getting used to good stuff in Emacs makes it hard to use anything else
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival November 2026: discovering new features
    • Emacs carnival: (re-)discovery of new features
  • Calendar for dotfiles status bar (@hadi@fosstodon.org)
  • Make Emacs stop asking to confirm saves of unmodified files – Something better to do (@jikblog@blog.kamens.us)
  • Story of a bug (@blog@koldfront.dk)
  • I made a demo intro video for Portal (native web + terminal in emacs) (07:14, Reddit, Introducing Portal) - Mac-only
• Emacs development:
  • Improve SHR support for <ol> attributes
  • Move Roman numeral conversions to subr-x
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add an entry for too many dialog items (bug#82193).
  • Support Ruff in compilation-mode
  • Add face mode-line-recursive-edit on mode line
  • Allow setting of TCP keepalive timer options
  • Help on-screen keyboards by setting default GTK input-purpose
• New packages:
  • agent-shell-consult: Consult UI for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • ajnc: A Janet (Spork) Netrepl Client (MELPA)
  • burnish: Automate Org export and view (MELPA)
  • emureader: General-purpose document reader (GNU ELPA)
  • ewc: Wayland client in Elisp (MELPA)
  • modus-vague: Emacs port of the popular vague theme (GNU ELPA)
  • readline-completion: CAPF based on GNU Readline (GNU ELPA)
  • yml: Fast YAML parser (dynamic module) (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!