2026-06-15 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsLots of discussion around Karthik's latest blog post Even More Batteries Included with Emacs (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs). Check it out!
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jun 20 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jun 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/315192115/ Sat Jun 20 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 24 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 25 0100 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jun 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- halo.el: an experimental minor mode for keeping point centered and dimming distant lines (Reddit)
- dimmer.el – after a hiatus, new development underway (Reddit) - dims inactive buffers; updates: reset when theme changes, handle child frames
- Dave Pearson: Simplifying my mode line
- Dave Pearson: It got darker - switched to a dark-mode
- Inspired by nano-emacs: vertico-buffer-frame with nano-vertico (Reddit)
- Navigation:
- modernizing bookmark+ (Reddit)- trying to get in touch with Drew Adams
- outline-indent, a modern Indentation-based Text Folding Mode for Emacs (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs loves AsciiDoc (Irreal)
- Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v5.3.0 - adds blogmore-link-series
- New, Fast, BibTex Formatter (Reddit) - Uses rust
- Denote:
- Org Mode:
- Sacha Chua: From DC Toedt: Copy Org Mode as Markdown
- Raymond Zeitler: Creating a Reference to a Webpage in Org
- A Day with Org-SuperTag — One Person's Complete Workflow
- Org export dispatcher to Eisvogel LaTeX template
- YAOB – Yet Another Org Blog · (interzone) (@cryptk)
- Emacs Org-Roam: Gestione della Conoscenza a Grafi e Metodo Zettelkasten (06:39)
- Org development:
- Coding:
- James Dyer: The Hidden Git Stash Keys in Emacs VC Directory Mode
- Configuring Emacs for Swift Development | Swift.org (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Common Lisp tree-sitter grammar with a major-mode and Sly powered semantic highlighting (Reddit)
- Corrigindo divergências entre arquivos de configuração do emacs (01:37:06)
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Doom Emacs:
- Fun:
- AI:
- Community:
- Emacs Carnival: Underappreciated Built-ins:
- Other:
- tanrax/emacs-gpu: GNU Emacs with a GPU-accelerated display backend · GitHub (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- Xah Talk Show Ep793. emacs, install Xah Fly Keys in WSL linux emacs (02:18:11)
- Xah Talk Show Ep792. install emacs on wsl Windows Subsystem for Linux (01:47:31)
- Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 33: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: Built-ins (Prot)
- Chris Maiorana: When tmux is your window manager (Irreal)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Re: master 1d91d9b717d: project-vc-dir: Use truenames - Dmitry Gutov - discussion of when to use symlinks and when to use truenames
- Re: SDL terminal type - Lina - anyone interested in trying to port Emacs UI to SDL rendering?
- Optional display of overlay-arrow in margin (bug#81109)
- Revert "project-vc-dir: Use truenames"
- Convert outline-search-function to defcustom
- Add outline-search-from-regexp generic helper
- 'work-buffer–release' kill locals silently and reset the buffer (bug#81111)
- Set user options in file/directory locals like 'setopt-local' (bug#81120)
- Add outline-show-entry-and-parents to reveal entry hierarchy
- Mark vc-dir-show-outgoing-count obsolete
- project-vc-dir: Use truenames
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- shexc-ts-mode: Tree-sitter major mode for ShExC (MELPA)
- pure-light-theme: A light colored theme for e-ink color monitors (MELPA)
- Emacs updates:
- Completion:
- [[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsUnderstandingEmbark][Chris's Wiki
- blog/programming/EmacsUnderstandingEmbark]] (lobste.rs, lemmy.ml)
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