2026-09-07 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsThe Emacs Carnival theme for September is "Games". Enjoy! Other really cool uses of graphics in Emacs: org-timegrid, poimap, canvas-minimap.
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And a reminder: EmacsConf - 2026 - Call for Participation target date for proposals Sept 18, conference is online Dec 12-13. Hope to see you there!
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/316294538/ Tue Sep 8 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Sep 8 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 11 1800 Europe/Paris
- PDX Emacs (in person) https://pdx.social/@howard/117147689957341583 - Tue Sept 15 6:00 pm in Portland, OR
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Beginner:
- What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme? (April 2026, Irreal)
- Emacs configuration:
- Guide to Deferred Package Loading with use-package (Optimizing Emacs Startup) (Reddit, Irreal)
- auto-side-windows now on MELPA (Reddit)
- Emacs Meep-mode Model Editing (57:41) modal editing
- Casual Suite 3.0 (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- wakib-emacs: Emacs for the rest of us: v2 released! (Reddit)
- Bedrock 2.0 released! (Reddit)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- My Note Taking Setup With Emacs Org-Mode (33:26)
- Writing year in review: My 2022 writing habit on Emacs | Semi-author-ized writer (@ljwrites@writeout.ink)
- A beautiful SVG weekly calendar for Emacs, backed by Org files, with full mouse and keyboard support and an optional day strip for Org Agenda (Reddit)
- Emacs Org-Mode PDF Quicksheet now available in PEL (Reddit)
- org-draw is now available on MELPA! (YouTube, Reddit)
- Improving the styling of emacs tables with tabularray (programming.dev)
- org-table-widget: I finally found a way to make Org tables easier to read without changing how I edit them (Reddit)
- Org development:
- Coding:
- James Dyer: Git Worktrees Without Leaving Built-in VC
- Emacs Redux: Working with Git Worktrees in Magit
- Dave Pearson: next-gh-pr.el v1.1.0
- Joar von Arndt: Emacs does not need LSP
- Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-09-06 emacs-multi-compile, consult-kith for jumping to tests/etc.
- Xdebug for PHP on Emacs with Dape | Artful Robot (@artfulrobot@floss.social)
- gaudy-cl: Colorful semantic font-locking for Common Lisp (Reddit)
- Shells:
- Evil mode:
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- LLMs:
- Community:
- BEWARE: doomemacs.com is not associated with doomemacs (Reddit)
- Question about things that surprised you about Emacs.
- Emacs in fifty keystrokes five years later (2026 edition featuring meow and agent-shell)
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 30: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2) (YouTube, 01:05:56)
- Talking About Stuff I Use on Linux (not a dev, just a human perspective) (01:00:02) Doom Emacs at 15:24
- Other:
- Jeremy Friesen: How I’m Feeling Emacs Command
- The Emacs Security Settings that might Silently Compromise your System (Reddit)
- I finally got Emacs to render Markdown tables properly (md-mode 0.4.1) — and I think the same trick can work for Org tables (Reddit)
- epub-reader: an EPUB reader for Emacs that reflows, breaks CJK lines properly, and keeps highlights across re-layout (Reddit)
- Marcin Borkowski: Pasting primary selection from keyboard
- thkoch2001/rau: Emacs/Wayland based Window Manager in pure elisp with the help of River (HN)
- Building Emacs into a systemd-sysext — Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
- Emacs development:
- New packages:
- agent-shell-math-renderer: Display-math rendering for agent-shell (MELPA)
- api-credit: AI API balance in the modeline (MELPA)
- auto-tab-groups: Simple auto tab group creator for specified commands (MELPA)
- cursorfree: Complex editing through voice (MELPA)
- material-icons: Material Icon Theme integration (MELPA)
- metropolis-light-theme: Light theme based on the Metropolis Beamer palette (MELPA)
- mode-line-path: Abbreviate file paths in the mode line (MELPA)
- nix3: Frontend to experimental commands of Nix (MELPA)
- org-roam-gt: Improvements for org-roam (MELPA)
- pilish: Emacs frontend for pi coding agent (MELPA)
- surveyor: Survey your code with LLM-generated diagrams (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!