2026-07-27 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsLots of discussion around Emacs is a Lispboard (HN) and Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You (HN). Also, last call for Emacs Carnival posts for June (theme: Programming). The theme for August is The Search for Knowledge. Enjoy!
- Emacs 31:
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3944ee8f-6da1-4720-b086-b9217e4f5c7b Mon Aug 3 1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091679/ Thu Aug 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Aug 7 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Emacs Redux: Right-aligned Mode Line Elements (Irreal)
- Mode line maker (Reddit)
- Arthur A. Gleckler: mode-line-path
- Introducing trailing-newline-indicator: Visual clarity for file-ending newlines in Emacs (Reddit)
- New Emacs icon theme package (out of the box, supports dired, ibuffer, speedbar) with 1200+ SVG icons (Reddit)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: pulsar version 1.4.0
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [TODO] Fix obsolete/wrong info in worg/org-faq.org
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-agenda: combine Clocked and Closed entries
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] PDF document tagging: language code
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] Font control as of today
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] Small restriction in BEAMER_HEADER: WDYT?
- Show current tasks after init (@FoxFunction@tech.lgbt)
- Raymond Zeitler: The Problem With Tags Lists
- Reviewing finished tasks from last week in org-agenda and emacs (@paniash@mas.to)
- org-block-wrap: fix unsightly notches in org blocks (Reddit)
- Kalender von Emacs Org-mode in Thunderbird exportieren - GNU/Linux.ch (@Verfassungklage@troet.cafe)
- Org development:
- Completion:
- Coding:
- ryanprior/xc.el: Integrate the xc task runner with Emacs - Codeberg.org (@ryanprior)
- jsonschema-treesit: JSON object key completion using JSON Schema and treesit
- Seamless Lombok, JaCoCo, and Other Java Agent Integration in Emacs with JAL (Reddit)
- Meta Redux: Making CIDER More Discoverable
- Meta Redux: Modernizing CIDER’s Completion
- Meta Redux: Closing the Find-Usages Gap in CIDER
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- LLMs:
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs is a Lispboard (Reddit, HN)
- Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You (Reddit, HN)
- bartbunting/emacspeak-support: Speech enabling emacs packages · GitHub (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
- Emacs on the iPad: first release (v0.1.0, sideloadable .ipa) (Reddit)
- A light-weight Clojure-like language that runs directly in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
- Raymond Zeitler: Modeling Browser History in Emacs
- Lars Ingebrigtsen: It’s time to wake up: An Emacs alarm clock
- Protesilaos: Emacs: Substitute version 0.5.0
- Chung-hong Chan: Emacs Writing Machine (lobste.rs)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 2
- Emacs development:
- New packages:
- fnm: Manage Node versions using fnm (MELPA)
- grpclient: Grpcurl interactive builder (MELPA)
- gruber-darker-ayu-theme: Gruber Darker + Ayu Dark color theme (MELPA)
- keycoach: Learn keybindings (MELPA)
- mode-line-maker: Mode-line helper tools (GNU ELPA)
- project-x: Extra convenience features for project.el (MELPA)
- smali-mode: Major mode for editing Smali/Baksmali files (MELPA)
- snippy: Vscode snippet support with Yasnippet (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!