2026-07-20 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsCompletion seems to be the topic of the day. Check out the new videos and resources people have shared on both completion in buffer and in the mini-buffer. Also, there's been lots of discussion for or against Human Emacs; links are in the Community section.
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- 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
- Sacha Chua: 6 aôut: Emacs Chat: Richard Bonichon
- Sacha Chua: 20 aôut: Emacs Chat: Abdallah Maouche
- Beginner:
- Emacs Docs: The modern documentation website Emacs deserves (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN)
- How to Undo in Emacs (01:24)
- How to Find and Replace Text in Emacs (02:52)
- One shot modifiers, then emacs tutorial (02:08:22)
- Let's Finally Finish the Emacs Tutorial (02:03:47)
- New to Emacs? Learning Vanilla Emacs with Protesilaos | Coaching Session #2 (Reddit)
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Redux: which-key is Now Built-in
- Stop Installing Every Emacs Package You See (04:07)
- Emacs Redux: All Aboard Embark! (Irreal)
- Tip about using embark-bindings-at-point to find available commands (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
- Tip about setting describe-bindings-outline-rules (@plantarum@ottawa.place)
- Gentoo Simp Demonstrates Beacon Mode With Meow On Emacs. (03:30)
- casual 2.17.0 (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- skewed-emacs: containerized Emacs + Lisp environment — now starts with a single curl command, no clone required (Reddit)
- Emacs literate config (@rickwysocki@mas.to)
- initialisation d'emacs - (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- TRAMP:
- Gentoo User shows you How to edit your make.conf in Emacs (02:25) - using TRAMP to edit files as root
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename options controlling recursive statistics
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] Small restriction in BEAMER_HEADER: WDYT?
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] Font control as of today
- [RFC] Help with PDF/UA2 accessibility tests for ox-latex - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- [02] Vanilla Emacs with Prot: I’ll Repent for My Markdown Sins (02:09:15) - beginner exploring Org
- Mike Hostetler: Why Org's agenda ignores your start day
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
- Sacha Chua: Mon flux de travail de programmation
- Comment j'organise mon emploi du temps avec org emacs / tablette eink BOOX (16:19)
- Tip: Use org-mark-ring-goto to return after opening a link
- Drawing inside Org-mode using iPad (or any device using tldraw on the browser) seamlessly (YouTube 01:16, Reddit)
- screwlisp/ickle: Org babel for complex embeddable common lisp interactions i.e. ansi common lisp as a C (or C++) library with duplexed embedding and interleaving. (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
- Notes from #2 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, July 18, 11:00 UTC+3 (video, Reddit, @yantar92@fosstodon.org) -
- Completion:
- [Article] Guide to Modern Emacs Completion: vertico, corfu & friends (Reddit)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: Completion in the buffer with completion-at-point-functions (YouTube, 22:53)
- Emacs Redux: Inline Completion with completion-preview-mode
- Emacs Redux: Cape: Corfu’s Best Friend
- Vadzim Shender: Making backspace in vertico behave like ido
- New corfu-mouse extension · minad/corfu@3cacdaf · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
- Coding:
- New package: region-pin.el for floating code snippets (Reddit)
- dape toolbar (use child-frame and nerd icons) (Reddit) - debugger controls
- Tip about using consult-lsp-diagnostics (@shivjm)
- How Emacs Uses Nix — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
- Emacs .dir-locals.el File for Python Projects (@zelphirkaltstahl)
- Tip: consult-lsp-diagnostics from the consult-lsp package (@shivjm)
- Full IDE Power Over SSH: Remote C++ development - Terminal Emacs, No GUI (Reddit)
- Meta Redux: CIDER 2.0: Sky is the Limit
- Meta Redux: clj-refactor.el 4.0
- Pair of functions to send things to the tap inspector in clerk and clojure (@otfrom@functional.cafe)
- Meta Redux: Stepping Through Macros in CIDER
- Meta Redux: Sayid 0.8
- Emacs Redux: Flymake Can Now Show Diagnostics at the End of the Line
- Hide module imports in Scheme buffers using an overlay (@ryuslash@goto.ryuslash.org)
- Emacs Eglot for Scala and Kotlin (JVM) and some nifty workarounds for day-to-day usage (Reddit)
- gemmaro/cwmrc-mode: Emacs major mode and Flymake backend for cwmrc format. - Codeberg.org (@gemmaro)
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- LLMs:
- Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-07-14 / week 28
- Things that made me come back to Emacs (Reddit)
- Why Emacs is still my interface to my computer - Upsun Developer (@upsun)
- Human Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org)
- Sacha Chua: Voulez-vous parler d'Emacs avec Prot et moi ? (YouTube, 03:54)
- The Search for Knowledge: Emacs Carnival August 2026 (@chiply@fosstodon.org, Reddit)
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Re: SDL terminal type - Sean Whitton - Lucid build still relevant because of issues with GTK build
- Local treesit parsers with disjoint ranges - Ruby Iris Juric
- Create macro 'pcase-let*-strict'
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- blamee: Chunked git-blame overlays with popup details (MELPA)
- context-clues: Easily copy context like the current file name and path (MELPA)
- flex-x: Extended flex completion style (MELPA)
- hnview: Standalone Hacker News client (MELPA)
- moonbit-ts-mode: MoonBit tree-sitter major mode (MELPA)
- nostr-publish: Publish Markdown to Nostr (MELPA)
- org-habit-ng: Full RRULE recurrence for org-habit (MELPA)
- org-history: Show Dates for Org headers from vcs + auto-commit (MELPA)
- org-mindmap: Editable mindmap visualization in org-mode (MELPA)
- sema-mode: Major mode for editing Sema files (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!