2026-08-10 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsThe Navigation category has a couple of interesting window configuration tips this week in case you prefer to work with just one window or have multiple windows with some of them dedicated to specific buffers.
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315859503/ Tue Aug 11 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Aug 11 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 14 1800 Europe/Paris
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Aug 15 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Aug 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Aug 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Beginner:
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Package Management with package-quickstart - DEV Community (JP, @gemmaro)
- Tip about setting file-precious-flag by location with my-maybe-mark-file-precious (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
- Emacs Config Gems - Part 3 - Melpa, UI, help, and many more
- Emacs Config Gems - Part 4 - recycle bin, frame size, backups, autosave, autorevert, recentf
- User Interface to Computer Applications Demonstrated in GNU Emacs (02:09:31) also available as separate videos, see video description
- Dotfiles Season 1 Episode 4: Emacs Configuration (14:31)
- Rate my Emacs config! (Reddit)
- myn-macs (MY miNimal eMACS IDE setup for the lazy terminal wizard) (Reddit)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Protesilaos: Emacs: the ‘speedbar’ built-in file explorer (Emacs 31) (YouTube 15:40, Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
- Chris Maiorana: Using ffap to jump to file includes in Emacs (YouTube 07:04)
- Raymond Zeitler: Dedicate an Emacs Window to Its Buffer
- James Cherti: single-window.el – Always Open Emacs Buffers in the Current Active Window (GitHub, Reddit)
- Srijan Choudhary: Emacs: desktop-save-mode without the automatic restore (Irreal)
- My Emacs workflow with project.el and tab-bar.el project-x.el (30:39)
- TRAMP:
- Dired:
- Writing:
- Efficient Note-taking in Emacs with Howm (@qnnnp)
- Reversible transpose-chars and transpose-words, and a dwim that transposes around "and" or "or" (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: conditionally expand abbrev-mode definitions (YouTube 14:34, Reddit)
- Using remark to strip words in backtick quotes before write-good analysis (@howard@pdx.social)
- How Prot Organizes Knowledge, Projects, and Tasks in Emacs (37:53)
- benleis1/wikimode · GitHub (YouTube, Reddit, @benleis@mathstodon.xyz) - navigate Markdown and Org files like a wiki
- Org Mode:
- Reviewing finished tasks from last week in org-agenda and emacs (Irreal)
- Read a .docx in Emacs with its tracked changes and comments intact, as org-mode (Reddit)
- How to Generate PDFs from Org Mode using ox-odt (26:03)
- rlridenour/ox-rlr-slipshow: Emacs Org mode exporter to create Slipshow Markdown files. · GitHub (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
- Org development:
- Coding:
- Managing Changes with ediff — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
- Tip about using diff-hl-set-reference-rev (@glyph)
- [[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime][Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime]] (lobste.rs)
- The Emacs Cat: Debugging in Emacs
- Xah Talk Show Ep811. Emacs: CSS toggle px rem (30:21)
- Math:
- Shells:
- Web:
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Evil mode:
- Multimedia:
- LLMs:
- kriyative / elisp-agent · GitLab (@kriyative@functional.cafe)
- blog.fidelramos.net – Supply-chain hygiene for Emacs: LLM review of package upgrades (ES)
- AGENTS.md - discussion about whether to include AGENTS.md in Emacs source code (HN)
- Community:
- Other:
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Re: [PATCH] emoji on TUI emacs - Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions. Possible workaround for different composition widths?
- Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break - Eli Zaretskii Issues with compiling older versions
- Show-all values for speedbar user options for hiding
- Add `outline-occur' command and `display-buffer-default-alist' variable
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- bitbucket-devops: Bitbucket Cloud DevOps workflows (MELPA)
- denote-smart-sluggify-title: Denoise denote titles to save filename length (MELPA)
- graph-fa2: ForceAtlas2 pure-elisp background-cached engine (MELPA)
- pimacs: Emacs Client for Pi (MELPA)
- ronny-theme: A dark colorscheme inspired by Monokai (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!