The coolest thing I saw this week is Clerkenwell, a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 29 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464081/ Thu Nov 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 6 0000 Etc/UTC - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years
• Emacs configuration:
  • welkomscherm v1.2.1: a small, calm, extensible dashboard for Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Eric MacAdie: I Updated My Emacs Number Package
  • Flymake for Emacs Lisp (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Better lisp editing with `tree-guide.el` (and other packages) (28:53)
• Appearance:
  • region-cursors - Cursor overlays at both ends of the region (Reddit)
  • Flick: a quick and simple font picker (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.4.0
• Navigation:
  • Some recent changes I've made to tab-config my tabbing package for emacs built on top of tab-line (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs finally folds to my liking - jointhefreeworld
  • Emacs - Ripscope - search C symbol definitions
• Writing:
  • Letters to Auntie: spell-checking in Emacs (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • Emacs for obsessive word lovers (10:40)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v5.4.0
  • Sacha Chua: Dictating blog posts into Emacs (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • modeorg.org: a human guide to Org Mode (@pablo@murad.social)
  • Martin Schell: Using Org-Capture Templates with Elisp Evaluation to Set Values Depending on User Input (Irreal)
  • How to export your org-mode and org-agenda to Apple Reminders · GitHub
  • Building a website with Org mode (Reddit)
  • Denden: Emacs Lisp SSG based on org-publish | Dilip's Log (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Adding Caching to org-publish-rss.el (@tiang)
  • org-constellation (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • cmd-rewind: resume last completing-read with saved input (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Using Typescript V7 With Emacs Eglot (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Auto apply Emacs Eglot safe Code Actions (fixes) on Save
  • Video 3 - Configuring Emacs, Arrays, Slices, Vectors, and the Borrow Checker (15:47)
  • Back to Emacs with the SCSS workflow I always wanted
  • Writing an mTLS server in Go using Emacs (Reddit)
  • Clerkenwell: a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github)
• Shells:
  • Ghostel integration in Emacs (10:27)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Irreal: A Small Improvement - deleting cookies after using elfeed-webkit
• Evil mode:
  • evil-matchit 5.0.0 is published (Reddit) jumping between paired structures
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: subed.el and quoting snippets of YouTube videos from the auto captions
  • Yay Emacs 44: More conversational voice interfaces (01:11:04)
• LLMs:
  • nmagko/gptel-web: Web search tools for Emacs gptel · GitHub
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-20 / week 42
  • 40c3 - organizing a Lisp assembly for self-organized workshops (@nmeum@chaos.social)
  • Emacs Historical Archive (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Are keyboards and M-x here to stay?
  • Can your Vim do that? starts beatboxing (00:53) having fun with multiple cursors.
  • Sacha Chua: Upcoming chat with linkarzu about using Emacs for 25 years
  • Github PR box * tech chats * conference outfits * Emacs Conf prep (05:35:41)
  • Linkarzu clips:
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (01:30:34)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why He Switched for Good (12:27)
    • vim user admits emacs is better (14:08)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Analyzing Emacs News: 564 posts over 11 years, > 34k items, ~60/post
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: A Point-Based Tooltip for Emacs
  • Chai v2.1.0: Read Books in Emacs, Highlight, Search & Ask with Sources (01:36)
  • exc.el — Runs Excel in Emacs (18:48, Github)
  • Comparing file with autosaved file (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • anju 1.9: mouse menus for storing frameset, setting macro counter, fill functions (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • buffer-snapshotter: keeps snapshots of changed versions buffers (visiting files or not) written to disk (@morix@loci.onl)
  • Learning an Ancient Language with an Ancient Text Editor - SeaGL 2026 - pretalx
  • Profound anguish and Emacs persistent undos — (^ω^) (@jadedctrl@jam.xwx.moe)
  • returning nonzero exit code from emacsclient (@amy@ice.ch3.st)
  • Emacs and rust on an ASUS Eee PC 1000HA (03:51)
• Emacs development:
  • ekp-fill - line-breaking algorithm; some parts were LLM-generated, so the author is rewriting
• New packages:
  • ctftime: CTFtime dashboard (MELPA)
  • difflayer: Overlay diffs on selected regions (MELPA)
  • elark: Emacs interface to Lark/Feishu via lark-cli (MELPA)
  • fz-index: Sublime-style fuzzy file open with a native index (MELPA)
  • isbn: ISBN library (GNU ELPA)
  • modern-tab: The common part of the two tab modes (MELPA)
  • region-cursors: Display point and active mark using overlays (MELPA)
  • straight-overview: Selective upgrade UI for straight.el packages (MELPA)
  • typst-overlay: Overlay Typst equations (MELPA)
  • xc: Emacs interface for xc (GNU ELPA)

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!

There are a bunch of Eglot-related resources in the Coding category today. Nice to see people working on lots of cool stuff!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 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 Oct 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/317043388/ Sat Oct 24 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 29 0200 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Why Emacs Is For Beginners (04:33)
  • Taller de Configuración de Entorno (25:36)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A Mode for Every Occasion (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • Randy Ridenour: Finding Unbalanced Parens in Emacs (Irreal)
  • tree-guide.el: short editing demo (20 seconds, no audio) (00:22)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Using timers to perform weekly tasks (Irreal) - updating Org clock tables
  • Deleting variables in code with Emacs Lisp by using the face properties (@zwol@masto.hackers.town)
  • ETAF: a framework and ecosystem for building full text applications in Emacs - music player, RSS and ebook readers, desktop, games (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Header-modeline: move your modeline to header-line (top of your window) (Reddit)
  • au-themes: calm, low-glare themes I made because most themes are too loud for me (Reddit)
  • foxglove-themes: academic-inspired modus themes that support e-ink (Reddit)
  • I created a dark modus theme centered around teletype green (Reddit)
  • More fun with modus themes. #emacs (02:08)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live extracting the Modus themes core at 2026-10-17 14:30 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:47:00)
  • emacs-init/lisp/modus-vivendi-matrix-theme.el at main · benleis1/emacs-init · GitHub (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
• Navigation:
  • bookmark-gt: a module to improve bookmark management (YouTube, Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Quick note on how to edit Emacs Dired buffers (@panmaster@mamot.fr)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live continuing ‘denote’ maintenance and refinements (2026-10-15 16:30 Europe/Athens) (YouTube 02:14:35)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: Suggestion: Document `org-extend-today-until` in Clock Table section
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] LaTeX preview between #+begin_equation/#+end_equation
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] a small patch for the brave on emacs32
  • Quickly Copy Code and Example Block Contents in Emacs Org Mode | Helen Chong, Web Developer (@helenchong@social.lol)
  • org-diff-src: character-level diffs inside Org source blocks (no Ediff) (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: org-ibullets.el - Display Emacs org-mode heading stars as UTF-8 bullets (Irreal)
  • [Package] org-slideboard: An improved interactive presentation tool for Org mode (Reddit)
  • Supertag for Emacs: write first, organize when you need to (09:05, Reddit, Reddit)
  • org-semantic: embedding search for org-mode (Reddit)
  • [EVENT] #5 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, October 17, 19:00 UTC+3 - notes and recording
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • My org-attach config, only place files go (paste / drag / download), with names I can actually read (Reddit)
    • New latex preview merged into org mode! (Reddit)
    • Introducing ical-buddy.el (Reddit)
    • Omarchy Org Agenda Plugin: Your Org Agenda schedule at a glance, directly on the top bar (Reddit)
    • My Personal Intranet to Replace Cloud Subscriptions (30:21)
  • Org development:
    • ox-html: Restore numbering when exporting math with mathml
    • Merge branch 'main' into feature/org-latex-preview
    • org-manual.org: Document compat library installation
• Coding:
  • Auto rename compilation buffer if another process is still running (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de)
  • Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-10-11 - compilation commands, git
  • Configuring Eglot to auto format code on save in Emacs (Reddit)
  • New refactor.el: code actions, rename and quickfixes, out of Eglot (Reddit)
  • Emacs: Configuring Eglot for Python with .dir-locals.el and python-lsp-server (Pylsp) (Reddit)
  • kubect: A text focused Emacs interface Kubernetes workflows through kubectl (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Working with multiple shell buffers (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Ghostel 0.58 released (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • ElNeo - a matrix client for emacs with native e2e encryption support, inspired by telegas architecture (Reddit)
  • emacs-fu: mu 1.14.4 (Irreal)
  • my email setup in emacs (46:24)
• Evil mode:
  • evil-matchit 5.0.0 is published (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • # Emacs Golf #031 The Kill Ring
  • # Emacs Golf #029 Register Roulette
• LLMs:
  • I can't express how happy I am with emacs and LLM-assisted emacs-fu
  • roost: Run coding agents in Git worktrees and tmux, from Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.87 updates (Reddit)
  • jdblair/waves-dashboard: bead-waves tooling for beads projects: the wave CLI, an Emacs dashboard (waves-dashboard.el) and the bead-waves Claude Code skill · GitHub (@jdblair@hachyderm.io)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: all my packages have an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to restrict use
• Community:
  • Sacha Chua: Added Javascript time zone translation to the EmacsConf schedule images on the wiki
  • Protesilaos: I will participate in EmacsConf 2026
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Hacker News Decoder Ring for Emacs
  • Andros Fenollosa: Org Social: the social network that survives its own infrastructure
• Other:
  • wizard.el: A lightweight suite of useful Emacs functions (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eludom/talk-tools: This is an emacs minor mode for use when giving talks · GitHub
  • wordwise.el - Kindle-style in-line vocabulary hints above words in Emacs Reading Buffer (Reddit)
  • Readq - incremental reading for emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Reader submitted to ELPA (Reddit)
  • Introducing Portal (Reddit, lobste.rs) - macOS-only
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: UX IS US
• Emacs development:
  • Saving and restoring a session will now save and restore 'buffer-list'.
  • Rename 'dired-jump-map' to 'dired-jump-repeat-map' (bug#82052)
• New packages:
  • agent-shell-attention: Mode-line attention tracker for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • devops: Infrastructure as an org file (MELPA)
  • magit-nix3: Nix3.el integration for Magit (MELPA)
  • org-semantic: Search org notes by meaning, or by word (MELPA)
  • supersonic: Music client for Subsonic servers and Music Assistant (MELPA)
  • ttl-ts-mode: RDF Turtle editing mode (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!

People have been having lots of fun playing Emacs Golf over in r/emacs. Check out the "Fun" category for some examples of people comparing how few keystrokes they need in order to get something done.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 12 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Oct 13 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Oct 13 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Oct 17 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Oct 18 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 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 Oct 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Keith Waclena's "Use GNU Emacs the Plain Text Computing Environment" (Reddit)
  • Tips for beginners (@andyc@yakshaving.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Repeating commands
  • Tip about setting whitespace-global-modes so that it excludes some modes (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Desafios em Elisp | Emacs / Magit (01:47:11)
• Appearance:
  • [NEW] emacs32 master branch support scaling for underline, overline… face
  • Ayu themes for Emacs: night, dusk and day, built from the official palette (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using C-x 0 to delete the current window (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Tip: Use registers to save window configurations with C-x r w (@lispwizard@techhub.social) (Irreal)
  • Tip about setting scroll-conservatively (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • persp-mode-tab-bar: Tab bar for persp-mode / Doom workspaces (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • joc-toggle-case.el: toggles case at point (@vnikolov@ieji.de)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 6 - abbrevs, grammar, Harper, LanguageTool
  • markdown-ts-appear: Rendered Markdown, editable in place (Reddit, lemmy.ml)
  • GitHub - rjprins/markdown-modern: Modern visual styling for Markdown buffers in Emacs (fork of mark-graf) (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again. — baty.net (HN)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: spontaneous live new ‘denote-data’ feature (2026-10-07 at 18:00 Europe/Athens) (YouTube, 01:22:16)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs ‘denote-data’ testing live today, 2026-10-12, at 16:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: orgmode: do textsec-url-suspicious-p for http and https links
  • James Dyer: Org Speed Keys: Making t Land After the TODO Keyword
  • Deeper layers of Org Mode laziness explained (Reddit)
  • org-retroclock: Log CLOCK entries retrospectively without starting a timer (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Bringing micro-timers, checklist budgeting, and monotasking focus to Org-mode (org-focus-hud) (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Des commandes vocales pour ajouter des tâches sur Emacs (YouTube, 02:44)
  • excali-mode 0.3.0: an Org-mode whiteboard inside Emacs (Reddit, HN, Reddit) - excali-board-mode: Org headings as cards; diagram DSL
  • Comparing org-roam, org-node, Supertag and vulpea, with a benchmark you can re-run
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: safe and keyword for org-latex-table-scientific-notation
    • Enhance prefix argument to org-open-at-point on URLs
    • ox-latex: pass :align to table.el tables
    • Announce 'org-latex-listings-env'
• Coding:
  • What I use Eglot for in GNU Emacs and what good it is (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Magit Fast Mode [fast use magit]​ (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs for Javascript development - skewer-mode for evaluating CSS and HTML (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu4e-send-later: A "Send Later" functionality for mu4e (Reddit)
  • aerc-mode: make it easier to use emacsclient within the aerc mail client (@PuercoPop)
• Multimedia:
  • supersonic.el Music Player v0.6.0 Update (added UPnP support) (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Oct 2026: Exploring keys and voice input in Emacs
  • Sacha Chua: Using Emacs to visualize speaking and target words/phrases in real-ish time
• Fun:
  • # Emacs Golf #028 Rectangle Wizard
  • # Emacs Golf #026 We Only Need The First
  • # Emacs Golf #023 — Case-Insensitive Assassin
  • # Emacs Golf #011 Number Cruncher Category: B. Multi-line transformations
  • Emacs Golf: fixing misplaced spaces
  • 004BEGINNINGS THE CATTLE ARE LISPING lambdamoo moo.el VR puppets with common lisp emacs slime (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • 3D in MY Emacs!? (Hack and overview) (14:21)
• LLMs:
  • Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 Minutes (YouTube, 01:11)
  • M-x Machina — a workspace for coding agents inside Emacs (Reddit)
  • Voice AI Editing and an Emacs Plugin (01:33)
  • Emacs ollama agent compare (01:29)
  • Update: ecc 0.4, Claude Code in Emacs: Spaces and an agentic diff review (release notes, Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-06 / week 40
  • Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival - Will we change how we interact with Emacs? (Irreal)
  • Clojure Corner: Interview with Bozhidar Batsov (01:18:53)
  • I Asked Prot If I Should Switch to Emacs (13:02)
  • Protesilaos: Live: Ask me ANYTHING (2026-10-10 16:00 Europe/Athens) (5:04:50)
  • Accessing Reddit from Emacs will be impossible after November 13th - or use emacs-reddigg
• Other:
  • emacs-reader: Help wanted with testing PR #199 - Refactor rendering pipeline architecture to avoid race conditions and other multi-threading issues (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Tip about using negative prefix arguments (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Parse page ranges, insert issue references (Irreal, Irreal, Irreal)
  • New Emacs keepass package (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Lock mode
  • A small change in xdisp.c reduced allocations by ~42% in a boxed-text workload
  • Configuring the Emacs UI for Better Latency and Perceived Responsiveness (Reddit)
  • Fixing the tree-sitter syntax highlighting bug in Emacs 31+ indirect buffers (The Emacs maintainers will not fix it, so I did) (Reddit)
  • Rust bindings for Emacs dynamic modules support canvas_data API (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Fix/enhance prefix arguments to browse-url functions
  • Fix browse-url-chromium and browse-url-chrome NEW-WINDOW
  • Produce "!MEM FULL! " for %e in mode lines
  • Underline, overline, and strike-through can now be scaled with text.
  • New Tramp connection method "wslc"
  • * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face.
• New packages:
  • project-terminal: Per-project terminal management (MELPA)
  • org-timegrid: SVG week calendar with mouse and keyboard editing (MELPA)
  • markdown-ts-appear: Reveal Markdown source at point (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!

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The Emacs Carnival for October is about looking into your crystal ball. I'd love to see what you're looking forward to exploring. Thanks to George Jones for hosting!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 5 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Oct 13 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • A list of Emacs learning materials and references (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Customize Me (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • [ANN] package-load-indicator: instantly see which packages are loaded within your init file (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Reading the emacs compilation mode source code (01:29:41)
  • Reading some emacs package source code (e.g. comint) (01:20:07)
  • Desafio #1 | Divisão por 5 (Emacs+Elisp) (19:53)
• Appearance:
  • Tip: increase text scale for modes like elfeed-show - @citizen428.net on Bluesky
  • jamescherti/persist-text-scale.el: Emacs: Persist and Restore Text Scale (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ‘doric-meadow’ and ‘doric-mountain’ coming to the ‘doric-themes’
• Navigation:
  • Tip about C-r RET to turn isearch into a minibuffer prompt (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How many screens left
  • Overriding project.el project root in Emacs | Blog | Jade Michael Thornton (@artfulrobot@floss.social)
  • preview-tab: VS Code's preview tab for Emacs, now on MELPA (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Tip: dired-async-mode when you're doing long-running actions @citizen428.net on Bluesky
• Writing:
  • Emacs: Obsidian without external packages - citizen428.net
  • Christian Tietze: Watch My EmacsConf Talk: Zettelkasten for Regular Emacs Hackers
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: status update on the ‘denote-data’ cache for Denote
• Org Mode:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Opening org-capture in a new frame
  • org-incremental-writing package (Reddit) - written with agent assistance
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 31: Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez - Org LaTeX export with fallbacks (YouTube)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Now org-toggle-timestamp-overlays is Disabled
  • Org-roam-tree update: jit rendering, arbitrary search and more! (Reddit)
  • inline backlinks for org-roam (Reddit)
  • excali-mode 0.2.0: a diagram DSL with explicit placement and Org Babel support (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Github does not preview Org mode files any more (bug)
• Coding:
  • I've used emacs successfully for decades without using LSP or Eglot. Tell me what I'm missing.
  • A package using rope to do python code refactoring in emacs
  • Clutch update: a video walkthrough (PostgreSQL, JDBC, row editing, JSON hover preview) (YouTube 04:17, GitHub, Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Ankit Gadiya: Fix nested Emacs frames (Irreal)
• Web:
  • canvas-browser: a Chromium page in an Emacs buffer, drawn on an Emacs 32 canvas image (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • tootle: A tiny, text-only, read-only, emoji-free Mastodon client for Emacs. (Reddit) Also rougier's experiment in vibe-coding
  • Andros Fenollosa: How I built a WhatsApp client for Emacs without an API
• Multimedia:
  • nfdn: Announcing triode.el - control an app for playing Internet radio (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Fun:
  • Zippy in the mists of time · Curious Musings (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • Raymond Zeitler: What is spook?
  • el-gpu demo pix-el.mkv
• LLMs:
  • LLM release 0.33.0, with decisions! (Reddit, Reddit)
  • AI built my Emacs plugin (01:31)
  • Emacs ollama agent demo 01 (02:22)
    • introduction (配音版) (06:04)
    • change font and size (02:22)
    • 網站內容擷取 (01:14)
    • 排序 (02:17)
• Community:
  • EmacsWiki : CarnivalOctober2026 - Crystal ball (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • Matei Candea (social anthropologist) is looking for interviewees for a research project on Emacs, its users and its community (@emacs_london@hachyderm.io)
  • Looking for people who want to have a Lisp meetup in Hamburg (@omidmash@social.tchncs.de)
  • Chris Maiorana: M-x and the future of Emacs (Irreal)
  • Roman and Editors ⋄ ffloyd.space (@ffloyd)
  • Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Yay Emacs 39: Testing my new streaming functions (01:54:59) working on Emacs News, tinkering with speech commands
    • Yay Emacs 40: Tinkering with my speech commands and working on the schedule for EmacsConf (58:14)
• Other:
  • Let Emacs make you happy (12:05) - Highlight mode, sentences, split windows, Org mode, functions, and navigation.
  • Emacs is now my new rofi (Reddit) - emacsclient + vertico for launching applications
  • nfdn: Announcing Aquí (Irreal) - location finder
  • isled - a personal issue ledger (Reddit) see also org-edna if you want to have task dependencies; mostly AI written
  • Emacs bufferfile.el: Rename, Delete, or Copy Files and Associated Buffers (e.g., clones/indirect buffers) [Release 1.0.9]​
  • qrencode-el 1.6: export QR codes as SVG, get the SVG DOM using Elisp (@ruediger@hachyderm.io)
  • [22] Emacs Reader: Rendering Architecture Refactor and Other Fixes - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Getting rid of pathologically slow regexp matches - Stefan Monnier
    • Library for exporting PDF - Cecilio Pardo
    • Explanation of quoting in docstrings
  • * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face.
  • Add a 'syntax-propertize-function' to 'lisp-mode'
  • Indent HTML lists by a consistent width in SHR
• New packages:
  • ebuild-mode: edit ebuild and eclass files (NonGNU ELPA)
  • triode: Interface to Triode app, macOS internet radio (MELPA)
  • pyfun-mode: Major mode for the Pyfun language (MELPA)
  • neofetch: Pretty system information tool for the Eshell (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-latex: Preview LaTeX math as SVG in LaTeX buffers (MELPA)
  • gptel-annotate: Annotate files or buffers with LLMs (MELPA)
  • clel: Runtime library for ClojureElisp (MELPA)
  • brewpage: Publish buffers/regions to brewpage.app (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!

There's a nice long video about Org mode with plenty of tips for beginners. Also, it's the end of the month, so check out the submissions for the Emacs Carnival for September ("Games") and consider volunteering to host the next one!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 30 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 1 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464079/ Thu Oct 1 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Oct 2 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Sacha Chua: Oct 2 - Emacs Chat 31: Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez (Protesilaos, YouTube)
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 5 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 9 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Discussion about confirm-kill-emacs (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing restlib - a utility library for building Emacs REST clients
• Appearance:
  • Tip about changing the default font size (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Per-mode themes (@masukomi@connectified.com)
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: forward-paragraph in Magit
  • jadedctrl/bookmark-groups.el: Easily manage separate Emacs bookmark files - Kodujo Ŝɪɴᴏɴᴏᴍᴇ (@jadedctrl@jam.xwx.moe)
  • Some updates on my package ilist-plus (Reddit) extensions to imenu-list
• Hyperbole:
  • Crie botões no Emacs (10:36)
• Dired:
  • C-u M-x dired to pass flags to ls command (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Charles Choi: Binding the SPC key in Dired and IBuffer (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • TIL about Remember mode - built-in persistent-scratch
  • How Emacs does things: flyspell's way of tracking misspelled words (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: find a file in the ‘denote-directory’
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: I am experimenting with a Denote cache
• Org Mode:
  • How I Actually Use Org Mode - Emacs Everywhere #3 (01:00:42)
  • Spacemacs | What kind of notes I take? | Productivity (07:04, in French)
  • org for creator - turn your thought from graphs into meaningful posts (13:43)
    • org per creatori - i tuoi pensieri in grafi che creano storie (12:55)
  • James Dyer: Copy Only What You See: Teaching M-w a Prefix Argument (Irreal)
  • org-table-widget 0.3.0: long Org tables now scroll like ordinary text (Reddit)
  • Org tangle and run
  • Supertag V2: I rebuilt a note-taking system, and what I learned (Reddit)
  • Chai 2.1: read, highlight, search and ask your Org book library, with notes you can carry out (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • Add OTHER_LANGUAGES to the metadata
    • ox-latex: add :alt attribute for images
• Coding:
  • Emacs: clangd and lsp-mode -> diagnostic lag while typing, and an on-demand solution
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.3.0
  • Varhammer 1.1.8 "Midnight" - Portable Common Lisp for Windows (Reddit)
• Math:
  • Tip: latex-math-mode minor mode has a menu of symbols (@aethor@fosstodon.org)
• Shells:
  • send-invisible: Handle password prompts in shells or comint when not properly detected (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
• Web:
  • andros/termweb.el: Reformat web pages so they read well in EWW, the Emacs browser (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Einar Mostad: EWW in Emacs 31 would not use browse-url-generic as browse-url-secondary-browser-function
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • GitHub - guibor/teams4e: A mu4e-inspired Microsoft Teams client for Emacs. (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Playing around with OBS, Emacs, and speech commands (01:54)
• LLMs:
  • llm package support for jev / laya-style quick decisions (Reddit)
  • Brainiac v3.0 released (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.78 updates (Reddit)
  • Fazendo gambiarra com Emacs e Remux (55:31)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-09-22 / week 38
  • Everyday Emacs 2026-2027 Series - 1 (02:11) - Series of videos in Turkish; live-coding?
• Other:
  • The Emacs Cat: Running Emacs in microVM
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Detecting and warning about homoglyph attacks
  • Improve directory-files-recursively
  • Fix creation of commit message from ChangeLog (bug#81909)
  • New option vc-dir-simple-unmark-all-files
  • New option vc-quick-select-current-working-tree
  • New command diff-goto-old-source
• New packages:
  • adif: Major mode for viewing and editing ADIF log files (MELPA)
  • aqui: Location update (optimized for macOS) (MELPA)
  • consult-ghostel: Consult integration for ghostel (MELPA)
  • consult-zoxide: Jump to zoxide directories with Consult (MELPA)
  • dharmamitra: Sanskrit/Pāli/Tibetan/Chinese analysis via dharmamitra.org (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-markdown: Preview Markdown LaTeX math as SVG (MELPA)
  • preview-tab: Temporary file buffers, like VS Code's preview tab (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!

I put the new typewriter mode in the Fun category, but people might actually find the constraints useful for focused writing.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 26 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 Sep 30 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 1 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464079/ Thu Oct 1 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Oct 2 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Repeat mode finally made Emacs navigation click
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: New from Emacs 31.1 - Upgrade packages without breaking other Emacsen
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Raymond Zeitler: A Niftier Way To ASCIIfy An Emacs Buffer - replace-char-fold
  • Livecoding for emacs: supersonic.el (08:06)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.9.0
• Navigation:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: beframe version 1.6.0
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.7.0
• Writing:
  • markup2html: aesthetic renderer of markdown and org-mode documents (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Org markup inside comments (was: [Bug] Confusing appearance of bracket link in comment)
  • Ashish Panigrahi: An upgraded workflow on reviewing finished tasks with org-agenda
  • Org Mode, Marked, and Workflows
  • I Migrated My Obsidian Vault to Org Mode - Emacs Everywhere #2 (01:12:35)
  • Org Roam Dashboard (10:01)
  • Org development:
    • org-id: Standardize UUIDs to lowercase and use built-in uuid.el
• Completion:
  • Bumbling my way through the Consult docs to build an async completer (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • TIL magit wraps around smerge so you can discard one side of a hunk with an unresolved conflict (@slackline)
  • Python settings for Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of September 2026) (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Pinned Tree-sitter grammars for Emacs treesit (emacs-treesit-grammars flake) (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Why Your Emacs Terminal is Slow and How to Fix It (vterm, eat, ghostel, term, and ansi-term) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Microsoft outlook OAuth authentication with mu4e (Reddit) - updated to use Thunderbird client ID
  • Using an existing Microsoft 365 MCP login to get Outlook mail into mu4e
  • andros/presence.el: See when your friends are online, away or offline, and send and read simple messages, right from Emacs
• Doom Emacs:
  • ¿Por qué Doom Emacs es el secreto de los expertos? (22:25)
• Multimedia:
  • Images with Emacs (19:00)
• Fun:
  • New package: Typewriter (Reddit)
• LLMs:
  • envoy: hand an org heading or email from Emacs to a coding harness in tmux (Reddit)
  • gptel: Emacs y la IA
  • moe-microscope/docs/literate/moe-microscope.org at main · sw-ml-study/moe-microscope · GitHub
  • AI Tools #7: A Coding Agent Small Enough to Understand | Software Wrighter Lab Blog
• Other:
  • Tip: C-u C-y yanks but leaves the cursor at the beginning of the string (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Create beautiful diagrams in Emacs using d2 (11:08, code, Reddit, Irreal) - also Org support
  • How to Prevent Emacs from Freezing on Files files with Very Long Lines (e.g, minified JavaScript, compiled CSS, SQL dumps, large JSON files…) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce underline styles support on Windows Terminal.
  • Add TTY support for overline (Bug#80208)
  • use-package-ensure.el: Don't install during compilation (bug#81710)
  • ; Some followup Tramp changes of sync with 2.9.0
  • Update to Unicode 18.0 (bug#81880)
  • Document tramp-tolerate-tilde
  • * lisp/vc/diff.el (diff-switches): Include "-r".
  • Populate 'pcpu' and 'pmem' attributes on Darwin
• New packages:
  • amber-mode: A major mode for the Amber programming language (MELPA)
  • git-modeline: Show the git status of the current file in the modeline (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-org: Preview Org LaTeX math as SVG (MELPA)
  • magit-standup: Collect recent git commits for standup notes (MELPA)
  • nightpanel-theme: Saab instrument cluster colorscheme (MELPA)
  • org-roam-stats: Personal Knowledge Management Dashboard (MELPA)
  • remoto: Browse GitHub repos without cloning (MELPA)
  • restlib: Utility library for building REST clients (MELPA)
  • testcover-audit: Quantitative coverage statistics for testcover.el (MELPA)
  • typewriter: Turn Emacs into a text adder (GNU ELPA)

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!

Not much commentary this week, but plenty of cool stuff to explore!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 15 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • 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
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Sep 19 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316535239/ Sat Sep 19 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Tip of the Day — Alex Carney (@alcarney) - news entries on splash screen
  • Personalized embark actions (@eslr, Irreal)
  • Emacs Meow Motions (15:44)
  • Emacs Meow-mode (01:40:58)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Notes on debugging standard and third-party Emacs code (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • musing about the difficulty of doing one-off scripted edits in emacs lisp — paste.sr.ht (@zwol@masto.hackers.town)
  • TIL with-demoted-errors (@beetle_b@mastodon.xyz)
• Navigation:
  • Announcing multi-buf: a generalized buffer multiplexer for shells and other buffers (Reddit)
  • New Package: `modern-tab` (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Irreal: Jinx Update Number …
• Org Mode:
  • Un-Learning the LMS: Prepping Courses with Org Mode - Output Error (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • org-grid (Reddit)
  • org-timegrid now works on Android Emacs (Reddit)
  • my dream setup (bonus: it’s free) (18:33) - Org
  • [New Release] Whisper Engine v2.0.0 - Org static site generator (@silentarchitect)
  • pjones/org-clock-dbus: Monitor org-clock from outside Emacs · GitHub (@devalot@hostux.social)
  • [notes] #33 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, August 12, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
• Completion:
  • Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up? (consult-fd, consult-find, consult-grep, consult-ripgrep…) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Coding:
  • Staging and Comitting using Magit (YouTube 12:14, Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Emacs 31 Does Git Worktrees Natively: How My vc Setup Compares
  • Further progress configuring java + eglot + dape (Reddit)
  • Eglot DAPE debugging setup for java (jdtls) in emacs (05:39)
  • maak.el: Lisp machine command runner, infinitely extensible, integrating nicely with Emacs, for Lisp power on your projects and automation at your fingertips (Reddit, HN)
  • More tree-sitter, more neocaml, more elisp · Perpetually Curious (@tsmc@hachyderm.io)
  • Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: July and August 2026
  • martianh/fj.el 0.39 - performance boost (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Doom Emacs:
  • A Tour of Doom Emacs - Emacs Everywhere #1 (01:04:03)
• Multimedia:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Emacs, movies and SQLite
  • supersonic.el Music player v0.5.0 update (YouTube 00:37, Reddit)
• Fun:
  • smear-cursor: a cursor trail for Emacs 32 (Reddit)
  • betweenle.el: an Emacs version of Betweenle (alphabetical word guessing) (Reddit)
• LLMs:
  • Another Claude Code integration for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Some LLM spell check experiences
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Spellchecking Total Eclipse with an AI
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-09-08 / week 36
  • Any Emacs users in Tokyo want to meet up? (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • September 2026 Emacs Meetup recap. (42:19, HN)
  • Einar Mostad: An apology to Protesilaos Stavrou and David Wilson (Protesilaos)
• Other:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Duplicating lines and other Emacs miscellanea
  • yank-transform-functions (@arensb@ooblick.com)
  • visual-regexp-rx: write regexp with rx notation in visual-regexp (Reddit)
  • Moving the Credentials I Kicked Out of init.el from Plaintext Files to Keychain | Masutaka's ChangeLog Memo (@masutaka@mstdn.love)
  • The Root Causes of Scrolling Lag in Emacs display-line-numbers-mode (Reddit, Irreal)
  • v31 for Windows heavily flagged by AV
• Emacs development:
  • Allow setting font-lock-keyword property using declare form
  • Improve where the replacement is previewed (bug#81583)
  • Use short symbols for query-replace-show-preview (bug#81583)
  • Rename `outline-xref' command to `outline-find-headings' (correction: C-c @ M-o)
• New packages:
  • elfeed-protocol-freshrss: FreshRSS protocol for elfeed (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-frontend: Preview LaTeX math in markup buffers as SVG (MELPA)
  • nonogram: Play nonogram (picross) puzzles with SVG graphics (MELPA)
  • org-clock-dbus: Monitor org-clock from D-Bus (MELPA)
  • single-window: Always open buffers in the current window (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!