There were lots of Emacs-related discussions on Hacker News, mainly because of two posts about Emacs's extensibility: an Org Mode example and a completion example. This guide on connecting to databases from Org Mode Babel blocks started a few discussions. There were a couple of Emacs Carnival posts on obscure packages, too. Also, if you want to present at EmacsConf 2025 (great way to meet like-minded folks), please send your proposal in by this Friday (Sept 19). Thanks!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): M-x drinks https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/310874314/ Tue Sep 16 1800 Europe/London
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 24 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 25 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs meetup in person in Novosibirsk, Russia ichernyshovvv@gmail.com - Sept 27 20:00 - 23:00 Asia/Novosibirsk
• Emacs configuration:
  • dandrake/casual-eww: Emacs transient "casual" menu for the emacs web browser eww (@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs workflow ideas: How I use Hydra in a minor mode (15:50, Reddit)
  • ZeniesQis/Emacsn: Installation and multiple configuration management for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Everything with Emacs (@jnpn@mastodon.social) - vianney.leboutellier's Emacs configuration
  • meow-edit/meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑 (recent discussion on HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Sharing some thoughts on page-ext and building your own alternatives to packages (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Mondo — World's scripts, languages, places in any language (Emacs package)
  • Listful Andrew: Vexil — Create flags of countries and subdivisions (Emacs package)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs and dom.el: quick notes on parsing HTML and turning DOMs back into HTML
  • Ep699 Emacs Lisp defvar-keymap, define-keymap , part 2 (01:01:15)
  • [12] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Partial & Tiled Rendering (Part III) - 9/14/2025, 2:31:27 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • How to Create and Test an Emacs Tree-Sitter Major Mode (emacs-devel)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs vim-tab-bar.el: A Vim-Inspired Emacs Tab-Bar That Automatically Adapts to Any Theme (Release 1.0.9)
• Navigation:
  • localauthor: Managing Emacs Tabs with 'tab-sets.el'
• Writing:
  • Powerful emacs hacks: patching markdown-mode (HN) - getting images from a different directory
  • Powerful emacs hacks: paste images to markdown from clipboard
  • Irreal: Semantic Line Breaks
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs: a paradigm shift (Reddit, HN, HN) - automatically sorting in Org Mode
  • Jeremy Friesen: Dynamic Org-Mode Block to List Books Read
  • (Update) org-supertag 5.1: Implement Interactive Schema View for Tag Management (Github)
  • Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • RangHo/svelte-preprocess-org: Svelte preprocessor for Org, the most superior markup language. (Reddit)
  • Sync Emacs Org Agenda and Google Calendar with the Org-Gcal Package (06:30)
  • Generating a website/blog from Org files with Hakyll
  • Org Social Preview Generator
• Coding:
  • dotemacs/lisp-comment-dwim.el: Do What I Mean mode for toggling comments in Lisp (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • tomekw/doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax highlighting, LSP and Alire support (HN) - also usable from vanilla Emacs
  • Elisp For Clojure Developers
  • Clojuredocs.el from within emacs
  • A baseline indent rule for tree-sitter major modes (Reddit)
  • Integrate Emacs and Jira with Ejira3
  • James Dyer: Debugging Software Breakage with Git Stash and Emacs
  • Magit 4.4, Forge 0.6, Ghub 5.0 and Transient 0.10 released
• Shells:
  • Tip about using exec-path-from-shell-initialize to set the PATH
• Web:
  • Making use of Webmentions // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
  • Teaching Emacs to recognize thing-at-point (17:53)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Getting Started With Doom Emacs (16:34)
  • Doom Emacs And Creating A Literate Config (24:06)
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Artist clock
• AI:
  • (Release) SuperChat: A friendly, Claude Code–style chat UI for gptel in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing acp.el (Reddit)
    • Alvaro Ramirez: So you want ACP (Agent Client Protocol) for Emacs?
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-09-09 / week 36
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: port19 about RSI, keyboard ergonomics, dictation tools, and geriatric nursing
  • Lobsters interview with Susam
  • Tell me you use emacs (without telling me you use emacs) (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Tip about using M-x decipher to solve cryptoquotes (single alphabet substitution ciphers)
  • Improved emacsclient-wrapper.sh. to be used as $VISUAL, $EDITOR
  • buffer-terminator.el: Safely terminate Emacs buffers automatically to enhance performance and reduce clutter in the buffer list (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
  • Announcing Numeri - an Emacs package for Roman number translation (Reddit, Irreal)
  • stripspace.el: Ensure Emacs Automatically removes trailing whitespace before saving a buffer (Release 1.0.2) (Reddit)
  • arkoinad/autopaste: Autopaste clipboard to current buffer - polls the MacOS clipboard with pbpaste
  • September Emacs Carnival: Obscure Packages
    • Emacs Obscure Package: transient — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
    • An obscure Emacs Package: Chart.el
    • An obscure Emacs package: decide | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
    • Obscure packages (Paquetes raros)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • long-term issue with emacs-devel search not showing recent messages
    • Another alternative Emacs logo proposal; side discussion about librsvg and Rust
  • Introduce auth-source-ignore-non-existing-file
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Fix last change.
  • Update to Unicode 17.0
  • Ignore non-existing or empty files in auth-sources
• New packages:
  • async1: Unroll chain of async callbacks, parallel and sequencial (MELPA)
  • blue: BLUE build system interface (MELPA)
  • consult-gh-nerd-icons: Nerd icons Integration for consult-gh (MELPA)
  • doxymacs: Emacs integration with Doxygen (MELPA)
  • meep: Lightweight modal editing (MELPA)
  • quick-fasd: Integration for the command-line tool `fasd' (MELPA)
  • thanks: Say thanks to the authors of all your installed packages (MELPA)
  • verse-mode: Major mode for Verse (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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 was lots of conversation around Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard this week, with threads on Reddit, HN, and lobste.rs. Also, if you want to present at EmacsConf 2025 (great way to meet like-minded folks), please send your proposal in by next Friday (Sept 19). Thanks!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #9 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3421ffb7-043c-4c7a-a6cc-5aaad4a956eb Tue Sep 9 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 12 1800 Europe/Paris
  • London Emacs (in person): M-x drinks https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/310874314/ Tue Sep 16 1800 Europe/London
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • tusharhero: Obscure Emacs packages (part of the Emacs Carnival for Sept, Irreal)
  • FrostyX/thanks: Say thanks to the authors of all your installed packages (@FrostyX@fosstodon.org)
  • Emacs Tips & Tweaks (2025-09-05)- vundo, regex builder and more – blog.nshephard.dev (@nshephard@fosstodon.org)
  • My Emacs configuration (common parts) - added pinentry and TRAMP config (@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Ep698 Emacs Lisp coding, defvar-keymap (01:03:56)
  • Ep696 Emacs Lisp. insert date, extend selection, Generic Map Functions (46:35)
  • Ep695 emacs lisp, most commonly used functions, fill region problems, etc (42:06)
  • [11] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Partial & Tiled Rendering (Part II) - 9/7/2025, 2:32:23 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • [11] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Partial & Tiled Rendering (Part II) - 9/7/2025, 4:06:57 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 1.0.0
• Navigation:
  • Bring point back to original location prior to select + TAB to indent (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Diverted mode (Irreal)
  • Add tkj/vc-git-grep-symbol (0dceafd6) · Commits · Torstein Krause Johansen / my-little-friends · GitLab (@skybert@hachyderm.io)
• Writing:
  • Substituindo a palavra A pela palavra B e B pela palavra A no Emacs (01:01)
• Org Mode:
  • Ryan Prior / Emacs Org Data Starter · GitLab (@ryanprior@mastodon.social)
  • The McPhee method « the jsomers.net blog (Irreal) - refiling into buckets
  • The Heading Level Problem (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Differentiating between C-c C-c and C-c C-k
  • (Release) org-supertag 5.0: major refactor & pure Elisp implementation
  • Makefile for pandoc org to pdf | node01.de (@rhaen@digitalcourage.social)
  • rhaen/org-book-makefile: Makefile project to build PDFs, HTML, EPUB, and DOCX from Org files with Pandoc, templates, and citation support to a book. - vcs.node01.de: Kind like Jita4.4 - but smaller (@rhaen@digitalcourage.social)
  • Org-srs (Anki alternative) is now on MELPA (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Norm: Org to XML (redux)
  • WIP common lisp type theoretic org-file parser (is this a parser? What kind of parser?) (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • org-social.el 1.4: votes, polls (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • #Orgdown is better than #markdown Karl Voit #interview #programming #knowledgeRepresentation #lispyGopherClimate #emacs
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Customizing Emacs Completion: From Fido's Fuzzy Matching to Literal Substring (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • A review of Eglot (Reddit)
  • Emacs Tree-sitter Treesit Configuration - VOD (16:06)
  • Emacs Treesitter with Combobulate structured navigation and editing (01:00:36)
  • Rahul Juliato: Quickly switching between git status files buffers in Emacs (Reddit)
  • consult-gh v3.0 is released - Do everything on GitHub from within Emacs!
• Web:
  • Fetching webmentions again. With Emacs this time! // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Getting Started With Doom Emacs (16:34)
• AI:
  • chmouel/aichat.el - Send buffer content or regions to AI models and handle responses asynchronously (@chmouel@fosstodon.org)
• Community:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Amin about EmacsConf, Debian, GNU, Internet Archive, and Canada (YouTube, Amin Bandali)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Greg about Emacs, Android, dogs, fishing, cycling, and Pennsylvania (YouTube 01:31:51)
• Other:
  • Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard | Kyou is kyou is kyou is kyou (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.ml)
  • nix-darwin-emacs for Emacs users using Nix.
  • Replace text in all files under directory tree with the pel-dirtree-replace command in 1 shot.
  • Y'all might think I'm nuts. But I'm tired of doing this manually for decades: Filtering out multibyte characters on a save hook, table based:
  • Directory Slideshow (Emacs Package)
  • Kinneyzhang/ETML: Emacs Text Markup Language: text block rendering and flexible layout in Emacs buffers. (Reddit)
  • twitchy-ears/metoffice-datahub-lib: Emacs package to query, display, and cache information from the Metoffice Datahub service (@morix@loci.onl)
  • stewart123579/ebook-notes: Extract, deduplicate and organise notes and highlights from Kindle clipping files (@svw@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Commands to move or copy changes between VC working trees
    • Semantic highlighting for Elisp (Sourcehut, HN)
    • Adding cond-let* to Emacs - play with this and give feedback
      • understanding cond-let* vs pcase, cond, if-let*
    • Enduring confusion from bug#54079 - macros and symbols with position
  • Make 'm' and 'u' in Log View mode more standard
  • Support completion category inheritance
  • Add 'elisp-flymake-byte-compile-executable' defcustom
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Copyedit.
  • Add new library 'timeout'
• New packages:
  • codex-cli: Codex CLI integration (MELPA)
  • custom-keymap: Configure user key sequence bindings from a custom variable (MELPA)
  • eplotly: Create Plotly charts (MELPA)
  • linkin-org: A workflow with fast, reliable links (MELPA)
  • numeri: Roman Numeral Conversion Library (MELPA)
  • standard-keys-mode: Emulate standard keybindings from modern editors (NonGNU ELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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 continue to share interesting Emacs elevator pitches. The Emacs Carnival September theme is "Obscure packages." Recommend a hidden gem!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/310417272/ Thu Sep 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Sep 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #9 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3421ffb7-043c-4c7a-a6cc-5aaad4a956eb Tue Sep 9 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 12 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs bankruptcy – fix your Emacs and your life (13:13, Reddit, Irreal, HN)
  • What are the must have emacs packages in August 2025? (Irreal)
  • Ultra Ergonomic Emacs Workflow (navigation wise and Undo) (07:52, Reddit) - key-chords
  • Meep: lightweight modal editing system (Reddit)
  • jjba23/sss: Supreme Sexp System 3.4.8 (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
  • @tennoseremel's Emacs config (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
  • salvari's Emacs config (includes Python IDE configuration) (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Who moved my text? - after-change-functions (Irreal)
  • James Cherti: pre-commit-elisp – Pre-commit hooks for Emacs Lisp (Elisp) Git repositories (Github)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: show-font version 0.4.0
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.4.0
  • mastro35/year-1984-theme: a vintage theme for Emacs (@mastro35@hachyderm.io)
• Navigation:
  • Share your tips for FAST movements and navigation
  • The Emacs Cat: My Emacs IBuffer Configuration (Irreal)
  • Buffers Are the BEST Emacs Feature (08:22)
• Dired:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Dired buffers with media overlays (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Example of changing ispell dictionary on input-method-activate-hook or input-method-deactivate-hook
  • preview-point: Local previews around point for AUCTeX preview (Reddit)
  • Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A quick overiew about how I write instructions in org-mode (Irreal)
  • Fiddling with structural templates in Org-mode // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
  • ]b, [b 키바인딩을 추가해 org block 단위로 점프 - (emacsian ohyecloudy) (@ohyecloudy@mastodon.social)
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] displaying the ':narrow' value in clocktable
  • (Update) org-supertag: Now have a custom option to disable AI server
  • Code to use Zotero links in Emacs (on a Mac)
  • Zac Romero: Integrating Google Work Calendar With Emacs
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: A Better Way to Indent Your Entire Buffer in Emacs?
  • ddavis.io | Python & Emacs, 2025
  • Jakub Nowak: Controlling Godot with Emacs
  • Christian Tietze: Clickable Swift Testing Failure Messages in Emacs compile-mode
  • Writing a Lisp JIT Interpreter with GraalVM Truffle | Kyou is kyou is kyou is kyou
  • Jujutsu mode for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Small package with extra vc-git commands: https://git.sr.ht/~sebasmonia/stubvex (Reddit)
  • isamert/lab.el: Emacs-GitLab integration (@isamert@mastodon.social)
• Shells:
  • Eshell + Windows + Coreutils (16:12)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • tanrax/org-social.el 1.3: mentions, replies (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • La red social de org-mode (@Notxor@masto.es)
  • Christine Lemmer-Webber / soci-el (@cwebber@social.coop) - ActivityPub posting from Emacs in 2016
    • ActivityPub source-property example (@cwebber@social.coop)
  • A Stealth Flex: Browse Reddit at Work Using Emacs (02:16)
• Evil mode:
  • My Solution for Evil Mode: Only enable evil-normal-state in editable buffers
• AI:
  • ECA: Best AI tools for Emacs (Reddit)
  • kgthegreat/protagentic: Emacs plugin for kiro like functionality - structured feature planning
  • gpt-responses.el - Minimal OpenAI Responses API
  • Will Schenk: Claude Code in Emacs
  • MaGPT — Git Assistant for Emacs (Reddit)
  • [gptel-watch] Releases v0.2.2 ==> Add feat: Flexible context extraction
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-08-26 / week 34
  • August Emacs Carnival: Elevator pitch:
    • tusharhero: Emacs Elevator Pitch
    • Emacs is like a living, breathing creature - not a relic from another era | Quijote Libre (@quijote_libre@mastodon.social)
    • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Elevator Pitch and Post-Pitch Talking Points (Irreal)
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs elevator pitch: tinkerers unite
    • Philip Kaludercic: An “Elevator Pitch” for Emacs: Commentary Edition (Irreal)
  • Looking for an Emacs meetup in Boston
  • Article on "Malleable software" describes what I love about emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Alex about LSP, Elisp programming, Guix, cycling, Go game, philosophy, and SwayWM (YouTube 01:12:57)
• Other:
  • ANSI escaping is a mess (or, why Emacs adds [] to my file?) | Kyou is kyou is kyou is kyou
  • Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard | Kyou is kyou is kyou is kyou (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Optimizing the Emacs Binary and Follow-up work
    • Re: Should accept-process-output reliably return early? - discussion about improving throughput
    • Re: [NSApp] Memory usage anomalies - continued.. - progress on memory allocator experiments
    • Re: Emacs-mac as an alternative to NS - development goals
  • New user option 'tab-line-define-keys'
  • * doc/emacs/modes.texi (Choosing Modes): Document 'treesit-enabled-modes'.
  • Errors signaled by 'emacsclient' connections can now enter the debugger.
  • Document and test 'let-alist' support for indexing
  • New commands for outgoing diffs including uncommitted changes
  • Add edebug-bounce-to-previous-value
  • Add user option to inhibit Calc startup message (bug#79143)
  • Make RET choose the selected completion
• New packages:
  • directory-slideshow: Simple slideshows from files (MELPA)
  • indentinator: Automatically indent code (MELPA)
  • ticktick: Sync Org Mode tasks with TickTick (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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'm experimenting with commentary and formatting! =) The Emacs Carnival blogging theme of elevator pitch seems to have resonated with a lot of people: 18 entries so far, which is perfect timing because there's also a new online book for Emacs beginners. Also, if you're looking for a "Can your text editor do this?!" sort of example, there was a lively discussion about clipping videos with Emacs on Hacker News. (Be prepared for bewilderment, though.) On the other hand, if you're here for serious stuff and want a technical deep dive, check out Yuan Fu's post on Emacs tree-sitter integration. Here are the other links:

• Help wanted:
  • London Emacs meetup looking for a meeting room
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 28 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 2 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/310417272/ Thu Sep 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Sep 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • cloudstreet-dev/Emacs-for-Goodness-Sake: Emacs for Goodness' Sake
• Emacs configuration:
  • standard-keys-mode: A minor mode for emulate "modern" and common keybindings from modern editors (Reddit)
  • `OpenEmacs`, humanized and intuitive, simple Emacs configuration, guides users to use Emacs immediately. (Reddit)
  • Yi Tang: Multiple Working Emacs
  • [OC] package-retry.el - Automatic retry for failed package installations (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • [ANN] grid.el - Two-dimensional layout system for Emacs (Release 0.1) (Reddit)
  • [10] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Partial & Tiled Rendering - 8/24/2025, 3:42:15 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • mastro35/year-1984-theme: a vintage theme for Emacs (@mastro35@hachyderm.io)
  • Book like grayscale light and dark themes for GNU Emacs
  • Kitty/Emacs/Gnome theme switching
• Navigation:
  • Jakub Nowak: Make Neotree "Tab-Local"
  • Quickly navigate in man pages, using emacs, neovim or w3m. (Reddit) - g for subsection, r to follow link
• Org Mode:
  • Stop renting your life - own it - Org Mode and tasks
  • TIL: Org Mode Can Sort Lists Automatically! C-c ^ (org-sort)
  • Randy Ridenour: Creating Attendance Sheets with Org Mode
  • Marcin Borkowski: Counting Org mode headlines
  • Screenshots into emacs org files in Windows | Mark's Project Blog (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
• Completion:
  • completions-overlay.el Overlays for completion candidates (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • A new powerful Emacs workflow (a Neovim alternative) (Reddit, YouTube 12:51)
  • Review of Emacs tree-sitter integration (Reddit)
  • Announcing subtree-package: interactively manage packages as git subtrees (Reddit)
• Math:
  • BEESi: Emacs and R with Tree-sitter and LSP (@schuemaa@ecoevo.social)
  • A proof of concept to put a better Emacs UI on top of Gnuplot (Reddit, @kickingvegas@sfba.social, Irreal)
• Web:
  • TIL that EWW can launch POST requests directly
• Multimedia:
  • Marcin Borkowski: 2025-08-18 Cutting clips from videos with Emacs (Hackaday)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs as your video-trimming tool (170 comments on HN including this humorous one-upping, lobste.rs, Reddit, Irreal, Github)
• Fun:
  • My other email client is a daemon (Reddit) - mu4e and nethack-el
  • Listful Andrew: llamascii art
  • Mail Amusements (GNU Emacs Manual) (HN)
• AI:
  • A tiny upgrade to the LLM model picker (@xenodium@indieweb.social, Reddit)
  • Wiring Claude Code Into Emacs - System Crafters Live! (01:45:40)
  • S1E8: Show And Tell: Efrit: When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities (40:14)
• Community:
  • New: search.emacslife.com (Announcement)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-08 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs Tip Jar: Weekly Prize Fund for People Who Do Good Emacs (Reddit)
  • Elevator pitches:
    • M-x apropos Emacs: Elevator pitch (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
    • Emacs – The Editor of the Revolution (@realCheGnuevara@mastodon.social)
    • Charles Choi: Emacs Elevator Pitch (Reddit, Irreal)
    • Jeremy Friesen: Elevator Pitches for Emacs (Irreal)
    • Ross A. Baker: Emacs Elevator Pitch
    • bare metal (the emacs essay) | wax banks
    • Emacs is violent passion (Reddit, lobste.rs)
    • My Elevator Pitch for Emacs
    • emacs elevator pitch
    • Emacs carnival: Elevator pitch (or How I learned to love RSS for the fediverse) (Irreal)
    • Emacs as an alternative computing paradigm
    • Adventures with Emacs - high12noon blog
    • Elevator pitch for Emacs (Discurso de ascensor para Emacs)
  • Interviews:
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Dimos about Emacs interconnectedness, collective work, and The Conspiracy Club (YouTube 01:12:57)
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ronnie about free software, privacy, parenting, and life in Iraqi Kurdistan (YouTube)
    • Amin Bandali: Lispy Gopher Climate with screwlisp
• Other:
  • Tip about using rectangular selection to copy columns from ASCII tables
  • rtrppl/emacs-trans: Emacs wrapper for translate-shell. (@laotang@mastodon.social)
  • pivaldi/emacs-passfile: Very simple Emacs package allowing to view and edit securely a GnuPG encrypted file (@_PI_@fosstodon.org)
  • Termux APK signed for Android Emacs, works on Android 15 (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Feedback Directed Optimization of Emacs With Clang For Great Justice (Reddit)
  • emacs-devel:
    • Should we add a section about "Semantic Linefeed Filling" to the Emacs user manual?
    • Dmitry and Spencer volunteering to help with threads, yay
    • More Nextstep details Re: Emacs-mac as an alternative to NS
    • Copyleft considerations re: LLVM and MacOS
    • use-package: Discussion of potential :hook-after/:hook-add/:hook* keyword
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'savannah/master' into master-android-1
  • * etc/NEWS: Mention 'lua-mode' merge.
  • Disallow string data resizing (bug#79784)
  • Have project-switch-to-buffer use a distinct completion category
  • Add NEWS entry for project-switch-buffer change from bug#77312
  • Use better temporary file names under 'file-precious-flag'
  • flymake: stop trying to automatically fall back to margins
  • project: Improve pruning of zombie projects.
  • Speed up JSON parsing by not maintaining line and column (bug#79192)
  • Rename some incoming & outgoing diff commands
• New packages:
  • bracket-face: A face for brackets (MELPA)
  • cond-let: Additional and improved binding conditionals (MELPA)
  • electric-list-directory: Lightweight popup directory browser (MELPA)
  • eprolog: Native Prolog engine implementation (MELPA)
  • lobsters: A Lobsters client (MELPA)
  • ol-bible: Org Link support for Bible Passages (MELPA)
  • org-srs: A flexible spaced repetition system for Org-mode (MELPA)
  • parenthesis-face: A face for parentheses (MELPA)
  • project-cmake: A cmake backend for project.el (MELPA)
  • rcirc-mentions: Log mentions of your nick or keywords in a separate buffer (GNU ELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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!

• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30.2 Release Announcement (FTP, Windows binaries, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, Irreal) - bugfix release
• Help wanted:
  • Emacs Stack Exchange is looking for moderators (Reddit)
  • Need someone to step up to maintain thread-related code (Eli wants to stop overseeing it)
  • GNUStep testers needed for patch for priority C-g processing on NS (event loop details)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Aug 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/310514138/ Sat Aug 23 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 28 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • [OC] I created "Package Upgrade Guard" - a diff-checking tool for package upgrades (Reddit)
  • a minor mode inspired by meow (Reddit) - modal editing keys
  • Supreme Sexp System 3.3.22 - SSS - a Lisp machine adventure - Dracula palette, quality of life improvements (@sss_project@mastodon.social)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Exemplify-ERT — Clean examples that double as ERT declarations (Emacs package) — Listful Andrew (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • compile-angel.el (Release 1.1.2) - Accelerate Emacs by Byte-compiling and Native-compiling all Elisp files (Reddit) - add support for detecting no-byte-compile
  • isamert/egnuplot: Composable Gnuplot macro for Emacs Lisp (@isamert@mastodon.social)
  • Building Emacs UI for the Scheme test runner (@abcdw@fosstodon.org)
  • Ep692 Emacs Lisp Find Replace Greek Chars, Multiple Pairs Algorithm, Feedback Loop Problem (01:08:01)
  • Timestamp Files - Emacs Lisp | lesson 14 (09:22)
  • Make An Emacs Buffer Pops Up Upon Asynchronous Response | lesson 12 (11:23)
  • Listful Andrew: What is Pansymbolic? And why would you, Emacs package developer, care?
    • Listful Andrew: You using Pansymbolic: examples
• Appearance:
  • Emacs toggle transparency with interactive function
  • New Theme for Emacs - Cacao-Theme (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: in-development "doric-beach" and "doric-valley" themes
• Navigation:
  • Fixing Emacs Page Navigation (Reddit, Irreal)
  • James Dyer: Fast Recent File Navigation in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Imitating framemove in SwayWM
• Org Mode:
  • fediverse username custom Org link type (@masukomi@connectified.com)
  • I made a package to fetch and manage Gmail threads directly in Org Mode: org-gmail (Reddit)
  • Deploy org-beamer slides to gitlab pages via CI
  • ox-leanpub: patch for fixed handling of custom LEANPUB_BOOK_OUTPUT_DIR (@masukomi@connectified.com)
  • phil/org-infosec: An example of using org-mode for information security/ IT - Phil's Git
  • marcuskammer/user-centered-development-book: Book about user-centered development for SaaS - code.metalisp.dev (Reddit) - Exported from Org
  • dock.el and org-agenda-dock - Seamless Emacs + Dock Integration (Reddit)
  • Artawower/raindrop.el: Raindrop integration for OrgMode (Reddit) - bookmarks
  • tanrax/org-social: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. (HN)
  • Org development:
    • lisp/ob-csharp.el: Include support for evaluating C# code blocks
• Denote:
  • Add keyword to Denote filename (@Cnoceda@mastodon.social)
  • Integrating GPTel and Denote (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Modern Emacs Part 2: Project.el, Eglot and Corfu - VOD - YouTube
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.2.0
• Web:
  • Migration from Pocket and Hatena Bookmark to Raindrop.io (and Creating helm-raindrop.el) - DEV Community
    • Emacs helm-raindrop.el demo (00:35)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Filtering data centres from web stats
  • Edite texto no seu navegador usando o Emacs (10:04)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • The emacs.social Mastodon server continues to be available (thanks, @runlevelrobot@emacs.social)
  • mu4e: code for finding all unread messages from the same sender
• Multimedia:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Cutting clips from videos with Emacs
• Fun:
  • Kaomel: a snappy kaomoji picker for Emacs (Reddit)
  • chip-8 emulator running in emacs
• AI:
  • How To Handle API Errors From OpenAI - Emacs Lisp | lesson 13 (11:11)
  • Pure Elisp MCP server for Emacs (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-08-12 / week 32
  • Zac Romero: Elevator Pitch for Emacs: like the terminal with added dimensions
  • first week with emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Arni about Emacs, no distractions, socialising, and self-expression through art
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Erik about Emacs since the 1990s, Oregon and Portland, and podcasting
  • All ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs (2021) (lobste.rs)
  • The Code Editor Wars: A Dev’s Guide to Surviving 2025 (02:25)
  • Matt from The Linux Cast on macOS, NixOS, Emacs & More (02:23:43) (~ 0:48 or so)
• Other:
  • Donovan R.: My Emacs journey (4) - Weird Yet Amazing Modes - svg-clock, artist-mode, follow-mode
  • Recommendation for Android: termux + syncthing + Emacs + Spacemacs + 8vim keyboard
  • Arkadiusz Świętnicki prezentuje działanie edytora Emacs oraz narzędzia Emacspeak…
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: C-g responsiveness expectations (NSApp, maybe more)
    • NSApp: Investigating memory usage anomalies
  • VC: New commands for incoming and outgoing fileset diffs
  • whitespace-mode: New style to prettify page delimiters characters.
  • Add support for updating *​Completions* as you type
  • New user option 'treesit-enabled-modes' (bug#79180)
  • tab-line: Allow to hide excluded buffers in the tab line. (Bug#79159)
• New packages:
  • automoji: Discord-like emoji completion (MELPA)
  • hotdesk: Flexible frame Buffer Lists for projects & workspaces (MELPA)
  • iso-date: Utilities for working with ISO dates (GNU ELPA)
  • pomo-cat: Pomodoro timer with cat-themed breaks (MELPA)

If you're looking for something to write about, consider this month's Emacs Carnival theme: your elevator pitch for Emacs.

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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/660761d6-862d-43a1-9fb4-955d4e3e1066 Tue Aug 12 1900 CET
  • London Emacs (in person): M-x drinks https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/310360735/ Tue Aug 12 1830 Europe/London
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Aug 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • GNU Emacs for Beginners 🚀 | Setup, Tour & Programming with Emacs on Fedora Linux! (48:30)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Embark: Customizing Commands (40:43)
  • Emacs Hydra menu and Emacs Transient menu (@velocipede@mastodon.social, Reddit)
  • TIL – Emacs display-buffer-alist (@donaldh@hachyderm.io)
  • embark.kubel.el: My tiny package that adds an Embark target for kubel resources
• Emacs Lisp:
  • twitchy-ears/major-mode-change-watcher-mode: Minor mode that runs functions when the major-mode variable changes using add-variable-watcher (@morix@loci.onl)
  • emacs package dev v2532864955 (02:02:04)
  • (Released) grid-table: is a general grid table component for Emacs, supporting rich text and image rendering, formula calculation, interactive editing, sorting, persistence, and plugin extension. (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Pansymbolic: Mapping all Emacs Lisp symbols
    • Listful Andrew: SymTable — Build and search flat hash tables of symbols (Emacs package)
    • Listful Andrew: SymTree — Build and search nested hash tables of symbols (Emacs package)
  • Livestreams about Emacs Reader develeopment: 2:38 PM, 3:03 PM, 3:19 PM, 3:22 PM, 5:38 PM
• Appearance:
  • Cursor trails in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new ‘oak’ and ‘pine’ doric-themes
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.3.0
  • Ep689 emacs. commands for cycle color themes, font, space hyphen lowline. (31:16)
• TRAMP:
  • jsadusk/tramp-hlo: High level operations as tramp handlers (#79094 - [wishlist] Optimizations for round trips in tramp - GNU bug report logs)
• Writing:
  • How popular is Markdown mode compared to Org Mode? (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode as a software development architecture notebook (Reddit)
  • Chris Maiorana: Wrangling project files with includes (YouTube 07:07)
  • org-reschedule-by-rule: Cron-based rescheduling for tasks
  • Update #+date automatically when saving Org document | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • (update) org-supertag: Table View now support multi-line text and image in cell (Reddit)
  • Writing to think 2: Write harder - GIAC/SANS Indexing with Emacs and Org (@jaredj@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
  • Figured out a way to export from Apple Notes to orgmode
  • Org development:
    • org-element: Fix parsing and interpreting drawers with leading empty lines
    • org-babel: Do not treat :results drawer verbatim
    • lisp/org.el: Add ability to sort tags by hierarchy
    • Allow `org-tags-sort-function' to be a list of functions
• Coding:
  • SebastianMeisel/journalctl-mode: Major mode to view journalctl's output in Emacs
  • Marcin Borkowski: Using Eldoc to show entities with given uuids in the echo area
  • stsquad/hubi: Homogeneous Unified Builder Interface - a transient interface to build tools for Emacs
  • Eglot: Tip about using git init and .gitignore to skip subdirectories with lots of files
  • James Cherti: Using Emacs vc-diff with tools such as git-crypt or Rails credentials: Handling Binary Diff Issues
• Shells:
  • zshzel.el - integrate with the Zsh Z plugin for changing location (@xgqt@functional.cafe)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • tanrax/lobsters.el: A simple and elegant Lobsters client for Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev, lobste.rs)
  • How to fix corfu use in lem.el
  • Delta Chat and Org-Mode (@Cnoceda@mastodon.social)
• AI:
  • Set up AI assisted programming in Emacs using aider (06:41)
  • Claude Code IDE v0.2.5: Now with tree-sitter MCP, eat and flymake support, and other goodies (Reddit, HN)
  • gptel-project: Project-based context, transcripts, and summaries for gptel (Reddit)
  • Accessing Github Copilot Enterprise (EMU) plan from Emacs
  • GitHub - steveyegge/efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs (HN, Reddit, programming.dev)
  • Emacs trifft Claude: KI-gestützte Softwareentwicklung mit dem Editor-Urgestein | heise online (@simsus@social.tchncs.de)
• Community:
  • emacs.social shutting down this week
  • My First Week With Emacs - Matt's Blog (@thelinuxcast@polymaths.social)
  • Trying Emacs Again, Again - Matt's Blog (@thelinuxcast@polymaths.social)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: I got the Emacs Writing Studio (EWS) book
  • Elevator pitches:
    • Charles Choi: Emacs Elevator Pitch: Nerd-kitch Merch (Irreal)
    • Jakub Nowak: Consistency
    • Christian Tietze: Emacs Elevator Pitch (August Blog Carnival)
    • Randy Ridenour: My Emacs Elevator Pitch (Irreal)
    • Emacs Works For You — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
    • (Untitled) – Kristell's Commonplace (@klymilark@social.lol) - on recommending Emacs
  • Prot Asks:
    • Prot Asks: James about teaching biology, Emacs, and free software politics (01:06:48)
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: James about biology teaching, Emacs, and free software politics
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: PizzaTorque about Emacs for programming, linguistics, art and community
    • Prot Asks: PizzaTorque about Emacs for programming, linguistics, art and community (01:34:46)
• Other:
  • Much Ado About Emacs 010 - Bicycle For Your Mind (@macosxguru@fosstodon.org)
  • Emacs PDF-Tools Tips You Probably Don’t Know #pdftools #emacs #navigation (15:44)
  • [OC] visible-auto-revert.el - Smart auto-revert for Emacs that only monitors visible buffers
  • The 2nd edition of the Howm tutorial
  • Randy Ridenour: Inserting Bible Passages With Emacs
  • macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs - (think) (HN)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Emacs-mac as an alternative to NS
      • Some tips on where to look
      • Threads and actors?
  • 'php-ts-mode' depends on 'mhtml-ts-mode' instead of JS,CSS and HTML
  • New command vc-working-tree-switch-project (bug#79024)
  • Allow thread's buffer to be killed, by default
  • Variable to control overshoot and backup for TTY cursor motion
  • Rename variables *-in-progress-p to *-in-progress
  • Add multi-character pairs to lua-ts-mode and texinfo-mode
  • Autoinsert: Allow condition to be a function
  • Revert "Autoinsert: Allow condition to be a function"
  • Add auto-revert-buffer-in-progress-p
  • Generalize finding project matching files to other major modes
  • Autoinsert: Allow condition to be a function
  • Use variables to store marking state
  • Allow numbered buffer selection for project-shell
  • Tramp allows now external implementations for functions
  • project-prompter: New PREDICATE and REQUIRE-KNOWN arguments
• New packages:
  • flymake-pyrefly: A Pyrefly Flymake backend (NonGNU ELPA)
  • pasvortilo: Password manager interface for pass/gopass (MELPA)
  • year-1984-theme: A retro-futuristic theme (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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!

• Emacs Carnival 2025-08: Your Elevator Pitch for Emacs - Take on Rules (@takeonrules@dice.camp, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/308826076/ Thu Aug 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Aug 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/660761d6-862d-43a1-9fb4-955d4e3e1066 Tue Aug 12 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • James Dyer: View-Mode - Emacs's Hidden Modal Editing Gem?
  • Some global submap keybindings (VC, vundo, browse-url-at-point)
  • A Transient for Help
  • How I would manually generate my current default emacs setup (usually it is in an init file) (05:05)
  • Rahul Juliato: Emacs Kick 0.3.0: Floating Docs, Snappy Completion, and Corfu Goodness (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • vecdb: A package for vector search (YouTube 09:32)
  • Videos on using Emacs Lisp and Eshell for system administration (code, Reddit for video 1, 2, 3)
  • snippets/elisp-native-modules/ppm-overlay at master - drawing on top of a PPM image (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Building log verbosity control UI for Ares/Arei Guile Scheme IDE (01:37:36)
• Appearance:
  • buffer-background – change your buffer background colors interactively (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • File too long? Show some love for follow-mode 🥰 (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Charles Choi: Unleashing the Editing Superpower of Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Randy Ridenour: Emacs Writing Experience (@randyridenour@zirk.us, Irreal)
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Writing in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: org-copy-visible (Irreal)
  • Jeremy Friesen: On Organizing My Notes
  • Emacs Org mode as a word processor: Emacs Writing Studio (18:08, Reddit, Irreal)
  • (Released) org-workbench: A thinking exploration space for temporarily organizing ideas and concept (Reddit, Irreal)
  • (Update) org-supertag: logseq-style query block, embed-block
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Mark Tomczak: Screenshots into emacs org files in Windows
    • Dealing with APIs, JSONs and databases in org-mode | isamert.net (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
    • Whisper Engine - static site publishing from Org Mode (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
    • (Update) org-luhmann: exporting heading as org-mode links (Reddit) also Reddit discussion about workbench
    • Jakub Nowak: Exporting Wikis with Orgmode
  • Org development:
    • lisp/ox-html.el: Use time element for timestamps in fancy html5
• Denote:
  • TAONAW: Denote with a different root directory on Linux only
  • Zac Romero: Searching Denote Notes With p-search
• Completion:
  • Modern Emacs Part 1: Consult, Marginalia, Vertico, Orderless and Embark - VOD (01:20:50)
• Coding:
  • eglot + pyright made simple thanks to uvx! (Reddit)
  • fj.el updates: improvements to PR reviews, syntax highlighting, cycle views, comment and close issue, unwatch, list
  • kn66/lsp-installer.el - installs language servers (Reddit)
• Math:
  • How to adjust numbers in the journal with Emacs Calc - General - Plain Text Accounting forum (@simonmic@fosstodon.org)
  • Listful Andrew: CFrac — Convert from/to continued fractions (Emacs package)
• Fun:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: In a genre of speaking
• AI:
  • [New Package]⚡️ gptel-watch — Auto-complete your thoughts with GPT when you type lines like "AI!" (Reddit)
  • Don't Generate, Retrieve and Transform (GPTel Tools Published) (Reddit)
  • GitHub - steveyegge/efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs (Reddit, programming.dev)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-07-29 / week 30
  • Stackoverflow developer survey 2025 - Emacs doesn't make the list of most popular Dev IDEs (Reddit) - Emacs was not on the list of options; write-in only
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Deep dive with @linkarzu about Emacs, NeoVim, Linux, keyboards, and philosophy (YouTube 02:24:27, Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Rudy about Emacs for game development, Lisp hacking, and learning (YouTube 01:47:10)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Diego about Emacs use, head of engineering, industry’s state, and combat sports
• Other:
  • Emacs: The MacOS Bug (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Emacs: A Deep Dive into Its Internals (05:09)
  • Perfect Speech to Text in Emacs - YouTube (2:19)
• Emacs development:
  • Add 'other-window-backward' for a default binding (bug#78803)
  • Improve region deletion handling in python.el
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Move read-directory-name entry; a compatible change.
  • tab-line: Add close button for modified tabs (bug#79046)
  • Add support for AUTH=PLAIN to imap.el
  • cperl-mode.el: Support syntax of Perl version 5.42
• New packages:
  • magit-prime: Prime cache before Magit refresh (MELPA)

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