Security reminder: If you use kubernetes-el, don't update for now, and you might want to check your installation if you updated it recently. The repo was compromised. (Analysis, Reddit discussion, lobste.rs) If you use Emacs 31, please consider enabling package-review-policy.

There were a number of lively conversations around Emacs Solo (142 comments on HN), Emacs and Vim in the age of AI (52 comments on Reddit, 138 on HN), and agent-shell 0.47 (62 on Reddit). Also, Prot has posted the video and text of his talk Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs (YouTube 42:40, Video with Q&A, more links in the community section).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313776893/ Sat Mar 21 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 25 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 26 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Making Emacs Your Own « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • Emacs Redux: use-short-answers: The Modern Way to Tame yes-or-no Prompts (Irreal)
  • Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • minimal-emacs.d Release 1.4.0​ (Reddit)
  • Brainiac v1.2 released — Kemal's Braindump (Codeberg, Reddit) - note-taking and task-management-centered Emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • futur 1.2 (Reddit) futur-abort, futur-funcall, futur-p, preliminary support for running Elisp code in subprocesses and sandbox
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Taming Font-Lock with font-lock-ignore
  • Emacs Redux: Buffer-Local Face Remapping with face-remap-add-relative
  • Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter (Reddit)
  • andros/comet.el: Cursor comet trail effect for Emacs - comet.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Navigation:
  • Nifty little modal editing implementation - selected.el, special keymap when region is active
  • Emacs Redux: isearch-lazy-count: Built-in Search Match Counting
  • kramo/scroll-beyond.el: An Emacs package to enable scrolling the point beyond window bounds - Codeberg.org (@kramo@chaos.social)
  • vmargb/arrow.el: Elisp implementation of arrow.nvim per-project and file-local bookmarks · GitHub (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Moving and Renaming Files
• Writing:
  • Re: markdown-ts-mode maturation for Emacs 31 - Rahul Martim Juliato - roadmap for markdown-ts, help wanted
  • lorniu/gt.el: Translator via engines such as Google, Bing, deepL, StarDict and Youdao, also support LLMs like ChatGPT, DeepSeek and so on. · GitHub (@kf@sonomu.club)
• Org Mode:
  • Thaodan/org-note-auto-save: Auto-save org-note buffer - Codeberg.org (@thaodan@mastodon.social)
  • niqc/org-dynamic-templates: Package for define template folder for org files - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp and NodeJS: Getting the bolded words from a section of a Google Document
  • mjamagon/arrow-lang: Arrow DSL for emacs · GitHub (Reddit) - dataflow pipeline language for Org Babel
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Export HTML, copy files, and serve the results via simple-httpd so that media files work
  • Building a cli app to query org with clime v0.3 (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Mike Olson - Beta: Emacs Multi-LSP support for Python and Typescript frameworks - looking for Emacs users to try it out (@mwolson.org, @mikeozen)
  • Emacs Redux: Code Formatting in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Removing Paired Delimiters in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Einar Mostad: Fix error with Cider Clojure REPL in Emacs on Guix
  • [EMACS LAB #2] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 2) (01:17:59)
  • Philip Kaludercic: Emacs after Magit
  • Rebasing in Magit (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
  • Перебазирование в Magit / Хабр (@habr@zhub.link)
  • Release v0.4.0 · bbatsov/neocaml · GitHub - bugfix (@batsov.net)
• Shells:
  • rwc9u/emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt (Ghostty's terminal engine) · GitHub (Reddit)
  • cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el: Display images in terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) via the Kitty graphics protocol
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Comparing pronunciation recordings across time
  • Sacha Chua: Small steps towards using OpenAI-compatible text-to-speech services with speechd-el or emacspeak
• Fun:
  • Solo-RPG-mode for Emacs - TTRPG-Hangout.com (Github, @enfors@ttrpg-hangout.social)
  • vkazanov/elcity: A simple SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp · GitHub (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Using Terminal Coding Agents from Emacs
  • Randy Ridenour: Convert Claude Quizzes to Emacs Org Mode (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
  • agent-shell 0.47 updates (Reddit)- claude-code-acp renamed, bootstrapping and resuming
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - In-Buffer LLM Streaming
  • 038 Ollama Buddy - Tool Calling and modifying files with an ediff session #emacs #ollama (02:12)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-03-10 / week 10
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs (YouTube 42:40, Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal, Video with Q&A, other post)
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • Emacs Carnival de Marzo - Confusiones y prejuicios | Texaco blog (@texaco@defcon.social)
    • Emacs carnival: Mistakes and misconceptions (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
    • noa ks: You don't not need the mouse
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-02 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Low Tech High Life: Emacs magia y liberación · Inicio (Spotify, @alvarmaciel@mastodon.social)
  • Humanities in the Machine - Blain Smith - mentions RMS, GNU, and Emacs
• Other:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Create Directories
  • Indexing Info Manuals — Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs Internal #03: Tagged Union, Tagged Pointer, and Poor Man's Inheritance | The Cloudlet (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • reka: A window manager inside of Emacs for the Wayland world (Reddit) - mentioned in Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager
  • chaoswork/appine: using a dynamic module that allows you to embed native macOS views (WebKit, PDFKit etc.) directly inside Emacs windows (Reddit)
  • My little Emacs OTG setup (Reddit)
  • Emacs running on my iPad. - using ish
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: long discussion about deprecated code, warnings, and compat release schedule
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/error-API'
  • Add new function 'ensure-proper-list' (bug#80598)
  • Add references to "User Lisp" Info node where applicable
  • etags-regen: Don't try to generate tags during completion, by default
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce 'package-vc-install-from-checkout' obsoletion
  • Add 'xref-mouse-mode' minor mode
  • ; Add missing documentation for new 'cus-edit' bindings
  • (smerge-refine-regions): Refactor a bit and work between buffers
  • Improve the error API
• New packages:
  • buffer-guardian: Automatically Save Buffers Without Manual Intervention (MELPA)
  • ekg-agent: Agent tools for ekg (MELPA)
  • ekg-denote: Denote integration for ekg (MELPA)
  • markdown-table-wrap: Word-wrap GFM pipe tables to fit window width (MELPA)
  • stan-ts-mode: Major mode for editing Stan files (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

If you use kubernetes-el, don't update for now, and you might want to check your installation if you updated it recently. The repo was compromised a few days ago.

I've occasionally wanted to tangle a single Org Mode source block to multiple places, so I'm glad to hear that ob-tangle has just added support for multiple targets. Niche, but could be handy. I'm also curious about using clime to write command-line tools in Emacs Lisp that handle argument parsing and all the usual stuff.

If you're looking for something to write about, why not try this month's Emacs Carnival theme of mistakes and misconceptions?

Enjoy!

• Security:
  • First (?) hacked Emacs package: kubernetes-el (Reddit)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Mar 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Mar 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou - FLOSS@Oxford https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou Thu Mar 12 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 13 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs: Buffers, Frames, and Windows, A Brief Introduction « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Elpaca Version 0.1.0 (Reddit) accepts use-package :vc keyword
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: defvar-keymap hints for which-key
  • Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suite (Reddit, Irreal)
    • Charles Choi: Casual now available on NonGNU ELPA (Irreal)
  • Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • cosmicz/clime: Build real CLI tools in pure Emacs Lisp. Declare commands, options, and args in a single form — clime handles parsing, –help, error messages, and dispatch. ./myapp.el just works. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Async link fetching in Emacs
  • Progress (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual) (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Emacs Internal #02: Data First — Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C | The Cloudlet (HN)
  • [19] Working on Canvas API Patch - 3/8/2026, 2:28:14 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • [19] Working on Canvas API Patch - 3/8/2026, 3:49:58 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: four new themes are coming to the ‘doric-themes’
• Navigation:
  • My first meaningful hack of Emacs (proper isearch) - search with recenter after threshold
  • Emacs Redux: expreg: Expand Region, Reborn (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Transpose All The Things (Irreal)
• Dired:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Copying Files
• Writing:
  • Wai Hon: Introducing markdown-indent-mode (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Curtis McHale: Stop Mixing DONE and TODO in Org — Auto-Sort Like a Pro (YouTube 05:15)
  • a niche emacs productivity system (28:31)
  • Irreal: Abrams On Literate Programming Redux
  • We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era | silly business (lobste.rs)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Display images with Org-attach and org-insert-link quickly and effectively (Irreal)
  • Latex preview on Emacs tty
  • Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks (Reddit)
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/chrono-org: extract logbooks for sleek, Clockify-style web visualizations using Chart.js and org-publish (Reddit)
  • naiquevin/clockwise: visualize time records from org clock entries (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
  • (update) org-supertag 5.8 & 5.8.1 - Board, Graph UI & Relation Index Optimization
  • Remember to set org-latx-hyperref-template to nil if you're writing an anonymous referee report
  • lazyblorg updates: tag feeds, random articles on this day, list of external URLs (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis: Design Mistakes Roam-inspired note-taking system, 0.8.0 release notes
  • Org development: ob-tangle.el: Support tangling a source block to multiple targets
• Completion:
  • gggion/let-completion.el: Let-binding values in Elisp completion · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Expanding yasnippets by voice in Emacs and other applications
• Coding:
  • Emacs Redux: Mastering Compilation Mode
  • Tip on using built-in vc-mode with C-x v (useful: C-x v d, C-x v v, C-x v L)
  • James Cherti: pathaction.el: execute pathaction rules, the universal Makefile for the entire filesystem (Github)
  • gcv/julia-snail: An Emacs development environment for Julia · GitHub
  • [EMACS LAB #2] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 2) (01:17:59)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Lispy and Iedit
  • Meta Redux: What’s Next for clojure-mode?
  • The Emacs Cat: Emacs, Software Development, and LLM
• Math:
  • Why did I create ESR (my thoughts on ESS) | Teoten's blog (@teoten@social.linux.pizza)
• Evil mode:
  • Sid Kasivajhula: On “Tempo” in Text Editing - normal Emacs commands in insert mode (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • Launching Brogue from Emacs via transient
• AI:
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • simple LLM text and images meets org-mode
  • Claude Code + Org Mode + Git + Hooks
  • Transformei meu segundo cérebro em uma IA em 4 minutos (08:43) - with org-roam
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 13: agent-shell charting (YouTube 28:11, Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Web Search Integration (YouTube 02:12)
• Community:
  • My Emacs Misconceptions — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: I talk with Joshua Blais about Emacs and life issues
  • Org Social social network summary, 2.11 update with bugfixes
  • Org Social - Reading (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • koreader json to org: convert KOReader JSON highlights to Org mode, also here (@srijan@indieweb.social)
  • For Mac users: pbcopy.el spawns two subprocesses on every C-y - suggests alternate implementation
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • notes on CEDET and EDE
    • Re: Sending `quit` to a batch Emacs process - Eli Zaretskii Thinking about how to interrupt batch processes
  • New user option and function 'recentf-exclude-ignored-extensions'
  • New user option vc-display-failed-async-commands
  • Make 'frame-use-time' more reliable. (bug#80397)
  • Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'
  • New command 'unfill-paragraph'
  • Revert "Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'"
  • Add mirroring for special glyphs (bug#80440)
  • Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'
  • Make tree-sitter thing navigation handle nested parsers
• New packages:
  • emacs-lisp-intro-es: ELisp intro manual in Spanish (GNU ELPA)
  • hackernews-modern: Hacker News client with modern widget UI (MELPA)
  • helm-eca: Helm UI for ECA chats/workspaces (MELPA)
  • let-completion: Show let-binding values in Elisp completion (MELPA)
  • magit-browse-commit: Browse pull/merge requests from magit-blame (MELPA)
  • markdown-indent-mode: Dynamic indentation for Markdown (MELPA)
  • mathprog-ts-mode: Major mode for the GNU MathProg modeling language (MELPA)
  • md-ts-mode: Major mode for Markdown using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • mutype: Type into stillness (MELPA)
  • org-eval: Execute named org-mode blocks on load/save (MELPA)
  • php-fill: Additional fill commands for PHP code editing (GNU ELPA)
  • rtf-view: View Rich Text Format files (MELPA)
  • solo-rpg: Solo roleplaying games support functions (MELPA)
  • yomikata: Annotates Japanese text with reading tooltips (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!

Hello folks! Last month's Emacs Carnival about completion had 17 posts (nice!), and Philip Kaludercic is hosting this month's Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions. Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Mar 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313161406/ Thu Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Mar 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Mar 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou - FLOSS@Oxford https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou Thu Mar 12 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 13 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs: (My) First Steps « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • Emacs is Installed! Try These 3 Ways to Start It Now (Zero Init! | CLI Hacks) (2) - [7-ish minutes]​ (07:11)
  • Emacs Is Installed! Your User Directory Explained (.emacs.d Deep Dive) (3) - [5:36]​ (05:36)
  • Emacs Is Installed! How Can I Create A Shortcut That Just Starts This Baby up? (5) - [10:12]​ (10:12)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • truename-cache: Efficiently de-dup file-names (Reddit)
  • andros/async-http-queue-fetch-urls-el - Lightweight, parallel HTTP fetching library for #emacs using url-retrieve (native) with configurable concurrency limits (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • [09] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Text Selection and Highlighting - 8/10/2025, 3:03:09 PM - Dyne.org TV (@reeltubes@mstdn.party)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Soft Wrapping Done Right with visual-wrap-prefix-mode
• Navigation:
  • Elegant implementation of other-window-mru
  • Emacs Redux: Preview Regex Replacements as Diffs
• TRAMP:
  • Christian Tietze: Media Transfer Protocol Tools
• Writing:
  • Sacha Chua: Using speech recognition for on-the-fly translations in Emacs and faking in-buffer completion for the results
• Denote:
  • Cycle through Denote journal entries, trash empties (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
• Org Mode:
  • Dave's blog: Calculating RAGBRAI training actual vs. planned mileage (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • Prettifying org-agenda (Reddit)
  • Elsa Gonsiorowski: Emacs Carnival: Org Mode Completions
  • Sacha Chua: Sorting completion candidates, such as sorting Org headings by level
  • org-repeat-by-cron.el v1.1.2 released - compatibility with built-in repeaters and habits, deadline recurrence
  • Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
  • colonelpanic8/org-window-habit - A more flexible habit system (Reddit)
  • lordnik22/org-link-battery: It's the missing battery using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
  • pjones/org-inline-image-mode: Update displayed images as an org-mode buffer changes. (@devalot@hostux.social)
  • skx/org-people: Contact management for org-mode
  • lordnik22/org-link-battery: using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
  • schrenker/org-agecrypt: Encrypt org entries with age - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis 0.7.0 Release Notes - knowledge management system
  • Migrating website to orgmode - roosnaflak.com (@kf@sonomu.club)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: I think I found what crashed my Emacs on macOS
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: Add `org-latex-default-example-environment'
    • ox-latex: Pass :options to #+begin_example
    • org-mouse: Add actions to priority menus
    • org-mouse: Separate tag and priority menus
• Completion:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Feb 2026 wrap-up: Completion
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Completion
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs completion and handling accented characters with orderless
  • Using Pinyin initials with orderless in Emacs (@SouthFox@foxsay.southfox.me)
  • A Year Without Vertico - System Crafters Live! (01:14:56)
• Coding:
  • Moving to Structural Diffs | Trying out Difftastic (01:29:57, @abcdw@fosstodon.org)
  • Keybinding for easily comparing with upstream in Magit
  • Emacs Redux: So Many Ways to Work with Comments (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • [EMACS LAB #1] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 1) (01:00:27)
  • yaml-language-server added CRD auto-detection (Reddit)
  • calsys456/lisp-semantic-hl.el: Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Common Lisp & Elisp (Reddit)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Setting up Emacs for OCaml Development: Neocaml Edition (Github, HN)
  • I'm amazed by how good emacs is for game development (Irreal)
  • overcast-software/glnt-ts-mode: emacs lsp-glint (Reddit)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Building Emacs Major Modes with TreeSitter: Lessons Learned (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • LuciusChen/clutch: MySQL, PostgreSQL & SQLite; paginated result browser, record view, inline editing, schema browser, and REPL. (Reddit, @Lucius_Chen)
• Math:
  • symbol-cruncher: Computer algebra system for computations in differential geometry, built on top of GNU Maxima and maxima-interface.
• Shells:
  • cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el: Display images in terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) via the Kitty graphics protocol. (Reddit, HN)
  • Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • andros/hackernews-modern-el (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • martianh/mastodon.el 2.0.9, quote system, optional desktop notifications (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Multimedia:
  • noa ks: Engraving sheet music with lilypond
• AI:
  • Joar von Arndt: Vibe-coding Brings the Power of Emacs to Everything
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Complete: Feedback Loops in Emacs, Feedback Loops in Computing
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Pros and cons of using LLM for patches beyond simple copyright (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org mode, agentic coding and ekg - YouTube
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 12: agent-shell + Claude Skills (YouTube 26:02, @xenodium@indieweb.social, Reddit)
  • How I use agents in emacs: agent-shell + persp-mode + git worktrees (Reddit, Doom Emacs config)
  • 037 Ollama Buddy - In-Buffer responses with in-line inspection #emacs #ollama (01:28)
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v2.5 - RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Support
  • copilot.el 0.4 is out with many improvements! proper LSP, select model, balance parentheses (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-02-24 / week 08
  • Who remembers XEmacs?
  • Common Desktop Environment experience (XEmacs, Unix) in your browser (Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-01 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
  • Goodbye #emacs #emacsnews (01:09) Emacs Elements
• Other:
  • Emacs Internal #01: is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor | The Cloudlet (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • rossabaker/iec-mode-line.el: display buffer size in IEC units in the mode line (@rossabaker.com, @ross@social.rossabaker.com)
  • GitHub - srs.el: Spaced repetition system for emacs. (BETA) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Some notes on EIEIO vs cl-defstruct
  • Teach Emacs on MS-Windows how to export frame screenshots
  • New variable 'multiple-terminals-merge-keyboards'
  • Allow more fine configuration of package retention
  • Add option to keep previous package versions on upgrade
  • New function multiple-command-partition-arguments
  • Compare circular lists in 'equal' without error (bug#80456)
• New packages:
  • citar-typst: Typst support for citar (MELPA)
  • conflict-buttons: Clickable buttons for smerge-mode conflicts (MELPA)
  • d2-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for D2 (MELPA)
  • dorgygen: Source code documentation in org-mode (MELPA)
  • elfeed-ai: AI-powered article summarization for elfeed (MELPA)
  • lisp-chat: Emacs client for Lisp Chat (MELPA)
  • lit-ts-mode: Lit-aware JS/TS modes with tree-sitter support (MELPA)
  • org-people: Work with a contact-list in org-mode files (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

Org Mode is a big part of why I enjoy Emacs, so I'm delighted that there's a new release out (Org 9.8). Thanks to all who contributed! If you would like to help out, Ihor is looking for several volunteers who can try to reproduce bugs and do initial feedback on the new patches.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313006896/ Tue Feb 24 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313161406/ Thu Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • A noob friendly start (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Irreal: Let’s Play How Big Is Your Emacs Config?
  • sstraust/shannonmax: maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! (HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A tiny library: once.el, giving you "once-hook" instead of "add-hook" (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: confirm package bugs with –init-directory (Irreal, Irreal)
  • pre-commit-elisp - Emacs Lisp (Elisp) Git pre-commit hooks [Release 1.0.7]​ (Irreal)
  • Xah Ep762. emacs lisp coding, command to fix youtube description, crimes of recursive acronym (02:09:50)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep765. emacs lisp coding. command to delete emacs backup. (01:17:31)
• Appearance:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 11: winpulse (YouTube 08:46, Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • Magnus: Switching to project.el
• Dired:
  • emacs-dired filepicker for qutebrowser
• Writing:
  • Chai (拆) — an Emacs package for destructive reading
  • How I Use Emacs to Take Notes (11:22)
  • adoc-mode 0.8 is out with many new features - AsciiDoc
  • bbatsov/asciidoc-mode: A modern Emacs major mode for editing AsciiDoc files, powered by TreeSitter (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - leaner alternative
• Org Mode:
  • Org mode 9.8 is out (r/emacs, r/orgmode, Irreal) also help wanted:
  • Announcing Casual Org (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Org links’ targets
  • Hugo, org-mode y Codeberg | Texaco blog (@texaco@defcon.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Org Gnosis 0.2.0 Release Notes
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs for macOS and Darwin versions
  • Org development:
    • Ensure a non-zero percent cookie when anything is complete
    • Bump minimal Emacs version
• Coding:
  • Forgejo, AGit, and Pull Request Templates (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
  • andros/conflict-buttons.el - conflict-buttons.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • eglot-multi-preset: Per-project language server presets for Eglot
  • Meta Redux: Flycheck 36 (Reddit, Irreal) - also includes org-lint; security update for CVE in emacs-lisp checker
  • Magnus: Using advice to limit lsp-ui-doc nuisance
  • ablatedsprocket/emacs-dotnet - transient menu around the dotnet CLI (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
  • Clojure - State of Clojure 2025 Results (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - Emacs still dev tool of choice despite strong competition
  • Release v5.21.0 · clojure-emacs/clojure-mode · GitHub (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Building RDE against latest Guix on CI (01:34:22)
  • Maryanne Wachter: Six Months of C
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Tip to help remember to wide reply on mailing lists in Gnus
• Evil mode:
  • D.V.F.P.: Vim… beyond Vim - mentions Evil Mode
• Multimedia:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Ready Player cover download improvements (Reddit)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: A little collection of SVG tricks for Emacs
  • tusharhero: PALE, Canvas, and Stuff demos
  • [18] Emacs Reader, PALE: Improvements to Canvas API, Shaders & Graphics APIs - Dyne.org TV
• Fun:
  • MonadicSheep/stk-code: Fork of STK (SuperTuxKart) with Emacs port (powered by Pale). Requires Canvas API (Reddit)
• AI:
  • LLMs and agents in Emacs: share your workflows
  • Evolving a Modular dev Experience in Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • Run LLM Scripts in Emacs (No Packages) #llm #ai #claudecode (04:22)
  • CLAUDE.md instructions to automatically update TODOs and track execution time (clocking) in org-mode · GitHub (@typester@pdx.social)
  • 035 Ollama Buddy - Advanced Tool Calling with Multiple Tools #emacs #ollama (02:52, Reddit, also Reddit)
  • emacs-gravity: An idiomatic Emacs UI for Claude Code — structured, navigatable, fully native.
  • Fritz Grabo: Introducing elfeed-summarize
  • devinprater/emacspeak-goodies - speech-enable gptel-agent, tweak elfeed (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
  • org-mode, agents, and ekg
  • emacs-os/el-init: A statically compiled Emacs init (PID 1) patchset, Emacs Lisp-based service supervisor and core component of Emacs-OS. (retrospective, Reddit)
  • Robot - Emacs integration (X, Github)
• Community:
  • How peeking at screens shaped my Emacs - typester.dev (@typester@pdx.social)
  • Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and art as self-discovery (02:53:42)
• Other:
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/eConky: A side-buffer dashboard for Emacs inspired by Conky. (Reddit)
  • kristjoc/bible-gateway: A Simple BibleGateway Client for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Using app-emacs/portage::akater | Using Gentoo package manager from GNU Emacs (01:12)
  • ezemtsov/ewm: EWM - Emacs Wayland Manager - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • jiewawa/gnome-window-calls.el - Codeberg.org (@jiewawa@masto.ai)
  • Thaodan/i3-emacs at i3_integration_mode_handle_display_buffer (@thaodan@mastodon.social)
  • Christian Tietze: Introducing quake-frame.el: My Take on a Terminal Visor, But Running Emacs
  • M-x.app – a macOS menubar app that turns Emacs into a system-wide automation backend via callback URLs (Reddit) Example uses:
    • Replacing Raycast With Emacs, Ep 1 - App Launcher
    • Replacing Raycast With Emacs, Ep 2 - Bang Commands
  • NEO Emacs: GPU-powered Emacs written in Rust. Aim for multi-threads, 10x perf & 100% compatibility. (02:06, HN, also previous discussion on Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Figuring out what to do about very long VCS command lines - maybe a defcustom?
  • New prefix argument for pp-eval-expression
  • Add SHA-3 support to secure-hash
  • Fix broken `FOO-mode-indent-offset` convention
  • Support displaying more months in the calendar
  • New user option 'after-delete-frame-select-mru-frame' (bug#80397)
  • Sort Eshell aliases when adding new ones
  • Make Rmail summary address display customizable
  • New command vc-dir-root-next-action
  • Use a custom Pdb class in the Python shell
  • browse-url-firefox-program: Add support for more Firefox variants.
  • Add new command 'copy-theme-options'
  • Add a theme and minor mode for new users
  • Add frame-use-time, get-mru-frame, use mru frame in delete-frame (bug#80397)
  • vc-git-pull, vc-git-incoming-revision: Use push remotes
  • Use -outstanding not -outgoing-base in VC command names
  • Change the default value of 'split-width-threshold' from 160 to 150
  • Add repeat-map for smerge-mode commands
• New packages:
  • asciidoc-mode: Major mode for AsciiDoc markup (MELPA)
  • consult-gumshoe: Consult integration for gumshoe (MELPA)
  • edit-metadata: Edit embedded metadata (MELPA)
  • elfeed-summarize: Add LLM-powered inline summaries to elfeed (MELPA)
  • eselect-news: Read Gentoo eselect news (MELPA)
  • evil-emacs-cursor-model-mode: Emacs' cursor model in evil-mode (NonGNU ELPA)
  • kawacode: Kawa Code collaboration package (MELPA)
  • lisp-semantic-hl: Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Lisp Languages (MELPA)
  • magnus: Manage multiple Claude Code instances (MELPA)
  • mark-graf: Modern WYSIWYG-style markdown editing (MELPA)
  • ob-gleam: Org Babel functions for Gleam (MELPA)
  • org-tempus: Enhance Org time tracking (MELPA)
  • persp-gumshoe: Perspective support for gumshoe (MELPA)
  • truename-cache: Efficiently de-dup file-names (MELPA)
  • winpulse: Momentary window background flash animation (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!

Lots of cool stuff this week! I'm looking forward to checking out the new futur library for async programming, and the developments around embedding graphics in a canvas in Emacs look interesting too (see the Multimedia section). Also, the discussion about making beginner configuration easier could be neat once the wrinkles are ironed out. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313006896/ Tue Feb 24 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
• Upcoming events:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I will talk about Emacs and free software (FLOSS @ Oxford)
• Emacs configuration:
  • A proposal for a "beginners" (user-option) theme (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • package-autosuggest in master (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • Charles Choi: Deburring Emacs Imenu GUI Configuration
  • Borderliner/Chadmacs: Chadmacs Emacs config (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • GNU ELPA - futur: Make async programming a bit easier (Reddit, emacs-devel)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Lin version 2.0.0 - enhancement for hl-line-mode
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing winpulse (Irreal, Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Automatically Syncing Emacs Tab Bar Styling With Your Theme
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my GNOME accent color theme switcher package (YouTube 02:55)
  • fake-frog/min-oblong-theme: Minimal Emacs Theme (Reddit)
  • veschin/nibelung-theme: Nibelung Theme — Minimalist Gray & Blue Emacs Color Scheme (Reddit)
  • Thankful Eyes Theme | Emacs Themes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Navigation:
  • scrollpanel: Modern Minimap-like Scrolling Panel for Emacs
  • Prgebish/flash: Flash-style navigation for Emacs — jump to any location with search labels (Reddit)
  • UPDATED: Auto-Adjust Frame Width when Split-Window-Right & Revert on Delete-Window or Delete-Other-Window
  • easysession.el: Easily persist and restore file buffers, Magit buffers, scratch, Dired, narrowing, indirect buffers (clones), windows, and tab-bar configurations [Release 1.2.0]​ (Reddit)
  • kirigami.el (Release 1.0.4): text Folding across a diverse set of Emacs modes (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel (Reddit, programming.dev, lemmy.ml, Irreal)
  • bibtex-generate-autokey with manual confirmation using advice-add :filter-return
  • Fancy Fill Paragraph now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • ashton314/citar-typst: Typst support for the Citar package in Emacs - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Mapping org-agenda-open-link: reducing the key strokes needed to open links (@curtismchale@mastodon.social)
  • publicvoit/orgheadingnetwork: visualize headings and their implicit (hierarchy) and explicit (links) interconnections - Codeberg.org (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Updated org-protocol bookmarklet for storing the current page
  • A reproducible Org-Mode CV template (Reddit)
  • org-babel support for Goal, BQN, and growler/k
  • Behebung von org-babel Shell-Bindungsproblemen in Emacs: Eine Anleitung zur Festlegung Ihrer bevorz (01:50)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Version 9.8 (not released yet)): Update preparing for the release
    • Obsolete 'org-show-empty-lines-in-parent'
    • Remove obsolete 'org-let' and 'org-let2'
• Completion: this month's Emacs Carnival topic
  • An Alternate Completing Read
• Coding:
  • npm-run: Run npm scripts in your project
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.1: Ready for Action (Irreal)
  • Small patch to build emacs 30.X from source with the 0.26.X version of tree-sitter · GitHub (Reddit)
  • function-artisans/magit-standup: Collect recent git commits for standup notes (Reddit)
  • magit magic - share your latest glorious find in Magit
  • Hacking on Emacs #6: Link the current Magit commit using git-link pt 2 (28:49)
  • magit-gh.el - a lightweight Magit extension for GitHub CLI pull requests (Reddit)
  • 0WD0/majutsu: Majutsu! Magit for jujutsu (lobste.rs)
• Web:
  • benthamite/chrome-to-eww: Chrome extension to open the current page in eww, Emacs’s built-in browser (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • 2026年，一个普通Emacs用户如何把Gnus跑起来
• Evil mode:
  • Prgebish/evil-tex-ts: Tree-sitter based LaTeX text objects for Evil mode (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • pimacs/lang-protobuf at master · pivaldi/pimacs · GitHub protobuf-ts-mode for editing Protocol Buffers files with full Buf toolchain integration.
• Multimedia:
  • divyaranjan/divya-lambda: Guix channel for emacs-canvas (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Discussion on the composability of graphical applications inside Emacs - MonadicSheep/pale - Codeberg.org (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • minad/emacs-shader-demo: Emacs Shader Demo (Reddit)
  • Demo of killing and yanking a canvas while it's displaying something (ex: a video)
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Toy train timetable improvements – buttons
• AI:
  • FrauH0lle/mevedel overlay-based workflow for interacting with LLMs (Reddit)
  • ECA - Subagents are here!
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v2.0 - LLMs can now call Emacs functions! (YouTube 00:41, Reddit)
  • garyo/gco-llm-pkm: A LLM-based front end to my evolving Personal Knowledge Management system(s) (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-02-10 / week 06
  • Andros Fenollosa: Emacs is a Fantasy Workstation
    • Emacs es una estación de trabajo de fantasía | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: institution-calendar package (University of Oxford/Cambridge, etc.)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: add custom entity (Austrian school) to my ‘institution-calendar’
  • chamlis/auth-source-pa: A terrible backend for auth-source to use the pa password manager. - Codeberg.org (@chamlis@social.treehouse.systems)
  • Translate popup by agzam · Pull Request #161 · atykhonov/google-translate · GitHub (Reddit)
  • A Note on File History in Emacs | Brain Baking
  • ctietze/quake-frame.el - Codeberg.org - terminal visor-like package that can be toggled with Emacsclient (@ctietze@mastodon.social)
  • Initial gathering towards a "Collaborative Editing Protocol" - Feb 26 19:00 UTC, cross-editor (@teamtype@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • Change the default value of 'split-width-threshold' from 160 to 150
  • Add repeat-map for smerge-mode commands
  • delsel.el: Improve the overlay for text replacement
  • etc/NEWS: Improve text for threads' "buffer disposition"
  • New option 'completion-preview-inhibit-functions' (bug#80370)
  • Original behavior of 'overlays-in' and 'overlays-at' has been restored
  • Rewrite flex completion with Gotoh algorithm
  • Tramp signals 'remote-file-error' consequently
  • Allow disabling battery-update-timer
  • icomplete-ret: Ignore icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input
  • system-sleep sleep blocker and sleep/wake event package (bug#80348)
  • Don't remap RET to 'icomplete-ret' in 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)
  • Revert "New key 'M-j' for 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)"
  • Do cache and timed invalidation in "VC-aware" project backend
• New packages:
  • fancy-fill-paragraph: Fancy paragraph fill (MELPA)
  • flash: Flash-style navigation (MELPA)
  • futur: Future/promise-based async library (GNU ELPA)
  • helm-emoji: Select emojis with Helm (MELPA)
  • lonelog: Solo RPG notation support (MELPA)
  • neocaml: Major mode for OCaml code (MELPA)
  • oboe: A simple temporary buffer management framework (MELPA)
  • pathaction: Execute the pathaction.yaml rules from your editor (MELPA)
  • sail: NOAA tide and wind reports for sailors (MELPA)
  • spatial-window: Jump to windows using keyboard spatial mapping (MELPA)
  • template-literals-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for HTML/CSS in JS/TS template literals (MELPA)
  • vtab: Vertical tab bar (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313232290/ Sat Feb 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Philip Kaludercic: A retrospective on “setup”
  • Moving to vanilla Emacs - smallwat3r
  • verdant/emacs.d: My Emacs configuration. - Codeberg.org (@Verdant@c7.io)
  • Lightning Talk: Skewed Emacs (04:47)
  • Declarative, reproducible Emacs – video/blog (08:24, Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Toggle between let and let* (Irreal)
  • meedstrom/system-idle (Reddit) get the number of seconds since last user activity on the computer
  • vui.el: Building a File Browser - Boris Buliga
  • Lightning Talk: Emacs Lisp Rabbit Holes (04:03)
  • Lightning Talk: Common Lisp packages in Emacs Lisp (04:23)
• Appearance:
  • Yet Another Emacs Theme Gallery (Reddit)
  • Prikaz98/jblow-nostalgia: Emacs themes is stolen from John Blow Emacs streams (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-jade’ and ‘doric-copper’
    • doric-themes version 1.0.0
• Navigation:
  • Charles Choi: Using Casual to work with Emacs Registers, Rectangles, and Windows (Irreal)
  • outline-indent.el - A modern indentation-based folding mode for Emacs (Release: 1.1.7) (Reddit)
  • spatial-window (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.5.0
• TRAMP:
  • ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc: High-performance TRAMP backend using JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing (lobste.rs, lemmy.ml)
• Dired:
  • Symlinks and Hardlinks in Linux and Emacs (03:37)
• Writing:
  • Insert Special Characters into Emacs (02:21)
  • ctanas/tiles: Tagged Instant Lightweight Emacs Snippets (TILES) (Reddit)
  • In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel (lemmy.ml, Irreal, Reddit)
• Denote:
  • TAONAW: Denote includes the option of adding different directories
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename :colnames header argument to :strip-colnames
  • Executive Function as Code: using (Doom) Emacs to script my brain (Reddit)
  • How I kickstart a new sprint in emacs (using org capture template) - short video in Reddit post
  • tzc/tzc-org.el at main · md-arif-shaikh/tzc · GitHub (Reddit)
  • (Experimental) Added custom view functionality to org-supertag
  • Jack Baty: Global org-capture shortcut in KDE (Irreal)
  • yingyu5658/niwa: My digital garden. (@Verdant@c7.io)
  • Aimé Bertrand: org-to-cal - Syncing Org Mode to macOS Calendar (Irreal)
  • [BLOG] #26 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, January 14, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: New keyword LATEX_CLASS_PRE to prepend lines before LaTeX preamble
    • org-update-statistics-cookies: Respect narrowing
• Completion: (the topic for this month's Emacs Carnival!)
  • Emacs Carnival: Completion — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • File name completion in Emacs - Dmitry Dolzhenko (@dsdolzhenko@fosstodon.org)
  • Completion (in Emacs hledger) — Arjen Wiersma
  • morazotti/resnippets.el: Regexp-based snippets for emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Release CIDER 1.21 ("Gràcia") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub - use buttons, drop support for Emacs 27
  • Thanos Apollo: (Video) Contributing to Git Projects with Magit: PRs, Patches & Agit workflow (YouTube 8:01)
  • Use prettierd as a formatter in apheleia
• Web:
  • ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme: A hugo theme that makes a blog look and operate like emacs (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • The Emacs RSS Reader I Wanted (Github, Reddit, YouTube 04:57)
• Doom Emacs:
  • PIMacs: A Modular, Documented, and Reproducible Doom Emacs Layer | PIPRIME.FR BLOG (@_PI_@fosstodon.org)
• Fun:
  • A SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp (Reddit, HN)
  • New version of the setup script for getting Emacspeak and Elmud working on Termux (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
• AI:
  • ElleNajt/agent-shell-to-go (Reddit)
  • majorgreys/org-roam-skill (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Spent a bit of free time polishing ollama-buddy - github Copilot is now onboard! ( Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-27 / week 04
  • Emacs ATX Feb 2026 meetup notes
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, religion, and cosmic consistency
• Other:
  • Two Neat Emacs Packages: Bufferfile and Stripspace #rename #whitespace (02:54)
  • Plain text agenda (Reddit)
  • era-emacs-tools/ERA: Emacs Remote Editing (Reddit)
  • Comprehending MELPA's size
  • Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Help wanted for the widget library
    • Re: Supporting stylistic sets - Eli Zaretskii - more notes on stylistic sets
    • Re: Is it possible to suppress 'after-string overlay property by placing other overlays? - Eli Zaretskii - considering before- and after-string
  • Do cache and timed invalidation in "VC-aware" project backend
  • Fix selected group sort with topics (bug#80341)
  • Add missing symbolic prefix keybinding
  • Change the type of 'python-eldoc-function-timeout' to number
  • Support D-Bus file descriptor manipulation
  • Separate input histories for 'C-x v !' and Git pulling & pushing
  • Allow using xref-find-references without visiting a tags table
  • New minibuffer history for vc-user-edit-command (bug#80169)
  • Fix [More] buttons in tutorial and other buttons in Semantic
• New packages:
  • auto-space-mode: Auto add space between CJK and ASCII (MELPA)
  • consult-spotlight: Consult interface to macOS mdfind (Spotlight) (MELPA)
  • ddgr: DuckDuckGo search (MELPA)
  • dialog-mode: Major mode for editing Dialog files (MELPA)
  • doing: Frictionless activity log and time tracking (MELPA)
  • duckdb-query: DuckDB query results as native Elisp data structures (MELPA)
  • edna-theme: A dark, Edna-inspired theme (MELPA)
  • eldc: Emacs Lisp Dictionary Converter (MELPA)
  • elsqlite: SQLite browser (MELPA)
  • hanfix-mode: Korean grammar checker (MELPA)
  • lazy: Lazy evaluation library (MELPA)
  • magit-gh: GitHub CLI integration for Magit (MELPA)
  • magit-pre-commit: Magit integration for pre-commit (MELPA)
  • org-window-habit: Time window based habits (MELPA)
  • project-rails: Rails support for project.el (MELPA)
  • system-idle: Poll the system-wide idle time (MELPA)
  • warm-mode: Warm colors for nighttime coding (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs: un editor del pasado para el futuro (in person) https://gpul.org/eventos/2026/emacs/ Thu Feb 5 1200 America/Toronto
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/ Thu Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Essential Tips and Tricks for Efficiency – Emacsfr (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Post your favorite DWIM commands, packages, or own hacks
  • Using Minimal Emacs with Nix (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Kickstart.emacs: Got a huge update. (Reddit)
  • Startup Changes in Emacs 31.1 The "user-lisp" Directory
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Use Batch Mode to Test Your Dot Emacs File (02:36)
  • Listful Andrew: ISO week dates in Emacs Lisp and Bash
  • Trevoke/elk: project management tool for emacs lisp - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • duckdb-query.el - DuckDB SQL/Elisp: query parquet, CSV, org-tables, alists in the same SQL statement seamlessly (Reddit, Reddit)
  • [17] Emacs Reader: Cursors, PALE, Canvas API and More! - 2/2/2026, 2:33:39 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • [17] Emacs Reader: Cursors, PALE, Canvas API and More! - 2/2/2026, 2:26:28 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • #80281 - 31.0.50; FR: Canvas object as display property - GNU bug report logs (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
  • pale: Picture and animation library for Emacs (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • halych/sans-mono: Configure proportional fonts for editing text in emacs - Codeberg.org (@halych@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 2.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Irreal: When Should You Use Visual-line-mode?
  • Tip about using hs-minor-mode for code folding
  • Recursion and Quitting in Emacs (07:06)
• Writing:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs and French: Focus flycheck-grammalecte on the narrowed part of the buffer
• Denote:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Why I use Denote?
• Org Mode:
  • Stefan van der Walt: org-mode Day Planning with Time Blocks
  • Irreal: Starting A Journal
  • James Dyer: Auto-Populating Weekly Dates in Org-Mode Tables
  • 我是如何构建这个站点的
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Org files to beautiful docx files with Pandoc (Irreal)
    • dwim-shell-command-pandoc-org-to-docx
  • PSA searching org mode notes for tags even with org roam? use 'org-match-sparse-tree' instead of 'org-roam-node-find'
  • bradmont/org-roam-tree: organize backlinks in the org-roam buffer as a tree (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • New option (org-latex-use-sans): Control using Sans as default font
    • Update all the links to savannah to use nongnu.org
    • ox-man: Add support for footer-inside and header-middle
    • org-lint: Add check for priorities
    • speed-commands: Adapt priority commands to user options
• Completion:
  • Snippy.el: VSCode/LSP snippet support for Emacs with Yasnippet. (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: ultisnips-mode.el (*.snippets files) (Github, Reddit) mode for editing Vim-compatible snippets (can be translated to Yasnippet for use with Emacs)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival February 2026: Completion
• Coding:
  • Paxedit - a complement to Paredit (Reddit)
  • Heads-up for CIDER users: Elisp sources are now under lisp/ (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Magnus: More on the switch to eglot
  • Marcin Borkowski: git-link
  • Mike Olson: First Week with Jujutsu VCS
• Math:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Some Minor eplot Tweaks for CSV Files
  • Automatically Export Emacs SES Files to TSV - Lemmy.World
• Shells:
  • Charles Choi: Getting Eshell nth History to Work
• Web:
  • Converting Mozilla Firefox bookmarks to Org Mode (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Linkding: Add URLs from Emacs, open bookmark in preferred browser (@mmk2410@fosstodon.org) integration with linkding self-hosted bookmarking service
  • Vibe Coding an Emacs-Style Hugo Theme | Arthur's blog (Github, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • punchagan: Why my Elfeed index was 0 bytes (Irreal)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Queuing multiple transcriptions with whisper.el speech recognition
  • Sacha Chua: Using Silero voice activity detection to automatically queue multiple transcriptions with natrys/whisper.el
  • Rendering 30FPS Video Inside Emacs Text Buffer (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • All codes lead to Home (Reddit)
  • minad/doom-on-emacs: DOOM on Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • lichess.el: Watch Lichess games and play against Stockfish (HN)
  • Script for getting Emacs, Emacspeak, and Elmud running on Termux (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
• AI:
  • Evan Moses: Yak Power-Shears: LLMs are pretty good at Emacs
  • Alternative transient documentation - also discussion about using AI to generate documentation
  • James Dyer: Ollama buddy now supports cloud models! (YouTube 01:04, Reddit)
  • ECA: AI pair programming in your editor - Dallo (32:33)
  • alvarmaciel/amp-emacs: Deep integration of Sourcegraph Amp with Emacs, inspired by amp.nvim. (Reddit)
  • I tested Claude Code today - And it built a proper agent package in emacs for me. (Reddit)
  • Stefan van der Walt: Using Gemini for Code Patches in Emacs
  • So, I "vibe-coded" features missing in Backpack Emacs, yet another GNU Emacs distribution (Reddit)
  • Short HN discussion about agent-shell
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-27 / week 04
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Reflection on my Emacs experience
  • Amy's story behind Org Real and the boxy layout system
  • Michal Sapka: RTE - Return to Emacs (Irreal)
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
    • Zimblo: Emacs Carnival Jan 26: “This Year, I’ll de-obfuscate” | zimblog
    • George Jones: This Year I'll… · Curious Musings
    • Arjen Wiersma: This year, I'll…..
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs: This year, I will… / Cette année, je vais…
    • John Rakestraw | Emacs Carnival: This year, I'll …
    • Neil Mather: Emacs Carnival: This year I'll…
    • Kana: This year, I will write a shitty GUI for my Emacs clone
    • Sebastian Larsen Prehn: This Year, I'll …
    • Christian Cleberg: Emacs Carnival: “This Year, I Will…”
    • Lio Novelli: This year I'll …
• Other:
  • Sorting Lines by Fields in Emacs (02:57)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.3.0
  • Irreal: Gruber On File Saving Ease
  • Irreal: Emacs Performance on macOS
  • teamtype/teamtype at emacs-plugin (@teamtype@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Some notes on stylistic sets and how shaping works
    • Trying to split feature/igc into smaller pieces
  • display-time: Add option to customize help-echo format
  • Add new input method for Tuscarora
  • New function 'truncate-string-pixelwise' (bug#80244)
  • Make diff-hunk-kill respect an active region
  • Bind 's' to diff-split-hunk in read-only diff-mode
  • New function 'checkdoc-batch' (bug#80199)
  • New key 'M-j' for 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)
  • New C-x v T l and C-x v T L commands (vc-log-outgoing-base, vc-root-log-outgoing-base) show corresponding revision logs
  • (minibuffer-message): Do not block while displaying message.
  • Move outstanding changes commands from 'o' to 'T'
  • Add 'select-frame-by-id' and 'undelete-frame-by-id' (Bug#80192)
  • Support cons cell for 'line-spacing'
  • New bindings for vc-revert
  • Flymake support for yaml-ts-mode.
  • Add JSON path utility command to json-ts-mode
  • (garbage-collect-heapsize): New function
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-split-tab): New command.
• New packages:
  • dialog-mode: Major mode for editing Dialog files (MELPA)
  • duckdb-query: DuckDB query results as native Elisp data structures (MELPA)
  • eldc: Emacs Lisp Dictionary Converter (MELPA)
  • lazy: Lazy evaluation library (MELPA)
  • magit-pre-commit: Magit integration for pre-commit (MELPA)
  • org-window-habit: Time window based habits (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!