• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 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 May 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed May 27 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 28 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/67d716c3-6c04-4530-9c1a-f67aa44d31bc Mon Jun 1 1900 CET
• Upcoming events:
  • Sacha Chua: May 29: Emacs Chat with Omar Antolin Camarena
• Emacs configuration:
  • dotfiles/emacs/windows/.emacs.d at main · scovl/dotfiles · GitHub (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
  • May I recommend… to only add items to your init files you understand and document | Martin's Blog
  • May I recommend declaring bankruptcy from time to time | acdw.net
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charles Choi: Enhancing Elisp Development with Context Menus (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Amin Bandali: FFS code review and Emacs extensibility with Protesilaos (Prot)
  • Elisp Cheatsheet for Python Programmers - updated (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Appearance:
  • How to automatically scale emacs to a larger font on startup (on Raspberry Pi) (22:22)
• Navigation:
  • fastctags 0.0.1 — Blazing-fast code nav & completion with Universal Ctags (Reddit)
  • purr.el - a lightweight project dashboard for emacs. (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • hesampakdaman/typst-overlay · GitHub
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] LaTeX survey
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Round priorities in iCalendar export
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-colview: Where should a new COLUMNS keyword be inserted?
  • Rezeptsammlung mit Emacs | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
  • Navi – Obsidian-style org-roam graph viewer – native window – reads your DB directly
  • Amy Pillow: Added notification actions in Org yaap - yet another alert package
  • Org Social for iOS: A decentralized microblog where your whole timeline lives in a plain-text Org Mode file you host yourself
  • #orgmode #emacs w/ its developer Ihor Radchenko, also screwlisp and JLamothe #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (@screwtape@toobnix.org)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Blogging mit Emacs - Howto | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
    • orgfs – A FUSE filesystem for org files (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
    • [ANN] Starter template for your own blog in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
    • ox-html-file-embedding 0.3.0, embed scrollable CSVs with PapaParse/Tabulator, postprocess with monolith
  • Org development:
    • org-agenda-clock-goto: Jump to closest entry and respect filtering
    • Feature requests:
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] ox-md: Export custom-id search strings (::#) as anchors
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] ox-md: Verbatim link export
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] Re: [FR] Tracking numerical habits
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] Tracking Habits with Alternate Calendar
• Coding:
  • Dave Pearson: Stopping an accidental push
  • James Dyer: VC-Mode Meets Magit - or Why I Finally Gave In!
  • Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot (lobste.rs)
  • aardsoft/lempo: Emacs protocol analysis framework · GitHub
  • Dave's blog: Remote Linux kernel development with Emacs
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Port: a minimalist prepl client for Emacs
• Web:
  • May I recommend eww for Emacs's innovative UI? (Reddit, Irreal, lobste.rs)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Check for missing body, subject, or attachments before sending (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • Minimail version 0.5, with OAuth and more (Reddit)
  • Elfeed release & Elfeed sqlite database · emacs-elfeed/elfeed · Discussion #586 · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
• AI:
  • Agent-Shell permission system (Reddit)
• Community:
  • What's So Special About Emacs? - YouTube
  • May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns (Reddit, Irreal, HN)
  • Emacs Carnival: May I recommend… stop messing around and get work done by Curtis McHale
  • The Most Emacs Bzr Saga (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: YE29: Sacha, Prot, and Philip Kaludercic Talk Emacs: Newcomer Experience (YouTube 01:24:16)
  • The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome (HN)
• Other:
  • Charles Choi: Using the Mouse for Emacs Rectangle Commands
  • Exam minimal Emacs, 42KL, try not to buy Armageddon Psychsparrow, what am I doing. (22:43, Reddit)
  • Some functions to make it easier to check for unexpected Unicode shenanigans (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
  • hexmode/mediawiki-el: Emacs interface to edit any mediawiki site · GitHub (@katafrakt@genserver.social) - recently updated
  • James Dyer: A Tiny Nohup: Keeping Media Alive When Emacs Exits
  • r2r0/legion.el: Emacs mode for the Zammad help desk software - Codeberg.org (@r2r0@chaos.social) - vibecoded
  • Emacs Internal Part 04: Balancing Lisp_String Interval Trees by Text Length (Reddit)
  • Compiling Emacs for High Performance on Linux and Unix Systems (Reddit)
  • Tip for improving keyboard input latency by setting GTK_IM_MODULE=none (Linux, standard ASCII) (@jamescherti)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Challenges of opaque objects
  • Allow child processes to continue after EPIPE
  • Copy changes from tarballs when installing VC packages
• New packages:
  • rare-words: Highlight your rare words! (MELPA)

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Lots of posts for the Emacs Carnival theme of "May I recommend…", yay!

• Emacs 31:
  • The emacs-31 branch has been created! (Irreal)
  • openSUSE package for emacs-31 (@thaodan)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/314540885/ Tue May 12 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue May 12 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 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 May 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: describe-personal-keybindings (Irreal)
  • My Dotfiles: macOS Bootstrap and an Emacs Distribution (Reddit)
  • Backpack Emacs hits version 0.5
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Amin Bandali: FFS code review with Protesilaos (Prot)
  • The Emacs's Gamegrid library #1, #2, #3, #4
• Appearance:
  • Recent Commits to emacs:master: Introduce 'margin' face for window margin background
  • Emacs theme that looks like v0.10+ Neovim's default dark theme (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • TAGS, Etags and system headers
  • Emacs: writing a project.el backend
  • Emacs Buffer Comparison Made Easy With Ebuffers 2026 05 10 02:31:35 (05:31)
  • LIVE: bribing myself to work on async Rust TCP connections (02:35:52, Emacs navigation chapter at 2:00:15)
• TRAMP:
  • Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment (lobste.rs)
• Dired:
  • James Dyer: A Zoomed in vc dir for the Current Directory in dired
• Writing:
  • markdown-ts-mode got a major overhaul and is now part of Emacs 31
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.5.0 - add blogmore-set-as-cover
    • v4.4.0 - blogmore-become-like
  • jw.el: Just Write, a microjournaling tool (uses external binary) (@liberty@mathstodon.xyz)
• Denote:
  • Organising Series with denote-sequence — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] ox-md: Export custom-id search strings (::#) as anchors
  • grove.el - an Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs (r/emacs, r/orgmode, Irreal, HN, HN)
  • mon workflow emacs (18:31)
  • Spacemacs | Org-mode Table Spreadsheet Formula | Productivité (05:19)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Tiny package for org links which base64 embed files into HTML export for sharing (Reddit)
    • Note about needing to escape things in Org macros (@pabryan@mathstodon.xyz)
    • LuaLaTex y fontspec (Orgmode) - FediverseTV (@emacs_org@fediverse.tv)
    • Config for using multiple org-publish projects (@yugaego@fosstodon.org)
    • Blog-Umzug? | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
    • sync.el - sync Org files with git automatically (Reddit)
    • Andros Fenollosa: twtxt vs Org Social: the evolution of an idea
    • Descubriendo la red Org-social - FediverseTV (@emacs_org@fediverse.tv)
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex.el: New variable org-latex-descriptive-environment
    • ob-tangle: Make tangling from archived trees optional
• Completion:
  • Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC (video) (YouTube 01:08:43, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Follow-up: vertico-buffer-frame, a child-frame experiment for vertico-buffer (Reddit)
  • fzf-async (Reddit)
  • Yuta.el: native fuzzy finder, Lsp Completion, and command palette for Emacs (uses external CLI tools) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • My Doom Emacs setup for Rust development in less than two minutes (01:36)
  • emacs-forgejo | Thanos Apollo (@csantosb@sigmoid.social)
  • hprpl-mode for the HP-48G
  • Finally go-to-definition w/ Eglot on JVM languages (Kotlin and Java)! do you know how to improve it?
  • Using our new Lua debbuger: LuaProbe, we made an Emacs package for it (Reddit)
  • Configurando o Windows para Programar Jogos em C | Indie Game Dev (48:38)
  • Sweep: SWI-Prolog Embedded in Emacs (@PuercoPop)
  • jao: geiser moved to codeberg - Scheme interfaces
• Math:
  • The Simple Emacs Spreadsheet
• Shells:
  • Toggle an Emacs terminal with a single keystroke using shell-pop (Recently Refactored) (Reddit)
  • Just a quick "Eat" survey
  • termit: Terminal emulator for Emacs (@hajovonta@mastodon.online)
• Web:
  • Einar Mostad: Speed improvement hack for dired with EWW - browse-url-handlers
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • What improvements would you like to see in elfeed? (@minad@mastodon.world)
  • Add elfeed-tree-mode · emacs-elfeed/elfeed@072a609 · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
• Multimedia:
  • contrapunctus/sxiv.el: Launch (n)sxiv ((Neo) Simple X Image Viewer) (@contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org)
• AI:
  • I made elisp-quality-ai: AI-friendly quality reports for Emacs Lisp projects
  • Emacs with Org-Mode and Claude for Apple MacBook (HN)
  • ox-skills: manage AI agent skills in Org-mode (Reddit)
  • display-buffer-alist config for claude-code (@cyberwolf@infosec.town)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-05-05 / week 18
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival May 2026: "May I recommend…"
    • May Emacs Carnival: Carlos Pajuelo
    • May I Recommend EWM | Dilip's Log
    • Sacha Chua: From David Dimagid: What we talk about when we talk about recommending Emacs packages
    • May I recommend… escaping the minibuffer (@vanni@mibl.vannilla.org)
    • May I recommend… vibemacsing? | Giampaolo Guiducci (@gosub@fosstodon.org)
    • May I recommend… to only add items to your init files you understand and document? Martin Stemplinger
    • Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival: May I recommend…
  • Amin Bandali: Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua (YouTube 01:12:31, Irreal, Sacha)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 22: Shae Erisson (YouTube, 01:02:36)
  • I just dont get it… - long discussion about Emacs Lisp and customization
  • Emacs ATX Meetup. May 2026. GNU Hyperbole. (01:44:31)
  • Thread about what makes Emacs easy for you (@chiply@fosstodon.org)
  • Kent Pitman, Ramin Honary, Screwlisp #climate #emacs autocomplete #lisp #unix_surrealism #logic #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Curtis McHale: The gravitational pull of familiar tools
• Other:
  • veer66/ya-sort-lines: Yet-another sort lines - Codeberg.org (@veer66@mstdn.io)
  • jamesendreshowell/ramb: Emacs package Really Actually Make Backups - Codeberg.org (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: save any buffer as PDF (my new buffer-to-pdf package)
  • Corwin Brust: last-rev.pl - find the most recent commit to each Emacs branch (or other Savannah projects)
  • James Cherti: A Technical Guide for Compiling Emacs and its Packages for Maximum Performance on UNIX or GNU/Linux systems
  • Protesilaos: Re: Emacs and keyboard ergonomics (Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Re: Tail recursion - Lynn Winebarger - emacs-31 probably not going to have igc
  • New variable 'completion-frontend-properties' (bug#80990)
  • Bump master Emacs version to 32.0.50
  • Introduce 'margin' face for window margin background
  • nadvice.el: Make it easier to find how to change an interactive-form
  • keyboard.c: Allow SIGINT to `quit` in batch mode, instead of exit
• New packages:
  • apple-container-tramp: TRAMP integration for apple container (MELPA)
  • claude-code-context: Share buffer context with Claude Code (MELPA)
  • folgezett: Folgezettel IDs for org-roam (MELPA)
  • gnus-browse-url-in-article: Smarter browse-url for Gnus articles (MELPA)
  • har-viewer: Major mode for viewing HTTP Archive (HAR) files (MELPA)
  • indigo: Emacs interface to the Indigo cheminformatics library (MELPA)
  • nucleo-completion: Nucleo-backed completion style (MELPA)
  • shannon-max: Analyze your keybindings with information theory (MELPA)
  • verdict-dart: Dart runner for verdict (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!

You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #5 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b4192df7-3da4-41b8-95a3-532b93923656 Mon May 4 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/314341747/ Thu May 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri May 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/314540885/ Tue May 12 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue May 12 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Sacha Chua: May 14: Sacha, Prot, and Philip Kaludercic Talk Emacs: Newcomer Experience (Protesilaos)
• Beginner:
  • Sacha Chua: What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme?
  • Sacha Chua: Working on the Emacs newbie experience
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua (Irreal)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Must-have Emacs packages you should know about [Updated]​ (Reddit)
  • Jiewawa: Overriding keybindings with Meow
  • Magnus: Follow-up on switching to eglot - more about use-package
  • Emacs config (15:08)
  • badele/idem: Doom Emacs configuration for DevOps workflows (bash, go, json, python, terraform, typescript, etc…) (@jesuislibre.org on Bluesky)
  • Sharing my emacs.d while cleaning up my folder a bit. (Reddit)
  • My Emacs Config (Reddit)
  • Been working on my emacs config lately (Reddit)
  • My configuration and workflow for game development in emacs with Godot
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Contributing to ELPA (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org, Reddit)
  • compat 31.0.0.0 released, stabilization in progress (@minad@mastodon.world)
  • Dave's blog: Writing an automated test to try to find an Emacs bug
  • NeLisp v1.0 — Emacs Lisp implemented in Elisp, plus a small Rust runtime that runs it without Emacs (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • modus-flexoki (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • nfdn: Bulk Search & Replace Commands for Files and Buffers in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Sidetabs using side windows. (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • How I use quick-sdcv to get the Oxford English Dictionary in my Emacs
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.3.0 - blogmore-toggle-invite-comments, blogmore-invite-comments-to
• Denote:
  • New package: denote-wordcloud (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Stupidly Simple Notes Taking With Emacs - Linux Renaissance (@darth@watch.linuxrenaissance.com)
  • I built an org-mode weekday repeater, .+wd
  • Jonathan Chu: Introducing grove.el - note-taking workflow for Org
  • Experimental/personal PDF-viewing/notetaking minor mode I (sort of) vibe-coded. (Reddit) dired + pdfview + org
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Implementing a minimal evergreen blog in HTML and Emacs Lisp (Reddit, HN)
    • Randy Ridenour: Managing Multiple-Choice Questions With Org Mode
    • jamesendreshowell/org-teach-worksheet: Emacs lisp and Org macros for authoring classroom worksheets - Codeberg.org (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
    • schue/org-canvas: upload Org mode files directly into an instance of the Canvas LMS. (@schuemaa@ecoevo.social)
    • canvas.el/canvas.org - interact with the Canvas learning management system (@locallytrivial@mathstodon.xyz)
    • De Org-mode a Trilium Notes, pasando por Obsidian · El blog de Lázaro (@elblogdelazaro)
    • tykayn/orgmode-to-gemini-blog - Source Bliss: Comme dirait Manon, les sources, c'est important. (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
• Completion:
  • History: delete old duplicates, but still rank by frecency (@minad@mastodon.world)
  • vertico-posframe-preview: a preview sidecar for vertico-posframe (Reddit)
  • VOMPECCC from Scratch: Picking Fruits and Veggies with ICR (YouTube 51:06, Reddit, HN) - incremental completing read with vertico, consult, marginalia, etc.
• Coding:
  • Code to run magit-status on a project (@robjperez@fosstodon.org)
  • Wireframe.el Keyboard-first wireframe prototyping inside GNU Emacs.
  • Auto-mark rules, snooze, marking and filters for GitHub notifications in Emacs (Reddit)
  • eglot, emscripten, and clangd (@robjperez@fosstodon.org)
  • Einar Mostad: Fix Emacs python-mode REPL and org code block with python evaluation problems
  • uv.el – a declarative Emacs interface for the uv Python package manager (experimental) (Reddit)
  • Magnus: Secrets when connecting to DBs
  • Using our new Lua debbuger: LuaProbe, we made an Emacs package for it (Reddit)
  • Package announcement: go-prettify-mode.el (Reddit)
  • Emacs is a fantastic SQL editor - see the comments for more recommendations
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Dave's blog: Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer (Irreal)
  • Emails in Emacs (speziell Proton Mail) | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
• Evil mode:
  • Magnus: Jumping to errors in Evil
• Multimedia:
  • James Dyer: A Tiny Header line Tweak: Image Dimensions in image mode
• Fun:
  • Server play support in nethack-el: Help lobby for support on popular Nethack servers
• AI:
  • macher-agent: Similar to gptel-agent but within the macher context (Reddit)
  • adds $ completion for Codex skills in agent-shell buffers (Reddit)
  • Agent's major mode kit (Reddit)
  • Emacs manager for OpenAI Codex conversations (Reddit)
  • anvil.el v1.0.0 — first stable, anvil-ide split, anvil-pkg sister, and a no-Emacs path via NeLisp (Reddit)- let AI agents use Emacs as a workbench via MCP
• Community:
  • Emacs Carnival April 2026:
    • Free Software Tools: How I got into Emacs (and Free Software) (@len@toot.si)
    • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: History and Thoughts on Starter Kits
    • Sacha Chua: YE24: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs - Newbies/Starter Kits (YouTube, 1:05:10)
      • YE20: Emacs Carnival: newbies / starter kits (01:03:50)
      • YE23: Explore Emacs starter kits and other resources (59:26)
  • Emacs Carnival in May (and in general) (Reddit)
  • The gravitational pull of Emacs — baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • Kent Pitman and Ramin Honary join on #commonLisp #lisp #IDE #emacs #schemacs #UX #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (@screwtape@toobnix.org)
  • SimHacker/NeMACS: UniPress Emacs 2.20 for NeWS · GitHub (released 1989) (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Kent Pitman #demo 1977-1984 #MIT #ITS #DDT #TECO #EMACS #LISP #MACLISP - toobnix (@screwtape@toobnix.org)
  • A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025, PDF) (@yantar92@fosstodon.org) - not Emacs-specific, but good to think about long-term
• Other:
  • Emacs 30 Now On Android - Linux Renaissance (@darth@watch.linuxrenaissance.com)
  • Make Emacs inhibit logout in GNOME shell (@cidra@mastodon.uno)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: save any buffer as PDF (my new buffer-to-pdf package) (YouTube 11:08, Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • The emacs-31 branch will be cut in one week (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Demote 'completion-preview-is-calling'
  • Project prompters always default to current project, if any
  • New variable 'completion-preview-is-calling'
  • Always compile w32image.c on MinGW (Bug#80924)
  • New VC commands for remote unintegrated changes
  • New commands to report diffs of all local changes
• New packages:
  • emcp: Lets your agent talk to Emacs (MELPA)
  • forgejo: Emacs Forgejo Front-end (GNU ELPA)
  • grove: Obsidian-like note-taking for org files (MELPA)
  • keymap-popup: Described keymaps with popup help (GNU ELPA)
  • mysql: Pure Elisp MySQL wire protocol client (MELPA)
  • outline-stars: Outshine-style star headings for outline-minor-mode (MELPA)
  • simulacrum: Inject custom event types into the event stream (MELPA)
  • sql-bigquery: Adds BigQuery support to SQLi mode (MELPA)
  • tmux-csi-u: Tmux CSI-u decoder (MELPA)
  • ttx-mode: TrueType/OpenType font viewer using ttx (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!

You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

Also, lots of people expressed their appreciation for Chris Wellons, who is moving on to other editors for now. Me, I've enjoyed using simple-httpd, impatient, and skewer, and I'm glad Chris made and shared them. Many of his packages already have new maintainers, and the rest are up for adoption. Perhaps we'll see him around again someday!

• Help wanted:
  • Join Org mode contributor liaison team and help maintaining Org mode
  • Skeeto: "I have officially retired from Emacs" – looking for maintainers for Elfeed etc. (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 1 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 #5 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b4192df7-3da4-41b8-95a3-532b93923656 Mon May 4 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/314341747/ Thu May 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri May 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Other stuff:
    • Sacha Chua: April 30 Yay Emacs: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs - Newbies/Starter Kits (Prot)
    • Battle of the Editors - Satellite Event - Tue Jun 30 4:30 PM Aachen, Seffenterweg 23 / Kopernikusstr. 6 (IT Center) for hackathon participants and guests
    • Sacha Chua: May 4: Emacs Chat with Amin Bandali
      • May 7: Shae Erisson
      • May 21: Raymond Zeitler
      • June 18: Ross A. Baker
• Emacs configuration:
  • What are your favorite Emacs packages? (Reddit, HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What are some common code smells that inexperienced Elispers make?
  • Dave Pearson: expando.el v1.6 - expand macro in a different window; fix keybinding
  • Protesilaos: Emacs livestream: Maintaining Denote, TMR, and more (YouTube 3:06:05)
  • Ideas for things to bind to C-z (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Configuration: Writing my own Theme Switcher (15:33)
  • yotsuba: 4chan aesthetic, this time based on the Tomorrow theme. (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Dave Pearson: itch.el v1.3.0 - switch to the scratch buffer
  • Tip: repeat-map and expreg-expand (@plantarum@ottawa.place)
  • The Definitive Guide to Code Folding in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.2 - cycle image extensions
  • Dave Pearson: kbdify.el v1.0.0 - marking up keys in Markdown
• Denote:
  • New package: denote-wordcloud
• Org Mode:
  • (emacs) org mode - your life in plain text (09:49)
  • Spacemacs | Org-contacts Agenda Anniversaires | Productivité (02:22)
  • How I use org-roam - The Universe of Joshua Blais
  • Spacemacs | Org-roam Notes avec tags | Productivité (00:59)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Quick tutorial to get a blog online from Org mode thanks to Org Social | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev, in Spanish, @hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
    • Como colorear los bloques de código en Org-mode | Andros Fenollosa (2016, @hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
    • Code for org-edit-special, eglot, and Python (@anoncheg@mastodontech.de)
    • Get ready for Orgy in 15 minutes — Bastien Guerry (Irreal, JC Helary) - static site generator
    • Tony Zorman: Writing Literate Blog Posts
• Completion:
  • Dave Pearson: unabbrev.el v1.0.0 - completing-read an abbrev
  • Charlie Holland: A VOMPECCC Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs (HN)
  • I made an Emacs completion style using nucleo, the fuzzy matcher from Helix (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: Highlighting git changes in a buffer with diff-hl
  • remoto.el: Browse GitHub repos without cloning. (Reddit, HN)
  • Exploring Semantic & Friends in Emacs for Development Without LSP - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@tv.dyne.org)
  • Mike Olson: Fixing typescript-ts-mode in Emacs 30.2
• Math:
  • Emacs: ses-mode (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet) (20:57)
• Shells:
  • kitty-graphics.el v0.5.0: tmux support for images inside terminal Emacs and much more! (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Emacs is my browser - The Universe of Joshua Blais (Irreal, lobste.rs)
• Multimedia:
  • Some code for working with playlists and mpc (mpd) (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
  • Spacemacs | Play music, recordings | Productivity (01:28)
  • Sam Aaron uses #emacs ! (01:27)
• AI:
  • claude-code-context - simple Emacs Buffer Awareness for Claude Code (Reddit)
  • AI For Boomers: Project Claude For Emacs (01:49)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-04-21 / week 16
  • Your sources for inspiration
  • Sacha Chua: YE20 braindump: Emacs Carnival: Newbies/starter kits (YouTube, 1:03:50)
    • Sacha Chua: YE21 April 23: Continuing to think about newbies / starter kits (YouTube, 1:00:51)
  • Randy Ridenour: Emacs and the Sunk Cost Fallacy (Irreal)
  • Emacs Philosophy and Infinite Depth with Protesilaos - The Universe of Joshua Blais (YouTube, 1:40:55)
  • A month of Elisp · Perpetually Curious Blog
• Other:
  • I made a TaskJuggler major mode for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Charles Choi: Some nice to know keybindings when using the mouse in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How I use my numeric keypad with Emacs Ledger mode
  • anju v1.2: center and fill menus, edit - duplicate, look up; improve mouse interactions in Emacs (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Rahul Juliato: Getting Emacs proced.el to Show CPU and Memory on macOS (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Re: About "prefixed-core" - Philip Kaludercic
  • Add treesit-query-with-fallback
  • New user option compilation-search-extra-path
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce "setrgbf" and "setrgbb" terminfo capabilities
  • Add language-environment and input methods for Syriac
  • Rebind 'tab-bar-mouse-close-tab' from <down-mouse-2> to <mouse-2>
  • Show executed tests from erts files via the ERT results buffer
• New packages:
  • denote-wordcloud: Generate a word cloud (MELPA)
  • dmsg: Timestamped debug messages with backtrace support (GNU ELPA)
  • evil-ghostel: Evil-mode integration for ghostel (MELPA)
  • mozc-modeless: Modeless Japanese input with Mozc (MELPA)
  • org-lark: Export Lark docs to Org (MELPA)
  • verdict: Generic test runner with treemacs results UI (MELPA)
  • with-command-redo: Repeat commands with automatic undo (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!

You can comment on Mastodon or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How do you keep track of new/useful keybindings?
• Emacs configuration:d
  • What modern Emacs packages am I missing?
  • Meow Made me Leave Evil-Mode - The Universe of Joshua Blais (YouTube, 17:00)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What are some common code smells that inexperienced Elispers make?
  • Updated kickingvegas/elisp-for-python - improved sections on map types and iteration (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • load settings from files sorted by number (@cage@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
  • dmsg.el: Timestamped debug messages with backtrace support (Reddit)
  • Defining λ as a macro for lambda (@marcel@van-der-boom.nl)
  • Listful Andrew: Mars Rovers IV: The Solutions — Emacs Lisp
  • Listful Andrew: Mars Rovers IX: The Grid Viz Solutions — Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Loading the theme and user face customizations at the right moment
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new modus-themes-exporter package (YouTube 2:56:36)
  • faff theme v4.0; now using modus-themes (Reddit)
  • folio-theme: a warm paper-like light theme for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: Batppuccin and Tokyo Night Themes Land on MELPA
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Query Replace Is A Bloody Good Way To Make Quick Changes 2026 04 15 02:51:42 (05:33)
  • Irreal: A Short Report On Help Focus
  • Tip about using consult-focus-lines
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Binding TAB in Dired to something useful (Irreal)
  • James Dyer: Emacs-DIYer: A Built-in dired-collapse Replacement
  • casual 2.16.0: improvements to Dired for marked file operations and context-sensitive behavior (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Writing:
  • Dave Pearson: boxquote.el v2.4 - added a transient
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.1 - change image extension to webp
  • Launching a new grammar/spell checking tool for Org-mode, LaTeX, Markdown, Python, Clang, etc. (Reddit)
  • ekg version 0.9.0: New notes UI, Apple Notes Syncing, agentic actions and org integration (YouTube 21:36)
• Org Mode:
  • Remember everything with Org Mode (10:17)
  • Organizing my retirement with org-mode – Andy Sylvester's Web
  • Org-roam pour la prise de notes (avec Spacemacs) (20:37)
  • org-auto-scheduler (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • folgezett.el a package for Org-Roam users (Reddit)
  • Avoiding mismatched Org versions by removing ELPA/MELPA packages and other Org performance tips (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Emacs as a Math Notebook and Advanced Symbolic Solver! (Irreal)
  • #28 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, March 11, 19:00 UTC+3 - meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Graphs in Org-Mode! Matplotlib Demo (Reddit)
    • [EMACS LAB] #4: "literate" programming (org-babel) (01:38:44)
    • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Drop GoogleCL from LoB + ideas for a replacement?
    • James Endres Howell: Embedding a Mastodon thread as comments to a blog post - org-static-blog-emfed
    • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: JS for translating times to people's local timezones
    • Sacha Chua: Create a Google Calendar event from an Org Mode timestamp
    • Recent Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator) (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
    • Hot-wiring the lisp machine (Reddit, lobste.rs) - modifying publishing
  • Org development:
    • New function org–forward-sentence-thing-at-point-provider
• Completion:
  • Completion is a Substrate, not a UI (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • VOMPECCC: A Modular Completion Framework for Emacs (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Tip about using eglot-extend-to-xref
  • New Package: eglot-rcpp for simplifying Rcpp package development in emacs (Reddit)
  • Scheme for Beginners 2: Guile and Emacs (04:56)
  • Shipit update: Atlassian Dashboard for Jira, PR↔issue linking, and activity-level notification navigation
  • [Showcase] k8s-to-puml: Deterministic Kubernetes diagrams from your manifests using Tree-sitter and GOFAI rules (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Gal Buki: Clipboard in terminal Emacs with WezTerm
• Web:
  • paw browser extension can now manage tabs and send tab info, copy links to Emacs (Reddit) Chrome/Firefox extension for sending page context via org-protocol
• Doom Emacs:
  • My Doom Emacs config for software development — 150 lines covering LSP, Magit, org-roam, and a custom dashboard
• Multimedia:
  • el-gpu (Video 1:46, 79M)
  • YE17: Livestream conveniences, editing yesterday's transcript (50:50)
  • Sacha Chua: Make chapter markers and video time hyperlinks easier to note while I livestream
• Fun:
  • Dave Pearson: wordcloud.el v1.4
  • Dave Pearson: slstats.el v1.11 - Second Life grid
• AI:
  • Agentic development workflow in Emacs
  • anvil.el — Forge Emacs into Claude Code's weapon (Reddit)
  • Headless Emacs + Org + LLMs in Docker as a backend for personal automation (Reddit)
  • Announcing llm-test, a very high-level testing framework for Emacs (Reddit)
• Community:
  • VSCode too SLOW | switch to Emacs and go to PLAID (06:59)
  • Cocinándose la renovación de la Web… | Hacia la Hispa-Emacs Conf. 2026 ! (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • Sacha Chua: YE16: Sacha and Prot talk Emacs
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-04 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • 26: Why You'll Never Switch Editors (And What You're Missing)
• Other:
  • Tip about setting w32-use-visible-system-caret to nil on Windows
  • # omarchy.el - Emacs integration for Omarchy (Reddit)
  • trust-manager.el — Towards Trust in Emacs (Reddit, HN, long discussion on emacs-devel)
  • emskin: a nested Wayland compositor in Rust that embeds any app into Emacs windows (Reddit)
  • Dave's blog: Posframe for everything
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • External loops and Emacs: state machines vs two C stacks - Vladimir Kazanov
    • Re: Alternative Emacs logo - Philip Kaludercic (SVG)
    • RE: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation) - Vincent Belaïche - texinfo bug for UTF-8
  • Restrict Dired handling of newlines in file names
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Presentational fixes and improvements.
  • Announce ert-play-keys in etc/NEWS.
  • New faces 'tab-line-active' and 'tab-line-inactive' (bug#80742)
• New packages:
  • agent-recall: Search and browse agent-shell conversation transcripts (MELPA)
  • batppuccin: Shared infrastructure for Batppuccin themes (MELPA)
  • citar-vulpea: Minor mode integrating Citar and Vulpea (MELPA)
  • comet-trail: Cursor comet trail effect (MELPA)
  • elixir-iex: IEx REPL via eat terminal emulator (MELPA)
  • go-prettify-mode: Hide `if err != nil' and prettify them (MELPA)
  • hidepass: Hide passwords at one or multiple lines (MELPA)
  • http-server: Speaks HTTP for you (MELPA)
  • modus-ewal-theme: Modus theme that uses pywal colors powered by ewal (MELPA)
  • python-unicode-escape: Completion for Python \N{NAME} escapes (MELPA)
  • rimel: A lightweight Rime input method (MELPA)
  • rocq-timing: Display timing of rocq commands in buffer (MELPA)
  • sidebuf: Buffer list sidebar panel (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!

You can comment on Mastodon or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313909207/ Tue Apr 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Apr 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/314166900/ Sat Apr 18 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • What is the absolute minimum to cover in first emacs session
  • Cómo aprender Emacs gráficamente gracias a Sacha Chua (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • video demo of anju 1.1.0 - enhance mouse interactions (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • YE13: Working on modularizing my config (01:23:26)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Dave Pearson: expando.el v1.5 - macroexpand and pretty-print
  • Charles Choi: Computing Days Until with Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Listful Andrew: Counting Words V: More solutions in Emacs Lisp
  • Listful Andrew: Phones-to-Words Challenge V: Clojure-inspired Emacs Lisp
  • collect-alist-from-tree
  • Emacs Redux: The Many Faces of flet: cl-flet, cl-labels, and cl-letf (Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Dave Pearson: quiz.el v1.7 - how to use :extend t to make a face extend to the edge
  • Ember for Emacs - A warm, nearly monochrome Doom Emacs theme. (Reddit)
  • I've now created a theme for Emacs, inspired by the Yotsuba B theme from 4chan. (Reddit)
  • Dave Pearson: fasta.el v1.1 - bioinformatics: font-locking sequences
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs modus-themes live stream (YouTube 02:44:36)
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Redux: Live Regexp Feedback with minibuffer-regexp-mode
  • ediff config tips
  • Tip about closing multiple Emacs buffers
  • easysession.el 1.2.1 (Reddit) - frame names, bugfixes, elpaca, daemon mode
  • vincentjgoh/avy-dashboard: avy keys for emacs dashboard · GitHub (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Charles Choi: Calming Mouse Interaction in Dired
• Writing:
  • Tip about using Emacs to enter Unicode
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.0 more public utility functions
  • overleaf.el 1.1.5 3-way conflict resolution
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs live stream for writing Denote tests and more (YouTube, 03:06:26)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Should org-forward/backward-sentence respect element boundaries?
  • Org-Better-Agenda (Reddit)
  • [EMACS LAB] #3: Introduction to Org Mode (01:57:55)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Tangle Emacs config snippets to different files and add boilerplate
  • org-mindmap — simple inline mind maps for Org (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • Org ediff config tips
  • The issues with issue trackers — Bastien Guerry (@ThierryStoehr@framapiaf.org) - Bark is what Org Mode uses
  • Emacs 31.x Orgmode version mismatch - Blog In Isolation (@andyc@mastodon.me.uk)
  • [EMACS LAB] #4: "literate" programming (org-babel) (01:38:44)
  • I built a Things 3-inspired web frontend for org-agenda (looking for feedback) (Reddit)
  • Tutorial para blogear como Notxor (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • GitHub - steve-downey/surround: Surround Source Code for org-transclusion (Reddit)
  • Tip about org-babel-remote-temporary-directory
  • Embark Org shortcut for displaying difference between timestamp and today
  • Org development:
    • ox-icalendar: Add export blocks and keywords
    • ox-html.el: support line numbers as a :before element in code blocks
    • org-support-shift-select: Allow forcing shift-select-mode on timestamps
• Coding:
  • djgoku/compilation-history: Automatic compilation history tracking for Emacs with searchable SQLite-backed storage. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Wiring Flymake Diagnostics into a Follow Mode
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/flymake-kubeconform: real-time validation of Kubernetes manifests using kubeconform (Reddit)
  • Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too) (lobste.rs)
  • Stop Jujutsu from auto-committing everything (03:34)
  • Making a major mode - ocaml (Reddit)
• Math:
  • ESR v1.0.0: An R tree sitter mode (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Tip about shell-command-on-region
  • [Ann] New package Popterm [posframe+terminal]​ (Reddit)
  • Show: How I added a list of other vterm buffers in the modeline
  • kitty-graphics.el v0.4.0: Sixel support, text sizing protocol, agent-shell integration (Reddit)
• Web:
  • EWW! A Web in My Editor! « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 2.0.16 - featured tags (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Evil mode:
  • evim — multiple cursors for evil-mode, inspired by vim-visual-multi (now on MELPA) (r/emacs, r/DoomEmacs)
  • evil-matchit 4.1.0 is published (Reddit) - Julia, skip lines that match regex
• Multimedia:
  • [21] Working on Canvas Patch (Contd..) - 4/6/2026, 3:33:42 PM - Dyne.org TV and 5:51:25 PM
  • laNotte excerpt (08:18)
• EXWM:
  • EXWM on termux! (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • tamagotchi on emacs! (Reddit)
  • Server play support in nethack-el (Reddit)
• AI:
  • ann new packages: agent-shell-dispatch and agent-shell-ediff
  • bajsicki/gptel-got: Tooling for LLM interactions with org-mode
  • Emacs Codex IDE integration (Reddit)
  • I forced Claude to play Tetris in Emacs. (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-04-07 / week 14
  • Raising a few $thousand to keep version control magical (Reddit, Irreal) - support tarsius
  • Sacha Chua: YE12: Categorizing Emacs News, epwgraph, languages
• Other:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Deleting Files
  • Erik L. Arneson: Emacs as the Freelancer's Command Center
  • senchawizard/emacs-polydiceware: generate passwords with dice (@senchawizard@gotosocial.social)
  • I built an Emacs auth-source backend for 1Password (tested on macOS) (Reddit)
  • Few tips for faster Emacs install with MSYS2
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility - Jonas Bernoulli - it would be great to get where-is to work with transient suffixes
    • Terminology changes from a long time ago: window, pane; frame, window
  • ; New function 'ns-process-is-accessibility-trusted', no message (bug#80624)
  • Support 24-bit TrueColor on MS-Windows console
• New packages:
  • agitjo: Manage Forgejo PRs with AGit-Flow (MELPA)
  • ben: Asynchronous buffer-local environments via `direnv' (MELPA)
  • popterm: Posframe terminal toggler with smart backends (MELPA)
  • struct-completion: Keyword slot completion for cl-defstruct constructors (MELPA)
  • taskjuggler-mode: Major mode for TaskJuggler project files (MELPA)
  • tokyo-night: Shared infrastructure for Tokyo Night themes (MELPA)
  • trust-manager: Convenient trust management (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!

You can comment on Mastodon or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

• Workaround for the Git-related security issue that lots of people are talking about (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #4 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c4ee8c26-c668-491e-91b3-b466578b83e2 Mon Apr 6 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Apr 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313909207/ Tue Apr 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Apr 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs live stream with Sacha Chua on 2026-04-16 17:30 Europe/Athens
• Emacs configuration:
  • Announcing Anju (Reddit) - mouse interactions for modeline, context menu, and main menu
  • Emacs Redux: Repeat Mode: Stop Repeating Yourself (Irreal, Irreal)
  • backpack 0.4.0 - adds self-documenting inventory browser (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Almighty Lisp: Lisp & Emacs Essentials - almightylisp.com (HN)
  • Dave Pearson: nukneval.el v1.3 unload and re-evaluate
  • Creating an Emacs Package from Concept to MELPA (Part 7) (57:13)
  • How to run a function when my buffer selection changes? - updated with window-state-change-hook
  • Yay Emacs live: Reorganizing my Emacs configuration so that my defuns are tangled to separate files (01:48:56)
  • Sacha Chua: YE11: Fix find-function for Emacs Lisp from org-babel or scratch (YouTube, 08:19)
• Appearance:
  • New package: outline-stars.el (Reddit)
  • occult.el - collapse buffer regions into single-line summaries (Reddit)
  • Make the left margin shine!
  • Senka07/yotsuba-emacs-theme · GitHub (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using other-window-prefix C-x 4 4
  • Tip about using windmove
• Writing:
  • Curtis McHale: Check Spelling in Emacs (YouTube 06:38)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v3.1
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new sequence scheme for the ‘denote-sequence’ package
• Org Mode:
  • [EMACS LAB] #3: Introduction to Org Mode (01:57:55)
  • aravindps/org-gtd: Things 3 style GTD for Emacs — org-mode agenda views, ⌘ keybindings, context tags. Works with Doom and vanilla Emacs. · GitHub (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • [BLOG] #27 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, February 11, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org) notes
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • lopeztel/ox-dnd-html: Emacs export org files to D&D themed html · GitHub (Reddit)
    • Adding org-protocol support (Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: Extract PDF highlights into an Org file with Python (YouTube 04:27)
    • James Endres Howell: My first advice! (in Emacs Lisp) - specifying HTML boilerplace for org-static-blog
    • RSS feeds for your org-mode website (@bgtdsword@toot.io)
    • Org-mode - Various font sizes LaTeX (04:14)
  • Org development:
    • ol: Allow targets as search option in id: links
    • org-babel: Fix and extend `org-babel-update-intermediate' variable
    • Query before attempting to overwrite existing attachment/DnD/yank file
    • Merge branch 'bugfix'
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Remove announcement about bugfix
• Completion:
  • Emacs Redux: Declutter M-x with read-extended-command-predicate (Irreal)
  • [RELEASE] let-completion v0.2.0: full overhaul of Elisp completion - 46 binding forms, function argument candidates, expandable registry, fully customizable two-column annotations (Reddit)
  • rougier/nano-vertico: Emacs / nano + vertico · GitHub (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Mike Olson - eglot-python-preset and eglot-typescript-preset: Now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Function to make eglot add IWYU headers without doing an autocomplete in the buffer
  • Dave Pearson: make-phony.el v1.3 for Makefiles
  • Daskeladden/shipit: Code review in Emacs · GitHub (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Ghostel - terminal emulator powered by libghostty (Reddit, programming.dev)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Thanos Apollo: Bringing jabber.el Back From the Dead (@debacle@framapiaf.org)
  • mastodon.el 2.0.14 - jump to quoting toot, bugfixes, annotations (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Multimedia:
  • Using Android TTS in Emacs
• Fun:
  • Anybody interested in writing SDL games in Emacs Lisp?
    • Emacs + SDL: unblocking the unblockable (emacs-devel)
  • Dave Pearson: eg.el v1.2 Norton Guide?, thinks.el v1.13 thought bubbles, binclock.el v1.12 binary clock, obfusurl.el v2.2 obfuscating URLs
• AI:
  • I run my company from Emacs (HN)
  • Crafting an AI-Driven Workflow System - System Crafters Live! (01:52:03)
  • Will using Emacs give you an edge in the AI-era? (45:08, Reddit, Reddit)
  • The Agent-Native Editor Was Invented in 1976
• Community:
  • Emacs ATX Meetup. April 2026. - YouTube (2:04:58)
  • Sacha Chua: #YayEmacs 10: Emacs coaching with Prot: Emacs workflows and streaming (YouTube 01:06:30)
    • Sacha Chua: Thinking about Emacs coaching goals with Prot
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs coaching with Sacha Chua
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • The Comfort Trap (@len@toot.si)
    • Christian Tietze: Emacs Mistakes and Misconceptions That Held Me Back in 2019
    • Einar Mostad: Emacs mistakes and misconceptions
  • Prot Asks: Hjalmar about Emacs for music, the joy of art, and Internet sociability (02:04:24)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: …and then there were three (expect delays) (Irreal)
  • A Cult AI Computer’s Boom and Bust - YouTube (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Emacs Docs (Reddit, @maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis 0.10: Import Anki, Merge Everything Into One
  • doom emacs install on manjaro linux walkthrough on hyper-v vm (17:29)
• Emacs development:
  • On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility - long discussion
  • New option vc-dir-auto-hide-up-to-date
  • * lisp/vc/diff-mode.el (diff-mode-read-only-map): Bind 'v'.
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce Org update.
  • ; Fix documentation of last change
  • Recursively check dependencies for package compatibility
  • Inform macOS Accessibility Zoom of cursor position (bug#80624)
  • New macro setopt-local and function set-local (bug#80709)
  • Add xref-edit-mode (bug#80616)
• New packages:
  • compilation-history: Track compilation history in SQLite (MELPA)
  • corg: Header completion for org-mode (MELPA)
  • evim: Evil Visual Multi - Multiple cursors for evil-mode (MELPA)
  • ghostel: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (MELPA)
  • meshmonitor-chat: Chat client for MeshMonitor (Meshtastic) (MELPA)
  • occult: Collapse and reveal buffer regions (MELPA)
  • org-dt: Dynamic templating loader (MELPA)
  • org-grimoire: Emacs-native static site generator (MELPA)
  • org-invox: Invoice management for contractors using Org mode (MELPA)

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