• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Sacha Chua: 6 août: Emacs Chat: Richard Bonichon
  • Sacha Chua: 20 août: Emacs Chat: Abdallah Maouche
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Docs: The modern documentation website Emacs deserves (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN)
  • How to Undo in Emacs (01:24)
  • How to Find and Replace Text in Emacs (02:52)
  • One shot modifiers, then emacs tutorial (02:08:22)
  • Let's Finally Finish the Emacs Tutorial (02:03:47)
  • New to Emacs? Learning Vanilla Emacs with Protesilaos | Coaching Session #2 (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Redux: which-key is Now Built-in
  • Stop Installing Every Emacs Package You See (04:07)
  • Emacs Redux: All Aboard Embark! (Irreal)
  • Tip about using embark-bindings-at-point to find available commands (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Tip about setting describe-bindings-outline-rules (@plantarum@ottawa.place)
  • Gentoo Simp Demonstrates Beacon Mode With Meow On Emacs. (03:30)
  • casual 2.17.0 (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • skewed-emacs: containerized Emacs + Lisp environment — now starts with a single curl command, no clone required (Reddit)
  • Emacs literate config (@rickwysocki@mas.to)
  • initialisation d'emacs - (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Redux: Tree-sitter Modes Still Need a Syntax Table
• Appearance:
  • sleek-modeline - A minimal and elegant modeline for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ‘doric-lilac’ and ‘doric-borage’ coming to the ‘doric-themes’
  • Diffs.com emacs themes (Reddit)
  • New modus-alabaster themes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • jroimartin/outline-occur: Navigate the buffer's outline using occur. · GitHub (@jroimartin@fosstodon.org)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile 3.2
  • Ayuda de vim cscope, emacs y global. (05:05)
• TRAMP:
  • Gentoo User shows you How to edit your make.conf in Emacs (02:25) - using TRAMP to edit files as root
• Writing:
  • ispell-word to fix spelling (@shapr@recurse.social)
  • Irreal: Jinx Reconsidered (Irreal)
  • Emacs on Windows: Display CJK IME composition inline without librime — just hook into the system input method
  • Preview command for gemtext-mode (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename options controlling recursive statistics
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Small restriction in BEAMER_HEADER: WDYT?
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Font control as of today
    • @paaguti@ecoevo.social
  • [RFC] Help with PDF/UA2 accessibility tests for ox-latex - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • [02] Vanilla Emacs with Prot: I’ll Repent for My Markdown Sins (02:09:15) - beginner exploring Org
  • Mike Hostetler: Why Org's agenda ignores your start day
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
  • Sacha Chua: Mon flux de travail de programmation
  • Comment j'organise mon emploi du temps avec org emacs / tablette eink BOOX (16:19)
  • Tip: Use org-mark-ring-goto to return after opening a link
  • Drawing inside Org-mode using iPad (or any device using tldraw on the browser) seamlessly (YouTube 01:16, Reddit)
  • screwlisp/ickle: Org babel for complex embeddable common lisp interactions i.e. ansi common lisp as a C (or C++) library with duplexed embedding and interleaving. (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Notes from #2 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, July 18, 11:00 UTC+3 (video, Reddit, @yantar92@fosstodon.org) -
• Completion:
  • [Article] Guide to Modern Emacs Completion: vertico, corfu & friends (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: Completion in the buffer with completion-at-point-functions (YouTube, 22:53)
  • Emacs Redux: Inline Completion with completion-preview-mode
  • Emacs Redux: Cape: Corfu’s Best Friend
  • Vadzim Shender: Making backspace in vertico behave like ido
  • New corfu-mouse extension · minad/corfu@3cacdaf · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
• Coding:
  • New package: region-pin.el for floating code snippets (Reddit)
  • dape toolbar (use child-frame and nerd icons) (Reddit) - debugger controls
  • Tip about using consult-lsp-diagnostics (@shivjm)
  • How Emacs Uses Nix — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Emacs .dir-locals.el File for Python Projects (@zelphirkaltstahl)
  • Tip: consult-lsp-diagnostics from the consult-lsp package (@shivjm)
  • Full IDE Power Over SSH: Remote C++ development - Terminal Emacs, No GUI (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: CIDER 2.0: Sky is the Limit
  • Meta Redux: clj-refactor.el 4.0
  • Pair of functions to send things to the tap inspector in clerk and clojure (@otfrom@functional.cafe)
  • Meta Redux: Stepping Through Macros in CIDER
  • Meta Redux: Sayid 0.8
  • Emacs Redux: Flymake Can Now Show Diagnostics at the End of the Line
  • Hide module imports in Scheme buffers using an overlay (@ryuslash@goto.ryuslash.org)
  • Emacs Eglot for Scala and Kotlin (JVM) and some nifty workarounds for day-to-day usage (Reddit)
  • gemmaro/cwmrc-mode: Emacs major mode and Flymake backend for cwmrc format. - Codeberg.org (@gemmaro)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Gnus: Call custom functions when formatting message lines in summary buffers (@lhp)
• Multimedia:
  • Controlling a YouTube video from emacs (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
• Fun:
  • tnalpgge/cabrillo-el: Parse Cabrillo format amateur radio contact logs in Emacs - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
• LLMs:
  • The state of agentic coding tools in Emacs (2026)
  • Spacemacs layer for ai-code-interface.el (Reddit)
  • gptel-permit: rule-based permissions for tool calls (Reddit)
  • Automatically get Openrouter model catalog in gptel (Reddit)
  • Jetpacs-Composer: Emacs as a No-Code platform proof of concept. (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-07-14 / week 28
  • Things that made me come back to Emacs (Reddit)
  • Why Emacs is still my interface to my computer - Upsun Developer (@upsun)
  • Human Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org)
    • Andros Fenollosa: Human fear in Emacs
    • Jakub Nowak: Response to Human Fear in Emacs
    • @evgandr@bsd.cafe
    • #lispyGopherClimate w/ KMP, Ramin and screwlisp. #climate #oil #pipeline reimaginings, human #emacs, #commonlisp #elisp @screwtape@toobnix.org
  • Sacha Chua: Voulez-vous parler d'Emacs avec Prot et moi ? (YouTube, 03:54)
  • The Search for Knowledge: Emacs Carnival August 2026 (@chiply@fosstodon.org, Reddit)
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Tip Of The Day in a Popup Frame
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: SDL terminal type - Sean Whitton - Lucid build still relevant because of issues with GTK build
    • Local treesit parsers with disjoint ranges - Ruby Iris Juric
  • Create macro 'pcase-let*-strict'
• New packages:
  • blamee: Chunked git-blame overlays with popup details (MELPA)
  • context-clues: Easily copy context like the current file name and path (MELPA)
  • flex-x: Extended flex completion style (MELPA)
  • hnview: Standalone Hacker News client (MELPA)
  • moonbit-ts-mode: MoonBit tree-sitter major mode (MELPA)
  • nostr-publish: Publish Markdown to Nostr (MELPA)
  • org-habit-ng: Full RRULE recurrence for org-habit (MELPA)
  • org-history: Show Dates for Org headers from vcs + auto-commit (MELPA)
  • org-mindmap: Editable mindmap visualization in org-mode (MELPA)
  • sema-mode: Major mode for editing Sema 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!

You can 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/315050696/ Tue Jul 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jul 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jul 18 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Learning Vanilla Emacs from Scratch with Prot as a Neovim User (Reddit)
    • Summary of the keymaps and lessons learned in the first coaching session | linkarzu
• Emacs configuration:
  • Bring back the Insert key on Emacs (Irreal)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: global keybinding overrides (YouTube 12:46, Irreal)
  • Hel — Helix emulation layer for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Kristoffer Balintona: emacs-guix-starter: I’m glad this exists
  • Elegant Emacs (Reddit)
  • My emacs config. (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • TIL `remove-hook` is interactive!
  • In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service (Reddit, HN)
  • Emacs Redux: Reading syntax-ppss State Without the Magic Numbers
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.2.0
• Navigation:
  • How to search among all files in, or below, a directory find-name-dired, consult-find-fd, fzfa
  • Srijan Choudhary: 2026-07-12-001 tip about global mark ring, C-x C-SPC, consult-global-mark
  • wisp: Whitespace to Lisp now supports sexp-movement
• Writing:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Fast spell-checking in Emacs with Jinx
  • Emacs Redux: Replacing Flyspell with Jinx (Irreal)
  • HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext (YouTube 23:24, r/emacs, r/orgmode)
• Org Mode:
  • Help wanted:
    • Feedback requested: minor mode for precise editing of hidden text
    • Org Mode requests: [FR] Re: [DISCUSSION] Restructuring LaTeX output: the bigger picture => a) ox-beamer.
    • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Help with PDF/UA2 accessibility tests for ox-latex
  • [02] Vanilla Emacs with Prot: I’ll Repent for My Markdown Sins - YouTube (Protesilaos) Beginner coaching session
  • Sacha Chua: Chatted with John Wiegley and Karthik Chikmagalur about personal information management (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz) dealing with 40,000 entries, of which 818 are open TODOs
  • Raymond Zeitler: Numeric Priorities in Org Mode
    • Raymond Zeitler: One Hundred Times the Highest Priority (Irreal)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Chris Maiorana: Org mode as a gantt chart generator
    • Raymond Zeitler: Comment on Org Source Blocks (Irreal)
    • Randy Ridenour: Beamer-Style Typst Slides Using Org Mode (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
    • Vulpea sync is finally, actually async (opt-in)
• Completion:
  • emacs fido frame (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • A Emacs library to display magit changes in treemacs view (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: VC Shuttle: Advice-Based Git Sync for Air-Gapped Emacs
• Math:
  • Underappreciated Emacs built-ins: Emacs calc embedded
• Shells:
  • Ghostel 0.43.0 released: native Windows support (Reddit, @dakra@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Aimé Bertrand: Preserving email dates when moving messages in Mu4e
• LLMs:
  • agent-shell-dashboard (Reddit)
  • OrgA, An LLM agent's logic, knowledge, and chat all in one file (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Human Emacs (@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org, lobste.rs)
  • Emacs ATX meetup. July 2026. pi; gptel; completion-preview; prisma; remoto. (02:06:40)
  • History of Emacs the Text Editor/Operative System (14:47)
  • Andros Fenollosa: An alternative to Webmentions for the Emacs Carnival (@andros@activity.andros.dev) org-social
• Other:
  • A Tree and a Server Walk Into a Core… (July Emacs Carnival)
  • Jetpacs: A Jetpack Compose GUI wrapper for Emacs — Quick Showcase (Reddit)
  • EmacsURL.app lets Emacs open local or remote files via URL on the Mac
• Emacs development:
  • Make woman-topic-history an obsolete alias
• New packages:
  • folio-theme: Warm paper-like theme built on Modus and Ef (MELPA)
  • mise-tasks: Run mise tasks and highlight lockfiles (MELPA)
  • ox-mom: Groff MOM Macro Back-End for Org Export Engine (MELPA)
  • synaxis: Feed reader with SQLite storage (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.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #7 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/88d59360-d89a-42cc-b567-ed39ac5186fb Mon Jul 6 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315050696/ Tue Jul 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jul 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jul 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jul 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Learning Vanilla Emacs from Scratch with Prot as a Neovim User (01:54:04, highlights 08:28, linkarzu, Protesilaos, Reddit)
  • Learning Emacs with The Professor from University of Victoria (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Announcing two new experimental MELPA channels (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Automating Emacs Screenshots
  • dotfiles-public/.emacs.d/init.el (@masutaka@mstdn.love)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Introducing graph-fa2 (browser free graph rendering) (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • modusregel: a simple, beautiful mode-line for Emacs (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • How to Search For Text in Emacs (01:45)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile 3.0 and 3.1
  • Emacs-LinkXall Hyperlinking In Program Source Files (02:36)
• Dired:
  • James Dyer: That Moment Dired Eats Your File and why Trash Saves You (Irreal)
  • My Emacs configuration (Dired) (@evgandr@bsd.cafe)
• Writing:
  • Abbreviations, but locally
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: write with input method (e.g. French) and Jinx for spelling (Irreal, YouTube 11:50, Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Chris Maiorana: God mode notes with Denote and Consult Notes (YouTube, 15:04)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] ob-core: org-babel-call – a documented way to call a block from Lisp
  • Wai Hon: One-Line-Per-Day Diary in Org-mode
  • org-clock-lock: Mandatory task focus based on org-clock (Reddit)
  • Seamless view/editing of markdown as org-mode (18:51)
  • Memorize vocabulary on the go on Emacs Android org-srs
  • [BLOG] #30 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, May 13, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development:
    • ox-beamer.el: add ltx-talk support
    • lisp/ol.el: Add option `org-link-default-file-link-description'
    • ox-latex.el: Add DocumentMetadata
• Coding:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival July 2026 – Programming
  • Browse GitHub repos directly from find-file dialog (29:11)
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Magit 4.6 released (Irreal, Reddit)
  • tusharhero: Underappreciated builtin: Grand Unified Debugger (lobste.rs)
  • TIL: Flycheck can explain errors
  • Meta Redux: Sayid Redux
  • Meta Redux: CIDER 2.0 is Brewing…
  • Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: May and June 2026
• Shells:
  • How to build the Emacs vterm module with custom CFLAGS and LDFLAGS (@jamescherti)
• Web:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: shpaste: a paste.sr.ht Client for Emacs ( Reddit, Sourcehut)
  • Sacha Chua: Une navigation simplifiée sur mon blog grâce à EWW (et Emacs !)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Sign Always, Encrypt When Possible: Automatic GPG in mu4e (Irreal)
  • Joar von Arndt: Automatically Find PGP Keys in Mu4e
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: emacs-mailto: Open macOS mailto: Links in Emacs (Reddit, Sourcehut)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Doom Emacs: Why I Chose It Over Vim and Never Looked Back (Reddit)
    • Neovim user Reacts to Bashbunni's Doom Emacs Video (22:55)
    • 3 Neovim Users Talk About Emacs, Which One is Better? (35:45)
• Multimedia:
  • ytm-radio is an Emacs-native YouTube Music player (Reddit)
• LLMs:
  • Removing a special cause of variation in small steps — Willem van den Ende (@mostalive)
  • Emacs and AI, the combination you've been missing
  • New experimental feature of gptel (33:20)
  • AI-driven keyboard macros in emacs (01:06)
  • Glasspane: A proof of concept for a transparent bridge between mobile interaction and executing Elisp (Reddit)
    • Secondary Glasspane Demo: Composing Android Companion app using Elisp.
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-06-30 / week 26: language detection, meow and ghostel, debug-on-variable-change, …
  • What do you do in emacs?
  • New contributors to GNU Emacs over time
  • Sacha Chua: Re: React to Sacha and Prot Newbies and Starter Kits Emacs Video - linkarzu (YouTube, 14:26)
  • Finish Prot and Sacha Video | Should I Take Emacs Coaching Sessions with Prot? (05:09:08)
  • Planet Emacslife now has Org Social output (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core (full-text PDF, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Anju 1.8.0: Right-click context menu additions like Copy Link Address (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: opening pdfs in pdf-tools emacsclient.desktop file for making Emacs the default PDF viewer in Linux
  • Raymond Zeitler: Create Date Books, Planners and Calendars with Emacs
  • neofetch.el (Reddit) - system information
  • Printing with Emacs under recent MacOS releases (@root42@chaos.social)
  • How to Connect Official Android Emacs to the Pixel Linux Terminal (No Root!) (00:20) - toybox nc (netcat) to make a local connection
  • Installation and Setting up Emacs on Windows 11…. (15:17)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Re: SDL terminal type - Eli Zaretskii - theoretical benefits of changing the way the main loop is handled
  • Delete dir-mode VC backend method
  • VC-Dir: Let backends supply a custom mode and key binding hints
  • Keep Rmail collection buffers unibyte
  • New macro 'elisp-scope-define-function-spec' (bug#81355)
  • elisp-scope.el: Support associating analyzers with multiple symbols
  • Improve commit log entry creation from ChangeLog (bug#80928)
  • Update to Android 17
  • Clicking mode line menus in inactive windows now switches the window
• New packages:
  • browsel: WebSocket bridge to a Chrome/Firefox extension (MELPA)
  • denote-solo: Switch the active Denote directory (MELPA)
  • hutch: AI code review for magit (MELPA)
  • jal: Java Agent Loader (JAL) for JDTLS (MELPA)
  • kusanagi-theme: Ghost in the Shell inspired dark theme built on Modus (MELPA)
  • ol-locate-file: Locate-based file links for Org mode (MELPA)
  • sendai-theme: A cool blue color theme (GNU ELPA)
  • srs: Spaced repetition in plain text (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.

• Help wanted:
  • EmacsConf - 2026 - Call for Participation
  • Monadic Sheep: Canvas patch: we need testers! (lobste.rs, emacs-devel)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091677/ Thu Jul 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Jul 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 3 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 #7 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/88d59360-d89a-42cc-b567-ed39ac5186fb Mon Jul 6 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • New transitional MELPA channels: snapshots and releases (@minad@mastodon.world) - version numbers will be release.0.date.count, which will be compatible with other package archives
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs disabled Commands
  • From Doom Emacs to Vanilla/Custom Emacs — Saved by Claude Code (Reddit) - annotated config
  • Firemacs Update (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs' lispy-mode: Convolute real-world example! - DEV Community (@vindarel@framapiaf.org)
  • Regular expressions that work “everywhere” (HN, lobste.rs)
  • Scheduling Future Tasks in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • commonmark-gfm.el: a pure Emacs Lisp CommonMark/GFM renderer (Reddit)
  • vui.el: declarative, React-style UIs in Emacs buffers (v1.2, now with inline forms and flex layout) (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • an attempt to create a theme inspired by Nerv from Evangelion (Reddit)
  • Kusanagi: a Ghost in the Shell-inspired dark theme for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs with Ghostty-like Liquid Glass Effect (Reddit)
  • svg-margin: Better Gutters for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: new ‘doric-tiger’ and ‘doric-lion’ for the ‘doric-themes’
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: fontaine version 3.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Preventing Errant Navigation
  • Overriding Emacs' Broken Bookmark Position Code (Updated) (Shallow Thoughts) (@akkana@fosstodon.org)
  • Randy Ridenour: Toggle Ghostel (Irreal)
• Dired:
  • dired-clipboard.el: Copy and paste files in Dired with M-w / C-y (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Link diary Event to Org Heading (Irreal)
  • Chai 2.0 — Emacs reading workflow, stripped down to what actually matters (Reddit)
  • Jakub Nowak: org-roam Orphans
  • I built a stats dashboard for org-roam (org-roam-stats) (Reddit)
  • Vulpea v2.4: unlinked mentions, schemas, and renaming - Boris Buliga (changelog, Reddit)
• Coding:
  • flymake-sqlite v0.3.0 (@gemmaro)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.9: A Better REPL, Dune/Opam Completion, and More Robustness
  • Ankit Gadiya: which-function-mode displays the current function in the mode line
• Web:
  • Browsel: a two way communication between the web browser and emacs (YouTube 10:28, (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Jakub Nowak: New Package: Gomuks.el - Matrix client written in Go
• Multimedia:
  • as-sound-switch: blazingly fast audio i/o switcher for Emacs (Reddit) MacOS
  • luqtas/csound-score-emacs: my take on navigating the Csound score paradigm with Emacs · GitHub
• Fun:
  • the learning cliff and the View from the Top (Reddit)
• AI:
  • For scientists and learners: agent-shell renders equations as you chat (Reddit, YouTube)
  • emacs-opencode: native Emacs client for OpenCode (Reddit)
  • emacs-jail-mcp: MCP server with disposable Emacs sandbox (Reddit)
  • macher-agent updates (emacs native agent orchestration) (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: copilot.el 0.7
  • Andros Fenollosa: How I built a GPU backend for Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Community:
  • Emacs Blog Carnival July 2026 "Programming" | Plain DrOps (@SpaceCadet@chaos.social)
  • Emacs anniversary (@EFLS)
  • An example would be handy right about now - how to shave yaks with great efficiency . — Willem van den Ende (@mostalive)
  • Do all emacs veterans that started from doom eventually roll out their own vanilla config?
  • Hristos N. Triantafillou: Ten Years Of Emacs
  • Neovim user trying to learn Vanilla Emacs properly, what should I focus on first? (Reddit) - linkarzu
    • Ok, so Now we're Really Installing it (01:50:14)
    • Follow The Emacs Tutorial (Day 3) (01:25:38)
    • Emacs Tutorial part 2 (Day 4) (02:07:00)
    • 0012 | Learning Emacs with The Professor from University of Victoria (01:34:35)
      • Learning Emacs with The Professor from University of Victoria (12:50)
  • Doom Emacs: Why I Chose It Over Vim and Never Looked Back (27:03)
• Other:
  • Helixel - Another Helix Emulation Layer (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Limit VC-Dir status process output processing
• New packages:
  • fzfa: Async fuzzy completion via `fzf-native' (MELPA)
  • git-overleaf: Clone, push, and pull full Overleaf projects with Git (MELPA)
  • lisp-ts-mode: lisp-mode with tree-sitter support (GNU ELPA)
  • musicbrainz-interactive: Interactive commands for MusicBrainz related things (MELPA)
  • youtube-music: YouTube Music client (MELPA)

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

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• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Already Daily Driving (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 24 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 25 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jun 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091677/ Thu Jul 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Jul 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jul 3 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 #7 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/88d59360-d89a-42cc-b567-ed39ac5186fb Mon Jul 6 1900 CET
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Teaches Emacs: The Missing README (YouTube 13:57, Reddit, Irreal, @chiply@fosstodon.org)
  • Charlie Holland: Juneau Something? Emacs Teaches You How to Fish! (YouTube 01:13:19, Reddit, Irreal, @chiply@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Disabling minor modes with local variables
  • For straight.el people: an overview of outdated packages, and control over what gets updated (Reddit)
  • Updated Chadmacs (Reddit)
  • Firemacs Review (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Tip: debug-on-variable-change (@lucashtns)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep795. emacs lisp. add width height to html image thumbnails. part 2 (01:01:50), part 3 (02:19:51)
  • Construindo um pacote do Emacs como um asteca (01:33:45)
• Appearance:
  • Ghosting cursor effect
  • Some cursor flare (Reddit)
  • Dave Pearson: More mode line tweaking
  • Modus Nordic (Mid-)Night: high-contrast themes using the Nord color palette using Modus Themes as the base
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: testing common colour values with the doric-themes
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ef-themes version 2.2.0
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: modus-themes version 5.3.0
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Redux: Essential Structured Navigation and Editing Commands (Irreal)
  • Underappreciated Emacs built-ins: hideshow 6.0
  • Emacs HideShow Minor Mode For Folding And Unfolding 2026_06_21_03:01:51 (07:02)
  • Amazing bookmarks (or quick keymaps) (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Scrolling pdfs in other windows (Irreal)
  • How to Split the Screen in Emacs (02:02)
• Dired:
  • Dired Global Script Runner: A Yazi-inspired global file marking system for Dired
• Writing:
  • luqtas/log-mode: cheap copy of Logseq with some extra goods · GitHub
• Org Mode:
  • RFC: Ideas for clearer Org clock idle resolution prompts? (Reddit)
  • [RFC] org-agenda log-mode is very confusing - Morgan Smith (Reddit)
  • [FR] add :company-doc-buffer, :company-kind etc properties for pcomplete in org-mode - stardiviner
  • devops.el - Infrastructure as an org file (Reddit)
  • v1.6.0 · kickingvegas/anju · context menu support for Org agenda (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival: diary, Part 2 (Irreal)
  • org-mindmap v0.3.0 (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Exporting org files to PDF with the Eisvogel latex template (Reddit)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Exporter for ltx-talk
  • Notes on recent OrgDevMeetup (Reddit)
  • Org development: org-colview: Add quick help for column view
• Completion:
  • Underappreciated Emacs built-ins: completion-preview-mode
• Coding:
  • Meta Redux: CIDER 1.22 (“São Miguel”)
  • Start Guile shell script that listens on a port for REPL client - box.matto.nl (@mattof@snac.lab8.cz)
  • hgrsd/ztags: Generate ctags-based tags for your Zig project, including Zig sources and stdlib. (@hgrsd@hachyderm.io) - now supports etags output
  • ~shoshin/ruby-khipu - Implementation of the Inka Khipu as a data structure in Ruby. - sourcehut git (@shoshin@buzz.cicadas.surf) - literate programming
• Shells:
  • Ghostel is Fantastic (Github)
  • tmux-control : control-mode client for tmux (Reddit)
  • kitty-graphics.el 1.0.0: images, video, and documents in terminal Emacs (Reddit)
  • eat-serial: An eat term based serial terminal
• Web:
  • URL로부터 Title을 가져오고 Web Archive 링크를 생성하는 Emacs 함수 - (emacsian ohyecloudy)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Clatter: An IRCv3-compliant IRC client (Reddit)
  • Elfeed 4 0 0 使用分享 (49:47)
• Evil mode:
  • evil-mode tip: make \ allow one-off normal state execution (@rogerfarrell)
• Multimedia:
  • How I built a GPU backend for Emacs | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
    • Cómo construí un backend de GPU para Emacs | Andros Fenollosa
  • Emacs SVG rendering in force directed graph sims revisited (Reddit)
  • Speech to text with Whisper-cpp Emacs and whisper.el (55:56)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: ytr: YouTube radio for Emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
• AI:
  • Bending Emacs Episode 14: Prototyping iOS apps with agent-shell, artist-mode, and Claude Skills (YouTube 26:39, Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-06-16 / week 24
  • Is anyone still using Emacs? - by Julio Merino (lobste.rs, HN, HN)
  • xvw.lol - Emacs, how it all started (for me) (HN, @xvw@merveilles.town)
    • xvw.lol - Emacs, comment tout a démarré (pour moi)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 26: Ross A. Baker (YouTube 01:02:45)
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival: diary, Part 1
  • Dave Pearson: become.el v1.4.0 - tidying files before saving
  • Document View (GNU Emacs Manual) (@annamalai@mathstodon.xyz) - can open PDFs as plain text
  • Monadic Sheep: Hello there! - Emacs Reader, PALE (picture and animation), canvas patch, Insidious YouTube client
  • Switching from the Mac port Build of Emacs to the Standard NS Build | Masutaka's ChangeLog Memo
    • Mac port 版 Emacs から、標準の NS 版に乗り換えられた | マスタカの ChangeLog メモ
• Emacs development:
  • gv.el: Allow use of `ignore` as a place (bug#81217)
  • Support OSC 8 hyperlinks in man pages
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Document 'newsticker-treeview-copy-url' (bug#81013).
  • VC-Dir shows key binding hints
• New packages:
  • clatter: An IRCv3-compliant IRC client (MELPA)
  • countdown-modeline: Display a color-coded countdown in the modeline (MELPA)
  • leadkey: Translate leader keys to key sequences (MELPA)
  • notmuch-multi: Prettified Notmuch UI For Multiple Accounts (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.

• Emacs updates:
  • Emacs 31.0.90 pretest packages for Fedora (Reddit)
  • Emacs 31.0.90 pretest packages for Android, via F-Droid (Reddit)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jun 20 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jun 21 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/315192115/ Sat Jun 20 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jun 24 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 25 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jun 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to Install a Package on Emacs From Melpa (04:09)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Replace shell-pop with built-in display-buffer-alist (Reddit)
  • salvari/emacs30_elpaca_public: My new configuration for Emacs using Elpaca as package manager - Codeberg.org (@salvari@mastodon.gal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Web scraping is getting harder all the time
  • [22] Integrating Emacs Reader with Canvas - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • halo.el: an experimental minor mode for keeping point centered and dimming distant lines (Reddit)
  • dimmer.el – after a hiatus, new development underway (Reddit) - dims inactive buffers; updates: reset when theme changes, handle child frames
  • Dave Pearson: Simplifying my mode line
  • Dave Pearson: It got darker - switched to a dark-mode
  • Inspired by nano-emacs: vertico-buffer-frame with nano-vertico (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • modernizing bookmark+ (Reddit)- trying to get in touch with Drew Adams
  • outline-indent, a modern Indentation-based Text Folding Mode for Emacs (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: flat Dired listing for REGEXP, optionally up to DAYS since last modification (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs loves AsciiDoc (Irreal)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v5.3.0 - adds blogmore-link-series
  • New, Fast, BibTex Formatter (Reddit) - Uses rust
• Denote:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Meta Journal notes in Denote-Journal with Journelly
• Org Mode:
  • Sacha Chua: From DC Toedt: Copy Org Mode as Markdown
  • Raymond Zeitler: Creating a Reference to a Webpage in Org
  • A Day with Org-SuperTag — One Person's Complete Workflow
  • Org export dispatcher to Eisvogel LaTeX template
  • YAOB – Yet Another Org Blog · (interzone) (@cryptk)
  • Emacs Org-Roam: Gestione della Conoscenza a Grafi e Metodo Zettelkasten (06:39)
  • Org development:
    • ob-core: Obsolete `org-babel-remote-temporary-directory'
    • org-agenda-timerange-leaders: Allow functions as element values
• Completion:
  • Chris's Wiki - blog/programming/EmacsUnderstandingEmbark (lobste.rs, lemmy.ml)
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: The Hidden Git Stash Keys in Emacs VC Directory Mode
  • Configuring Emacs for Swift Development | Swift.org (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Common Lisp tree-sitter grammar with a major-mode and Sly powered semantic highlighting (Reddit)
  • Corrigindo divergências entre arquivos de configuração do emacs (01:37:06)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu4e-based email automation package (Reddit)
  • Whatsappel - Run WhatsApp inside Emacs (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • doom emacs 项目拆分为core和modules, doom emacs 将进入快速发展期 (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • The World Cup… in emacs! ⚽️💻 (04:41, Reddit)
  • Emacs SVG Benchmark Reveals Gaming-Caliber Frame Rates (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.55 updates (lobste.rs, Reddit)
  • New Pi Emacs coding harness release has no trust issues! (Reddit)
  • EMCP - Emacs an an MCP server (Reddit)
  • Vibe Coding with Emacs' Built-In AI - System Crafters Live! (01:47:29)
• Community:
  • Joshua Blais on Doom Emacs, Vanilla Emacs, Guix, and 34-Key Keyboards (Reddit)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs – It's Worth Revealing Oneself For
  • My Blog Now Has a Gemini Mirror (Reddit) - Rahul Juliato
• Emacs Carnival: Underappreciated Built-ins:
  • Even More Batteries Included With Emacs (Karthinks) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Yay Emacs 33: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: Built-ins (01:01:36)
  • Emacs carnival: rec mode, an all-text database system (lobste.rs)
• Other:
  • tanrax/emacs-gpu: GNU Emacs with a GPU-accelerated display backend · GitHub (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep793. emacs, install Xah Fly Keys in WSL linux emacs (02:18:11)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep792. install emacs on wsl Windows Subsystem for Linux (01:47:31)
  • Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 33: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: Built-ins (Prot)
  • Chris Maiorana: When tmux is your window manager (Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master 1d91d9b717d: project-vc-dir: Use truenames - Dmitry Gutov - discussion of when to use symlinks and when to use truenames
    • Re: SDL terminal type - Lina - anyone interested in trying to port Emacs UI to SDL rendering?
  • Optional display of overlay-arrow in margin (bug#81109)
  • Revert "project-vc-dir: Use truenames"
  • Convert outline-search-function to defcustom
  • Add outline-search-from-regexp generic helper
  • 'work-buffer–release' kill locals silently and reset the buffer (bug#81111)
  • Set user options in file/directory locals like 'setopt-local' (bug#81120)
  • Add outline-show-entry-and-parents to reveal entry hierarchy
  • Mark vc-dir-show-outgoing-count obsolete
  • project-vc-dir: Use truenames
• New packages:
  • pure-light-theme: A light colored theme for e-ink color monitors (MELPA)
  • shexc-ts-mode: Tree-sitter major mode for ShExC (MELPA)

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• Emacs updates:
  • Emacs 31.0.90 pretest is available (Reddit, Linux Compatible, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jun 9 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 12 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jun 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to Install Emacs on a Chromebook in 2026 (07:15)
  • How to Setup Emacs on a Chromebook Without Elisp in 2026 (10:37)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Useful Emacs key bindings (@spnw@plexwave.org)
  • function to list bindings
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs and the Numeric Keypad
  • new embark-automatic-prefix-help-mode (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • How I structure my Emacs init.el file (27:05, GitHub)
  • minimal-emacs.d: A Customizable init.el and early-init.el for Optimized Startup and Better Emacs Defaults [Release 1.5.0]​ (Reddit)
  • dotfiles/OpenBSD/.emacs.d at main · scovl/dotfiles · GitHub (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • k3jph/stops-el: stops: Guards in Emacs Lisp · GitHub (@k3jph)
  • imarko/vared.el: Emacs command for interactively editing a variable - Codeberg.org (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
• Appearance:
  • vim-tab-bar: A Vim inspired Emacs tab-bar that adapts to any Emacs theme [Release 1.1.5]​ (Reddit)
  • svg-line: Better Status Bars for Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Change Emacs Cursor to Indicate Overwrite Mode
  • tykayn/emacs-theming (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
  • Emacs themes inspired by pixel art palettes (Reddit)
  • How to Change Themes in Emacs (01:31)
  • How to Inhibit the Welcome Screen in Emacs (01:12)
  • How to Maximize Emacs' Screen Upon Startup (01:24)
  • How to Hide the Tool Bar, Scroll Bar, and Menu Bar in Emacs (02:00)
  • Nicolas Rougier's Talk at 39C3 - The art of text (rendering) (Reddit) see discussion for more thoughts on SVG in Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Post a solution: embark-act-on-last-message
  • Project-x revived with Emacs 30+ support! (Reddit) - session persistence
  • Little LLM helper function for copying file:line coordinates
  • kirigami: A unified Emacs method to fold and unfold text in Emacs: outline, outline-indent, org-mode, markdown-mode, vdiff, hideshow, treesit-fold… [Release 1.1.2]​ (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • mmarshall540/electric-sentence: Automatically add the extra space between sentences in Emacs. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • quick-sdcv: Emacs offline dictionary using 'sdcv' [Release 1.0.5]​ (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Notes, Linking and Tagging systems in Emacs
  • blk: creating and navigating titles of text files, linking between them
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.6.0 - show toc, show toc inline
• Org Mode:
  • Much Ado About Emacs 014: Org-Mode and the Capture System, creating headings at different levels, and changing bindings
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Correcting photo orientation for org-mode in Linux (Irreal)
  • Citing with Citum in Emacs org-mode | News | Citum (@bdarcus@mas.to)
  • How I wrote an Emacs plugin to build my blog (@evgandr@bsd.cafe)
  • Migrating a Zola blog from Markdown to Org-mode — with a lint/export/check pipeline to keep them in sync | The Cloudlet
  • Org development: Generate images in TOC for HTML export
• Completion:
  • Beyond ICR: Incremental 'Suggesting' Read in Emacs (YouTube 20:10, Reddit, @chiply@fosstodon.org)
• Coding:
  • Introducing magit-difftastic: integrate difftastic into magit (Reddit)
  • inline-review: review merge/pull requests directly within emacs (Reddit)
  • Building alc-jj-log-view-mode — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
  • Building IOS Apps With Doom Emacs | Wassim Mansouri (HN)
  • CEDET for Plan 9 coding (01:14)
  • Tim Heaney: Ziglings
• Shells:
  • A Simple jj Integration for eshell — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
  • Raymond Zeitler: exeln: EXEcute LiNe
    • Follow-on to exeln
• Web:
  • Irreal: My Growing Appreciation For EWW
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Setting up offline email for Microsoft O365 with notmuch and emacs | Ashish Panigrahi (@paniash@ioc.exchange)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Super Simple Spam Splitting for Gnus
  • New Elfeed 4.0.0 release (Irreal, HN)
  • Chatting via Meshtastic in Emacs | Andros Fenollosa
• Multimedia:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Copying images in Emacs
  • Kokoro-onnx with Cuda for text to speech with Emacs (01:26:56)
• Fun:
  • I ported GNU Emacs 30.2 to the browser with WebAssembly (Reddit)
  • Emacs Appearance in Pop Culture (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
• AI:
  • Structural diffing in Emacs; deterministic agent harnesses (GitHub)
  • Emacs client for Pi Coding Agent (Reddit)
  • jaketothepast/codetutor: An AI Pair Programmer, that teaches you to code as you write, for Emacs · GitHub (HN)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-06-02 / week 22
  • Learning Emacs with Progressive Vision Loss
  • Amin Bandali: Free software activities in May 2026
  • Emacs Chat 25: Ben Zanin (@gnomon@mastodon.social) (YouTube 59:30)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival May 2026 wrap-up: "May I recommend…"
  • Sacha Chua: Transcript of chat with Matei Candea about Emacs and AI
  • This perfect text editor doesn't exist (15:57)
  • From TECO to Neovim: 50 Years of Text Editing on Unix and Linux (Reddit)
  • PceEmacs is an Emacs written in Prolog instead of Lisp! It also seems to support LSP (Reddit)
• Emacs Carnival: Underappreciated Emacs Builtins:
  • Emacs carnival: rec mode, an all-text database system (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
  • Jakub Nowak: Radical Builtins
  • Emacs DWIM case commands by spnw
• Other:
  • phony.el: Define voice commands in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Bicycle for Your Mind: Much Ado About Emacs 013 - anddo.el (todos), substitute
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Todo Lists and Procrastination
  • jamescherti/inhibit-mouse.el 1.0.4 (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Charles Choi: Revisiting Emacs Keyboard Macros with a Mouse
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs PDF View: Replace current page with file using PDFtk
  • conquering the Emacs daemon - Blog In Isolation (@andyc@mastodon.me.uk)
  • tanrax/emacs-gpu: GNU Emacs with a GPU-accelerated display backend · GitHub (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
    • emacs-devel re: overlap with Canvas patch, can't accept LLM-generated contributions
  • emacs | extensions.fcos.fr (Fedora) (@alcarney) - emacs sysext for Fedora image-based systems
  • I built a floating HUD for Emacs, rendered in Rust egui via WASM (Reddit) macOS
  • Charles Choi: Opening macOS Finder Folders in Emacs with Scrim (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Damn! Emacs Regex problem | Unixbhaskar's Blog (@unixbhaskar@fosstodon.org)
  • самый хайповый гайд на Emacs (15:40)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: markdown-ts-mode and markdown-ts-view-mode demoted on the release branch
  • project-vc-dir: Use truenames
  • (Fmarkers_in): New function (bug#81153)
  • Support Ansible messages in compilation-mode
• New packages:
  • bluesky: A Bluesky client (MELPA)
  • cui: AI-LLM chat blocks for org-mode (MELPA)
  • desert-theme: A warm earthy port of Vim's desert theme (MELPA)
  • flamegraph: Flame graphs for Emacs's native profiler and folded stacks files (NonGNU ELPA)
  • sleek-modeline: Minimal and elegant modeline (MELPA)

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

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