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• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • [emacs-berlin] 40c3 Assembly? (@emacs@toot.berlin)
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464081/ Thu Nov 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 6 0000 Etc/UTC - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b6afef85-3b06-44b8-af29-e8dcaabcab8a Mon Nov 9 1900 CET
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Nov 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Nov 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Nov 12 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 13 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs for the curious: install it, survive it, keep it · Pablo Murad (@pablo@murad.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • init.el - emacs - My EMACS configuration (@dakkar@s.thenautilus.net)
• Appearance:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Highlight Active Emacs Window (Irreal)
  • meeting-mode: Highlight the what's in focus during screen sharing (Reddit)
  • Test-Driving Fonts in Emacs with a Transient Menu
  • terminal-colors.el - Make your Emacs terminal color scheme look like a real terminal (vterm, eat, term, and ansi-color) (Reddit)
  • Greenit – a green-shifted terminal + Emacs theme family (dark & light) and more. (Reddit)
  • au-mysterium: a new low-glare theme for Halloween (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ef-halloween-dark is in ef-themes.git
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live refining ‘ef-themes’ Diff/Magit colours at 2026-10-29 18:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:14:56)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live new Halloween theme for ‘ef-themes’ at 2026-10-31 14:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:35:51)
• Navigation:
  • quick-fasd.el - Easily navigate your file system by using Fasd [Release 1.0.4]​ (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Stop Going to the Top: isearch-allow-motion in Emacs (Irreal)
• Hyperbole:
  • GNU Hyperbole Release 9.3.2 is available (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing mdired, or adding a chainsaw to Dired
  • emacs-weirdware/dired-mime: MIME support for Emacs and Dired - Codeberg.org (@ieure@retro.social)
  • jwiegley/dired-filetags: Add-on for dired that implements Karl Voit's filetags utility · GitHub
• Writing:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Unicode punctuation in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Improvements in mw-thesaurus (Reddit)
  • "Obsidian is bloated," so use XML (07:48)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live refinements for Denote at 2026-10-30 14:45 Europe/Athens (YouTube, 01:51:30)
• Org Mode:
  • This Month in Org: November 2026: Fabulously Fancy Fragments (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Understanding Org's LaTeX previews - karthinks (Reddit)
  • org-gcal - Google Calendar 이벤트도 Emacs 품 안으로 - (emacsian ohyecloudy) (@ohyecloudy.bsky.social)
  • DOrg 0.2: a structured query-and-edit API for your Org data plane, from Elisp or the CLI (Reddit)
  • Orgmode LSP - Language server for Orgmode (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Leaving asdf for mise - dev tools, env vars, tasks
  • Emacs: Git Rebase with Magit (4 Real Scenarios) (12:29, Reddit)
  • fj.el 0.49 - forgejo / codeberg client: jump to issue, own repo (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • EmacsConf 2026: El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning them - Ag (12:11) Ag is sharing this talk early as an experiment, feel free to to start trying it out
  • licensel an Emacs package for inserting common software license texts into the current buffer. (Reddit)
  • Better lisp editing with `tree-guide.el` (and other packages) (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Run interactive Clojure workflows from Emacs w/ Admin Delux (09:01)
• Web:
  • proxymacs.el - An Emacs package that configures the HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy with optional authentication (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf: Using message-sent-hook to run buffer-specific code to keep track of e-mailed schedules
  • Reading RSS feeds with Emacs (2014, @swrogers@social.lol)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Revisiting My Doom Emacs Configuration
• Multimedia:
  • Emacs and its many (inter)faces (Reddit)
• EXWM:
  • EXWM as default session on Guix with slim
• LLMs:
  • hutch: local code reviews in emacs for the mildly disenfranchised — kitallis.in (lobste.rs)
  • How I streamlined PRs waiting for review with mu + Org-mode + AI
  • Supertag 0.4 for Emacs: one sentence, one interface for each kind of Org note (09:19)
    • (update) Supertag 0.4.0: lifestreams-style stream-agent, summary (03:47, Reddit)
  • aavanian/claude-archive.el: Browse, search and read your claude.ai conversation exports in Emacs. · GitHub (@alexandre.avanian.net)
• Community:
  • EMACS turns 50 (HN, r/emacs, lobste.rs, r/emacs again, programming.dev Irreal)
    • 'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50
    • Emacs a 50 ans - LinuxFr.org (@benzogaga33@mamot.fr)
    • Emacs cumple 50 años: la historia del editor que sobrevivió a cinco décadas de informática - Somos Libres (@elfolio.bsky.social, @dogvilia.bsky.social)
  • Emacs for Everything - Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years (01:47:55, Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: My chat with Linkarzu
    • Yay Emacs 47: Editing the VTT for my chat with Linkarzu (01:56:24) livestream includes some Q&A on voice
    • Emacs Voice Control With Local AI on a 2018 Laptop - Sacha Chua's Setup (Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: Clip: Emacs voice control - describing my setup during Linkarzu's livestream
    • Yay Emacs 46: Tinkering with my speech+typing workflows (02:05:58)
  • I Was Seven Months Pregnant With an Emacs Config | Psy-Q's Braindump (@psy-q.ch)
  • Badore: (message "hello world")
  • Sacha Chua: emacs.news
• Other:
  • teleprompter.el: turn any Emacs buffer into a teleprompter
  • Badore: M-x keep-lines
  • v1.10.0 · kickingvegas/anju - mouse menus: single/double-click behavior, Org block context, window layouts (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Raymond Zeitler: The Future of Human Interface for Emacs
  • Emacs + Termux Builder (Reddit)
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Emacs Everywhere on macOS with Shortcuts
• Emacs development:
  • Support Kitty Keyboard Protocol disambiguation of escape codes
  • Add mass unit 'stone' to calc (bug#82145)
  • etc/emacsclient.desktop: Replace –display with –reuse-frame
  • Add refactor.el; move generic code actions machinery out of Eglot
• New packages:
  • japanese-menu: Japanese menu translation (MELPA)
  • mdired: SIMD-style commands for marked Dired items (MELPA)
  • perl-live: Evaluate Perl in persistent project sessions (MELPA)
  • refactor: Language-agnostic refactoring interface (GNU ELPA)
  • xdg-redirect: Redirect Emacs files to XDG directories (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 Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 29 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464081/ Thu Nov 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 6 0000 Etc/UTC - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years
• Emacs configuration:
  • welkomscherm v1.2.1: a small, calm, extensible dashboard for Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Eric MacAdie: I Updated My Emacs Number Package
  • Flymake for Emacs Lisp (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Better lisp editing with `tree-guide.el` (and other packages) (28:53)
• Appearance:
  • region-cursors - Cursor overlays at both ends of the region (Reddit)
  • Flick: a quick and simple font picker (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.4.0
• Navigation:
  • Some recent changes I've made to tab-config my tabbing package for emacs built on top of tab-line (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs finally folds to my liking - jointhefreeworld
  • Emacs - Ripscope - search C symbol definitions
• Writing:
  • Letters to Auntie: spell-checking in Emacs (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • Emacs for obsessive word lovers (10:40)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v5.4.0
  • Sacha Chua: Dictating blog posts into Emacs (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • modeorg.org: a human guide to Org Mode (@pablo@murad.social)
  • Martin Schell: Using Org-Capture Templates with Elisp Evaluation to Set Values Depending on User Input (Irreal)
  • How to export your org-mode and org-agenda to Apple Reminders · GitHub
  • Building a website with Org mode (Reddit)
  • Denden: Emacs Lisp SSG based on org-publish | Dilip's Log (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Adding Caching to org-publish-rss.el (@tiang)
  • org-constellation (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • cmd-rewind: resume last completing-read with saved input (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Using Typescript V7 With Emacs Eglot (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Auto apply Emacs Eglot safe Code Actions (fixes) on Save
  • Video 3 - Configuring Emacs, Arrays, Slices, Vectors, and the Borrow Checker (15:47)
  • Back to Emacs with the SCSS workflow I always wanted
  • Writing an mTLS server in Go using Emacs (Reddit)
  • Clerkenwell: a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github)
• Shells:
  • Ghostel integration in Emacs (10:27)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Irreal: A Small Improvement - deleting cookies after using elfeed-webkit
• Evil mode:
  • evil-matchit 5.0.0 is published (Reddit) jumping between paired structures
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: subed.el and quoting snippets of YouTube videos from the auto captions
  • Yay Emacs 44: More conversational voice interfaces (01:11:04)
• LLMs:
  • nmagko/gptel-web: Web search tools for Emacs gptel · GitHub
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-20 / week 42
  • 40c3 - organizing a Lisp assembly for self-organized workshops (@nmeum@chaos.social)
  • Emacs Historical Archive (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Are keyboards and M-x here to stay?
  • Can your Vim do that? starts beatboxing (00:53) having fun with multiple cursors.
  • Sacha Chua: Upcoming chat with linkarzu about using Emacs for 25 years
  • Github PR box * tech chats * conference outfits * Emacs Conf prep (05:35:41)
  • Linkarzu clips:
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (01:30:34)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why He Switched for Good (12:27)
    • vim user admits emacs is better (14:08)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Analyzing Emacs News: 564 posts over 11 years, > 34k items, ~60/post (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: A Point-Based Tooltip for Emacs
  • Chai v2.1.0: Read Books in Emacs, Highlight, Search & Ask with Sources (01:36)
  • exc.el — Runs Excel in Emacs (18:48, Github)
  • Comparing file with autosaved file (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • anju 1.9: mouse menus for storing frameset, setting macro counter, fill functions (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • buffer-snapshotter: keeps snapshots of changed versions buffers (visiting files or not) written to disk (@morix@loci.onl)
  • Learning an Ancient Language with an Ancient Text Editor - SeaGL 2026 - pretalx
  • Profound anguish and Emacs persistent undos — (^ω^) (@jadedctrl@jam.xwx.moe)
  • returning nonzero exit code from emacsclient (@amy@ice.ch3.st)
  • Emacs and rust on an ASUS Eee PC 1000HA (03:51)
• Emacs development:
  • ekp-fill - line-breaking algorithm; some parts were LLM-generated, so the author is rewriting
• New packages:
  • ctftime: CTFtime dashboard (MELPA)
  • difflayer: Overlay diffs on selected regions (MELPA)
  • elark: Emacs interface to Lark/Feishu via lark-cli (MELPA)
  • fz-index: Sublime-style fuzzy file open with a native index (MELPA)
  • isbn: ISBN library (GNU ELPA)
  • modern-tab: The common part of the two tab modes (MELPA)
  • region-cursors: Display point and active mark using overlays (MELPA)
  • straight-overview: Selective upgrade UI for straight.el packages (MELPA)
  • typst-overlay: Overlay Typst equations (MELPA)
  • xc: Emacs interface for xc (GNU ELPA)

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

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/317043388/ Sat Oct 24 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 29 0200 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Why Emacs Is For Beginners (04:33)
  • Taller de Configuración de Entorno (25:36)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A Mode for Every Occasion (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • Randy Ridenour: Finding Unbalanced Parens in Emacs (Irreal)
  • tree-guide.el: short editing demo (20 seconds, no audio) (00:22)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Using timers to perform weekly tasks (Irreal) - updating Org clock tables
  • Deleting variables in code with Emacs Lisp by using the face properties (@zwol@masto.hackers.town)
  • ETAF: a framework and ecosystem for building full text applications in Emacs - music player, RSS and ebook readers, desktop, games (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Header-modeline: move your modeline to header-line (top of your window) (Reddit)
  • au-themes: calm, low-glare themes I made because most themes are too loud for me (Reddit)
  • foxglove-themes: academic-inspired modus themes that support e-ink (Reddit)
  • I created a dark modus theme centered around teletype green (Reddit)
  • More fun with modus themes. #emacs (02:08)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live extracting the Modus themes core at 2026-10-17 14:30 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:47:00)
  • emacs-init/lisp/modus-vivendi-matrix-theme.el at main · benleis1/emacs-init · GitHub (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
• Navigation:
  • bookmark-gt: a module to improve bookmark management (YouTube, Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Quick note on how to edit Emacs Dired buffers (@panmaster@mamot.fr)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live continuing ‘denote’ maintenance and refinements (2026-10-15 16:30 Europe/Athens) (YouTube 02:14:35)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: Suggestion: Document `org-extend-today-until` in Clock Table section
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] LaTeX preview between #+begin_equation/#+end_equation
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] a small patch for the brave on emacs32
  • Quickly Copy Code and Example Block Contents in Emacs Org Mode | Helen Chong, Web Developer (@helenchong@social.lol)
  • org-diff-src: character-level diffs inside Org source blocks (no Ediff) (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: org-ibullets.el - Display Emacs org-mode heading stars as UTF-8 bullets (Irreal)
  • [Package] org-slideboard: An improved interactive presentation tool for Org mode (Reddit)
  • Supertag for Emacs: write first, organize when you need to (09:05, Reddit, Reddit)
  • org-semantic: embedding search for org-mode (Reddit)
  • [EVENT] #5 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, October 17, 19:00 UTC+3 - notes and recording
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • My org-attach config, only place files go (paste / drag / download), with names I can actually read (Reddit)
    • New latex preview merged into org mode! (Reddit)
    • Introducing ical-buddy.el (Reddit)
    • Omarchy Org Agenda Plugin: Your Org Agenda schedule at a glance, directly on the top bar (Reddit)
    • My Personal Intranet to Replace Cloud Subscriptions (30:21)
  • Org development:
    • ox-html: Restore numbering when exporting math with mathml
    • Merge branch 'main' into feature/org-latex-preview
    • org-manual.org: Document compat library installation
• Coding:
  • Auto rename compilation buffer if another process is still running (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de)
  • Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-10-11 - compilation commands, git
  • Configuring Eglot to auto format code on save in Emacs (Reddit)
  • New refactor.el: code actions, rename and quickfixes, out of Eglot (Reddit)
  • Emacs: Configuring Eglot for Python with .dir-locals.el and python-lsp-server (Pylsp) (Reddit)
  • kubect: A text focused Emacs interface Kubernetes workflows through kubectl (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Working with multiple shell buffers (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Ghostel 0.58 released (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • ElNeo - a matrix client for emacs with native e2e encryption support, inspired by telegas architecture (Reddit)
  • emacs-fu: mu 1.14.4 (Irreal)
  • my email setup in emacs (46:24)
• Evil mode:
  • evil-matchit 5.0.0 is published (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • # Emacs Golf #031 The Kill Ring
  • # Emacs Golf #029 Register Roulette
• LLMs:
  • I can't express how happy I am with emacs and LLM-assisted emacs-fu
  • roost: Run coding agents in Git worktrees and tmux, from Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.87 updates (Reddit)
  • jdblair/waves-dashboard: bead-waves tooling for beads projects: the wave CLI, an Emacs dashboard (waves-dashboard.el) and the bead-waves Claude Code skill · GitHub (@jdblair@hachyderm.io)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: all my packages have an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to restrict use
• Community:
  • Sacha Chua: Added Javascript time zone translation to the EmacsConf schedule images on the wiki
  • Protesilaos: I will participate in EmacsConf 2026
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Hacker News Decoder Ring for Emacs
  • Andros Fenollosa: Org Social: the social network that survives its own infrastructure
• Other:
  • wizard.el: A lightweight suite of useful Emacs functions (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eludom/talk-tools: This is an emacs minor mode for use when giving talks · GitHub
  • wordwise.el - Kindle-style in-line vocabulary hints above words in Emacs Reading Buffer (Reddit)
  • Readq - incremental reading for emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Reader submitted to ELPA (Reddit)
  • Introducing Portal (Reddit, lobste.rs) - macOS-only
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: UX IS US
• Emacs development:
  • Saving and restoring a session will now save and restore 'buffer-list'.
  • Rename 'dired-jump-map' to 'dired-jump-repeat-map' (bug#82052)
• New packages:
  • agent-shell-attention: Mode-line attention tracker for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • devops: Infrastructure as an org file (MELPA)
  • magit-nix3: Nix3.el integration for Magit (MELPA)
  • org-semantic: Search org notes by meaning, or by word (MELPA)
  • supersonic: Music client for Subsonic servers and Music Assistant (MELPA)
  • ttl-ts-mode: RDF Turtle editing mode (MELPA)

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

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

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 12 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Oct 13 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Oct 13 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Oct 17 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Oct 18 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Keith Waclena's "Use GNU Emacs the Plain Text Computing Environment" (Reddit)
  • Tips for beginners (@andyc@yakshaving.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Repeating commands
  • Tip about setting whitespace-global-modes so that it excludes some modes (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Desafios em Elisp | Emacs / Magit (01:47:11)
• Appearance:
  • [NEW] emacs32 master branch support scaling for underline, overline… face
  • Ayu themes for Emacs: night, dusk and day, built from the official palette (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using C-x 0 to delete the current window (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Tip: Use registers to save window configurations with C-x r w (@lispwizard@techhub.social) (Irreal)
  • Tip about setting scroll-conservatively (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • persp-mode-tab-bar: Tab bar for persp-mode / Doom workspaces (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • joc-toggle-case.el: toggles case at point (@vnikolov@ieji.de)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 6 - abbrevs, grammar, Harper, LanguageTool
  • markdown-ts-appear: Rendered Markdown, editable in place (Reddit, lemmy.ml)
  • GitHub - rjprins/markdown-modern: Modern visual styling for Markdown buffers in Emacs (fork of mark-graf) (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again. — baty.net (HN)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: spontaneous live new ‘denote-data’ feature (2026-10-07 at 18:00 Europe/Athens) (YouTube, 01:22:16)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs ‘denote-data’ testing live today, 2026-10-12, at 16:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: orgmode: do textsec-url-suspicious-p for http and https links
  • James Dyer: Org Speed Keys: Making t Land After the TODO Keyword
  • Deeper layers of Org Mode laziness explained (Reddit)
  • org-retroclock: Log CLOCK entries retrospectively without starting a timer (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Bringing micro-timers, checklist budgeting, and monotasking focus to Org-mode (org-focus-hud) (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Des commandes vocales pour ajouter des tâches sur Emacs (YouTube, 02:44)
  • excali-mode 0.3.0: an Org-mode whiteboard inside Emacs (Reddit, HN, Reddit) - excali-board-mode: Org headings as cards; diagram DSL
  • Comparing org-roam, org-node, Supertag and vulpea, with a benchmark you can re-run
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: safe and keyword for org-latex-table-scientific-notation
    • Enhance prefix argument to org-open-at-point on URLs
    • ox-latex: pass :align to table.el tables
    • Announce 'org-latex-listings-env'
• Coding:
  • What I use Eglot for in GNU Emacs and what good it is (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Magit Fast Mode [fast use magit]​ (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs for Javascript development - skewer-mode for evaluating CSS and HTML (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu4e-send-later: A "Send Later" functionality for mu4e (Reddit)
  • aerc-mode: make it easier to use emacsclient within the aerc mail client (@PuercoPop)
• Multimedia:
  • supersonic.el Music Player v0.6.0 Update (added UPnP support) (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Oct 2026: Exploring keys and voice input in Emacs
  • Sacha Chua: Using Emacs to visualize speaking and target words/phrases in real-ish time
• Fun:
  • # Emacs Golf #028 Rectangle Wizard
  • # Emacs Golf #026 We Only Need The First
  • # Emacs Golf #023 — Case-Insensitive Assassin
  • # Emacs Golf #011 Number Cruncher Category: B. Multi-line transformations
  • Emacs Golf: fixing misplaced spaces
  • 004BEGINNINGS THE CATTLE ARE LISPING lambdamoo moo.el VR puppets with common lisp emacs slime (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • 3D in MY Emacs!? (Hack and overview) (14:21)
• LLMs:
  • Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 Minutes (YouTube, 01:11)
  • M-x Machina — a workspace for coding agents inside Emacs (Reddit)
  • Voice AI Editing and an Emacs Plugin (01:33)
  • Emacs ollama agent compare (01:29)
  • Update: ecc 0.4, Claude Code in Emacs: Spaces and an agentic diff review (release notes, Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-06 / week 40
  • Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival - Will we change how we interact with Emacs? (Irreal)
  • Clojure Corner: Interview with Bozhidar Batsov (01:18:53)
  • I Asked Prot If I Should Switch to Emacs (13:02)
  • Protesilaos: Live: Ask me ANYTHING (2026-10-10 16:00 Europe/Athens) (5:04:50)
  • Accessing Reddit from Emacs will be impossible after November 13th - or use emacs-reddigg
• Other:
  • emacs-reader: Help wanted with testing PR #199 - Refactor rendering pipeline architecture to avoid race conditions and other multi-threading issues (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Tip about using negative prefix arguments (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Parse page ranges, insert issue references (Irreal, Irreal, Irreal)
  • New Emacs keepass package (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Lock mode
  • A small change in xdisp.c reduced allocations by ~42% in a boxed-text workload
  • Configuring the Emacs UI for Better Latency and Perceived Responsiveness (Reddit)
  • Fixing the tree-sitter syntax highlighting bug in Emacs 31+ indirect buffers (The Emacs maintainers will not fix it, so I did) (Reddit)
  • Rust bindings for Emacs dynamic modules support canvas_data API (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Fix/enhance prefix arguments to browse-url functions
  • Fix browse-url-chromium and browse-url-chrome NEW-WINDOW
  • Produce "!MEM FULL! " for %e in mode lines
  • Underline, overline, and strike-through can now be scaled with text.
  • New Tramp connection method "wslc"
  • * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face.
• New packages:
  • project-terminal: Per-project terminal management (MELPA)
  • org-timegrid: SVG week calendar with mouse and keyboard editing (MELPA)
  • markdown-ts-appear: Reveal Markdown source at point (MELPA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can 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 Sep 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 30 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 1 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464079/ Thu Oct 1 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Oct 2 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Repeat mode finally made Emacs navigation click
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: New from Emacs 31.1 - Upgrade packages without breaking other Emacsen
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Raymond Zeitler: A Niftier Way To ASCIIfy An Emacs Buffer - replace-char-fold
  • Livecoding for emacs: supersonic.el (08:06)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.9.0
• Navigation:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: beframe version 1.6.0
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.7.0
• Writing:
  • markup2html: aesthetic renderer of markdown and org-mode documents (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Org markup inside comments (was: [Bug] Confusing appearance of bracket link in comment)
  • Ashish Panigrahi: An upgraded workflow on reviewing finished tasks with org-agenda
  • Org Mode, Marked, and Workflows
  • I Migrated My Obsidian Vault to Org Mode - Emacs Everywhere #2 (01:12:35)
  • Org Roam Dashboard (10:01)
  • Org development:
    • org-id: Standardize UUIDs to lowercase and use built-in uuid.el
• Completion:
  • Bumbling my way through the Consult docs to build an async completer (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • TIL magit wraps around smerge so you can discard one side of a hunk with an unresolved conflict (@slackline)
  • Python settings for Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of September 2026) (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Pinned Tree-sitter grammars for Emacs treesit (emacs-treesit-grammars flake) (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Why Your Emacs Terminal is Slow and How to Fix It (vterm, eat, ghostel, term, and ansi-term) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Microsoft outlook OAuth authentication with mu4e (Reddit) - updated to use Thunderbird client ID
  • Using an existing Microsoft 365 MCP login to get Outlook mail into mu4e
  • andros/presence.el: See when your friends are online, away or offline, and send and read simple messages, right from Emacs
• Doom Emacs:
  • ¿Por qué Doom Emacs es el secreto de los expertos? (22:25)
• Multimedia:
  • Images with Emacs (19:00)
• Fun:
  • New package: Typewriter (Reddit)
• LLMs:
  • envoy: hand an org heading or email from Emacs to a coding harness in tmux (Reddit)
  • gptel: Emacs y la IA
  • moe-microscope/docs/literate/moe-microscope.org at main · sw-ml-study/moe-microscope · GitHub
  • AI Tools #7: A Coding Agent Small Enough to Understand | Software Wrighter Lab Blog
• Other:
  • Tip: C-u C-y yanks but leaves the cursor at the beginning of the string (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Create beautiful diagrams in Emacs using d2 (11:08, code, Reddit, Irreal) - also Org support
  • How to Prevent Emacs from Freezing on Files files with Very Long Lines (e.g, minified JavaScript, compiled CSS, SQL dumps, large JSON files…) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce underline styles support on Windows Terminal.
  • Add TTY support for overline (Bug#80208)
  • use-package-ensure.el: Don't install during compilation (bug#81710)
  • ; Some followup Tramp changes of sync with 2.9.0
  • Update to Unicode 18.0 (bug#81880)
  • Document tramp-tolerate-tilde
  • * lisp/vc/diff.el (diff-switches): Include "-r".
  • Populate 'pcpu' and 'pmem' attributes on Darwin
• New packages:
  • amber-mode: A major mode for the Amber programming language (MELPA)
  • git-modeline: Show the git status of the current file in the modeline (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-org: Preview Org LaTeX math as SVG (MELPA)
  • magit-standup: Collect recent git commits for standup notes (MELPA)
  • nightpanel-theme: Saab instrument cluster colorscheme (MELPA)
  • org-roam-stats: Personal Knowledge Management Dashboard (MELPA)
  • remoto: Browse GitHub repos without cloning (MELPA)
  • restlib: Utility library for building REST clients (MELPA)
  • testcover-audit: Quantitative coverage statistics for testcover.el (MELPA)
  • typewriter: Turn Emacs into a text adder (GNU ELPA)

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

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