• 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)
  • 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!

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)

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[2026-09-15 Tue]: Fixed link to Customizing Pasted Strings in Emacs | Epsilon Clue

Not much commentary this week, but plenty of cool stuff to explore!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 15 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • PDX Emacs (in person) https://pdx.social/@howard/117147689957341583 - Tue Sept 15 6:00 pm in Portland, OR
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 16 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 Sep 19 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316535239/ Sat Sep 19 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • 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 configuration:
  • Emacs Tip of the Day — Alex Carney (@alcarney) - news entries on splash screen
  • Personalized embark actions (@eslr, Irreal)
  • Emacs Meow Motions (15:44)
  • Emacs Meow-mode (01:40:58)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Notes on debugging standard and third-party Emacs code (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • musing about the difficulty of doing one-off scripted edits in emacs lisp — paste.sr.ht (@zwol@masto.hackers.town)
  • TIL with-demoted-errors (@beetle_b@mastodon.xyz)
• Navigation:
  • Announcing multi-buf: a generalized buffer multiplexer for shells and other buffers (Reddit)
  • New Package: `modern-tab` (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Irreal: Jinx Update Number …
• Org Mode:
  • Un-Learning the LMS: Prepping Courses with Org Mode - Output Error (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • org-grid (Reddit)
  • org-timegrid now works on Android Emacs (Reddit)
  • my dream setup (bonus: it’s free) (18:33) - Org
  • [New Release] Whisper Engine v2.0.0 - Org static site generator (@silentarchitect)
  • pjones/org-clock-dbus: Monitor org-clock from outside Emacs · GitHub (@devalot@hostux.social)
  • [notes] #33 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, August 12, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
• Completion:
  • Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up? (consult-fd, consult-find, consult-grep, consult-ripgrep…) (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Coding:
  • Staging and Comitting using Magit (YouTube 12:14, Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Emacs 31 Does Git Worktrees Natively: How My vc Setup Compares
  • Further progress configuring java + eglot + dape (Reddit)
  • Eglot DAPE debugging setup for java (jdtls) in emacs (05:39)
  • maak.el: Lisp machine command runner, infinitely extensible, integrating nicely with Emacs, for Lisp power on your projects and automation at your fingertips (Reddit, HN)
  • More tree-sitter, more neocaml, more elisp · Perpetually Curious (@tsmc@hachyderm.io)
  • Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: July and August 2026
  • martianh/fj.el 0.39 - performance boost (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Doom Emacs:
  • A Tour of Doom Emacs - Emacs Everywhere #1 (01:04:03)
• Multimedia:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Emacs, movies and SQLite
  • supersonic.el Music player v0.5.0 update (YouTube 00:37, Reddit)
• Fun:
  • smear-cursor: a cursor trail for Emacs 32 (Reddit)
  • betweenle.el: an Emacs version of Betweenle (alphabetical word guessing) (Reddit)
• LLMs:
  • Another Claude Code integration for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Some LLM spell check experiences
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Spellchecking Total Eclipse with an AI
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-09-08 / week 36
  • Any Emacs users in Tokyo want to meet up? (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
  • September 2026 Emacs Meetup recap. (42:19, HN)
  • Einar Mostad: An apology to Protesilaos Stavrou and David Wilson (Protesilaos)
• Other:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Duplicating lines and other Emacs miscellanea
  • yank-transform-functions (@arensb@ooblick.com)
  • visual-regexp-rx: write regexp with rx notation in visual-regexp (Reddit)
  • Moving the Credentials I Kicked Out of init.el from Plaintext Files to Keychain | Masutaka's ChangeLog Memo (@masutaka@mstdn.love)
  • The Root Causes of Scrolling Lag in Emacs display-line-numbers-mode (Reddit, Irreal)
  • v31 for Windows heavily flagged by AV
• Emacs development:
  • Allow setting font-lock-keyword property using declare form
  • Improve where the replacement is previewed (bug#81583)
  • Use short symbols for query-replace-show-preview (bug#81583)
  • Rename `outline-xref' command to `outline-find-headings' (correction: C-c @ M-o)
• New packages:
  • elfeed-protocol-freshrss: FreshRSS protocol for elfeed (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-frontend: Preview LaTeX math in markup buffers as SVG (MELPA)
  • nonogram: Play nonogram (picross) puzzles with SVG graphics (MELPA)
  • org-clock-dbus: Monitor org-clock from D-Bus (MELPA)
  • single-window: Always open buffers in the current window (MELPA)

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And a reminder: EmacsConf - 2026 - Call for Participation target date for proposals Sept 18, conference is online Dec 12-13. Hope to see you there!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/316294538/ Tue Sep 8 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Sep 8 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 11 1800 Europe/Paris
  • PDX Emacs (in person) https://pdx.social/@howard/117147689957341583 - Tue Sept 15 6:00 pm in Portland, OR
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme? (April 2026, Irreal)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Guide to Deferred Package Loading with use-package (Optimizing Emacs Startup) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • auto-side-windows now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Emacs Meep-mode Model Editing (57:41) modal editing
  • Casual Suite 3.0 (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • wakib-emacs: Emacs for the rest of us: v2 released! (Reddit)
  • Bedrock 2.0 released! (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Extending imenu for elisp (YouTube, Reddit, @benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • Zoom in/out slider on the modeline (Reddit)
  • the emacs theme I use: N Λ N O Theme (06:24)
  • [Theme] Vulkanite: 26 atmospheric dark theme variants for Emacs with Kanagawa-inspired balance (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.3.0 (Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • windmove tinkering (@ljwrites@writeout.ink)
  • auto-tab-groups: tab groups that open and close with your commands (now on MELPA) (Reddit)
  • poimap.el - Visual buffer map with points of interest (Reddit)
  • canvas-minimap: a pixel-based minimap using Emacs 32's canvas image type (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Emacs Canz Spell Goodly Know
  • Thysrael/markdown-ts-appear: Reveal Markdown source at point and preview math in Emacs markdown-ts-mode · GitHub (@thysrael)
• Org Mode:
  • My Note Taking Setup With Emacs Org-Mode (33:26)
  • Writing year in review: My 2022 writing habit on Emacs | Semi-author-ized writer (@ljwrites@writeout.ink)
  • A beautiful SVG weekly calendar for Emacs, backed by Org files, with full mouse and keyboard support and an optional day strip for Org Agenda (Reddit)
  • Emacs Org-Mode PDF Quicksheet now available in PEL (Reddit)
  • org-draw is now available on MELPA! (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Improving the styling of emacs tables with tabularray (programming.dev)
  • org-table-widget: I finally found a way to make Org tables easier to read without changing how I edit them (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • Factor out export-and-show in ox-latex.el and ox-beamer.el
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: Git Worktrees Without Leaving Built-in VC
  • Emacs Redux: Working with Git Worktrees in Magit
  • Dave Pearson: next-gh-pr.el v1.1.0
  • Joar von Arndt: Emacs does not need LSP
  • Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-09-06 emacs-multi-compile, consult-kith for jumping to tests/etc.
  • Xdebug for PHP on Emacs with Dape | Artful Robot (@artfulrobot@floss.social)
  • gaudy-cl: Colorful semantic font-locking for Common Lisp (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • cooked - a comint based terminal emulator (Reddit)
• Evil mode:
  • evil-twin: key-chords that actually behave under evil-mode (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • New package: supersonic.el (Music player for subsonic-compatible servers) (Reddit)
  • Integrating Emacs with Music Player (01:32:18)
  • Bioscoop demo: split screen to visualize color grading - YouTube (@danielsz.bsky.social)
• Fun:
  • andros/nonogram.el: Play nonogram puzzles (also known as picross, griddlers or hanjie) in Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Games: The Emacs Carnival Post For September 2026
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival September 2026: Games
    • Playing with Emacs | Dilip's Log
  • Process Footage: Randomized Greeting from Dipskits Greets Me at My Terminal (05:23)
• LLMs:
  • Pimacs - An Emacs UI for Pi · Anantha Kumaran
  • El Yayster — a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs (HN)
• Community:
  • BEWARE: doomemacs.com is not associated with doomemacs (Reddit)
  • Question about things that surprised you about Emacs.
  • Emacs in fifty keystrokes five years later (2026 edition featuring meow and agent-shell)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 30: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2) (YouTube, 01:05:56)
  • Talking About Stuff I Use on Linux (not a dev, just a human perspective) (01:00:02) Doom Emacs at 15:24
• Other:
  • Jeremy Friesen: How I’m Feeling Emacs Command
  • The Emacs Security Settings that might Silently Compromise your System (Reddit)
  • I finally got Emacs to render Markdown tables properly (md-mode 0.4.1) — and I think the same trick can work for Org tables (Reddit)
  • epub-reader: an EPUB reader for Emacs that reflows, breaks CJK lines properly, and keeps highlights across re-layout (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Pasting primary selection from keyboard
  • thkoch2001/rau: Emacs/Wayland based Window Manager in pure elisp with the help of River (HN)
  • Building Emacs into a systemd-sysext — Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master e630bc4fd72: ; Fix some recently added docs. - Dmitry Gutov - xref docs?
  • Improve presentation of query-replace-show-preview
  • Let 'query-replace-show-preview' be a function (bug#81583)
  • Make log-edit-headers-separator inherit from separator-line
  • Merge branch 'xref-find-by-kind'
• New packages:
  • agent-shell-math-renderer: Display-math rendering for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • api-credit: AI API balance in the modeline (MELPA)
  • auto-tab-groups: Simple auto tab group creator for specified commands (MELPA)
  • cursorfree: Complex editing through voice (MELPA)
  • material-icons: Material Icon Theme integration (MELPA)
  • metropolis-light-theme: Light theme based on the Metropolis Beamer palette (MELPA)
  • mode-line-path: Abbreviate file paths in the mode line (MELPA)
  • nix3: Frontend to experimental commands of Nix (MELPA)
  • org-roam-gt: Improvements for org-roam (MELPA)
  • pilish: Emacs frontend for pi coding agent (MELPA)
  • surveyor: Survey your code with LLM-generated diagrams (MELPA)

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;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

to the top line. If that makes your code stop working correctly when you restart Emacs, set it to nil instead with:

;;; -*- lexical-binding: nil -*-

to get it to work for now. Additional resources:

• Selecting Lisp Dialect in the Elisp info manual
• Lexical scoping and dynamic scoping in Emacs Lisp | Yoo Box

Emacs Carnival: Check out the entries for August in "The Search for Knowledge" and stay tuned for September's topic, "Games."

• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31.1 is released! (Reddit, HN, HN, HN, Irreal, lobste.rs) - including this again from last week
  • Mickey Petersen: What's New in Emacs 31.1? (Reddit, HN) - including this again from last week
  • Android builds of Emacs 31.1 now available
  • Emacs 31.1 binaries now available for Windows (Reddit)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316121976/ Thu Sep 3 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Sep 4 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 4 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 #9 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/8711d3f8-b0d7-48bf-a64b-8cd48eed728c Mon Sep 7 1900 CET
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/316294538/ Tue Sep 8 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Sep 8 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 11 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • [Article] What's in the Emacs 31 newcomers-presets theme? by Sacha Chua (Reddit)
  • No instales otro editor hasta ver esta guía de Emacs en Linux (17:25)
  • Introduction to the GOAT IDE - Vanilla Emacs (14:09)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Andros Fenollosa: How I organize my Emacs configuration (Irreal)
  • Chris Maiorana: Don’t go bankrupt, go local (Irreal)
  • James Cherti: Securing and reducing prompts for Emacs .dir-locals.el and local variables
  • Measuring Emacs Startup Time More Accurately Than the Built-in emacs-init-time Function (Reddit)
  • Guard.el on Melpa (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Tip about using unread-command-events to simulate keyboard input (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
  • Doom Emacs: debugging a yasnippet issue with edebug (01:16:31)
  • Emacs Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie (19:34)
• Appearance:
  • cursor-breathe-mode.el - animate cursor and make it "breathe" (@etenil@toot.cat)
  • New Package (minibuffer-frame) (Reddit)
  • Configuring Emacs Scrolling for Better Performance and Usability (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Larp. Emacs Rice 🦄 (12:45, and also Larp. Emacs Rice FIX 🤎📜🧸 03:11)
• Navigation:
  • Improved hierarchical imenu entries for elisp - fold defun/use-package under sections (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • kirigami.el 1.2.0 - A unified way to fold and unfold code and text in Emacs​ (Reddit)
  • easysession.el 1.3.0: Persist and Restore Emacs sessions​ (Reddit)
• Hyperbole:
  • Hyperbole HyRolo: Search, Retrieve and Insert Records, Not Lines (YouTube 25:47, Reddit, Reddit, Reddit)
• Dired:
  • James Cherti: Fixing Emacs Dired Defaults: Settings for Better File Management (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 5 dict, hippie-expand, ispell (Irreal)
  • An unofficial guide to markdown-ts-mode on Emacs 31 (Reddit, HN)
  • Emacs Treesitter Markdown Mode - First Impressions (17:47)
  • mado/emado update: static binaries, fuzzy matching, and more (Reddit) - markdown organizer for Emacs
  • Emacs Redux: Meet Utterson, my Jekyll blogging helper
  • Irreal: Fixing Define-word
• Denote:
  • Donovan R.: My way of handling knowledge (Emacs Carnival - The Search for Knowledge)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Include :var expansion in expanded noweb references (was: ob-clojure :var header argument not work when src block is noweb called by another src block)
  • Emacs Carnival Aug 2026: Information management and knowledge graphs
    • Carnaval d'Emacs d'août 2026 : la gestion d'information et les graphes de connaissances
  • Automatically insert a checkbox into the new Org list item if the current item has one, even with M-RET (org-meta-return) (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de) (acts like M-S-RET, org-insert-todo-heading)
  • Updated my ob-glsl module to use Emacs 32 Canvas for animation (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org-capture.el: Accept omitted or nil headline for the file+headline
    • lisp/org-capture.el: Accept omitted or nil olp for file+olp+datetree and file+olp
    • org: Add org-submit-feature-request and org-submit-patch commands
    • ol: Add new custom variable org-link-preview-include-descriptive
• Completion:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: completion-preview-mode and the Completions buffer (Emacs 31) (YouTube 09:18, Reddit)
  • Silence the bell during minibuffer completions that may not be strict - minibuffer-completion-help (@ross@rossabaker.com)
  • Snippets + completion read
• Coding:
  • Configuring Python Development in Emacs: Eglot, Pylsp, and Dynamic Ruff Integration (Reddit)
  • Configuring Emacs Eglot for Optimal Performance (Reddit)
  • How to remove Eglot from the mode line (@jamescherti)
  • envrc.el package - Rewrite to support optional async or time-limited direnv invocation by purcell · Pull Request #130 · purcell/envrc · GitHub (@sanityinc@hachyderm.io)
  • Meta Redux: Smarter Form Targeting Is Not Coming to CIDER (previous)
• Shells:
  • Tip about using -a (–alternate-editor) so you can use emacsclient even without having started daemon mode (@citizen428@chaos.social)
  • What kind of wizardry is possible in M-x shell?
• Web:
  • andros/kagi-search.el: Browse Kagi search results inside Emacs, in a plain buffer, without a graphical browser and without JavaScript (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • browsel has been renamed to browser-gt and is now available on MELPA (v0.95). (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Andros Fenollosa: A year of Org Social, my social network
• Multimedia:
  • bartbunting/emacsvox: An experiment in modernization of Emacspeak · GitHub (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
  • Charles Choi: Announcing shazam.el (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • RFC: card-games (MELPA) - thirty-five single and multi-player games for emacs (1.0.92:rc2)
  • Uniline goes 2.5 dimensions - followup
• LLMs:
  • seewhydee/dsh-emacs-bridge: Deepseek Harness to Emacs bridge · GitHub (@cyd@kopiti.am)
  • Using LLMs to make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again (16:32)
  • ellm - Plain text LLM agent (Reddit)
  • [New package] openclaw-sessions: monitor multiple OpenClaw TUI sessions from Emacs (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-08-25 / week 34
  • why I prefer emacs over vim (for writing & lisp programming) (06:50)
  • Emacs Chat 30: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2) (01:05:56)
• Other:
  • caffeinated-compile: prevent sleeping on MacOS (@Viiru@corteximplant.com)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Transforming yanked text
• Emacs development:
  • Recognize comment-prefixed headings in outlines
  • Mark timezone-world-timezones obsolete
  • Mark math-tzone-name obsolete
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce IME support on w32 TTY frames. (Bug#81495)
  • viper-ex: Implement z command
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce addition of 'uuid' library.
  • Add button to diff failed erts-file test output in ERT
  • * lisp/dired.el (dired-jump-map): Remove key 'j' bound to 'dired-jump'.
• New packages:
  • consult-magit: Switch and manage magit buffers with consult (MELPA)
  • cperl-mode: Perl code editing commands (GNU ELPA)
  • eglotx: Native LSP multiplexer for Eglot (MELPA)
  • full-gtd: Complete Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow for org-mode (MELPA)
  • gptel-inline: Persistent gptel session that follows you around (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-backend: Content-addressed LaTeX-to-SVG image rendering (MELPA)
  • magent: AI coding agent (MELPA)
  • org-draw: Draw into Org from a browser (MELPA)
  • org-relative-date: Live relative-date overlays on org timestamps (MELPA)
  • project-nix-store: Project backend for Nix-like store (NonGNU ELPA)

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