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2026-09-28 Emacs news

2026-09-28T13:31:07Z

There's a nice long video about Org mode with plenty of tips for beginners. Also, it's the end of the month, so check out the submissions for the Emacs Carnival for September ("Games") and consider volunteering to host the next one!

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!

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2026-09-21 Emacs news

2026-09-21T12:02:45Z

I put the new typewriter mode in the Fun category, but people might actually find the constraints useful for focused writing.

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:
Completion:
- Bumbling my way through the Consult docs to build an async completer (Reddit)
Coding:
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:
Other:
Emacs development:
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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2026-09-14 Emacs news

2026-09-15T20:45:51Z

[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)
- Emacs Meow Motions (15:44)
- Emacs Meow-mode (01:40:58)
Emacs Lisp:
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:
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:
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:
Community:
Other:
Emacs development:
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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2026-09-07 Emacs news

2026-09-07T23:44:14Z

The Emacs Carnival theme for September is "Games". Enjoy! Other really cool uses of graphics in Emacs: org-timegrid, poimap, canvas-minimap.

Also, public service announcement: doomemacs.com is not affiliated with doomemacs.org (see this Github discussion). Just in case someone reading this happens to be the person who made doomemacs.com, please consider setting up a redirect to doomemacs.org for more awesomeness and less confusion. Thank you!

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:
Navigation:
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:
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:
Fun:
LLMs:
- Pimacs - An Emacs UI for Pi · Anantha Kumaran
- El Yayster — a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs (HN)
Community:
Other:
Emacs development:
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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2026-08-31 Emacs news

2026-08-31T19:23:36Z

Lexical binding: If you've recently updated to Emacs 31, you might have gotten warnings about lexical-binding in your packages or personal Emacs Lisp configuration. You can check your packages to see if the package authors have updated them. For your personal Emacs Lisp configuration, consider adding

;;; -*- 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)
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:
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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2026-08-24 Emacs news

2026-08-24T12:37:18Z

Emacs 31.1 has been released, whee! Also, Divya's post An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs is really cool and I'm looking forward to that becoming generally available in Emacs 32. =)

Emacs 31:
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 26 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 27 0100 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316144053/ Sat Aug 29 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- 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 configuration:
Emacs Lisp:
- mattiase/xr: Inverse of rx: convert Emacs string regexps to rx form · GitHub (@aethor@fosstodon.org)
Appearance:
- Emacs Omarchy Quattro dynamic theming support (Reddit)
TRAMP:
- Emacs Tramp Mode for SSH (00:18)
Writing:
Denote:
Org Mode:
Coding:
Mail, news, and chat:
- Display comments of a reddit post inside elfeed
Spacemacs:
- Spacemacs | Bug fixing & Package updates (07:16, in French)
Multimedia:
Fun:
- nosrednayduj/moo-el: Emacs library for connecting to MOO servers. - Codeberg.org (@nosrednayduj@hachyderm.io)
LLMs:
Community:
- What made you try Emacs?
- Prot Asks: Per Nordlöw about his Emacs extensions (01:50:38)
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 29: Abdallah Maouche (en français) (YouTube, 58:41)
Other:
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Re: SDL terminal type - limitations of GTK 4
  - Re: current-time-list now defaults to nil in Emacs master - Paul Eggert - notes on convert-time and encode-time
- ; * etc/NEWS: Document improved Emoji support on text terminals.
- viper-ex: Implement list and number commands
- Allow evaluating Eshell forms using lexical binding
- Document Eshell's Lisp pipes feature
- Make electric-pair-mode respect field boundaries (bug#50236)
New packages:
- auto-capitalize: Automatic capitalization with batteries included (MELPA)
- browser-gt: WebSocket bridge to a Chrome/Firefox extension (MELPA)
- cypher-ts-mode: Cypher editing mode (MELPA)
- doom-game: DOOM on Emacs (NonGNU ELPA)
- efinger: Finger client and .plan feed reader (MELPA)
- flymake-harper: Flymake backend for Harper (GNU ELPA)
- gptel-agent-harness: Autonomous coding-agent harness for gptel-agent (MELPA)
- guard: Custom modular init framework (MELPA)
- hel: Helix Emulation Layer (MELPA)
- minibuffer-frame: Minibuffer in centered child frame (MELPA)
- mu4e-autotask: Email automation for mu4e (MELPA)
- peppers-theme: Custom dark theme based on modus framework (MELPA)
- sapling: Magit-like interface for Sapling (NonGNU ELPA)
- schlau-compile: Git-root-aware interface to `compile' (MELPA)
- shazam: Shazam Interface (macOS only) (MELPA)
- vc-sapling: VC backend for Sapling (NonGNU ELPA)

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2026-08-17 Emacs news

2026-08-17T20:41:53Z

The canvas patch has been merged upstream, very cool! I'm looking forward to seeing the kinds of experiments and tools this enables. Also, there's a release candidate for the next version of Emacs, please go try it out!

Emacs 31:
- Emacs 31.1 RC1 is available (HN)
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 19 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 Aug 22 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 Aug 26 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 27 0100 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316144053/ Sat Aug 29 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- Sacha Chua: 27 août: Emacs Chat: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2)
Beginner:
- My Advice for Users Wanting to Switch to Emacs | bardman's website
Emacs configuration:
- Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Numbered Backup Strategy (Irreal)
Emacs Lisp:
- What I learned about widget.el while building TextUI 0.2–0.5
- Run Elisp code currently in reused sub-processes using futur (@monnier@oldbytes.space)
Appearance:
- TAONAW: Back to Solarized
- Protesilaos: About Emacs themes, Solarized, and wallpapers
Navigation:
- Alvaro Ramirez: Focus windows across Emacs frames (Irreal)
Writing:
- emado: manage 100k+ markdown entries from Emacs at native speed (Reddit)
Denote:
- De-bloat Your Notes With Denote.el (17:42)
Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-colview: Determine column view scope once
- Org Mode requests: [FR] Add org-delete-subtree without modifying the kill ring
- Introduction to Org Mode (26:57)
- Utilize texto puro para gerenciar seus hábitos (11:42)
- Raymond Zeitler: How Much Management Does Knowledge Need?
- Marcin Borkowski: Emphasizing a region in Org mode (Irreal)
- Pretty titles for Org Mode buffers in Emacs - @joarvarndt.se on Bluesky
- Using noweb syntax and elisp to manage host-specific dotfiles (Reddit)
- Capture dotfiles using org-capture
- Org-draw: Drawing inside org-mode using tl;draw (Reddit, YouTube 03:35)
- [Notes] #3 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, August 15, 19:00 UTC+3 (recording, @yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Org development:
  - Suport for sentences for thing-at-point
  - lisp/ox-html.el: Add missing keywords and `#+OPTIONS:' in backend options-alist
Coding:
- A Tour of Magit's Status Interface (Reddit, @heiwiper)
- Revisiting Flymake and Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of Flycheck v39) (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
- Magit – Brief demo of "Instant Fixup" (01:22)
- blog.fidelramos.net – Custom git trailers with Magit (HN)
  - Añadir nuevos git trailers a Magit
- A Magit-inspired diff mode for Jujutsu (jj) (Reddit)
- Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-08-13 - limiting treesit, using editable xref
- omidmnz/quint-ts-mode: A Tree-sitter-based Emacs major mode for Quint · GitHub (@omidmnz@functional.cafe)
- ediprolog — Emacs Does Interactive Prolog (27:24)
- justjoheinz/wit-ts-mode: Emacs tree-sitter major mode for WIT (WebAssembly Interface Types) files · GitHub, also WAC (WebAssembly Composition) mode (Reddit)
- Meta Redux: Projectile 3.4
Shells:
- emacs-run-command/run-command-runner-ghostel.el at ghostel · bricka/emacs-run-command · GitHub (@cabhan@social.tchncs.de)
Web:
- Andros Fenollosa: Web Design for Terminal Browsers (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- Andros Fenollosa: Elpher: my tweaks for better Gemini browsing in Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
Mail, news, and chat:
- Update Reddigg is now a fullblown reddit client (Reddit)
- Elfeed performance improvements (@minad@mastodon.world)
Multimedia:
- Uniline goes 2.5 Dimensions
Fun:
- Corwin Brust: Emacs Card Games on MELPA
LLMs:
- New package: reviewer.el (Reddit) - temporarily annotating files or diffs without modifying the contents
- Demo: Browse the web in the Emacs Web Browser by using LLMs to live-rewrite the page's source. (Reddit)
- Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.73 updates (Reddit, HN)
Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-08-11 / week 32
- Chris Maiorana: The Emacs pastoral tradition (YouTube 11:22, Reddit, Irreal)
- Prot Asks: Oliver about minimalist life, distractions, independence, and more (03:53:38)
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 28: Fabrice Niessen (en français) (YouTube 59:40)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: RSI and Emacs: When Your Pinky Says Enough is Enough
Other:
- [eaf]「ebook-viewer」 Super Fast & Support Native Calibre's ebook-viewer on emacs. (Reddit)
- Irreal: Emacs Development: Ongoing And Good
- The Emacs Cat: Emacs, Dired, and Ubuntu 26.04 (Irreal)
- compiling emacs from source (for max performance) (13:51)
- Emacs Window Manager EWM.el (23:21)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Continuation of long discussion about difficulties compiling older versions
- New value 'with-completions-popup' of 'icomplete-in-buffer' (bug#81537)
- New image type canvas (Reddit, HN, @divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
- cperl-mode.el: Support Perl 5.44: named parameters in signatures
- Flymake: rework inline diagnostic text annotations
- Preview the replacement text while it is typed (bug#81583)
- Reimplement `outline-occur' using Xref and match Outline headings
New packages:
- annotated-completing-read: Ergonomic completing-read wrapper/helper (MELPA)
- auto-side-windows: Simplified buffer management for side windows (MELPA)
- card-games: Play card games (console UNICODE and graphical SVG) (MELPA)
- codex-ide: Run Codex CLI in a terminal (NonGNU ELPA)
- hermes: Emacs frontend for Hermes Agent (NonGNU ELPA)
- ob-janet: Org-Babel support for the Janet language (MELPA)
- pgsql: Native PostgreSQL protocol client (MELPA)
- project-store: Project backend for Nix store (NonGNU ELPA)
- vice-mode: VIm-like Commands Extension (MELPA)

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