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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
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)

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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2026-08-10 Emacs news

2026-08-10T13:49:50Z

The Navigation category has a couple of interesting window configuration tips this week in case you prefer to work with just one window or have multiple windows with some of them dedicated to specific buffers.

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315859503/ Tue Aug 11 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Aug 11 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 14 1800 Europe/Paris
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Aug 15 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Aug 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
- 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
Beginner:
- How to learn Emacs, like, for real
- Emacs for NvChads
- Emacs for Life [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle] ($20+)
Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Package Management with package-quickstart - DEV Community (JP, @gemmaro)
- Tip about setting file-precious-flag by location with my-maybe-mark-file-precious (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
- Emacs Config Gems - Part 3 - Melpa, UI, help, and many more
- Emacs Config Gems - Part 4 - recycle bin, frame size, backups, autosave, autorevert, recentf
- User Interface to Computer Applications Demonstrated in GNU Emacs (02:09:31) also available as separate videos, see video description
- Dotfiles Season 1 Episode 4: Emacs Configuration (14:31)
- Rate my Emacs config! (Reddit)
- myn-macs (MY miNimal eMACS IDE setup for the lazy terminal wizard) (Reddit)
Emacs Lisp:
- Charlie Holland: Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros (Reddit)
- [ANN] TextUI is now public: responsive Flex/Grid layout for widget.el interfaces (Reddit)
Appearance:
- Raymond Zeitler: Display Active Clock in Emacs Frame Title (Irreal)
- paniash/modus-vague: The vague theme for emacs, built on top of modus themes. · GitHub (@paniash@mas.to)
Navigation:
- Protesilaos: Emacs: the ‘speedbar’ built-in file explorer (Emacs 31) (YouTube 15:40, Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
- Chris Maiorana: Using ffap to jump to file includes in Emacs (YouTube 07:04)
- Raymond Zeitler: Dedicate an Emacs Window to Its Buffer
- James Cherti: single-window.el – Always Open Emacs Buffers in the Current Active Window (GitHub, Reddit)
- Srijan Choudhary: Emacs: desktop-save-mode without the automatic restore (Irreal)
- My Emacs workflow with project.el and tab-bar.el project-x.el (30:39)
TRAMP:
- Runbox.el - for shell/compile/eglot over TRAMP in local buffers (emacs-tangents, Reddit, @cidra@mastodon.uno)
Dired:
- Dave's blog: Run the file in Emacs’ dired - path
- dired-z: zoxide-style directory jumping inside Dired (Reddit)
Writing:
- Efficient Note-taking in Emacs with Howm (@qnnnp)
- Reversible transpose-chars and transpose-words, and a dwim that transposes around "and" or "or" (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: conditionally expand abbrev-mode definitions (YouTube 14:34, Reddit)
- Using remark to strip words in backtick quotes before write-good analysis (@howard@pdx.social)
- How Prot Organizes Knowledge, Projects, and Tasks in Emacs (37:53)
- benleis1/wikimode · GitHub (YouTube, Reddit, @benleis@mathstodon.xyz) - navigate Markdown and Org files like a wiki
Org Mode:
- Reviewing finished tasks from last week in org-agenda and emacs (Irreal)
- Read a .docx in Emacs with its tracked changes and comments intact, as org-mode (Reddit)
- How to Generate PDFs from Org Mode using ox-odt (26:03)
- rlridenour/ox-rlr-slipshow: Emacs Org mode exporter to create Slipshow Markdown files. · GitHub (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
- Org development:
  - ox: New hook that runs after include keywords, but before macros/babel
  - org: Rename statistics scope options
Coding:
- Managing Changes with ediff — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
- Tip about using diff-hl-set-reference-rev (@glyph)
- [[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime][Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime]] (lobste.rs)
- The Emacs Cat: Debugging in Emacs
- Xah Talk Show Ep811. Emacs: CSS toggle px rem (30:21)
Math:
- r-ts-mode now on Melpa
Shells:
- Eshell shared history (Reddit)
- Zoxide in eshell (Reddit)
Web:
- Andros Fenollosa: EWW, the Emacs browser you underestimate (HN)
Mail, news, and chat:
- martianh/mastodon.el 2.1.0: collections (@mousebot@todon.nl)
Evil mode:
- Disable mouse drag selection in evil mode (@aud@fire.asta.lgbt)
Multimedia:
- Charles Choi: Announcing now-playing.el, an Emacs interface for the macOS Music app (Reddit)
- Sacha Chua: Replace YouTube captions from Emacs Lisp
LLMs:
- kriyative / elisp-agent · GitLab (@kriyative@functional.cafe)
- blog.fidelramos.net – Supply-chain hygiene for Emacs: LLM review of package upgrades (ES)
- AGENTS.md - discussion about whether to include AGENTS.md in Emacs source code (HN)
Community:
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat avec Richard Bonichon en français (YouTube, 01:57:39)
Other:
- How to Count Words In Emacs (01:09)
- Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution Returns (Reddit)
- bible-gateway package update: touch-typing verse memorisation, reading plans, transient menu, and more (Reddit)
- graph-fa2 0.2.3 now available on MELPA - graph visualization
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Re: [PATCH] emoji on TUI emacs - Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions. Possible workaround for different composition widths?
  - Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break - Eli Zaretskii Issues with compiling older versions
- Show-all values for speedbar user options for hiding
- Add `outline-occur' command and `display-buffer-default-alist' variable
New packages:
- bitbucket-devops: Bitbucket Cloud DevOps workflows (MELPA)
- denote-smart-sluggify-title: Denoise denote titles to save filename length (MELPA)
- graph-fa2: ForceAtlas2 pure-elisp background-cached engine (MELPA)
- pimacs: Emacs Client for Pi (MELPA)
- ronny-theme: A dark colorscheme inspired by Monokai (MELPA)

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2026-08-03 Emacs news

2026-08-03T22:53:27Z

[2026-08-03 Mon]: Updated pkal's link to Structured Changelogs for ELPA packages (request for feedback)

I particularly enjoyed the tweaks for EWW (Emacs Web Wowser) in this edition. Could be fun to take whatever page you're looking at in a different application and open it within Emacs, with syntax highlighting and maybe even the ability to copy or execute bits of code more easily. Could be handy during your search for knowledge, which is incidentally the Emacs Carnival theme for August. Enjoy!

Help wanted:
- pkal is looking for feedback from package maintainers on how to annotate changelog entries with release info (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
- Ihor Radchenko's looking for insights from maintainers on reviewing large feature branches (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Testing patches for input methods:
  - [patch] GNU emacs bug#68339 (w32 ime font size)
  - [Patch] Implement preedit text rendering for Windows
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3944ee8f-6da1-4720-b086-b9217e4f5c7b Mon Aug 3 1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091679/ Thu Aug 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Aug 7 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315859503/ Tue Aug 11 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Aug 11 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 14 1800 Europe/Paris
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Aug 15 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- How to Cancel a Command in Emacs (01:28)
Emacs configuration:
- Customize: hook to focus search field after entering customize mode (@SpaceCadet@chaos.social)
- Handling environment variables in Emacs on OSX and Linux • Ben Mezger
- Kakoune recipe using hel-mode https://github.com/helheim-emacs/hel/ (Reddit)
- My Dotfiles Are an Org File | Dotfile Management with Emacs (02:38)
- Rewriting my Emacs config (03:39:31)
Appearance:
- Marcin Borkowski: A fancier splash screen in terminal Emacs
- Nice GTK tooltips for Flycheck. Works on GTK builds (Linux: Wayland/X11). (Reddit)
- tjammer/modukai-sun-theme: Monokai Pro Light Sun based on modus-themes - Codeberg.org (@tjammer@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Navigation:
- Marcin Borkowski: Outlining in programs (Irreal)
- Tip about using helm-multi-swoop-projectile for large-scale renaming in localization files (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
- Project-x now on Melpa! (+ window layouts and tabs) (Reddit)
- I decided to customize imenu-list a bit more (Reddit)
- Flash.nvim For Emacs (16:07) - jump to locations with search labels
Hyperbole:
- Hyperbole Question: What do you need to better capture and navigate your knowledge base?
- Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse (YouTube 34:21, (Reddit)
Dired:
- dired configuration similar to yazi keymaps. This is my dired config, share yours please:D (Reddit)
Writing:
- How to Turn on Word Wrap in Emacs (01:28)
- Bicycle for Your Mind: Much Ado About Emacs 015 (Irreal) tabs, newlines, two-space shortcut
- Raymond Zeitler: One Space or Two?
- md-mode 0.2 — Add LaTeX, Mermaid, PlantUML and Graphviz rendering support (Reddit)
Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [FR] Simpler file ID links in HTML export
- Emacs with Prot: Org Mode Basics Before Projects and Capture (21:16, Protesilaos)
- I made an Org Mode Advanced Concepts Tutorial, please check it out (Reddit)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Style & Emacs Config: A Semantic HTML Reckoning
- grid-table 0.3.0: editable tables with horizontal and vertical merged cells for Emacs and Org (Reddit, Reddit)
- Notes from [EVENT] #31 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, June 10, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Org development:
  - org-agenda-todo: Add more visual feedback on repeating tasks
  - LaTeX export: New option org-latex-fontspec-config
Completion:
- The Completions Buffer Is Now Enough (Reddit)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: default minibuffer completions overview (Emacs 31) (YouTube, 30:56)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Em Dashes in org-mode and the Nuances of Abbrev (Irreal)
Coding:
- Tip about using magit-commit-extend or magit-commit-instant-fixup (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Emacs Redux: Flycheck 38: Might & Magic (GitHub, Reddit, lobste.rs)
- 4coder like scope hint implementation (Reddit)
- Repeat-mode config for easier indent/dedent in Python (@jap@mastodon.nl)
- Meta Redux: Leveling Up CIDER’s ClojureScript Support
- tusharhero: Guix shell now inside Emacs! (HN, lobste.rs)
Shells:
- Using nix-shell in eshell (Reddit)
Web:
- Irreal: A Quick EWW Hack - retrieve URL from Safari, open in EWW
- Is there a way to highlight code blocks in eww mode? - shr-tag-pre-highlight package
Fun:
- Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Smiley Functions
LLMs:
- Ram Krishnan / elisp-agent · GitLab (@kriyative@functional.cafe) - uses eval as its sole tool
- New package: agent-shell-hq (Reddit)
- Vibe-coded a simple vterm wrapper to make pairing AI agent sessions to projects easier (Reddit)
Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-07-28 / week 30
- The Prot Effect (Reddit)
- 0015 | New Keyboards, Emacs, Neovim, Catching up (02:11:56)
Other:
- Protesilaos: Emacs: tmr version 1.4.0
- andros/lirve.el: Learn irregular verbs in English with Emacs - lirve.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
- chmouel/komga-sync.el: Emacs mode to sync nov-mode reading progress with a Komga server · GitHub (@chmouel@fosstodon.org)
- tnalpgge/org-hamlog: Log amateur radio contacts with Org tables - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
- adif-mode: Major mode for viewing and editing amateur radio ADIF log files
- linkarzu's videos:
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Looking for reasons to keep letf considering symbol-function
  - Re: eglot-tests fail for emacs-31 branch - Stefan Monnier note about needing to ensure different package managers (ex: apt, npm, package.el) interoperate correctly
- Canvas patch resubmitted to bug tracker after lots of polishing (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
- Don't immediately show *Completions* for icomplete-in-buffer
- * lisp/cus-start.el (completion-ignore-case): Make customizable.
- ; * etc/NEWS: Announce support of Kmscon. (Bug#81428)
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/intern-without-shorthands'
- New variable comment-start-line-regexp (bug#80837)
New packages:
- now-playing: Interface for the macOS Music app (MELPA)
- nu-ts-mode: Major mode for Nushell scripts, powered by treesitter (MELPA)
- ob-agent-shell: Org-babel backend for agent-shell (MELPA)
- promptu: Compose LLM prompts from building blocks (MELPA)
- r-ts-mode: R treesitter mode (MELPA)

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2026-07-27 Emacs news

2026-07-27T12:46:21Z

Lots of discussion around Emacs is a Lispboard (HN) and Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You (HN). Also, last call for Emacs Carnival posts for June (theme: Programming). The theme for August is The Search for Knowledge. Enjoy!

Emacs 31:
- Emacs 31.0.91 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal)
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3944ee8f-6da1-4720-b086-b9217e4f5c7b Mon Aug 3 1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091679/ Thu Aug 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Aug 7 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 7 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:
- Shuffle filenames (@FoxFunction@tech.lgbt)
- Color picker for emacs (Reddit)
Appearance:
Navigation:
Dired:
Writing:
- md-mode: Org-style structural editing and same-buffer rendering for Markdown (Reddit)
- Irreal: A Small Jinx Tweak
Org Mode:
Completion:
- `flex-x: built-in flex completion with AND filtering, history-aware sorting, and migemo/pyim support` (Reddit)
Coding:
Web:
- Raymond Zeitler: How to Copy the Link at Point – an Undocumented Feature in EWW (Irreal)
- How to enable ace-link for elpher (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
Mail, news, and chat:
- Aimé Bertrand: iMessage in Emacs
- my-jabber-esperanto-conversation - enable input methods based on chat participants (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
LLMs:
Community:
Other:
Emacs development:
New packages:
- fnm: Manage Node versions using fnm (MELPA)
- grpclient: Grpcurl interactive builder (MELPA)
- gruber-darker-ayu-theme: Gruber Darker + Ayu Dark color theme (MELPA)
- keycoach: Learn keybindings (MELPA)
- mode-line-maker: Mode-line helper tools (GNU ELPA)
- project-x: Extra convenience features for project.el (MELPA)
- smali-mode: Major mode for editing Smali/Baksmali files (MELPA)
- snippy: Vscode snippet support with Yasnippet (MELPA)

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2026-07-20 Emacs news

2026-07-20T12:27:43Z

Completion seems to be the topic of the day. Check out the new videos and resources people have shared on both completion in buffer and in the mini-buffer. Also, there's been lots of discussion for or against Human Emacs; links are in the Community sectio.

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 30 0100 Asia/SrEingapore
- Sacha Chua: 6 août: Emacs Chat: Richard Bonichon
- Sacha Chua: 20 août: Emacs Chat: Abdallah Maouche
Beginner:
- Emacs Docs: The modern documentation website Emacs deserves (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN)
- How to Undo in Emacs (01:24)
- How to Find and Replace Text in Emacs (02:52)
- One shot modifiers, then emacs tutorial (02:08:22)
- Let's Finally Finish the Emacs Tutorial (02:03:47)
- New to Emacs? Learning Vanilla Emacs with Protesilaos | Coaching Session #2 (Reddit)
Emacs configuration:
Emacs Lisp:
- Emacs Redux: Tree-sitter Modes Still Need a Syntax Table
Appearance:
Navigation:
TRAMP:
- Gentoo User shows you How to edit your make.conf in Emacs (02:25) - using TRAMP to edit files as root
Writing:
Org Mode:
Completion:
Coding:
Mail, news, and chat:
- Gnus: Call custom functions when formatting message lines in summary buffers (@lhp)
Multimedia:
- Controlling a YouTube video from emacs (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
Fun:
- tnalpgge/cabrillo-el: Parse Cabrillo format amateur radio contact logs in Emacs - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
LLMs:
Community:
Other:
- Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Tip Of The Day in a Popup Frame
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
  - Re: SDL terminal type - Sean Whitton - Lucid build still relevant because of issues with GTK build
  - Local treesit parsers with disjoint ranges - Ruby Iris Juric
- Create macro 'pcase-let*-strict'
New packages:
- blamee: Chunked git-blame overlays with popup details (MELPA)
- context-clues: Easily copy context like the current file name and path (MELPA)
- flex-x: Extended flex completion style (MELPA)
- hnview: Standalone Hacker News client (MELPA)
- moonbit-ts-mode: MoonBit tree-sitter major mode (MELPA)
- nostr-publish: Publish Markdown to Nostr (MELPA)
- org-habit-ng: Full RRULE recurrence for org-habit (MELPA)
- org-history: Show Dates for Org headers from vcs + auto-commit (MELPA)
- org-mindmap: Editable mindmap visualization in org-mode (MELPA)
- sema-mode: Major mode for editing Sema files (MELPA)

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2026-07-13 Emacs news

2026-07-13T17:45:19Z

There's some more buzz about spell-checking with Jinx (Bozhidar Batsov, Marcin Borkowski). Also, quite a few people have signed up for the Human Emacs initiative.

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315050696/ Tue Jul 14 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jul 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jul 18 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- Learning Vanilla Emacs from Scratch with Prot as a Neovim User (Reddit)
  - Summary of the keymaps and lessons learned in the first coaching session | linkarzu
Emacs configuration:
Emacs Lisp:
Appearance:
- Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.2.0
Navigation:
- How to search among all files in, or below, a directory find-name-dired, consult-find-fd, fzfa
- Srijan Choudhary: 2026-07-12-001 tip about global mark ring, C-x C-SPC, consult-global-mark
- wisp: Whitespace to Lisp now supports sexp-movement
Writing:
Org Mode:
- Help wanted:
- [02] Vanilla Emacs with Prot: I’ll Repent for My Markdown Sins - YouTube (Protesilaos) Beginner coaching session
- Sacha Chua: Chatted with John Wiegley and Karthik Chikmagalur about personal information management (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz) dealing with 40,000 entries, of which 818 are open TODOs
- Raymond Zeitler: Numeric Priorities in Org Mode
  - Raymond Zeitler: One Hundred Times the Highest Priority (Irreal)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
- Import, export, and integration:
Completion:
- emacs fido frame (Reddit)
Coding:
- A Emacs library to display magit changes in treemacs view (Reddit)
- James Dyer: VC Shuttle: Advice-Based Git Sync for Air-Gapped Emacs
Math:
- Underappreciated Emacs built-ins: Emacs calc embedded
Shells:
- Ghostel 0.43.0 released: native Windows support (Reddit, @dakra@fosstodon.org)
Mail, news, and chat:
- Aimé Bertrand: Preserving email dates when moving messages in Mu4e
LLMs:
- agent-shell-dashboard (Reddit)
- OrgA, An LLM agent's logic, knowledge, and chat all in one file (Reddit)
Community:
Other:
Emacs development:
- Make woman-topic-history an obsolete alias
New packages:
- folio-theme: Warm paper-like theme built on Modus and Ef (MELPA)
- mise-tasks: Run mise tasks and highlight lockfiles (MELPA)
- ox-mom: Groff MOM Macro Back-End for Org Export Engine (MELPA)
- synaxis: Feed reader with SQLite storage (MELPA)

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2026-07-06 Emacs news

2026-07-06T16:20:27Z

Wow, the June Emacs Carnival gathered 22 entries on the topic of Underappreciated Emacs built-ins. Looking for something to write about next? "Programming" is the Emacs Carnival theme for July. Thanks to Ross for hosting in June and Andy for hosting in July. Also, there was a fair bit of discussion about The GNU Emacs Architecture : Unlocking the Core. Have fun!

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #7 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/88d59360-d89a-42cc-b567-ed39ac5186fb Mon Jul 6 1900 CET
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jul 10 1800 Europe/Paris
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315050696/ Tue Jul 14 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jul 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jul 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Jul 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Jul 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
Beginner:
- Learning Vanilla Emacs from Scratch with Prot as a Neovim User (01:54:04, highlights 08:28, linkarzu, Protesilaos, Reddit)
- Learning Emacs with The Professor from University of Victoria (Reddit)
Emacs configuration:
- Jonas Bernoulli: Announcing two new experimental MELPA channels (Reddit, Irreal)
- Emacs Redux: Automating Emacs Screenshots
- dotfiles-public/.emacs.d/init.el (@masutaka@mstdn.love)
Emacs Lisp:
- Introducing graph-fa2 (browser free graph rendering) (Reddit)
Appearance:
- modusregel: a simple, beautiful mode-line for Emacs (Reddit)
Navigation:
- How to Search For Text in Emacs (01:45)
- Meta Redux: Projectile 3.0 and 3.1
- Emacs-LinkXall Hyperlinking In Program Source Files (02:36)
Dired:
- James Dyer: That Moment Dired Eats Your File and why Trash Saves You (Irreal)
- My Emacs configuration (Dired) (@evgandr@bsd.cafe)
Writing:
- Abbreviations, but locally
- Protesilaos: Emacs: write with input method (e.g. French) and Jinx for spelling (Irreal, YouTube 11:50, Reddit)
Denote:
- Chris Maiorana: God mode notes with Denote and Consult Notes (YouTube, 15:04)
Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] ob-core: org-babel-call – a documented way to call a block from Lisp
- Wai Hon: One-Line-Per-Day Diary in Org-mode
- org-clock-lock: Mandatory task focus based on org-clock (Reddit)
- Seamless view/editing of markdown as org-mode (18:51)
- Memorize vocabulary on the go on Emacs Android org-srs
- [BLOG] #30 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, May 13, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Org development:
Coding:
- Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival July 2026 – Programming
- Browse GitHub repos directly from find-file dialog (29:11)
- Jonas Bernoulli: Magit 4.6 released (Irreal, Reddit)
- tusharhero: Underappreciated builtin: Grand Unified Debugger (lobste.rs)
- TIL: Flycheck can explain errors
- Meta Redux: Sayid Redux
- Meta Redux: CIDER 2.0 is Brewing…
- Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: May and June 2026
Shells:
- How to build the Emacs vterm module with custom CFLAGS and LDFLAGS (@jamescherti)
Web:
- Nicolas Cavigneaux: shpaste: a paste.sr.ht Client for Emacs ( Reddit, Sourcehut)
- Sacha Chua: Une navigation simplifiée sur mon blog grâce à EWW (et Emacs !)
Mail, news, and chat:
- Nicolas Cavigneaux: Sign Always, Encrypt When Possible: Automatic GPG in mu4e (Irreal)
- Joar von Arndt: Automatically Find PGP Keys in Mu4e
- Nicolas Cavigneaux: emacs-mailto: Open macOS mailto: Links in Emacs (Reddit, Sourcehut)
Doom Emacs:
- Doom Emacs: Why I Chose It Over Vim and Never Looked Back (Reddit)
  - Neovim user Reacts to Bashbunni's Doom Emacs Video (22:55)
  - 3 Neovim Users Talk About Emacs, Which One is Better? (35:45)
Multimedia:
- ytm-radio is an Emacs-native YouTube Music player (Reddit)
LLMs:
- Removing a special cause of variation in small steps — Willem van den Ende (@mostalive)
- Emacs and AI, the combination you've been missing
- New experimental feature of gptel (33:20, Reddit)
- AI-driven keyboard macros in emacs (01:06)
- Glasspane: A proof of concept for a transparent bridge between mobile interaction and executing Elisp (Reddit)
  - Secondary Glasspane Demo: Composing Android Companion app using Elisp.
Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-06-30 / week 26: language detection, meow and ghostel, debug-on-variable-change, …
- What do you do in emacs?
- New contributors to GNU Emacs over time
- Sacha Chua: Re: React to Sacha and Prot Newbies and Starter Kits Emacs Video - linkarzu (YouTube, 14:26)
- Finish Prot and Sacha Video | Should I Take Emacs Coaching Sessions with Prot? (05:09:08)
- Planet Emacslife now has Org Social output (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
Other:
- The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core (full-text PDF, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
- Anju 1.8.0: Right-click context menu additions like Copy Link Address (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Marcin Borkowski: opening pdfs in pdf-tools emacsclient.desktop file for making Emacs the default PDF viewer in Linux
- Raymond Zeitler: Create Date Books, Planners and Calendars with Emacs
- neofetch.el (Reddit) - system information
- Printing with Emacs under recent MacOS releases (@root42@chaos.social)
- How to Connect Official Android Emacs to the Pixel Linux Terminal (No Root!) (00:20) - toybox nc (netcat) to make a local connection
- Installation and Setting up Emacs on Windows 11…. (15:17)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Re: SDL terminal type - Eli Zaretskii - theoretical benefits of changing the way the main loop is handled
- Delete dir-mode VC backend method
- VC-Dir: Let backends supply a custom mode and key binding hints
- Keep Rmail collection buffers unibyte
- New macro 'elisp-scope-define-function-spec' (bug#81355)
- elisp-scope.el: Support associating analyzers with multiple symbols
- Improve commit log entry creation from ChangeLog (bug#80928)
- Update to Android 17
- Clicking mode line menus in inactive windows now switches the window
New packages:
- browsel: WebSocket bridge to a Chrome/Firefox extension (MELPA)
- denote-solo: Switch the active Denote directory (MELPA)
- hutch: AI code review for magit (MELPA)
- jal: Java Agent Loader (JAL) for JDTLS (MELPA)
- kusanagi-theme: Ghost in the Shell inspired dark theme built on Modus (MELPA)
- ol-locate-file: Locate-based file links for Org mode (MELPA)
- sendai-theme: A cool blue color theme (GNU ELPA)
- srs: Spaced repetition in plain text (MELPA)

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