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2026-06-08 Emacs news

Jun 8, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

It's Emacs Built-ins appreciation month! I'm coming to appreciate the menu bar more. What built-ins do you appreciate? Write about it and send Ross a link!

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

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

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There were 17 posts in the in the May carnival topic "May I recommend", very cool! Looking for something to write about next? Check out the June theme Underappreciated Emacs Built-ins hosted by Ross A. Baker.

Help wanted:
- elfeed getting ready for 4.0 release, bug reports welcome (@minad@mastodon.world)
- Help wanted: testing canvas patch on Windows and Mac OS (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/67d716c3-6c04-4530-9c1a-f67aa44d31bc Mon Jun 1 1900 CET
- Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Jun 4 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/314809959/ Thu Jun 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Jun 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jun 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Jun 9 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jun 10 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jun 11 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jun 12 1800 Europe/Paris
Emacs configuration:
- May I recommend… less stretching for your common commands, by Neil M
- Charles Choi: Anju v1.5.0 Update - mouse context menus
- Kemal: Brainiac v2.0 released (Codeberg, Reddit)
- dotfiles/emacs/.config/emacs/configuration.org at main · hrs/dotfiles · GitHub (@hafner)
Emacs Lisp:
- Wanna give a shout-out to Exercism.org's Emacs Lisp track (Reddit)
- Xah Talk Show Ep787. emacs lisp. add width height to all thumbnails (01:01:25)
Appearance:
- vim-file-locals: A small package to support some of Vim's modelines in Emacs (Reddit)
- Senka07/turboc-emacs-theme · GitHub (Reddit)
Navigation:
- Tip: bind scroll-up-line and scroll-down-line to shortcuts to make it easy to read when a cat is blocking part of the screen (@lightspill@tailswish.industries)
Writing:
- Raymond Zeitler: zap-to-char M-z (Irreal)
- TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Installing Harper on Kubuntu: The Right Way. Maybe. - grammar check
Denote:
- Using Denote for Email: A manual workflow | The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr@fosstodon.org)
Org Mode:
- I Replaced Obsidian with Doom Emacs & Org Mode (14:37, Reddit)
- Refining Org-mode Deadlines - Wai Hon's Blog (@whhone)
- Speeding up org-agenda by keeping org-agenda-files to a minimum
- tusharhero: May I recommend: lesser known org-modes: org-num-mode, org-toggle-pretty-entities (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
- May I Recommend: org2blog, journaling & reading hacks, by Wenshan Ren
- Import, export, and integration:
- Org development: etc/ORG-NEWS: Announce about internal changes in org-colview
Coding:
Mail, news, and chat:
- The Best Worst Email Client (Irreal)
- TIL: Reading Gmail in Emacs with mu4e on macOS | The Cloudlet (Reddit, Irreal)
Fun:
- oantolin/luggage: A Largely Undesired Gadget: a Generative Art Gallery for Emacs · GitHub (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
- Andros Fenollosa: Playing chess online with Emacs
  - Jugando al ajedrez en red con Emacs | Andros Fenollosa
AI:
Community:
- May I recommend… Treating Emacs as Emacs — 狐狸反走矣 (@SouthFox@foxsay.southfox.me)
- Sacha Chua: Yay Emacs 32: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: May I recommend… (Prot, YouTube 01:01:41)
- Emacs Chat 24: Omar Antolin Camarena (YouTube 01:08:11)
  - Sacha Chua: Karthik's notes on Emacs Chat 24: Omar Antolin Camarena
- Emacs with Dr. Howell - FediverseTV (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
- From GNU Emacs to code gouv fr (38:59) - Bastien Guerry
- Shibuya.lisp lispmeetup #118 2026-05-28 (01:42:20)
Other:
Emacs development:
New packages:
- elot: Emacs Literate Ontology Tool (ELOT) (MELPA)
- f90-ts-mode: Tree-sitter based Fortran 90 mode (MELPA)
- lsp-ltex-plus: Grammar and spell checking for LaTeX, Markdown, Org and more (MELPA)
- mac-ime: Seamless macOS IME integration without any IME patches (MELPA)
- ox-zola: Org export to Zola static site generator (MELPA)
- phony: Speech bindings for Elisp (MELPA)
- sysml-mode: Major mode for SysML v2 (Systems Modeling Language) (MELPA)

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2026-05-25 Emacs news

May 25, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

I liked the before/after snippets in Looking closer at Claude Generated Lisp Code. (Spoiler: people write nicer code.)

Help wanted:
- Demo site for a proposed re-design of the GNU ELPA (emacs-devel, Reddit) - feedback wanted
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed May 27 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 28 0100 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/314950692/ Sat May 30 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/67d716c3-6c04-4530-9c1a-f67aa44d31bc Mon Jun 1 1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/314809959/ Thu Jun 4 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Jun 5 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jun 5 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
Emacs configuration:
- Rahul Juliato: Taming Emacs Cache and Temporary Files (Reddit)
- jamesendreshowell/emacs-config: My public Emacs configuration files - Codeberg.org (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
Emacs Lisp:
- Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp - Hyperpolyglot (HN, lobste.rs)
Appearance:
- James Endres Howell: Match Emacs and GNOME light/dark theme
- Protesilaos: Emacs: ef-arcadia and ef-atlantis are part of the ef-themes
Navigation:
- TIL: setting line number type to "visual" fixes relative jumping on wrapped lines
TRAMP:
- Using TRAMP to compile in toolbox (@cidra@mastodon.uno)
Dired:
- Marcin Borkowski: Marking today’s files in Dired (Irreal)
Writing:
- TAONAW: Checking grammar with Harper
Denote:
- Protesilaos: Emacs: Denote version 4.2.0
Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-agenda log-mode is very confusing
- Org Mode requests: [FR] support footnote inline displaying & navigation
- Wai Hon: Refining Org-mode Deadlines
- You can do what with org agenda? (08:54)
- How I finally hid stars in front of org headings while also using org-indent
- Vineet Naik: tagref can now be used with org-mode files
- build blog with orgmode and github pages (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
- Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark (YouTube 18:15, r/orgmode, r/emacs, HN, Irreal)
- Navi - Personal Org-Roam Graph Window - Reads DB directly - Feedback? (Reddit)
- org-roam-gt: faster node search and richer capture targets for org-roam (Reddit)
- grove-extra.el – some extras on top of grove.el (fa2 graph, md etc.) (Reddit) - grove is a note-taking mode
Completion:
- dl-completion: Custom completion-style (Reddit)
- vertico-carousel: keep the selected Vertico candidate on the first visible row (Reddit)
Coding:
- A small write-up of git blaming in Emacs (Reddit)
- Dave Pearson: next-gh-pr.el v1.0.0
- Bozhidar Batsov: neat: a language-agnostic nREPL client for Emacs
- sdkman.el — per-project SDKMAN environments in Emacs
- Jakub Nowak: New Job: Jira Integration
Math:
- ratex.el: A live preview latex math package. (Reddit)
Mail, news, and chat:
- Doom Emacs Mail Sending and Python Way (03:15)
AI:
- Looking closer at Claude Generated Lisp Code | skybert.net (@skybert@hachyderm.io)
- Emacsclient landed in Gemini CLI, and why I won't contribute to non-FOSS projects again
- martenlienen/emcp: An MCP server for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@martenlienen@hachyderm.io)
- An experimental Markdown renderer by xenodium · Pull Request #597 · xenodium/agent-shell · GitHub (@xenodium.bsky.social)
Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-05-19 / week 20
- Concerning Emacs (and Jazz)
- "May I recommend thinking of Emacs as your Fortress of Solitude" (Reddit)
- Brazilians in the community 🇧🇷 - organizing get-togethers or a communications channel?
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 23: Emacs Chat with Raymond Zeitler (YouTube, 58:44)
- #Emacs #Embark with Omar Antolin, Ramin Honary and Kent Pitman #lisp and more #interview #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (1:12:40, Reddit)
- From Emacs to Agents - Vivek Haldar shifting away from Emacs for now
- Apropos with Bozhidar Batsov - YouTube (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
- Amin Bandali: Thinking about life - chat with Protesilaos (Prot)
Emacs development:
- Re: emacs-31 142b1e0d4c3: Fix Lisp injection via X-Draft-From in Gnus - Eli Zaretskii
- Why braces instead of casts (Re: master 56ae704e5b2 1/7: Fix (ash -1 1) undefined behavior - Paul Eggert)
Other:
- Faça o Emacs olhar para o dinheiro usando o Embark (15:44)
- May I recommend using your thumbs (Irreal)
- my i3-emacs integration (HN) i3 is a window manager
- caffeinate-mode: Prevent your system from sleeping using the native power assertion API in Emacs 31+ (Reddit)
- Emacs Security Profiles: A Proposal (Reddit)
New packages:
- clutch: Interactive database client (MELPA)
- ffs: Form feed-separated plain text presentations (GNU ELPA)
- fzf-native: Fuzzy completion style (MELPA)
- meshtastic: Chat client for Meshtastic LoRa devices via serial (MELPA)
- use-package-x: Additional keywords for use-package (MELPA, Reddit)

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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2026-05-18 Emacs news

May 18, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

My favourite post this week was oantolin's tip about using Eww. It's always interesting to see what people can do when they apply Emacs's power and composability to all sorts of things, including evaluating code snippets from webpages. Outside Emacs, there was a lively conversation on HN about personal software. Enjoy!

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat May 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed May 27 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 28 0100 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/67d716c3-6c04-4530-9c1a-f67aa44d31bc Mon Jun 1 1900 CET
Upcoming events:
- Sacha Chua: May 29: Emacs Chat with Omar Antolin Camarena
Emacs configuration:
Emacs Lisp:
Appearance:
- How to automatically scale emacs to a larger font on startup (on Raspberry Pi) (22:22)
Navigation:
- fastctags 0.0.1 — Blazing-fast code nav & completion with Universal Ctags (Reddit)
- purr.el - a lightweight project dashboard for emacs. (Reddit)
Writing:
- hesampakdaman/typst-overlay · GitHub
Org Mode:
Coding:
Web:
- May I recommend eww for Emacs's innovative UI? (Reddit, Irreal, lobste.rs, Irreal, HN)
Mail, news, and chat:
AI:
- Agent-Shell permission system (Reddit)
Community:
- What's So Special About Emacs? - YouTube (08:19, Reddit, HN)
- May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns (Reddit, Irreal, HN)
- Emacs Carnival: May I recommend… stop messing around and get work done by Curtis McHale
- The Most Emacs Bzr Saga (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
- Sacha Chua: YE29: Sacha, Prot, and Philip Kaludercic Talk Emacs: Newcomer Experience (YouTube 01:24:16)
- The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome (HN)
Other:
Emacs development:
New packages:
- rare-words: Highlight your rare words! (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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2026-05-11 Emacs news

May 11, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

People are getting Emacs 31 ready for release. Looking forward to that! See emacs/etc/NEWS.31 for details.

Lots of posts for the Emacs Carnival theme of "May I recommend…", yay!

Emacs 31:
- The emacs-31 branch has been created! (Irreal)
- openSUSE package for emacs-31 (@thaodan)
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/314540885/ Tue May 12 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue May 12 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat May 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
Emacs configuration:
- Marcin Borkowski: describe-personal-keybindings (Irreal)
- My Dotfiles: macOS Bootstrap and an Emacs Distribution (Reddit)
- Backpack Emacs hits version 0.5
Emacs Lisp:
- Amin Bandali: FFS code review with Protesilaos (Prot)
- The Emacs's Gamegrid library #1, #2, #3, #4
Appearance:
- Recent Commits to emacs:master: Introduce 'margin' face for window margin background
- Emacs theme that looks like v0.10+ Neovim's default dark theme (Reddit)
Navigation:
- TAGS, Etags and system headers
- Emacs: writing a project.el backend
- Emacs Buffer Comparison Made Easy With Ebuffers 2026 05 10 02:31:35 (05:31)
- LIVE: bribing myself to work on async Rust TCP connections (02:35:52, Emacs navigation chapter at 2:00:15)
TRAMP:
- Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment (lobste.rs)
Dired:
- James Dyer: A Zoomed in vc dir for the Current Directory in dired
Writing:
- markdown-ts-mode got a major overhaul and is now part of Emacs 31
- Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.5.0 - add blogmore-set-as-cover
  - v4.4.0 - blogmore-become-like
- jw.el: Just Write, a microjournaling tool (uses external binary) (@liberty@mathstodon.xyz)
Denote:
- Organising Series with denote-sequence — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
Org Mode:
- Org Mode requests: [FR] ox-md: Export custom-id search strings (::#) as anchors
- grove.el - an Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs (r/emacs, r/orgmode, Irreal, HN, HN)
- mon workflow emacs (18:31)
- Spacemacs | Org-mode Table Spreadsheet Formula | Productivité (05:19)
- Import, export, and integration:
- Org development:
  - ox-latex.el: New variable org-latex-descriptive-environment
  - ob-tangle: Make tangling from archived trees optional
Completion:
- Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC (video) (YouTube 01:08:43, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
- Follow-up: vertico-buffer-frame, a child-frame experiment for vertico-buffer (Reddit)
- fzf-async (Reddit)
- Yuta.el: native fuzzy finder, Lsp Completion, and command palette for Emacs (uses external CLI tools) (Reddit)
Coding:
- My Doom Emacs setup for Rust development in less than two minutes (01:36)
- emacs-forgejo | Thanos Apollo (@csantosb@sigmoid.social)
- hprpl-mode for the HP-48G
- Finally go-to-definition w/ Eglot on JVM languages (Kotlin and Java)! do you know how to improve it?
- Using our new Lua debbuger: LuaProbe, we made an Emacs package for it (Reddit)
- Configurando o Windows para Programar Jogos em C | Indie Game Dev (48:38)
- Sweep: SWI-Prolog Embedded in Emacs (@PuercoPop)
- jao: geiser moved to codeberg - Scheme interfaces
Math:
- The Simple Emacs Spreadsheet
Shells:
- Toggle an Emacs terminal with a single keystroke using shell-pop (Recently Refactored) (Reddit)
- Just a quick "Eat" survey
- termit: Terminal emulator for Emacs (@hajovonta@mastodon.online)
Web:
- Einar Mostad: Speed improvement hack for dired with EWW - browse-url-handlers
Mail, news, and chat:
- What improvements would you like to see in elfeed? (@minad@mastodon.world)
- Add elfeed-tree-mode · emacs-elfeed/elfeed@072a609 · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
Multimedia:
- contrapunctus/sxiv.el: Launch (n)sxiv ((Neo) Simple X Image Viewer) (@contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org)
AI:
- I made elisp-quality-ai: AI-friendly quality reports for Emacs Lisp projects
- Emacs with Org-Mode and Claude for Apple MacBook (HN)
- ox-skills: manage AI agent skills in Org-mode (Reddit)
- display-buffer-alist config for claude-code (@cyberwolf@infosec.town)
Community:
- Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-05-05 / week 18
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival May 2026: "May I recommend…"
- Amin Bandali: Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua (YouTube 01:12:31, Irreal, Sacha)
- Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 22: Shae Erisson (YouTube, 01:02:36)
- I just dont get it… - long discussion about Emacs Lisp and customization
- Emacs ATX Meetup. May 2026. GNU Hyperbole. (01:44:31)
- Thread about what makes Emacs easy for you (@chiply@fosstodon.org)
- Kent Pitman, Ramin Honary, Screwlisp #climate #emacs autocomplete #lisp #unix_surrealism #logic #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
- Curtis McHale: The gravitational pull of familiar tools
Other:
- veer66/ya-sort-lines: Yet-another sort lines - Codeberg.org (@veer66@mstdn.io)
- jamesendreshowell/ramb: Emacs package Really Actually Make Backups - Codeberg.org (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: save any buffer as PDF (my new buffer-to-pdf package)
- Corwin Brust: last-rev.pl - find the most recent commit to each Emacs branch (or other Savannah projects)
- James Cherti: A Technical Guide for Compiling Emacs and its Packages for Maximum Performance on UNIX or GNU/Linux systems (lobste.rs)
- Protesilaos: Re: Emacs and keyboard ergonomics (Irreal)
Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Re: Tail recursion - Lynn Winebarger - emacs-31 probably not going to have igc
- New variable 'completion-frontend-properties' (bug#80990)
- Bump master Emacs version to 32.0.50
- Introduce 'margin' face for window margin background
- nadvice.el: Make it easier to find how to change an interactive-form
- keyboard.c: Allow SIGINT to `quit` in batch mode, instead of exit
New packages:
- apple-container-tramp: TRAMP integration for apple container (MELPA)
- claude-code-context: Share buffer context with Claude Code (MELPA)
- folgezett: Folgezettel IDs for org-roam (MELPA)
- gnus-browse-url-in-article: Smarter browse-url for Gnus articles (MELPA)
- har-viewer: Major mode for viewing HTTP Archive (HAR) files (MELPA)
- indigo: Emacs interface to the Indigo cheminformatics library (MELPA)
- nucleo-completion: Nucleo-backed completion style (MELPA)
- shannon-max: Analyze your keybindings with information theory (MELPA)
- verdict-dart: Dart runner for verdict (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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2026-05-04 Emacs news

May 4, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts on the April 2026 Emacs Carnival theme of Newbies and Starter Kits. Check out that post to see all the entries people have shared so far. I enjoyed chatting with Prot about the topic, and he shared some defaults that even experienced users have been trying out. The carnival theme for May 2026 is "May I recommend…". Looking forward to reading your posts!

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #5 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b4192df7-3da4-41b8-95a3-532b93923656 Mon May 4 1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/314341747/ Thu May 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri May 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 8 1800 Europe/Paris
- London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/314540885/ Tue May 12 1800 Europe/London
- Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue May 12 1900 Europe/Berlin
- OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed May 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 14 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Sacha Chua: May 14: Sacha, Prot, and Philip Kaludercic Talk Emacs: Newcomer Experience (Protesilaos)
Beginner:
- Sacha Chua: What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme?
- Sacha Chua: Working on the Emacs newbie experience
- Protesilaos: Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua (Irreal, lemmy.ml)
Emacs configuration:
- Must-have Emacs packages you should know about [Updated] (Reddit)
- Jiewawa: Overriding keybindings with Meow
- Magnus: Follow-up on switching to eglot - more about use-package
- Emacs config (15:08)
- badele/idem: Doom Emacs configuration for DevOps workflows (bash, go, json, python, terraform, typescript, etc…) (@jesuislibre.org on Bluesky)
- Sharing my emacs.d while cleaning up my folder a bit. (Reddit)
- My Emacs Config (Reddit)
- Been working on my emacs config lately (Reddit)
- My configuration and workflow for game development in emacs with Godot
Emacs Lisp:
- Contributing to ELPA (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org, Reddit)
- compat 31.0.0.0 released, stabilization in progress (@minad@mastodon.world)
- Dave's blog: Writing an automated test to try to find an Emacs bug
- NeLisp v1.0 — Emacs Lisp implemented in Elisp, plus a small Rust runtime that runs it without Emacs (Reddit)
Appearance:
- modus-flexoki (Reddit)
Navigation:
- nfdn: Bulk Search & Replace Commands for Files and Buffers in Emacs (Reddit)
- Sidetabs using side windows. (Reddit)
Writing:
- How I use quick-sdcv to get the Oxford English Dictionary in my Emacs
- Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.3.0 - blogmore-toggle-invite-comments, blogmore-invite-comments-to
Denote:
- New package: denote-wordcloud (Reddit)
Org Mode:
- Stupidly Simple Notes Taking With Emacs - Linux Renaissance (@darth@watch.linuxrenaissance.com)
- I built an org-mode weekday repeater, .+wd
- Jonathan Chu: Introducing grove.el - note-taking workflow for Org
- Experimental/personal PDF-viewing/notetaking minor mode I (sort of) vibe-coded. (Reddit) dired + pdfview + org
- Import, export, and integration:
Completion:
- History: delete old duplicates, but still rank by frecency (@minad@mastodon.world)
- vertico-posframe-preview: a preview sidecar for vertico-posframe (Reddit)
- VOMPECCC from Scratch: Picking Fruits and Veggies with ICR (YouTube 51:06, Reddit, HN) - incremental completing read with vertico, consult, marginalia, etc.
Coding:
- Code to run magit-status on a project (@robjperez@fosstodon.org)
- Wireframe.el Keyboard-first wireframe prototyping inside GNU Emacs.
- Auto-mark rules, snooze, marking and filters for GitHub notifications in Emacs (Reddit)
- eglot, emscripten, and clangd (@robjperez@fosstodon.org)
- Einar Mostad: Fix Emacs python-mode REPL and org code block with python evaluation problems
- uv.el – a declarative Emacs interface for the uv Python package manager (experimental) (Reddit)
- Magnus: Secrets when connecting to DBs
- Using our new Lua debbuger: LuaProbe, we made an Emacs package for it (Reddit)
- Package announcement: go-prettify-mode.el (Reddit)
- Emacs is a fantastic SQL editor - see the comments for more recommendations
Mail, news, and chat:
- Dave's blog: Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer (Irreal)
- Emails in Emacs (speziell Proton Mail) | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
Evil mode:
- Magnus: Jumping to errors in Evil
Multimedia:
- James Dyer: A Tiny Header line Tweak: Image Dimensions in image mode
Fun:
- Server play support in nethack-el: Help lobby for support on popular Nethack servers
AI:
- macher-agent: Similar to gptel-agent but within the macher context (Reddit)
- adds $ completion for Codex skills in agent-shell buffers (Reddit)
- Agent's major mode kit (Reddit)
- Emacs manager for OpenAI Codex conversations (Reddit)
- anvil.el v1.0.0 — first stable, anvil-ide split, anvil-pkg sister, and a no-Emacs path via NeLisp (Reddit)- let AI agents use Emacs as a workbench via MCP
Community:
- Emacs Carnival April 2026:
- Emacs Carnival in May (and in general) (Reddit)
- The gravitational pull of Emacs — baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
- Kent Pitman and Ramin Honary join on #commonLisp #lisp #IDE #emacs #schemacs #UX #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (@screwtape@toobnix.org)
- SimHacker/NeMACS: UniPress Emacs 2.20 for NeWS · GitHub (released 1989) (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
- Kent Pitman #demo 1977-1984 #MIT #ITS #DDT #TECO #EMACS #LISP #MACLISP - toobnix (@screwtape@toobnix.org)
- A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025, PDF) (@yantar92@fosstodon.org) - not Emacs-specific, but good to think about long-term
Other:
- Emacs 30 Now On Android - Linux Renaissance (@darth@watch.linuxrenaissance.com)
- Make Emacs inhibit logout in GNOME shell (@cidra@mastodon.uno)
- Protesilaos: Emacs: save any buffer as PDF (my new buffer-to-pdf package) (YouTube 11:08, Reddit, Irreal)
Emacs development:
- The emacs-31 branch will be cut in one week (Reddit, Irreal)
- Demote 'completion-preview-is-calling'
- Project prompters always default to current project, if any
- New variable 'completion-preview-is-calling'
- Always compile w32image.c on MinGW (Bug#80924)
- New VC commands for remote unintegrated changes
- New commands to report diffs of all local changes
New packages:
- emcp: Lets your agent talk to Emacs (MELPA)
- forgejo: Emacs Forgejo Front-end (GNU ELPA)
- grove: Obsidian-like note-taking for org files (MELPA)
- keymap-popup: Described keymaps with popup help (GNU ELPA)
- mysql: Pure Elisp MySQL wire protocol client (MELPA)
- outline-stars: Outshine-style star headings for outline-minor-mode (MELPA)
- simulacrum: Inject custom event types into the event stream (MELPA)
- sql-bigquery: Adds BigQuery support to SQLi mode (MELPA)
- tmux-csi-u: Tmux CSI-u decoder (MELPA)
- ttx-mode: TrueType/OpenType font viewer using ttx (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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2026-04-27 Emacs news

Apr 27, 2026| emacs, emacs-news

There was a big discussion on lobste.rs about people's favourite Emacs packages and that sparked similar conversations on Reddit and HN. Discussions like that are a great source of inspiration. I added a couple of small improvements to my config based on this week's Emacs news, like diff-hl.

Also, lots of people expressed their appreciation for Chris Wellons, who is moving on to other editors for now. Me, I've enjoyed using simple-httpd, impatient, and skewer, and I'm glad Chris made and shared them. Many of his packages already have new maintainers, and the rest are up for adoption. Perhaps we'll see him around again someday!