Lots of little improvements in this one! I'm looking forward to borrowing the config tweaks that bbatsov highlighted and also trying out popterm for quick-access shells. Also, the Emacs Carnival for April has a temporary home at Newbies/starter kits - feel free to write and share your thoughts!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313909207/ Tue Apr 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Apr 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/314166900/ Sat Apr 18 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • What is the absolute minimum to cover in first emacs session
  • Cómo aprender Emacs gráficamente gracias a Sacha Chua (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • video demo of anju 1.1.0 - enhance mouse interactions (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • YE13: Working on modularizing my config (01:23:26)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Dave Pearson: expando.el v1.5 - macroexpand and pretty-print
  • Charles Choi: Computing Days Until with Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Listful Andrew: Counting Words V: More solutions in Emacs Lisp
  • Listful Andrew: Phones-to-Words Challenge V: Clojure-inspired Emacs Lisp
  • collect-alist-from-tree
  • Emacs Redux: The Many Faces of flet: cl-flet, cl-labels, and cl-letf
• Appearance:
  • Dave Pearson: quiz.el v1.7 - how to use :extend t to make a face extend to the edge
  • Ember for Emacs - A warm, nearly monochrome Doom Emacs theme. (Reddit)
  • I've now created a theme for Emacs, inspired by the Yotsuba B theme from 4chan. (Reddit)
  • Dave Pearson: fasta.el v1.1 - bioinformatics: font-locking sequences
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs modus-themes live stream (YouTube 02:44:36)
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Redux: Live Regexp Feedback with minibuffer-regexp-mode
  • ediff config tips
  • Tip about closing multiple Emacs buffers
  • easysession.el 1.2.1 (Reddit) - frame names, bugfixes, elpaca, daemon mode
  • vincentjgoh/avy-dashboard: avy keys for emacs dashboard · GitHub (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Charles Choi: Calming Mouse Interaction in Dired
• Writing:
  • Tip about using Emacs to enter Unicode
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.0 more public utility functions
  • overleaf.el 1.1.5 3-way conflict resolution
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs live stream for writing Denote tests and more (YouTube, 03:06:26)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Should org-forward/backward-sentense respect element boundaries?
  • Org-Better-Agenda (Reddit)
  • [EMACS LAB] #3: Introduction to Org Mode (01:57:55)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Tangle Emacs config snippets to different files and add boilerplate
  • org-mindmap — simple inline mind maps for Org (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • Org ediff config tips
  • The issues with issue trackers — Bastien Guerry (@ThierryStoehr@framapiaf.org) - Bark is what Org Mode uses
  • Emacs 31.x Orgmode version mismatch - Blog In Isolation (@andyc@mastodon.me.uk)
  • [EMACS LAB] #4: "literate" programming (org-babel) (01:38:44)
  • I built a Things 3-inspired web frontend for org-agenda (looking for feedback) (Reddit)
  • Tutorial para blogear como Notxor (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • GitHub - steve-downey/surround: Surround Source Code for org-transclusion (Reddit)
  • Tip about org-babel-remote-temporary-directory
  • Embark Org shortcut for displaying difference between timestamp and today
  • Org development:
    • ox-icalendar: Add export blocks and keywords
    • ox-html.el: support line numbers as a :before element in code blocks
    • org-support-shift-select: Allow forcing shift-select-mode on timestamps
• Coding:
  • djgoku/compilation-history: Automatic compilation history tracking for Emacs with searchable SQLite-backed storage. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Wiring Flymake Diagnostics into a Follow Mode
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/flymake-kubeconform: real-time validation of Kubernetes manifests using kubeconform (Reddit)
  • Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too) (lobste.rs)
  • Stop Jujutsu from auto-committing everything (03:34)
  • Making a major mode - ocaml (Reddit)
• Math:
  • ESR v1.0.0: An R tree sitter mode (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Tip about shell-command-on-region
  • [Ann] New package Popterm [posframe+terminal]​ (Reddit)
  • Show: How I added a list of other vterm buffers in the modeline
  • kitty-graphics.el v0.4.0: Sixel support, text sizing protocol, agent-shell integration (Reddit)
• Web:
  • EWW! A Web in My Editor! « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 2.0.16 - featured tags (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Evil mode:
  • evim — multiple cursors for evil-mode, inspired by vim-visual-multi (now on MELPA) (r/emacs, r/DoomEmacs)
  • evil-matchit 4.1.0 is published (Reddit) - Julia, skip lines that match regex
• Multimedia:
  • [21] Working on Canvas Patch (Contd..) - 4/6/2026, 3:33:42 PM - Dyne.org TV and 5:51:25 PM
  • laNotte excerpt (08:18)
• EXWM:
  • EXWM on termux! (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • tamagotchi on emacs! (Reddit)
  • Server play support in nethack-el (Reddit)
• AI:
  • ann new packages: agent-shell-dispatch and agent-shell-ediff
  • bajsicki/gptel-got: Tooling for LLM interactions with org-mode
  • Emacs Codex IDE integration (Reddit)
  • I forced Claude to play Tetris in Emacs. (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-04-07 / week 14
  • Raising a few $thousand to keep version control magical (Reddit, Irreal) - support tarsius
  • Sacha Chua: YE12: Categorizing Emacs News, epwgraph, languages
• Other:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Deleting Files
  • Erik L. Arneson: Emacs as the Freelancer's Command Center
  • senchawizard/emacs-polydiceware: generate passwords with dice (@senchawizard@gotosocial.social)
  • I built an Emacs auth-source backend for 1Password (tested on macOS) (Reddit)
  • Few tips for faster Emacs install with MSYS2
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility - Jonas Bernoulli - it would be great to get where-is to work with transient suffixes
    • Terminology changes from a long time ago: window, pane; frame, window
  • ; New function 'ns-process-is-accessibility-trusted', no message (bug#80624)
  • Support 24-bit TrueColor on MS-Windows console
• New packages:
  • agitjo: Manage Forgejo PRs with AGit-Flow (MELPA)
  • ben: Asynchronous buffer-local environments via `direnv' (MELPA)
  • popterm: Posframe terminal toggler with smart backends (MELPA)
  • struct-completion: Keyword slot completion for cl-defstruct constructors (MELPA)
  • taskjuggler-mode: Major mode for TaskJuggler project files (MELPA)
  • tokyo-night: Shared infrastructure for Tokyo Night themes (MELPA)
  • trust-manager: Convenient trust management (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!

There's a lot of buzz around the remote code execution thing that involves Git, but it seems to be more of a Git issue than an Emacs one. This might be a workaround if you want, and in the meantime, don't check out git repositories you don't trust. There's no page for the Emacs Carnival for April yet, but you can start thinking about the theme of "newbies/starter kits" already, and I'm sure Cena or someone will round things up afterwards. Enjoy!

• Workaround for the Git-related security issue that lots of people are talking about (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #4 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c4ee8c26-c668-491e-91b3-b466578b83e2 Mon Apr 6 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Apr 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313909207/ Tue Apr 14 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Apr 14 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs live stream with Sacha Chua on 2026-04-16 17:30 Europe/Athens
• Emacs configuration:
  • Announcing Anju (Reddit) - mouse interactions for modeline, context menu, and main menu
  • Emacs Redux: Repeat Mode: Stop Repeating Yourself (Irreal, Irreal)
  • backpack 0.4.0 - adds self-documenting inventory browser (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Almighty Lisp: Lisp & Emacs Essentials - almightylisp.com (HN)
  • Dave Pearson: nukneval.el v1.3 unload and re-evaluate
  • Creating an Emacs Package from Concept to MELPA (Part 7) (57:13)
  • How to run a function when my buffer selection changes? - updated with window-state-change-hook
  • Yay Emacs live: Reorganizing my Emacs configuration so that my defuns are tangled to separate files (01:48:56)
  • Sacha Chua: YE11: Fix find-function for Emacs Lisp from org-babel or scratch (YouTube, 08:19)
• Appearance:
  • New package: outline-stars.el (Reddit)
  • occult.el - collapse buffer regions into single-line summaries (Reddit)
  • Make the left margin shine!
  • Senka07/yotsuba-emacs-theme · GitHub (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using other-window-prefix C-x 4 4
  • Tip about using windmove
• Writing:
  • Curtis McHale: Check Spelling in Emacs (YouTube 06:38)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v3.1
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new sequence scheme for the ‘denote-sequence’ package
• Org Mode:
  • [EMACS LAB] #3: Introduction to Org Mode (01:57:55)
  • aravindps/org-gtd: Things 3 style GTD for Emacs — org-mode agenda views, ⌘ keybindings, context tags. Works with Doom and vanilla Emacs. · GitHub (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • [BLOG] #27 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, February 11, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org) notes
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • lopeztel/ox-dnd-html: Emacs export org files to D&D themed html · GitHub (Reddit)
    • Adding org-protocol support (Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: Extract PDF highlights into an Org file with Python (YouTube 04:27)
    • James Endres Howell: My first advice! (in Emacs Lisp) - specifying HTML boilerplace for org-static-blog
    • RSS feeds for your org-mode website (@bgtdsword@toot.io)
    • Org-mode - Various font sizes LaTeX (04:14)
  • Org development:
    • ol: Allow targets as search option in id: links
    • org-babel: Fix and extend `org-babel-update-intermediate' variable
    • Query before attempting to overwrite existing attachment/DnD/yank file
    • Merge branch 'bugfix'
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Remove announcement about bugfix
• Completion:
  • Emacs Redux: Declutter M-x with read-extended-command-predicate (Irreal)
  • [RELEASE] let-completion v0.2.0: full overhaul of Elisp completion - 46 binding forms, function argument candidates, expandable registry, fully customizable two-column annotations (Reddit)
  • rougier/nano-vertico: Emacs / nano + vertico · GitHub (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Mike Olson - eglot-python-preset and eglot-typescript-preset: Now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Function to make eglot add IWYU headers without doing an autocomplete in the buffer
  • Dave Pearson: make-phony.el v1.3 for Makefiles
  • Daskeladden/shipit: Code review in Emacs · GitHub (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Ghostel - terminal emulator powered by libghostty (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Thanos Apollo: Bringing jabber.el Back From the Dead (@debacle@framapiaf.org)
  • mastodon.el 2.0.14 - jump to quoting toot, bugfixes, annotations (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Multimedia:
  • Using Android TTS in Emacs
• Fun:
  • Anybody interested in writing SDL games in Emacs Lisp?
    • Emacs + SDL: unblocking the unblockable (emacs-devel)
  • Dave Pearson: eg.el v1.2 Norton Guide?, thinks.el v1.13 thought bubbles, binclock.el v1.12 binary clock, obfusurl.el v2.2 obfuscating URLs
• AI:
  • I run my company from Emacs (HN)
  • Crafting an AI-Driven Workflow System - System Crafters Live! (01:52:03)
  • Will using Emacs give you an edge in the AI-era? (45:08, Reddit, Reddit)
  • The Agent-Native Editor Was Invented in 1976
• Community:
  • Emacs ATX Meetup. April 2026. - YouTube (2:04:58)
  • Sacha Chua: #YayEmacs 10: Emacs coaching with Prot: Emacs workflows and streaming (YouTube 01:06:30)
    • Sacha Chua: Thinking about Emacs coaching goals with Prot
    • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs coaching with Sacha Chua
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • The Comfort Trap (@len@toot.si)
    • Christian Tietze: Emacs Mistakes and Misconceptions That Held Me Back in 2019
    • Einar Mostad: Emacs mistakes and misconceptions
  • Prot Asks: Hjalmar about Emacs for music, the joy of art, and Internet sociability (02:04:24)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: …and then there were three (expect delays) (Irreal)
  • A Cult AI Computer’s Boom and Bust - YouTube (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Emacs Docs (Reddit, @maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis 0.10: Import Anki, Merge Everything Into One
  • doom emacs install on manjaro linux walkthrough on hyper-v vm (17:29)
• Emacs development:
  • On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility - long discussion
  • New option vc-dir-auto-hide-up-to-date
  • * lisp/vc/diff-mode.el (diff-mode-read-only-map): Bind 'v'.
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce Org update.
  • ; Fix documentation of last change
  • Recursively check dependencies for package compatibility
  • Inform macOS Accessibility Zoom of cursor position (bug#80624)
  • New macro setopt-local and function set-local (bug#80709)
  • Add xref-edit-mode (bug#80616)
• New packages:
  • compilation-history: Track compilation history in SQLite (MELPA)
  • corg: Header completion for org-mode (MELPA)
  • evim: Evil Visual Multi - Multiple cursors for evil-mode (MELPA)
  • ghostel: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (MELPA)
  • meshmonitor-chat: Chat client for MeshMonitor (Meshtastic) (MELPA)
  • occult: Collapse and reveal buffer regions (MELPA)
  • org-dt: Dynamic templating loader (MELPA)
  • org-grimoire: Emacs-native static site generator (MELPA)
  • org-invox: Invoice management for contractors using Org mode (MELPA)

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

It's not too late to write about mistakes and misconceptions as part of the Emacs Carnival for March and not too early to think about the theme of "Newbies/Starter Kits" which Cena will be hosting for April. Who knows, maybe those ideas can become part of the newcomers presets. It could be fun to explore something like notes for Emacs beginners and see where you end up.

Also, I'm looking forward to seeing if these tips for reloading Emacs Lisp code can help me avoid little bugs from leftover code.

Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313720093/ Thu Apr 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Apr 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #4 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/c4ee8c26-c668-491e-91b3-b466578b83e2 Mon Apr 6 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Apr 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Getting Started - notes in org-roam
  • Emacs Describes Almost Everything Within It 2026 03 30 03:29:50 (10:02)
• Emacs configuration:
  • general.el to Conquer Emacs Keybindings - Bicycle For Your Mind
  • compile-angel.el - Ensure that all Emacs Lisp files are always byte-compiled and native-compiled [Release 1.2.0]​
  • Emacs Redux: Emacs Prelude: Redux
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Redux: Reloading Emacs Lisp Code (Irreal)
  • rossabaker/better-calculate-lisp-indent.el: Improves indentation of quoted and backquoted lists in Emacs lisp - Codeberg.org (@ross@social.rossabaker.com)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Automatic Light/Dark Theme Switching
  • Emacs Redux: Creating Emacs Color Themes, Revisited
  • A small victory: Emacs core modification in C to set line-height less than the default
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Batppuccin: My Take on Catppuccin for Emacs
• Navigation:
  • treesitedit-mark-sexp is useful
• TRAMP:
  • The new TRAMP alternatives are probably not worth it
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: Let the commits tell the story (Irreal)
  • my minimalist emacs setup for writing (21:43)
  • blogmore.el v2.0 - davep - setting up multiple blogs (@davep@fosstodon.org) and 2.1
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: another spontaneous live stream for denote-sequence (YouTube)
  • Emacs: spontaneous live stream to implement a denote-sequence feature (02:13:01)
• Org Mode:
  • Sacha Chua: Categorizing Emacs News items by voice in Org Mode
  • Curtis McHale: Goodbye Longform Hello Emacs (YouTube 16:59, Irreal)
  • Chris Maiorana: OrgFolio | Turn your scattered interests into cultivated obsessions (Irreal)
  • aleksozolins/org-taube: Email-first capture pipeline for Org mode · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • Fixed org-babel-execute:awk to work on remote machines
    • ox-latex: Make brackets around LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS optional
• Coding:
  • iquiw/emacstreak: GitHub streak stats on Emacs · GitHub (@iquiw@mstdn.jp)
  • Migrating from asdf and direnv to mise | Masutaka's ChangeLog Memo (@masutaka@mstdn.love) - fixing ruby-lsp not working in Emacs
  • neocaml 0.6: dune major/minor mode, flymake backend (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Emacs Redux: Paredit’s Keybinding Conflicts (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Disabling Eslint in one line with Tide
  • James Dyer: Simply Annotate 0.9.8: Threaded Conversations on Your Code (Github, Reddit)
  • flymake-janet: A Flymake backend for the Janet language [v0.2.0]​
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.6: Opam, Dune, and More
  • Einar Mostad: Use python shell from virtual environment if there is one in Emacs
  • Bozhidar Batsov: fsharp-ts-mode: A Modern Emacs Mode for F#
  • Monday Live Coding with Emacs. 3/23/2026 #coding #livecoding #emacs #learnc (01:20:11)
• Shells:
  • Edit Shell Commands in Emacs with CTRL-X CTRL-E (15:43)
• Web:
  • Emacs Webpaste Is A Tool To Use Online Pastebin Services 2026_03_25_03:57:04 (18:01)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Code for reminding you about forgotten attachments
  • andros/meshmonitor-chat.el - chat client for Meshtastic mesh networks (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Fun:
  • Random Character Generator | Citizens of the Imperium (@kensanata@tabletop.social)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-03-24 / week 12
  • Emacs as a programmable workbench (Reddit)
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • EWW fragments: fixing my own mistakes | acdw.net
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and learning to reach out
    • My Emacs misconceptions - box.matto.nl
  • Emacs Redux: Happy 13th Birthday, Emacs Redux!
  • Prot Asks: Arkadiusz about blindness, Emacspeak, Hyperbole, Chinese and Slavic culture | Protesilaos Stavrou (YouTube 01:57:23)
  • xenodium wants to know if people want to sponsor Org Mode + Google Sheets sync (@xenodium@indieweb.social)
• Other:
  • Fix idle timer leak when saving buffers by kommen · Pull Request #165 · Malabarba/aggressive-indent-mode · GitHub (@kommen@hachyderm.io)
  • Emacs on the go on a Zinwa Q25 on Android
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • new branch scratch/ert-play-keys lets ERT interactively play keystrokes during tests
    • How can we improve shorthands? - Richard Lawrence
    • monitoring GC
    • "GNU ELPA packages with NonGNU ELPA dependencies" (a very long thread) that people who maintain packages in GNU ELPA might want to know about (Reddit)
  • Implement new Dired handling of errors from 'ls'
  • Add predicate for initial_terminal
  • New user option 'whitespace-global-mode-buffers'
• New packages:
  • ancient-theme: A theme about ruins (MELPA)
  • anju: Mouse UX Customizations (MELPA)
  • clj-doc-browse: Browse Clojure library docs from classpath JARs (MELPA)
  • eglot-typescript-preset: Eglot preset for TypeScript (MELPA)
  • eldoc-mouse-nov: Preview epub link for mouse hover (NonGNU ELPA)
  • flywrite: Inline writing suggestions via LLM (MELPA)
  • fsharp-ts-mode: Major mode for F# code (MELPA)
  • llm-test: LLM-driven testing for packages (MELPA)
  • ros-face: Syntax highlighting for ROS files (MELPA)
  • tetris-60: Retro ASCII Tetris (MELPA)
  • vterm-editor: Edit text in a buffer and send it to vterm (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!

Might be a good opportunity to set up better auto-saves, with buffer-guardian.el inspiring an update to super-save 0.5. Also, there were a couple of interesting experiments embedding Chromium (Reddit) or native macOS views in Emacs (Reddit), and one about embedding Emacs in a webpage (Reddit).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 25 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 26 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313720093/ Thu Apr 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Apr 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • decoupling C-m (aka RET) and <return>
• Emacs Lisp:
  • elisp-2025/el-xeger.el (Reddit)- generate text from a regex
  • [20] Working on Canvas Patch (Contd..) - 3/22/2026, 2:31:11 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Writing:
  • miljko/microbe.el: A high-performance, offline-first Emacs manager for Micro.blog · GitHub
  • blogmore.el v1.7 - davep (also 1.4 update, other post)
• Appearance:
  • Chris Maiorana: Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting (Irreal)
    • Tip about setting hl-line-range-function to identify current line in visual line mode
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.1.0
• Navigation:
  • repo-grep.el – update
• Dired:
  • Emacs - Rename currently opened file in Dired mode (03:21)
• Org Mode:
  • Which org-related packages do you use?
  • Taking Notes With Emacs Org Mode (It's Easy!) (15:35)
  • Reading your Emacs notes on-the-go, minimally. (12:07, (Reddit)
  • Srijan Choudhary: 2026-03-18-001: move Org heading title into body
  • Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management — Workshop Documents (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social)
• Coding:
  • aspiers/madolt: magit-like emacs mode for dolt · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Emacs VC-mode in action (01:34)
  • Projeto Omega - Cifra de Cesar (Emacs+Magit) (14:39)
  • Lycomedes1814/temme-mode: A rewrite of emmet-mode for Emacs, aiming for a clean and modern codebase · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: surround.el: Vim-Style Pair Editing Comes to Emacs (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Tree-sitter Font-Lock and Indentation in Comint Buffers
  • Tip about using python-indent-def-block-scale - mutliplier applied to indentation
  • Einar Mostad: Use virtual environment in Emacs' Python Mode if in a project with a venv
  • Monday Live Coding with Emacs. 3/16/2026 #coding #livecoding #emacs #learnc (01:16:08)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • newsflash.el I built a lightweight RSS news reader for Emacs with split-screen reading (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • emacs-os/elcava: Cava clone in emacs lisp · GitHub (Reddit) Audio spectrum visualizer
  • jellyfin-emms-mpv.el - Browse and play music/video from a Jellyfin server via EMMS + mpv (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • emacs is really good for ascii-art (Reddit)
  • Run Emacs in your browser with v86 (Reddit)
  • zenitsu7772000/manga-reader - Manga & Comic Reader for Emacs (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Agile & Coding: The tools of an Agentic Engineer (Reddit)
  • jlouisbiz/rcd-mcp-emacs-documentation: get_documentation, list_functions_by_prefix, search_functions, rcd_elisp_function_definition
  • MCP for Emacs - Improve your notes with ORG MODE 🦄 (10:27)
  • agent-shell-notifications released! (Reddit)
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/emacs-gptel-slim-tools: leverage etags for precise code fragment extraction (Reddit)
  • Fritz Grabo: acp2ollama in Emacs for fun and profit
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Seven Lines to Any LLM Provider
• Community:
  • I tried Neovim, but I keep coming back to Emacs
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions (Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Making Emacs output true 24-bit color in the terminal: a two-line terminfo fix
• Other:
  • buffer-terminator.el - safely auto terminate buffers for performance and reduced clutter [Release 1.2.1]​ (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: buffer-guardian.el – Automatically Save Emacs Buffers Without Manual Intervention (When Buffers Lose Focus, Regularly, or After Emacs is Idle) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • super-save 0.5: Modernized and Better Than Ever (Reddit)
  • Much Ado About Emacs 012: kirigami, visible-mark, javelin, opml, appine, buffer-guardian, isearch-lazy-count, markdown-table-wrap, surround (Irreal)
  • chaoswork/appine: embed native macOS views (WebKit, PDFKit etc.) directly inside Emacs windows. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • emacs-os/embr.el: Emacs is the display server. Headless Chromium via CloakBrowser is the renderer. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Why fork+exec Takes 100ms on My Mac: Debugging Slow Emacs with Instruments (Reddit)
  • exlee/emacs-reporter: Emacs data collector for macOS · GitHub (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: MacOS/NS Events Processing Queue - Przemysław Kamiński - VM compacting patch in case anyone wants to try it out
    • Re: Tree-sitter: Correctly parsing template-like embeddings - Yuan Fu - trade-offs for performance?
    • Re: feature/igc3 44f854bad09 2/5: Avoid remote references in face cache (analogous to bug#80601) - Eli Zaretskii - challenges with igc branch
    • Re: some Eglot-related options to consider for newcomers-presets - João Távora - language servers and newcomers-presets?
  • (Fmakunbound): Break aliasing, if present (bug#80538)
  • hideshow: Fix 'hs-hide-block-behavior' set to 'after-cursor'.
  • hideshow: New minor mode 'hs-indentation-mode'. (Bug#80179)
• New packages:
  • async-http-queue: Async HTTP queue with parallel fetching (MELPA)
  • consult-symbol: Consult-based symbol search with narrowing (MELPA)
  • flymake-zizmor: Flymake backend for zizmor, a Github Actions static analyzer (MELPA)
  • org-snitch: Project-specific org-capture and link faces (MELPA)
  • org-tag-cloud: Easily maintain a tag-cloud of org-mode tags (MELPA)
  • tiles: Tagged Instant Lightweight Emacs Snippets (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!

Security reminder: If you use kubernetes-el, don't update for now, and you might want to check your installation if you updated it recently. The repo was compromised. (Analysis, Reddit discussion, lobste.rs) If you use Emacs 31, please consider enabling package-review-policy.

There were a number of lively conversations around Emacs Solo (142 comments on HN), Emacs and Vim in the age of AI (52 comments on Reddit, 138 on HN), and agent-shell 0.47 (62 on Reddit). Also, Prot has posted the video and text of his talk Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs (YouTube 42:40, Video with Q&A, more links in the community section).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313776893/ Sat Mar 21 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 25 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 26 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Making Emacs Your Own « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • Emacs Redux: use-short-answers: The Modern Way to Tame yes-or-no Prompts (Irreal)
  • Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • minimal-emacs.d Release 1.4.0​ (Reddit)
  • Brainiac v1.2 released — Kemal's Braindump (Codeberg, Reddit) - note-taking and task-management-centered Emacs config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • futur 1.2 (Reddit) futur-abort, futur-funcall, futur-p, preliminary support for running Elisp code in subprocesses and sandbox
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Taming Font-Lock with font-lock-ignore
  • Emacs Redux: Buffer-Local Face Remapping with face-remap-add-relative
  • Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter (Reddit)
  • andros/comet.el: Cursor comet trail effect for Emacs - comet.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Navigation:
  • Nifty little modal editing implementation - selected.el, special keymap when region is active
  • Emacs Redux: isearch-lazy-count: Built-in Search Match Counting
  • kramo/scroll-beyond.el: An Emacs package to enable scrolling the point beyond window bounds - Codeberg.org (@kramo@chaos.social)
  • vmargb/arrow.el: Elisp implementation of arrow.nvim per-project and file-local bookmarks · GitHub (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Moving and Renaming Files
• Writing:
  • Re: markdown-ts-mode maturation for Emacs 31 - Rahul Martim Juliato - roadmap for markdown-ts, help wanted
  • lorniu/gt.el: Translator via engines such as Google, Bing, deepL, StarDict and Youdao, also support LLMs like ChatGPT, DeepSeek and so on. · GitHub (@kf@sonomu.club)
• Org Mode:
  • Thaodan/org-note-auto-save: Auto-save org-note buffer - Codeberg.org (@thaodan@mastodon.social)
  • niqc/org-dynamic-templates: Package for define template folder for org files - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp and NodeJS: Getting the bolded words from a section of a Google Document
  • mjamagon/arrow-lang: Arrow DSL for emacs · GitHub (Reddit) - dataflow pipeline language for Org Babel
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: Export HTML, copy files, and serve the results via simple-httpd so that media files work
  • Building a cli app to query org with clime v0.3 (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Mike Olson - Beta: Emacs Multi-LSP support for Python and Typescript frameworks - looking for Emacs users to try it out (@mwolson.org, @mikeozen)
  • Emacs Redux: Code Formatting in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Removing Paired Delimiters in Emacs (Irreal, Irreal)
  • Einar Mostad: Fix error with Cider Clojure REPL in Emacs on Guix
  • [EMACS LAB #2] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 2) (01:17:59)
  • Philip Kaludercic: Emacs after Magit
  • Rebasing in Magit (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
  • Перебазирование в Magit / Хабр (@habr@zhub.link)
  • Release v0.4.0 · bbatsov/neocaml · GitHub - bugfix (@batsov.net)
• Shells:
  • rwc9u/emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt (Ghostty's terminal engine) · GitHub (Reddit)
  • cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el: Display images in terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) via the Kitty graphics protocol
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Comparing pronunciation recordings across time
  • Sacha Chua: Small steps towards using OpenAI-compatible text-to-speech services with speechd-el or emacspeak
• Fun:
  • Solo-RPG-mode for Emacs - TTRPG-Hangout.com (Github, @enfors@ttrpg-hangout.social)
  • vkazanov/elcity: A simple SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp · GitHub (Reddit)
• AI:
  • Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Using Terminal Coding Agents from Emacs
  • Randy Ridenour: Convert Claude Quizzes to Emacs Org Mode (@randyridenour@zirk.us, Irreal)
  • agent-shell 0.47 updates (Reddit)- claude-code-acp renamed, bootstrapping and resuming
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - In-Buffer LLM Streaming
  • 038 Ollama Buddy - Tool Calling and modifying files with an ediff session #emacs #ollama (02:12)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-03-10 / week 10
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs (YouTube 42:40, Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal, Video with Q&A, other post)
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
    • Emacs Carnival de Marzo - Confusiones y prejuicios | Texaco blog (@texaco@defcon.social)
    • Emacs carnival: Mistakes and misconceptions (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
    • noa ks: You don't not need the mouse
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-02 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Low Tech High Life: Emacs magia y liberación · Inicio (Spotify, @alvarmaciel@mastodon.social)
  • Humanities in the Machine - Blain Smith - mentions RMS, GNU, and Emacs
• Other:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Create Directories
  • Indexing Info Manuals — Alex Carney (@alcarney@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs Internal #03: Tagged Union, Tagged Pointer, and Poor Man's Inheritance | The Cloudlet (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • reka: A window manager inside of Emacs for the Wayland world (Reddit) - mentioned in Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager
  • chaoswork/appine: using a dynamic module that allows you to embed native macOS views (WebKit, PDFKit etc.) directly inside Emacs windows (Reddit)
  • My little Emacs OTG setup (Reddit)
  • Emacs running on my iPad. - using ish
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: long discussion about deprecated code, warnings, and compat release schedule
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/error-API'
  • Add new function 'ensure-proper-list' (bug#80598)
  • Add references to "User Lisp" Info node where applicable
  • etags-regen: Don't try to generate tags during completion, by default
  • * etc/NEWS: Announce 'package-vc-install-from-checkout' obsoletion
  • Add 'xref-mouse-mode' minor mode
  • ; Add missing documentation for new 'cus-edit' bindings
  • (smerge-refine-regions): Refactor a bit and work between buffers
  • Improve the error API
• New packages:
  • buffer-guardian: Automatically Save Buffers Without Manual Intervention (MELPA)
  • ekg-agent: Agent tools for ekg (MELPA)
  • ekg-denote: Denote integration for ekg (MELPA)
  • markdown-table-wrap: Word-wrap GFM pipe tables to fit window width (MELPA)
  • stan-ts-mode: Major mode for editing Stan files (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!

If you use kubernetes-el, don't update for now, and you might want to check your installation if you updated it recently. The repo was compromised a few days ago.

I've occasionally wanted to tangle a single Org Mode source block to multiple places, so I'm glad to hear that ob-tangle has just added support for multiple targets. Niche, but could be handy. I'm also curious about using clime to write command-line tools in Emacs Lisp that handle argument parsing and all the usual stuff.

If you're looking for something to write about, why not try this month's Emacs Carnival theme of mistakes and misconceptions?

Enjoy!

• Security:
  • First (?) hacked Emacs package: kubernetes-el (Reddit)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Mar 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Mar 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou - FLOSS@Oxford https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou Thu Mar 12 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 13 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 18 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs: Buffers, Frames, and Windows, A Brief Introduction « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Elpaca Version 0.1.0 (Reddit) accepts use-package :vc keyword
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: defvar-keymap hints for which-key
  • Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suite (Reddit, Irreal)
    • Charles Choi: Casual now available on NonGNU ELPA (Irreal)
  • Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • cosmicz/clime: Build real CLI tools in pure Emacs Lisp. Declare commands, options, and args in a single form — clime handles parsing, –help, error messages, and dispatch. ./myapp.el just works. · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Async link fetching in Emacs
  • Progress (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual) (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Emacs Internal #02: Data First — Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C | The Cloudlet (HN)
  • [19] Working on Canvas API Patch - 3/8/2026, 2:28:14 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • [19] Working on Canvas API Patch - 3/8/2026, 3:49:58 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: four new themes are coming to the ‘doric-themes’
• Navigation:
  • My first meaningful hack of Emacs (proper isearch) - search with recenter after threshold
  • Emacs Redux: expreg: Expand Region, Reborn (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Transpose All The Things (Irreal)
• Dired:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Copying Files
• Writing:
  • Wai Hon: Introducing markdown-indent-mode (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Curtis McHale: Stop Mixing DONE and TODO in Org — Auto-Sort Like a Pro (YouTube 05:15)
  • a niche emacs productivity system (28:31)
  • Irreal: Abrams On Literate Programming Redux
  • We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era | silly business (lobste.rs)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Display images with Org-attach and org-insert-link quickly and effectively (Irreal)
  • Latex preview on Emacs tty
  • Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks (Reddit)
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/chrono-org: extract logbooks for sleek, Clockify-style web visualizations using Chart.js and org-publish (Reddit)
  • naiquevin/clockwise: visualize time records from org clock entries (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
  • (update) org-supertag 5.8 & 5.8.1 - Board, Graph UI & Relation Index Optimization
  • Remember to set org-latx-hyperref-template to nil if you're writing an anonymous referee report
  • lazyblorg updates: tag feeds, random articles on this day, list of external URLs (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis: Design Mistakes Roam-inspired note-taking system, 0.8.0 release notes
  • Org development: ob-tangle.el: Support tangling a source block to multiple targets
• Completion:
  • gggion/let-completion.el: Let-binding values in Elisp completion · GitHub (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Expanding yasnippets by voice in Emacs and other applications
• Coding:
  • Emacs Redux: Mastering Compilation Mode
  • Tip on using built-in vc-mode with C-x v (useful: C-x v d, C-x v v, C-x v L)
  • James Cherti: pathaction.el: execute pathaction rules, the universal Makefile for the entire filesystem (Github)
  • gcv/julia-snail: An Emacs development environment for Julia · GitHub
  • [EMACS LAB #2] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 2) (01:17:59)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Lispy and Iedit
  • Meta Redux: What’s Next for clojure-mode?
  • The Emacs Cat: Emacs, Software Development, and LLM
• Math:
  • Why did I create ESR (my thoughts on ESS) | Teoten's blog (@teoten@social.linux.pizza)
• Evil mode:
  • Sid Kasivajhula: On “Tempo” in Text Editing - normal Emacs commands in insert mode (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • Launching Brogue from Emacs via transient
• AI:
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • simple LLM text and images meets org-mode
  • Claude Code + Org Mode + Git + Hooks
  • Transformei meu segundo cérebro em uma IA em 4 minutos (08:43) - with org-roam
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 13: agent-shell charting (YouTube 28:11, Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Web Search Integration (YouTube 02:12)
• Community:
  • My Emacs Misconceptions — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: I talk with Joshua Blais about Emacs and life issues
  • Org Social social network summary, 2.11 update with bugfixes
  • Org Social - Reading (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • koreader json to org: convert KOReader JSON highlights to Org mode, also here (@srijan@indieweb.social)
  • For Mac users: pbcopy.el spawns two subprocesses on every C-y - suggests alternate implementation
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • notes on CEDET and EDE
    • Re: Sending `quit` to a batch Emacs process - Eli Zaretskii Thinking about how to interrupt batch processes
  • New user option and function 'recentf-exclude-ignored-extensions'
  • New user option vc-display-failed-async-commands
  • Make 'frame-use-time' more reliable. (bug#80397)
  • Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'
  • New command 'unfill-paragraph'
  • Revert "Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'"
  • Add mirroring for special glyphs (bug#80440)
  • Rename 'any' to 'member-if' and deprecate 'cl-member-if'
  • Make tree-sitter thing navigation handle nested parsers
• New packages:
  • emacs-lisp-intro-es: ELisp intro manual in Spanish (GNU ELPA)
  • hackernews-modern: Hacker News client with modern widget UI (MELPA)
  • helm-eca: Helm UI for ECA chats/workspaces (MELPA)
  • let-completion: Show let-binding values in Elisp completion (MELPA)
  • magit-browse-commit: Browse pull/merge requests from magit-blame (MELPA)
  • markdown-indent-mode: Dynamic indentation for Markdown (MELPA)
  • mathprog-ts-mode: Major mode for the GNU MathProg modeling language (MELPA)
  • md-ts-mode: Major mode for Markdown using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • mutype: Type into stillness (MELPA)
  • org-eval: Execute named org-mode blocks on load/save (MELPA)
  • php-fill: Additional fill commands for PHP code editing (GNU ELPA)
  • rtf-view: View Rich Text Format files (MELPA)
  • solo-rpg: Solo roleplaying games support functions (MELPA)
  • yomikata: Annotates Japanese text with reading tooltips (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!

Hello folks! Last month's Emacs Carnival about completion had 17 posts (nice!), and Philip Kaludercic is hosting this month's Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions. Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3147760f-1a8b-4996-9b3c-2773d7d360ca Mon Mar 2 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Mar 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 6 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313161406/ Thu Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Mar 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Mar 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou - FLOSS@Oxford https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou Thu Mar 12 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Mar 13 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs: (My) First Steps « Here's The Beef (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • Emacs is Installed! Try These 3 Ways to Start It Now (Zero Init! | CLI Hacks) (2) - [7-ish minutes]​ (07:11)
  • Emacs Is Installed! Your User Directory Explained (.emacs.d Deep Dive) (3) - [5:36]​ (05:36)
  • Emacs Is Installed! How Can I Create A Shortcut That Just Starts This Baby up? (5) - [10:12]​ (10:12)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • truename-cache: Efficiently de-dup file-names (Reddit)
  • andros/async-http-queue-fetch-urls-el - Lightweight, parallel HTTP fetching library for #emacs using url-retrieve (native) with configurable concurrency limits (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • [09] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Text Selection and Highlighting - 8/10/2025, 3:03:09 PM - Dyne.org TV (@reeltubes@mstdn.party)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Soft Wrapping Done Right with visual-wrap-prefix-mode
• Navigation:
  • Elegant implementation of other-window-mru
  • Emacs Redux: Preview Regex Replacements as Diffs
• TRAMP:
  • Christian Tietze: Media Transfer Protocol Tools
• Writing:
  • Sacha Chua: Using speech recognition for on-the-fly translations in Emacs and faking in-buffer completion for the results
• Denote:
  • Cycle through Denote journal entries, trash empties (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
• Org Mode:
  • Dave's blog: Calculating RAGBRAI training actual vs. planned mileage (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • Prettifying org-agenda (Reddit)
  • Elsa Gonsiorowski: Emacs Carnival: Org Mode Completions
  • Sacha Chua: Sorting completion candidates, such as sorting Org headings by level
  • org-repeat-by-cron.el v1.1.2 released - compatibility with built-in repeaters and habits, deadline recurrence
  • Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
  • colonelpanic8/org-window-habit - A more flexible habit system (Reddit)
  • lordnik22/org-link-battery: It's the missing battery using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
  • pjones/org-inline-image-mode: Update displayed images as an org-mode buffer changes. (@devalot@hostux.social)
  • skx/org-people: Contact management for org-mode
  • lordnik22/org-link-battery: using bookmark+ adding jump-to- and completion-candidates to org (Reddit)
  • schrenker/org-agecrypt: Encrypt org entries with age - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • Thanos Apollo: Gnosis 0.7.0 Release Notes - knowledge management system
  • Migrating website to orgmode - roosnaflak.com (@kf@sonomu.club)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: I think I found what crashed my Emacs on macOS
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: Add `org-latex-default-example-environment'
    • ox-latex: Pass :options to #+begin_example
    • org-mouse: Add actions to priority menus
    • org-mouse: Separate tag and priority menus
• Completion:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Feb 2026 wrap-up: Completion
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Completion
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs completion and handling accented characters with orderless
  • Using Pinyin initials with orderless in Emacs (@SouthFox@foxsay.southfox.me)
  • A Year Without Vertico - System Crafters Live! (01:14:56)
• Coding:
  • Moving to Structural Diffs | Trying out Difftastic (01:29:57, @abcdw@fosstodon.org)
  • Keybinding for easily comparing with upstream in Magit
  • Emacs Redux: So Many Ways to Work with Comments (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • [EMACS LAB #1] Do zero a uma IDE para programar em C (parte 1) (01:00:27)
  • yaml-language-server added CRD auto-detection (Reddit)
  • calsys456/lisp-semantic-hl.el: Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Common Lisp & Elisp (Reddit)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Setting up Emacs for OCaml Development: Neocaml Edition (Github, HN)
  • I'm amazed by how good emacs is for game development (Irreal)
  • overcast-software/glnt-ts-mode: emacs lsp-glint (Reddit)
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Building Emacs Major Modes with TreeSitter: Lessons Learned (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • LuciusChen/clutch: MySQL, PostgreSQL & SQLite; paginated result browser, record view, inline editing, schema browser, and REPL. (Reddit, @Lucius_Chen)
• Math:
  • symbol-cruncher: Computer algebra system for computations in differential geometry, built on top of GNU Maxima and maxima-interface.
• Shells:
  • cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el: Display images in terminal Emacs (emacs -nw) via the Kitty graphics protocol. (Reddit, HN)
  • Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • andros/hackernews-modern-el (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • martianh/mastodon.el 2.0.9, quote system, optional desktop notifications (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Multimedia:
  • noa ks: Engraving sheet music with lilypond
• AI:
  • Joar von Arndt: Vibe-coding Brings the Power of Emacs to Everything
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Complete: Feedback Loops in Emacs, Feedback Loops in Computing
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Pros and cons of using LLM for patches beyond simple copyright (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org mode, agentic coding and ekg - YouTube
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 12: agent-shell + Claude Skills (YouTube 26:02, @xenodium@indieweb.social, Reddit)
  • How I use agents in emacs: agent-shell + persp-mode + git worktrees (Reddit, Doom Emacs config)
  • 037 Ollama Buddy - In-Buffer responses with in-line inspection #emacs #ollama (01:28)
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v2.5 - RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Support
  • copilot.el 0.4 is out with many improvements! proper LSP, select model, balance parentheses (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-02-24 / week 08
  • Who remembers XEmacs?
  • Common Desktop Environment experience (XEmacs, Unix) in your browser (Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-01 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs Carnival March 2026: Mistakes and Misconceptions
  • Goodbye #emacs #emacsnews (01:09) Emacs Elements
• Other:
  • Emacs Internal #01: is a Lisp Runtime in C, Not an Editor | The Cloudlet (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • rossabaker/iec-mode-line.el: display buffer size in IEC units in the mode line (@rossabaker.com, @ross@social.rossabaker.com)
  • GitHub - srs.el: Spaced repetition system for emacs. (BETA) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Some notes on EIEIO vs cl-defstruct
  • Teach Emacs on MS-Windows how to export frame screenshots
  • New variable 'multiple-terminals-merge-keyboards'
  • Allow more fine configuration of package retention
  • Add option to keep previous package versions on upgrade
  • New function multiple-command-partition-arguments
  • Compare circular lists in 'equal' without error (bug#80456)
• New packages:
  • citar-typst: Typst support for citar (MELPA)
  • conflict-buttons: Clickable buttons for smerge-mode conflicts (MELPA)
  • d2-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for D2 (MELPA)
  • dorgygen: Source code documentation in org-mode (MELPA)
  • elfeed-ai: AI-powered article summarization for elfeed (MELPA)
  • lisp-chat: Emacs client for Lisp Chat (MELPA)
  • lit-ts-mode: Lit-aware JS/TS modes with tree-sitter support (MELPA)
  • org-people: Work with a contact-list in org-mode files (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!