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

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

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

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

to get it to work for now. Additional resources:

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

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

• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31.1 is released! (Reddit, HN, HN, HN, Irreal, lobste.rs) - including this again from last week
  • Mickey Petersen: What's New in Emacs 31.1? (Reddit, HN) - including this again from last week
  • Android builds of Emacs 31.1 now available
  • Emacs 31.1 binaries now available for Windows (Reddit)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316121976/ Thu Sep 3 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Sep 4 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #9 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/8711d3f8-b0d7-48bf-a64b-8cd48eed728c Mon Sep 7 1900 CET
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/316294538/ Tue Sep 8 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Sep 8 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Sep 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 11 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • [Article] What's in the Emacs 31 newcomers-presets theme? by Sacha Chua (Reddit)
  • No instales otro editor hasta ver esta guía de Emacs en Linux (17:25)
  • Introduction to the GOAT IDE - Vanilla Emacs (14:09)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Andros Fenollosa: How I organize my Emacs configuration (Irreal)
  • Chris Maiorana: Don’t go bankrupt, go local (Irreal)
  • James Cherti: Securing and reducing prompts for Emacs .dir-locals.el and local variables
  • Measuring Emacs Startup Time More Accurately Than the Built-in emacs-init-time Function (Reddit)
  • Guard.el on Melpa (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Tip about using unread-command-events to simulate keyboard input (@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)
  • Doom Emacs: debugging a yasnippet issue with edebug (01:16:31)
  • Emacs Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie (19:34)
• Appearance:
  • cursor-breathe-mode.el - animate cursor and make it "breathe" (@etenil@toot.cat)
  • New Package (minibuffer-frame) (Reddit)
  • Configuring Emacs Scrolling for Better Performance and Usability (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Larp. Emacs Rice 🦄 (12:45, and also Larp. Emacs Rice FIX 🤎📜🧸 03:11)
• Navigation:
  • Improved hierarchical imenu entries for elisp - fold defun/use-package under sections (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • kirigami.el 1.2.0 - A unified way to fold and unfold code and text in Emacs​ (Reddit)
  • easysession.el 1.3.0: Persist and Restore Emacs sessions​ (Reddit)
• Hyperbole:
  • Hyperbole HyRolo: Search, Retrieve and Insert Records, Not Lines (YouTube 25:47, (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • James Cherti: Fixing Emacs Dired Defaults: Settings for Better File Management (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 5 dict, hippie-expand, ispell
  • An unofficial guide to markdown-ts-mode on Emacs 31 (Reddit, HN)
  • Emacs Treesitter Markdown Mode - First Impressions (17:47)
  • mado/emado update: static binaries, fuzzy matching, and more (Reddit) - markdown organizer for Emacs
  • Emacs Redux: Meet Utterson, my Jekyll blogging helper
  • Irreal: Fixing Define-word
• Denote:
  • Donovan R.: My way of handling knowledge (Emacs Carnival - The Search for Knowledge)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Include :var expansion in expanded noweb references (was: ob-clojure :var header argument not work when src block is noweb called by another src block)
  • Emacs Carnival Aug 2026: Information management and knowledge graphs
    • Carnaval d'Emacs d'août 2026 : la gestion d'information et les graphes de connaissances
  • Automatically insert a checkbox into the new Org list item if the current item has one, even with M-RET (org-meta-return) (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de) (acts like M-S-RET, org-insert-todo-heading)
  • Updated my ob-glsl module to use Emacs 32 Canvas for animation (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • lisp/org-capture.el: Accept omitted or nil headline for the file+headline
    • lisp/org-capture.el: Accept omitted or nil olp for file+olp+datetree and file+olp
    • org: Add org-submit-feature-request and org-submit-patch commands
    • ol: Add new custom variable org-link-preview-include-descriptive
• Completion:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: completion-preview-mode and the Completions buffer (Emacs 31) (YouTube 09:18, Reddit)
  • Silence the bell during minibuffer completions that may not be strict - minibuffer-completion-help (@ross@rossabaker.com)
  • Snippets + completion read
• Coding:
  • Configuring Python Development in Emacs: Eglot, Pylsp, and Dynamic Ruff Integration (Reddit)
  • Configuring Emacs Eglot for Optimal Performance (Reddit)
  • How to remove Eglot from the mode line (@jamescherti)
  • envrc.el package - Rewrite to support optional async or time-limited direnv invocation by purcell · Pull Request #130 · purcell/envrc · GitHub (@sanityinc@hachyderm.io)
  • Meta Redux: Smarter Form Targeting Is Not Coming to CIDER (previous)
• Shells:
  • Tip about using -a (–alternate-editor) so you can use emacsclient even without having started daemon mode (@citizen428@chaos.social)
  • What kind of wizardry is possible in M-x shell?
• Web:
  • andros/kagi-search.el: Browse Kagi search results inside Emacs, in a plain buffer, without a graphical browser and without JavaScript (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • browsel has been renamed to browser-gt and is now available on MELPA (v0.95). (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Andros Fenollosa: A year of Org Social, my social network
• Multimedia:
  • bartbunting/emacsvox: An experiment in modernization of Emacspeak · GitHub (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
  • Charles Choi: Announcing shazam.el (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • RFC: card-games (MELPA) - thirty-five single and multi-player games for emacs (1.0.92:rc2)
  • Uniline goes 2.5 dimensions - followup
• LLMs:
  • seewhydee/dsh-emacs-bridge: Deepseek Harness to Emacs bridge · GitHub (@cyd@kopiti.am)
  • Using LLMs to make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again (16:32)
  • ellm - Plain text LLM agent (Reddit)
  • [New package] openclaw-sessions: monitor multiple OpenClaw TUI sessions from Emacs (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-08-25 / week 34
  • why I prefer emacs over vim (for writing & lisp programming) (06:50)
  • Emacs Chat 30: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2) (01:05:56)
• Other:
  • caffeinated-compile: prevent sleeping on MacOS (@Viiru@corteximplant.com)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Transforming yanked text
• Emacs development:
  • Recognize comment-prefixed headings in outlines
  • Mark timezone-world-timezones obsolete
  • Mark math-tzone-name obsolete
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce IME support on w32 TTY frames. (Bug#81495)
  • viper-ex: Implement z command
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce addition of 'uuid' library.
  • Add button to diff failed erts-file test output in ERT
  • * lisp/dired.el (dired-jump-map): Remove key 'j' bound to 'dired-jump'.
• New packages:
  • consult-magit: Switch and manage magit buffers with consult (MELPA)
  • cperl-mode: Perl code editing commands (GNU ELPA)
  • eglotx: Native LSP multiplexer for Eglot (MELPA)
  • full-gtd: Complete Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow for org-mode (MELPA)
  • gptel-inline: Persistent gptel session that follows you around (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-backend: Content-addressed LaTeX-to-SVG image rendering (MELPA)
  • magent: AI coding agent (MELPA)
  • org-draw: Draw into Org from a browser (MELPA)
  • org-relative-date: Live relative-date overlays on org timestamps (MELPA)
  • project-nix-store: Project backend for Nix-like store (NonGNU ELPA)

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!

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

• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31.1 is released! (Reddit, HN, HN, HN, Irreal)
  • Mickey Petersen: What's New in Emacs 31.1? (Reddit)
  • EmacsWiki : Emacs Thirty One Highlights (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 26 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 27 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316144053/ Sat Aug 29 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316121976/ Thu Sep 3 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Sep 4 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • laech/emacs-esc: Emacs escape key to behave like a normal escape key, in both GUI and terminal. · GitHub (@ohmrun@techhub.social)
  • Charles Choi: Simplifying Setup for Casual (Irreal)
  • Emacs startup: Why setq beats setopt, customize-set-variable, and use-package :custom (Reddit, Irreal)
  • My vanilla Emacs to IDE writeup (Reddit)
  • elpacman – a package manager for the CLI (Reddit)
  • emacs config - Day 15 of using emacs (Reddit)
  • Weekend init file hacking (Reddit)
  • Publishing My Emacs Config - Output Error
  • My Emacs configuration (Mastodon) (@evgandr@bsd.cafe)
  • Studium Emacs - The Universe of Joshua Blais
• Emacs Lisp:
  • mattiase/xr: Inverse of rx: convert Emacs string regexps to rx form · GitHub (@aethor@fosstodon.org)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Omarchy Quattro dynamic theming support (Reddit)
• TRAMP:
  • Emacs Tramp Mode for SSH (00:18)
• Writing:
  • Emacs: Configuring Flyspell, Ispell, and Aspell to Minimize False Positives in Source Code and Prose (Reddit)
  • Comprobado de Faltas de Ortografía en Emacs - MoiDev - Blog personal de Moises Gallego (@jdrm@social.linux.pizza)
  • (not very new) package: latex-table-wizard (Reddit)
  • emado: manage 100k+ markdown entries from Emacs at native speed (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • No Graph Needed — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Denote Dynamic Org Block | Advanced (15:02)
  • denote-spatial (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Include :var expansion in expanded noweb references (was: ob-clojure :var header argument not work when src block is noweb called by another src block)
  • Easy Research with Emacs and Org Mode (3:32, Reddit)
  • Org mode para GNU Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Tracking Reading in Emacs - Output Error (@rickwysocki@mas.to)
  • org-other-agenda: render the same Org agenda data as a board (Reddit)
  • Introducing pandoc-org-reader - Nemin's Blog (@nemin@ohai.social)
  • pdf text reflow (Reddit) - extract PDF text into Org
  • Randy Ridenour: HTML Preview for Org Files (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • KallDrexx/emacs-zero-to-ide-journey · GitHub (@jamescherti)
  • GHA Status badge in Magit buffer (Reddit)
  • How to Use HTML Mode in Emacs (12:04)
  • I decided to give eglot a try after using lsp-mode for a while. (Java focused) (YouTube 07:49, (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Display comments of a reddit post inside elfeed
• Spacemacs:
  • Spacemacs | Bug fixing & Package updates (07:16, in French)
• Multimedia:
  • An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Canavs Patch is Merged! Long Live Emacs! - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • A REPL for learning SVG (with a variant of eepitch; 2026)
• Fun:
  • nosrednayduj/moo-el: Emacs library for connecting to MOO servers. - Codeberg.org (@nosrednayduj@hachyderm.io)
• LLMs:
  • Play your LLM like an instrument (stdin | LLM | stdout) (28:24, Reddit)
  • Thanos Apollo: My Emacs Agentic Workflow
  • Donovan R.: 💭 I Smell Emacs and Smalltalk on DSH (DeepSeek Harness)
  • Matt Maguire: AI Agents Take Over Lesson Prep
• Community:
  • What made you try Emacs?
  • Prot Asks: Per Nordlöw about his Emacs extensions (01:50:38)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 29: Abdallah Maouche (en français) (YouTube, 58:41)
• Other:
  • Emacs: Copy-paste without org-mode formatting bleeding into other buffers | James Cherti (@jamescherti, Reddit) - face and yank-excluded-properties
  • warnings-timestamp-mode.el (@mosu@hachyderm.io)
  • andros/efinger.el: Finger protocol (RFC 1288) client for Emacs with an Elfeed-inspired reader. - Forgejo: Beyond coding. We forge. (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • My phone is now just an emacs interface - The Universe of Joshua Blais
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: SDL terminal type - limitations of GTK 4
    • Re: current-time-list now defaults to nil in Emacs master - Paul Eggert - notes on convert-time and encode-time
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Document improved Emoji support on text terminals.
  • viper-ex: Implement list and number commands
  • Allow evaluating Eshell forms using lexical binding
  • Document Eshell's Lisp pipes feature
  • Make electric-pair-mode respect field boundaries (bug#50236)
• New packages:
  • auto-capitalize: Automatic capitalization with batteries included (MELPA)
  • browser-gt: WebSocket bridge to a Chrome/Firefox extension (MELPA)
  • cypher-ts-mode: Cypher editing mode (MELPA)
  • doom-game: DOOM on Emacs (NonGNU ELPA)
  • efinger: Finger client and .plan feed reader (MELPA)
  • flymake-harper: Flymake backend for Harper (GNU ELPA)
  • gptel-agent-harness: Autonomous coding-agent harness for gptel-agent (MELPA)
  • guard: Custom modular init framework (MELPA)
  • hel: Helix Emulation Layer (MELPA)
  • minibuffer-frame: Minibuffer in centered child frame (MELPA)
  • mu4e-autotask: Email automation for mu4e (MELPA)
  • peppers-theme: Custom dark theme based on modus framework (MELPA)
  • sapling: Magit-like interface for Sapling (NonGNU ELPA)
  • schlau-compile: Git-root-aware interface to `compile' (MELPA)
  • shazam: Shazam Interface (macOS only) (MELPA)
  • vc-sapling: VC backend for Sapling (NonGNU ELPA)

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!

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

• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31.1 RC1 is available (HN)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Aug 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 26 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 27 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316144053/ Sat Aug 29 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Sacha Chua: 27 août: Emacs Chat: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2)
• Beginner:
  • My Advice for Users Wanting to Switch to Emacs | bardman's website
• Emacs configuration:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Numbered Backup Strategy (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What I learned about widget.el while building TextUI 0.2–0.5
  • Run Elisp code currently in reused sub-processes using futur (@monnier@oldbytes.space)
• Appearance:
  • TAONAW: Back to Solarized
  • Protesilaos: About Emacs themes, Solarized, and wallpapers
• Navigation:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Focus windows across Emacs frames (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • emado: manage 100k+ markdown entries from Emacs at native speed (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • De-bloat Your Notes With Denote.el (17:42)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-colview: Determine column view scope once
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Add org-delete-subtree without modifying the kill ring
  • Introduction to Org Mode (26:57)
  • Utilize texto puro para gerenciar seus hábitos (11:42)
  • Raymond Zeitler: How Much Management Does Knowledge Need?
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emphasizing a region in Org mode (Irreal)
  • Pretty titles for Org Mode buffers in Emacs - @joarvarndt.se on Bluesky
  • Using noweb syntax and elisp to manage host-specific dotfiles (Reddit)
  • Capture dotfiles using org-capture
  • Org-draw: Drawing inside org-mode using tl;draw (Reddit, YouTube 03:35)
  • [Notes] #3 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, August 15, 19:00 UTC+3 (recording, @yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development:
    • Suport for sentences for thing-at-point
    • lisp/ox-html.el: Add missing keywords and `#+OPTIONS:' in backend options-alist
• Coding:
  • A Tour of Magit's Status Interface (Reddit, @heiwiper)
  • Revisiting Flymake and Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of Flycheck v39) (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Magit – Brief demo of "Instant Fixup" (01:22)
  • blog.fidelramos.net – Custom git trailers with Magit (HN)
    • Añadir nuevos git trailers a Magit
  • A Magit-inspired diff mode for Jujutsu (jj) (Reddit)
  • Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-08-13 - limiting treesit, using editable xref
  • omidmnz/quint-ts-mode: A Tree-sitter-based Emacs major mode for Quint · GitHub (@omidmnz@functional.cafe)
  • ediprolog — Emacs Does Interactive Prolog (27:24)
  • justjoheinz/wit-ts-mode: Emacs tree-sitter major mode for WIT (WebAssembly Interface Types) files · GitHub, also WAC (WebAssembly Composition) mode (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile 3.4
• Shells:
  • emacs-run-command/run-command-runner-ghostel.el at ghostel · bricka/emacs-run-command · GitHub (@cabhan@social.tchncs.de)
• Web:
  • Andros Fenollosa: Web Design for Terminal Browsers (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Andros Fenollosa: Elpher: my tweaks for better Gemini browsing in Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Update Reddigg is now a fullblown reddit client (Reddit)
  • Elfeed performance improvements (@minad@mastodon.world)
• Multimedia:
  • Uniline goes 2.5 Dimensions
• Fun:
  • Corwin Brust: Emacs Card Games on MELPA
• LLMs:
  • New package: reviewer.el (Reddit) - temporarily annotating files or diffs without modifying the contents
  • Demo: Browse the web in the Emacs Web Browser by using LLMs to live-rewrite the page's source. (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.73 updates (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-08-11 / week 32
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs pastoral tradition (YouTube 11:22, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Prot Asks: Oliver about minimalist life, distractions, independence, and more (03:53:38)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 28: Fabrice Niessen (en français) (YouTube 59:40)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: RSI and Emacs: When Your Pinky Says Enough is Enough
• Other:
  • [eaf]「ebook-viewer」 Super Fast & Support Native Calibre's ebook-viewer on emacs. (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Emacs Development: Ongoing And Good
  • The Emacs Cat: Emacs, Dired, and Ubuntu 26.04 (Irreal)
  • compiling emacs from source (for max performance) (13:51)
  • Emacs Window Manager EWM.el (23:21)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Continuation of long discussion about difficulties compiling older versions
  • New value 'with-completions-popup' of 'icomplete-in-buffer' (bug#81537)
  • New image type canvas (Reddit, HN, @divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • cperl-mode.el: Support Perl 5.44: named parameters in signatures
  • Flymake: rework inline diagnostic text annotations
  • Preview the replacement text while it is typed (bug#81583)
  • Reimplement `outline-occur' using Xref and match Outline headings
• New packages:
  • annotated-completing-read: Ergonomic completing-read wrapper/helper (MELPA)
  • auto-side-windows: Simplified buffer management for side windows (MELPA)
  • card-games: Play card games (console UNICODE and graphical SVG) (MELPA)
  • codex-ide: Run Codex CLI in a terminal (NonGNU ELPA)
  • hermes: Emacs frontend for Hermes Agent (NonGNU ELPA)
  • ob-janet: Org-Babel support for the Janet language (MELPA)
  • pgsql: Native PostgreSQL protocol client (MELPA)
  • project-store: Project backend for Nix store (NonGNU ELPA)
  • vice-mode: VIm-like Commands Extension (MELPA)

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!

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

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315859503/ Tue Aug 11 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Aug 11 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Aug 15 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Aug 16 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Aug 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to learn Emacs, like, for real
  • Emacs for NvChads
  • Emacs for Life [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]​ ($20+)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Package Management with package-quickstart - DEV Community (JP, @gemmaro)
  • Tip about setting file-precious-flag by location with my-maybe-mark-file-precious (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
  • Emacs Config Gems - Part 3 - Melpa, UI, help, and many more
  • Emacs Config Gems - Part 4 - recycle bin, frame size, backups, autosave, autorevert, recentf
  • User Interface to Computer Applications Demonstrated in GNU Emacs (02:09:31) also available as separate videos, see video description
  • Dotfiles Season 1 Episode 4: Emacs Configuration (14:31)
  • Rate my Emacs config! (Reddit)
  • myn-macs (MY miNimal eMACS IDE setup for the lazy terminal wizard) (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charlie Holland: Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros (Reddit)
  • [ANN] TextUI is now public: responsive Flex/Grid layout for widget.el interfaces (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Display Active Clock in Emacs Frame Title (Irreal)
  • paniash/modus-vague: The vague theme for emacs, built on top of modus themes. · GitHub (@paniash@mas.to)
• Navigation:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: the ‘speedbar’ built-in file explorer (Emacs 31) (YouTube 15:40, Reddit, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Chris Maiorana: Using ffap to jump to file includes in Emacs (YouTube 07:04)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Dedicate an Emacs Window to Its Buffer
  • James Cherti: single-window.el – Always Open Emacs Buffers in the Current Active Window (GitHub, Reddit)
  • Srijan Choudhary: Emacs: desktop-save-mode without the automatic restore (Irreal)
  • My Emacs workflow with project.el and tab-bar.el project-x.el (30:39)
• TRAMP:
  • Runbox.el - for shell/compile/eglot over TRAMP in local buffers (emacs-tangents, Reddit, @cidra@mastodon.uno)
• Dired:
  • Dave's blog: Run the file in Emacs’ dired - path
  • dired-z: zoxide-style directory jumping inside Dired (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Efficient Note-taking in Emacs with Howm (@qnnnp)
  • Reversible transpose-chars and transpose-words, and a dwim that transposes around "and" or "or" (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: conditionally expand abbrev-mode definitions (YouTube 14:34, Reddit)
  • Using remark to strip words in backtick quotes before write-good analysis (@howard@pdx.social)
  • How Prot Organizes Knowledge, Projects, and Tasks in Emacs (37:53)
  • benleis1/wikimode · GitHub (YouTube, Reddit, @benleis@mathstodon.xyz) - navigate Markdown and Org files like a wiki
• Org Mode:
  • Reviewing finished tasks from last week in org-agenda and emacs (Irreal)
  • Read a .docx in Emacs with its tracked changes and comments intact, as org-mode (Reddit)
  • How to Generate PDFs from Org Mode using ox-odt (26:03)
  • rlridenour/ox-rlr-slipshow: Emacs Org mode exporter to create Slipshow Markdown files. · GitHub (@randyridenour@zirk.us)
  • Org development:
    • ox: New hook that runs after include keywords, but before macros/babel
    • org: Rename statistics scope options
• Coding:
  • Managing Changes with ediff — Alex Carney (@alcarney)
  • Tip about using diff-hl-set-reference-rev (@glyph)
  • [[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime][Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime]] (lobste.rs)
  • The Emacs Cat: Debugging in Emacs
  • Xah Talk Show Ep811. Emacs: CSS toggle px rem (30:21)
• Math:
  • r-ts-mode now on Melpa
• Shells:
  • Eshell shared history (Reddit)
  • Zoxide in eshell (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Andros Fenollosa: EWW, the Emacs browser you underestimate (HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • martianh/mastodon.el 2.1.0: collections (@mousebot@todon.nl)
• Evil mode:
  • Disable mouse drag selection in evil mode (@aud@fire.asta.lgbt)
• Multimedia:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing now-playing.el, an Emacs interface for the macOS Music app (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Replace YouTube captions from Emacs Lisp
• LLMs:
  • kriyative / elisp-agent · GitLab (@kriyative@functional.cafe)
  • blog.fidelramos.net – Supply-chain hygiene for Emacs: LLM review of package upgrades (ES)
  • AGENTS.md - discussion about whether to include AGENTS.md in Emacs source code (HN)
• Community:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat avec Richard Bonichon en français (YouTube, 01:57:39)
• Other:
  • How to Count Words In Emacs (01:09)
  • Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution Returns (Reddit)
  • bible-gateway package update: touch-typing verse memorisation, reading plans, transient menu, and more (Reddit)
  • graph-fa2 0.2.3 now available on MELPA - graph visualization
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: [PATCH] emoji on TUI emacs - Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions. Possible workaround for different composition widths?
    • Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break - Eli Zaretskii Issues with compiling older versions
  • Show-all values for speedbar user options for hiding
  • Add `outline-occur' command and `display-buffer-default-alist' variable
• New packages:
  • bitbucket-devops: Bitbucket Cloud DevOps workflows (MELPA)
  • denote-smart-sluggify-title: Denoise denote titles to save filename length (MELPA)
  • graph-fa2: ForceAtlas2 pure-elisp background-cached engine (MELPA)
  • pimacs: Emacs Client for Pi (MELPA)
  • ronny-theme: A dark colorscheme inspired by Monokai (MELPA)

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!

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

• Help wanted:
  • pkal is looking for feedback from package maintainers on how to annotate changelog entries with release info (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • Ihor Radchenko's looking for insights from maintainers on reviewing large feature branches (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Testing patches for input methods:
    • [patch] GNU emacs bug#68339 (w32 ime font size)
    • [Patch] Implement preedit text rendering for Windows
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3944ee8f-6da1-4720-b086-b9217e4f5c7b Mon Aug 3 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091679/ Thu Aug 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Aug 7 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/315859503/ Tue Aug 11 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Aug 11 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Aug 12 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Aug 15 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to Cancel a Command in Emacs (01:28)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Customize: hook to focus search field after entering customize mode (@SpaceCadet@chaos.social)
  • Handling environment variables in Emacs on OSX and Linux • Ben Mezger
  • Kakoune recipe using hel-mode https://github.com/helheim-emacs/hel/ (Reddit)
  • My Dotfiles Are an Org File | Dotfile Management with Emacs (02:38)
  • Rewriting my Emacs config (03:39:31)
• Appearance:
  • Marcin Borkowski: A fancier splash screen in terminal Emacs
  • Nice GTK tooltips for Flycheck. Works on GTK builds (Linux: Wayland/X11). (Reddit)
  • tjammer/modukai-sun-theme: Monokai Pro Light Sun based on modus-themes - Codeberg.org (@tjammer@mastodon.gamedev.place)
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Outlining in programs (Irreal)
  • Tip about using helm-multi-swoop-projectile for large-scale renaming in localization files (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
  • Project-x now on Melpa! (+ window layouts and tabs) (Reddit)
  • I decided to customize imenu-list a bit more (Reddit)
  • Flash.nvim For Emacs (16:07) - jump to locations with search labels
• Hyperbole:
  • Hyperbole Question: What do you need to better capture and navigate your knowledge base?
  • Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse (YouTube 34:21, (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • dired configuration similar to yazi keymaps. This is my dired config, share yours please:D (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • How to Turn on Word Wrap in Emacs (01:28)
  • Bicycle for Your Mind: Much Ado About Emacs 015 (Irreal) tabs, newlines, two-space shortcut
  • Raymond Zeitler: One Space or Two?
  • md-mode 0.2 — Add LaTeX, Mermaid, PlantUML and Graphviz rendering support (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Simpler file ID links in HTML export
  • Emacs with Prot: Org Mode Basics Before Projects and Capture (21:16, Protesilaos)
  • I made an Org Mode Advanced Concepts Tutorial, please check it out (Reddit)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Style & Emacs Config: A Semantic HTML Reckoning
  • grid-table 0.3.0: editable tables with horizontal and vertical merged cells for Emacs and Org (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Notes from [EVENT] #31 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, June 10, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development:
    • org-agenda-todo: Add more visual feedback on repeating tasks
    • LaTeX export: New option org-latex-fontspec-config
• Completion:
  • The Completions Buffer Is Now Enough (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: default minibuffer completions overview (Emacs 31) (YouTube, 30:56)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Em Dashes in org-mode and the Nuances of Abbrev (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Tip about using magit-commit-extend or magit-commit-instant-fixup (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Emacs Redux: Flycheck 38: Might & Magic (GitHub, Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • 4coder like scope hint implementation (Reddit)
  • Repeat-mode config for easier indent/dedent in Python (@jap@mastodon.nl)
  • Meta Redux: Leveling Up CIDER’s ClojureScript Support
  • tusharhero: Guix shell now inside Emacs! (HN, lobste.rs)
• Shells:
  • Using nix-shell in eshell (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Irreal: A Quick EWW Hack - retrieve URL from Safari, open in EWW
  • Is there a way to highlight code blocks in eww mode? - shr-tag-pre-highlight package
• Fun:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Smiley Functions
• LLMs:
  • Ram Krishnan / elisp-agent · GitLab (@kriyative@functional.cafe) - uses eval as its sole tool
  • New package: agent-shell-hq (Reddit)
  • Vibe-coded a simple vterm wrapper to make pairing AI agent sessions to projects easier (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-07-28 / week 30
  • The Prot Effect (Reddit)
  • 0015 | New Keyboards, Emacs, Neovim, Catching up (02:11:56)
• Other:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: tmr version 1.4.0
  • andros/lirve.el: Learn irregular verbs in English with Emacs - lirve.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • chmouel/komga-sync.el: Emacs mode to sync nov-mode reading progress with a Komga server · GitHub (@chmouel@fosstodon.org)
  • tnalpgge/org-hamlog: Log amateur radio contacts with Org tables - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
  • adif-mode: Major mode for viewing and editing amateur radio ADIF log files
  • linkarzu's videos:
    • Cashmere’s Emacs Workflow: Denote, Org, and Terminal Emacs (19:17)
    • [03] Emacs Projects, Org Capture, and My Workflow with Prot (02:00:05)
    • What I Need From Emacs: A Video for Prot (16:48)
      • Protesilaos: Reply to @linkarzu about ‘What I Need From Emacs’
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Looking for reasons to keep letf considering symbol-function
    • Re: eglot-tests fail for emacs-31 branch - Stefan Monnier note about needing to ensure different package managers (ex: apt, npm, package.el) interoperate correctly
  • Canvas patch resubmitted to bug tracker after lots of polishing (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Don't immediately show *​Completions* for icomplete-in-buffer
  • * lisp/cus-start.el (completion-ignore-case): Make customizable.
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce support of Kmscon. (Bug#81428)
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/intern-without-shorthands'
  • New variable comment-start-line-regexp (bug#80837)
• New packages:
  • now-playing: Interface for the macOS Music app (MELPA)
  • nu-ts-mode: Major mode for Nushell scripts, powered by treesitter (MELPA)
  • ob-agent-shell: Org-babel backend for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • promptu: Compose LLM prompts from building blocks (MELPA)
  • r-ts-mode: R treesitter mode (MELPA)

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!

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

• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31.0.91 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #8 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/3944ee8f-6da1-4720-b086-b9217e4f5c7b Mon Aug 3 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/315091679/ Thu Aug 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Aug 7 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 1 (Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: CIDER and Projectile Meet Embark (Irreal)
  • An emacs config (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Shuffle filenames (@FoxFunction@tech.lgbt)
  • Color picker for emacs (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Right-aligned Mode Line Elements (Irreal)
  • Mode line maker (Reddit)
  • Arthur A. Gleckler: mode-line-path
  • Introducing trailing-newline-indicator: Visual clarity for file-ending newlines in Emacs (Reddit)
  • New Emacs icon theme package (out of the box, supports dired, ibuffer, speedbar) with 1200+ SVG icons (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: pulsar version 1.4.0
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Hideshow mode
  • Emacs Redux: Dedicate Windows with toggle-window-dedicated (Irreal)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile 3.3
  • Emacs | Project.el (16:57)
• Dired:
  • My Emacs configuration (Dired) (HN)
  • James Dyer: Borrowing from Jasspa MicroEmacs: Dired Sort Keybindings
  • TAONAW: Dragging and dropping into Dired copies files
  • Tip: (setq dired-mouse-drag-files t) (@gijs@post.hillenius.net)
• Writing:
  • md-mode: Org-style structural editing and same-buffer rendering for Markdown (Reddit)
  • Irreal: A Small Jinx Tweak
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TODO] Fix obsolete/wrong info in worg/org-faq.org
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-agenda: combine Clocked and Closed entries
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] PDF document tagging: language code
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Font control as of today
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Small restriction in BEAMER_HEADER: WDYT?
  • Show current tasks after init (@FoxFunction@tech.lgbt)
  • Raymond Zeitler: The Problem With Tags Lists
  • Reviewing finished tasks from last week in org-agenda and emacs (@paniash@mas.to)
  • org-block-wrap: fix unsightly notches in org blocks (Reddit)
  • Kalender von Emacs Org-mode in Thunderbird exportieren - GNU/Linux.ch (@Verfassungklage@troet.cafe)
  • Org development:
    • org-odt-verse-block: Fix invalid tab indentation alignment
    • lisp/ox-html: New export option for file links
    • ox-beamer.el: Move Beamer theme definition right after documentclass
    • ox-latex: Add org-latex-default-example-options
• Completion:
  • `flex-x: built-in flex completion with AND filtering, history-aware sorting, and migemo/pyim support` (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • ryanprior/xc.el: Integrate the xc task runner with Emacs - Codeberg.org (@ryanprior)
  • jsonschema-treesit: JSON object key completion using JSON Schema and treesit
  • Seamless Lombok, JaCoCo, and Other Java Agent Integration in Emacs with JAL (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: Making CIDER More Discoverable
  • Meta Redux: Modernizing CIDER’s Completion
  • Meta Redux: Closing the Find-Usages Gap in CIDER
• Web:
  • Raymond Zeitler: How to Copy the Link at Point – an Undocumented Feature in EWW (Irreal)
  • How to enable ace-link for elpher (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Aimé Bertrand: iMessage in Emacs
  • my-jabber-esperanto-conversation - enable input methods based on chat participants (@tennoseremel@gts.skobk.in)
• LLMs:
  • emacs-semantic: Semantic search for all GNU Emacs functions. Find functions by describing what you want to do in plain English. (@hajovonta@mastodon.online)
  • llm-buddy demo: automatic error detection and fixing in Emacs! (10:26)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.63 updates (Reddit, lobste.rs)
• Community:
  • Charlie Holland: The Search for Knowledge: Emacs Carnival August 2026
  • What do you NOT use Emacs for, that Emacs is (reasonably) capable of doing?
  • My Experience Using Emacs for a Month as a Long-Time Neovim User
• Other:
  • Emacs is a Lispboard (Reddit, HN)
  • Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You (Reddit, HN)
  • bartbunting/emacspeak-support: Speech enabling emacs packages · GitHub (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
  • Emacs on the iPad: first release (v0.1.0, sideloadable .ipa) (Reddit)
  • A light-weight Clojure-like language that runs directly in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Modeling Browser History in Emacs
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: It’s time to wake up: An Emacs alarm clock
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: Substitute version 0.5.0
  • Chung-hong Chan: Emacs Writing Machine (lobste.rs)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 2
• Emacs development:
  • vc-dir: Don't resolve DIR to truename unnecessarily (reworded)
  • current-time-list now defaults to nil
  • timeclock: Optionally use 24-hour clock
• New packages:
  • fnm: Manage Node versions using fnm (MELPA)
  • grpclient: Grpcurl interactive builder (MELPA)
  • gruber-darker-ayu-theme: Gruber Darker + Ayu Dark color theme (MELPA)
  • keycoach: Learn keybindings (MELPA)
  • mode-line-maker: Mode-line helper tools (GNU ELPA)
  • project-x: Extra convenience features for project.el (MELPA)
  • smali-mode: Major mode for editing Smali/Baksmali files (MELPA)
  • snippy: Vscode snippet support with Yasnippet (MELPA)

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

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 30 0100 Asia/SrEingapore
  • Sacha Chua: 6 août: Emacs Chat: Richard Bonichon
  • Sacha Chua: 20 août: Emacs Chat: Abdallah Maouche
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Docs: The modern documentation website Emacs deserves (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN)
  • How to Undo in Emacs (01:24)
  • How to Find and Replace Text in Emacs (02:52)
  • One shot modifiers, then emacs tutorial (02:08:22)
  • Let's Finally Finish the Emacs Tutorial (02:03:47)
  • New to Emacs? Learning Vanilla Emacs with Protesilaos | Coaching Session #2 (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs Redux: which-key is Now Built-in
  • Stop Installing Every Emacs Package You See (04:07)
  • Emacs Redux: All Aboard Embark! (Irreal)
  • Tip about using embark-bindings-at-point to find available commands (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Tip about setting describe-bindings-outline-rules (@plantarum@ottawa.place)
  • Gentoo Simp Demonstrates Beacon Mode With Meow On Emacs. (03:30)
  • casual 2.17.0 (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • skewed-emacs: containerized Emacs + Lisp environment — now starts with a single curl command, no clone required (Reddit)
  • Emacs literate config (@rickwysocki@mas.to)
  • initialisation d'emacs - (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Redux: Tree-sitter Modes Still Need a Syntax Table
• Appearance:
  • sleek-modeline - A minimal and elegant modeline for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ‘doric-lilac’ and ‘doric-borage’ coming to the ‘doric-themes’
  • Diffs.com emacs themes (Reddit)
  • New modus-alabaster themes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • jroimartin/outline-occur: Navigate the buffer's outline using occur. · GitHub (@jroimartin@fosstodon.org)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile 3.2
  • Ayuda de vim cscope, emacs y global. (05:05)
• TRAMP:
  • Gentoo User shows you How to edit your make.conf in Emacs (02:25) - using TRAMP to edit files as root
• Writing:
  • ispell-word to fix spelling (@shapr@recurse.social)
  • Irreal: Jinx Reconsidered (Irreal)
  • Emacs on Windows: Display CJK IME composition inline without librime — just hook into the system input method
  • Preview command for gemtext-mode (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename options controlling recursive statistics
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Small restriction in BEAMER_HEADER: WDYT?
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Font control as of today
    • @paaguti@ecoevo.social
  • [RFC] Help with PDF/UA2 accessibility tests for ox-latex - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • [02] Vanilla Emacs with Prot: I’ll Repent for My Markdown Sins (02:09:15) - beginner exploring Org
  • Mike Hostetler: Why Org's agenda ignores your start day
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
  • Sacha Chua: Mon flux de travail de programmation
  • Comment j'organise mon emploi du temps avec org emacs / tablette eink BOOX (16:19)
  • Tip: Use org-mark-ring-goto to return after opening a link
  • Drawing inside Org-mode using iPad (or any device using tldraw on the browser) seamlessly (YouTube 01:16, Reddit)
  • screwlisp/ickle: Org babel for complex embeddable common lisp interactions i.e. ansi common lisp as a C (or C++) library with duplexed embedding and interleaving. (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Notes from #2 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, July 18, 11:00 UTC+3 (video, Reddit, @yantar92@fosstodon.org) -
• Completion:
  • [Article] Guide to Modern Emacs Completion: vertico, corfu & friends (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: Completion in the buffer with completion-at-point-functions (YouTube, 22:53, Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: Inline Completion with completion-preview-mode
  • Emacs Redux: Cape: Corfu’s Best Friend
  • Vadzim Shender: Making backspace in vertico behave like ido
  • New corfu-mouse extension · minad/corfu@3cacdaf · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
• Coding:
  • New package: region-pin.el for floating code snippets (Reddit)
  • dape toolbar (use child-frame and nerd icons) (Reddit) - debugger controls
  • Tip about using consult-lsp-diagnostics (@shivjm)
  • How Emacs Uses Nix — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Emacs .dir-locals.el File for Python Projects (@zelphirkaltstahl)
  • Tip: consult-lsp-diagnostics from the consult-lsp package (@shivjm)
  • Full IDE Power Over SSH: Remote C++ development - Terminal Emacs, No GUI (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: CIDER 2.0: Sky is the Limit
  • Meta Redux: clj-refactor.el 4.0
  • Pair of functions to send things to the tap inspector in clerk and clojure (@otfrom@functional.cafe)
  • Meta Redux: Stepping Through Macros in CIDER
  • Meta Redux: Sayid 0.8
  • Emacs Redux: Flymake Can Now Show Diagnostics at the End of the Line (Irreal)
  • Hide module imports in Scheme buffers using an overlay (@ryuslash@goto.ryuslash.org)
  • Emacs Eglot for Scala and Kotlin (JVM) and some nifty workarounds for day-to-day usage (Reddit, HN)
  • gemmaro/cwmrc-mode: Emacs major mode and Flymake backend for cwmrc format. - Codeberg.org (@gemmaro)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Gnus: Call custom functions when formatting message lines in summary buffers (@lhp)
• Multimedia:
  • Controlling a YouTube video from emacs (@naiquevin@fosstodon.org)
• Fun:
  • tnalpgge/cabrillo-el: Parse Cabrillo format amateur radio contact logs in Emacs - Codeberg.org (@nasunasu@bsd.network)
• LLMs:
  • The state of agentic coding tools in Emacs (2026)
  • Spacemacs layer for ai-code-interface.el (Reddit)
  • gptel-permit: rule-based permissions for tool calls (Reddit)
  • Automatically get Openrouter model catalog in gptel (Reddit)
  • Jetpacs-Composer: Emacs as a No-Code platform proof of concept. (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-07-14 / week 28
  • Things that made me come back to Emacs (Reddit)
  • Why Emacs is still my interface to my computer - Upsun Developer (@upsun)
  • Human Emacs (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org)
    • Andros Fenollosa: Human fear in Emacs
    • Jakub Nowak: Response to Human Fear in Emacs
    • @evgandr@bsd.cafe
    • #lispyGopherClimate w/ KMP, Ramin and screwlisp. #climate #oil #pipeline reimaginings, human #emacs, #commonlisp #elisp @screwtape@toobnix.org
  • Sacha Chua: Voulez-vous parler d'Emacs avec Prot et moi ? (YouTube, 03:54)
  • The Search for Knowledge: Emacs Carnival August 2026 (@chiply@fosstodon.org, Reddit)
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Tip Of The Day in a Popup Frame
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: SDL terminal type - Sean Whitton - Lucid build still relevant because of issues with GTK build
    • Local treesit parsers with disjoint ranges - Ruby Iris Juric
  • Create macro 'pcase-let*-strict'
• New packages:
  • blamee: Chunked git-blame overlays with popup details (MELPA)
  • context-clues: Easily copy context like the current file name and path (MELPA)
  • flex-x: Extended flex completion style (MELPA)
  • hnview: Standalone Hacker News client (MELPA)
  • moonbit-ts-mode: MoonBit tree-sitter major mode (MELPA)
  • nostr-publish: Publish Markdown to Nostr (MELPA)
  • org-habit-ng: Full RRULE recurrence for org-habit (MELPA)
  • org-history: Show Dates for Org headers from vcs + auto-commit (MELPA)
  • org-mindmap: Editable mindmap visualization in org-mode (MELPA)
  • sema-mode: Major mode for editing Sema files (MELPA)

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!