Org Mode is a big part of why I enjoy Emacs, so I'm delighted that there's a new release out (Org 9.8). Thanks to all who contributed! If you would like to help out, Ihor is looking for several volunteers who can try to reproduce bugs and do initial feedback on the new patches.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313006896/ Tue Feb 24 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • 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
  • 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
• Beginner:
  • A noob friendly start (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Irreal: Let’s Play How Big Is Your Emacs Config?
  • sstraust/shannonmax: maximize your keybinding efficiency in emacs! (HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A tiny library: once.el, giving you "once-hook" instead of "add-hook" (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: confirm package bugs with –init-directory (Irreal, Irreal)
  • pre-commit-elisp - Emacs Lisp (Elisp) Git pre-commit hooks [Release 1.0.7]​
  • Xah Ep762. emacs lisp coding, command to fix youtube description, crimes of recursive acronym (02:09:50)
  • Xah Talk Show Ep765. emacs lisp coding. command to delete emacs backup. (01:17:31)
• Appearance:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 11: winpulse (YouTube 08:46, Irreal)
• Navigation:
  • Magnus: Switching to project.el
• Dired:
  • emacs-dired filepicker for qutebrowser
• Writing:
  • Chai (拆) — an Emacs package for destructive reading
  • How I Use Emacs to Take Notes (11:22)
  • adoc-mode 0.8 is out with many new features - AsciiDoc
  • bbatsov/asciidoc-mode: A modern Emacs major mode for editing AsciiDoc files, powered by TreeSitter (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - leaner alternative
• Org Mode:
  • Org mode 9.8 is out (r/emacs, r/orgmode, Irreal) also help wanted:
  • Announcing Casual Org (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Org links’ targets
  • Hugo, org-mode y Codeberg | Texaco blog (@texaco@defcon.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Org Gnosis 0.2.0 Release Notes
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs for macOS and Darwin versions
  • Org development:
    • Ensure a non-zero percent cookie when anything is complete
    • Bump minimal Emacs version
• Coding:
  • Forgejo, AGit, and Pull Request Templates (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
  • andros/conflict-buttons.el - conflict-buttons.el - Andros's repositories (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • eglot-multi-preset: Per-project language server presets for Eglot
  • Meta Redux: Flycheck 36 (Reddit, Irreal) - also includes org-lint; security update for CVE in emacs-lisp checker
  • Magnus: Using advice to limit lsp-ui-doc nuisance
  • ablatedsprocket/emacs-dotnet - transient menu around the dotnet CLI (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
  • Clojure - State of Clojure 2025 Results (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io) - Emacs still dev tool of choice despite strong competition
  • Release v5.21.0 · clojure-emacs/clojure-mode · GitHub (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Building RDE against latest Guix on CI (01:34:22)
  • Maryanne Wachter: Six Months of C
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Tip to help remember to wide reply on mailing lists in Gnus
• Evil mode:
  • D.V.F.P.: Vim… beyond Vim - mentions Evil Mode
• Multimedia:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Ready Player cover download improvements (Reddit)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: A little collection of SVG tricks for Emacs
  • tusharhero: PALE, Canvas, and Stuff demos
  • [18] Emacs Reader, PALE: Improvements to Canvas API, Shaders & Graphics APIs - Dyne.org TV
• Fun:
  • MonadicSheep/stk-code: Fork of STK (SuperTuxKart) with Emacs port (powered by Pale). Requires Canvas API (Reddit)
• AI:
  • LLMs and agents in Emacs: share your workflows
  • Evolving a Modular dev Experience in Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • Run LLM Scripts in Emacs (No Packages) #llm #ai #claudecode (04:22)
  • CLAUDE.md instructions to automatically update TODOs and track execution time (clocking) in org-mode · GitHub (@typester@pdx.social)
  • 035 Ollama Buddy - Advanced Tool Calling with Multiple Tools #emacs #ollama (02:52, Reddit, also Reddit)
  • emacs-gravity: An idiomatic Emacs UI for Claude Code — structured, navigatable, fully native.
  • Fritz Grabo: Introducing elfeed-summarize
  • devinprater/emacspeak-goodies - speech-enable gptel-agent, tweak elfeed (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
  • org-mode, agents, and ekg
  • emacs-os/el-init: A statically compiled Emacs init (PID 1) patchset, Emacs Lisp-based service supervisor and core component of Emacs-OS. (retrospective, Reddit)
  • Robot - Emacs integration (X, Github)
• Community:
  • How peeking at screens shaped my Emacs - typester.dev (@typester@pdx.social)
  • Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and art as self-discovery (02:53:42)
• Other:
  • Jeremias-A-Queiroz/eConky: A side-buffer dashboard for Emacs inspired by Conky. (Reddit)
  • kristjoc/bible-gateway: A Simple BibleGateway Client for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Using app-emacs/portage::akater | Using Gentoo package manager from GNU Emacs (01:12)
  • ezemtsov/ewm: EWM - Emacs Wayland Manager - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • jiewawa/gnome-window-calls.el - Codeberg.org (@jiewawa@masto.ai)
  • Thaodan/i3-emacs at i3_integration_mode_handle_display_buffer (@thaodan@mastodon.social)
  • Christian Tietze: Introducing quake-frame.el: My Take on a Terminal Visor, But Running Emacs
  • M-x.app – a macOS menubar app that turns Emacs into a system-wide automation backend via callback URLs (Reddit) Example uses:
    • Replacing Raycast With Emacs, Ep 1 - App Launcher
    • Replacing Raycast With Emacs, Ep 2 - Bang Commands
  • NEO Emacs: GPU-powered Emacs written in Rust. Aim for multi-threads, 10x perf & 100% compatibility. (02:06, HN, also previous discussion on Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Figuring out what to do about very long VCS command lines - maybe a defcustom?
  • New prefix argument for pp-eval-expression
  • Add SHA-3 support to secure-hash
  • Fix broken `FOO-mode-indent-offset` convention
  • Support displaying more months in the calendar
  • New user option 'after-delete-frame-select-mru-frame' (bug#80397)
  • Sort Eshell aliases when adding new ones
  • Make Rmail summary address display customizable
  • New command vc-dir-root-next-action
  • Use a custom Pdb class in the Python shell
  • browse-url-firefox-program: Add support for more Firefox variants.
  • Add new command 'copy-theme-options'
  • Add a theme and minor mode for new users
  • Add frame-use-time, get-mru-frame, use mru frame in delete-frame (bug#80397)
  • vc-git-pull, vc-git-incoming-revision: Use push remotes
  • Use -outstanding not -outgoing-base in VC command names
  • Change the default value of 'split-width-threshold' from 160 to 150
  • Add repeat-map for smerge-mode commands
• New packages:
  • asciidoc-mode: Major mode for AsciiDoc markup (MELPA)
  • consult-gumshoe: Consult integration for gumshoe (MELPA)
  • edit-metadata: Edit embedded metadata (MELPA)
  • elfeed-summarize: Add LLM-powered inline summaries to elfeed (MELPA)
  • eselect-news: Read Gentoo eselect news (MELPA)
  • evil-emacs-cursor-model-mode: Emacs' cursor model in evil-mode (NonGNU ELPA)
  • kawacode: Kawa Code collaboration package (MELPA)
  • lisp-semantic-hl: Semantic Syntax Highlighting for Lisp Languages (MELPA)
  • magnus: Manage multiple Claude Code instances (MELPA)
  • mark-graf: Modern WYSIWYG-style markdown editing (MELPA)
  • ob-gleam: Org Babel functions for Gleam (MELPA)
  • org-tempus: Enhance Org time tracking (MELPA)
  • persp-gumshoe: Perspective support for gumshoe (MELPA)
  • truename-cache: Efficiently de-dup file-names (MELPA)
  • winpulse: Momentary window background flash animation (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 cool stuff this week! I'm looking forward to checking out the new futur library for async programming, and the developments around embedding graphics in a canvas in Emacs look interesting too (see the Multimedia section). Also, the discussion about making beginner configuration easier could be neat once the wrinkles are ironed out. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/313006896/ Tue Feb 24 1800 Europe/London
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 26 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 28 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • 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
• Upcoming events:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I will talk about Emacs and free software (FLOSS @ Oxford)
• Emacs configuration:
  • A proposal for a "beginners" (user-option) theme (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • package-autosuggest in master (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
  • Charles Choi: Deburring Emacs Imenu GUI Configuration
  • Borderliner/Chadmacs: Chadmacs Emacs config (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • GNU ELPA - futur: Make async programming a bit easier (Reddit, emacs-devel)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Lin version 2.0.0 - enhancement for hl-line-mode
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing winpulse (Irreal, Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Automatically Syncing Emacs Tab Bar Styling With Your Theme
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my GNOME accent color theme switcher package (YouTube 02:55)
  • fake-frog/min-oblong-theme: Minimal Emacs Theme (Reddit)
  • veschin/nibelung-theme: Nibelung Theme — Minimalist Gray & Blue Emacs Color Scheme (Reddit)
  • Thankful Eyes Theme | Emacs Themes (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Navigation:
  • scrollpanel: Modern Minimap-like Scrolling Panel for Emacs
  • Prgebish/flash: Flash-style navigation for Emacs — jump to any location with search labels (Reddit)
  • UPDATED: Auto-Adjust Frame Width when Split-Window-Right & Revert on Delete-Window or Delete-Other-Window
  • easysession.el: Easily persist and restore file buffers, Magit buffers, scratch, Dired, narrowing, indirect buffers (clones), windows, and tab-bar configurations [Release 1.2.0]​ (Reddit)
  • kirigami.el (Release 1.0.4): text Folding across a diverse set of Emacs modes (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel (Reddit, programming.dev, lemmy.ml, Irreal)
  • bibtex-generate-autokey with manual confirmation using advice-add :filter-return
  • Fancy Fill Paragraph now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • ashton314/citar-typst: Typst support for the Citar package in Emacs - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Mapping org-agenda-open-link: reducing the key strokes needed to open links (@curtismchale@mastodon.social)
  • publicvoit/orgheadingnetwork: visualize headings and their implicit (hierarchy) and explicit (links) interconnections - Codeberg.org (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Updated org-protocol bookmarklet for storing the current page
  • A reproducible Org-Mode CV template (Reddit)
  • org-babel support for Goal, BQN, and growler/k
  • Behebung von org-babel Shell-Bindungsproblemen in Emacs: Eine Anleitung zur Festlegung Ihrer bevorz (01:50)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Version 9.8 (not released yet)): Update preparing for the release
    • Obsolete 'org-show-empty-lines-in-parent'
    • Remove obsolete 'org-let' and 'org-let2'
• Completion: this month's Emacs Carnival topic
  • An Alternate Completing Read
• Coding:
  • npm-run: Run npm scripts in your project
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.1: Ready for Action (Irreal)
  • Small patch to build emacs 30.X from source with the 0.26.X version of tree-sitter · GitHub (Reddit)
  • function-artisans/magit-standup: Collect recent git commits for standup notes (Reddit)
  • magit magic - share your latest glorious find in Magit
  • Hacking on Emacs #6: Link the current Magit commit using git-link pt 2 (28:49)
  • magit-gh.el - a lightweight Magit extension for GitHub CLI pull requests (Reddit)
  • 0WD0/majutsu: Majutsu! Magit for jujutsu (lobste.rs)
• Web:
  • benthamite/chrome-to-eww: Chrome extension to open the current page in eww, Emacs’s built-in browser (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • 2026年，一个普通Emacs用户如何把Gnus跑起来
• Evil mode:
  • Prgebish/evil-tex-ts: Tree-sitter based LaTeX text objects for Evil mode (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • pimacs/lang-protobuf at master · pivaldi/pimacs · GitHub protobuf-ts-mode for editing Protocol Buffers files with full Buf toolchain integration.
• Multimedia:
  • divyaranjan/divya-lambda: Guix channel for emacs-canvas (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Discussion on the composability of graphical applications inside Emacs - MonadicSheep/pale - Codeberg.org (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • minad/emacs-shader-demo: Emacs Shader Demo (Reddit)
  • Demo of killing and yanking a canvas while it's displaying something (ex: a video)
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Toy train timetable improvements – buttons
• AI:
  • FrauH0lle/mevedel overlay-based workflow for interacting with LLMs (Reddit)
  • ECA - Subagents are here!
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy v2.0 - LLMs can now call Emacs functions! (YouTube 00:41, Reddit)
  • garyo/gco-llm-pkm: A LLM-based front end to my evolving Personal Knowledge Management system(s) (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-02-10 / week 06
  • Andros Fenollosa: Emacs is a Fantasy Workstation
    • Emacs es una estación de trabajo de fantasía | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Other:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: institution-calendar package (University of Oxford/Cambridge, etc.)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: add custom entity (Austrian school) to my ‘institution-calendar’
  • chamlis/auth-source-pa: A terrible backend for auth-source to use the pa password manager. - Codeberg.org (@chamlis@social.treehouse.systems)
  • Translate popup by agzam · Pull Request #161 · atykhonov/google-translate · GitHub (Reddit)
  • A Note on File History in Emacs | Brain Baking
  • ctietze/quake-frame.el - Codeberg.org - terminal visor-like package that can be toggled with Emacsclient (@ctietze@mastodon.social)
  • Initial gathering towards a "Collaborative Editing Protocol" - Feb 26 19:00 UTC, cross-editor (@teamtype@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • Change the default value of 'split-width-threshold' from 160 to 150
  • Add repeat-map for smerge-mode commands
  • delsel.el: Improve the overlay for text replacement
  • etc/NEWS: Improve text for threads' "buffer disposition"
  • New option 'completion-preview-inhibit-functions' (bug#80370)
  • Original behavior of 'overlays-in' and 'overlays-at' has been restored
  • Rewrite flex completion with Gotoh algorithm
  • Tramp signals 'remote-file-error' consequently
  • Allow disabling battery-update-timer
  • icomplete-ret: Ignore icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input
  • system-sleep sleep blocker and sleep/wake event package (bug#80348)
  • Don't remap RET to 'icomplete-ret' in 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)
  • Revert "New key 'M-j' for 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)"
  • Do cache and timed invalidation in "VC-aware" project backend
• New packages:
  • fancy-fill-paragraph: Fancy paragraph fill (MELPA)
  • flash: Flash-style navigation (MELPA)
  • futur: Future/promise-based async library (GNU ELPA)
  • helm-emoji: Select emojis with Helm (MELPA)
  • lonelog: Solo RPG notation support (MELPA)
  • neocaml: Major mode for OCaml code (MELPA)
  • oboe: A simple temporary buffer management framework (MELPA)
  • pathaction: Execute the pathaction.yaml rules from your editor (MELPA)
  • sail: NOAA tide and wind reports for sailors (MELPA)
  • spatial-window: Jump to windows using keyboard spatial mapping (MELPA)
  • template-literals-ts-mode: Tree-sitter support for HTML/CSS in JS/TS template literals (MELPA)
  • vtab: Vertical tab bar (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313232290/ Sat Feb 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Philip Kaludercic: A retrospective on “setup”
  • Moving to vanilla Emacs - smallwat3r
  • verdant/emacs.d: My Emacs configuration. - Codeberg.org (@Verdant@c7.io)
  • Lightning Talk: Skewed Emacs (04:47)
  • Declarative, reproducible Emacs – video/blog (08:24, Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Toggle between let and let* (Irreal)
  • meedstrom/system-idle (Reddit) get the number of seconds since last user activity on the computer
  • vui.el: Building a File Browser - Boris Buliga
  • Lightning Talk: Emacs Lisp Rabbit Holes (04:03)
  • Lightning Talk: Common Lisp packages in Emacs Lisp (04:23)
• Appearance:
  • Yet Another Emacs Theme Gallery (Reddit)
  • Prikaz98/jblow-nostalgia: Emacs themes is stolen from John Blow Emacs streams (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-jade’ and ‘doric-copper’
    • doric-themes version 1.0.0
• Navigation:
  • Charles Choi: Using Casual to work with Emacs Registers, Rectangles, and Windows (Irreal)
  • outline-indent.el - A modern indentation-based folding mode for Emacs (Release: 1.1.7) (Reddit)
  • spatial-window (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.5.0
• TRAMP:
  • ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc: High-performance TRAMP backend using JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing (lobste.rs, lemmy.ml)
• Dired:
  • Symlinks and Hardlinks in Linux and Emacs (03:37)
• Writing:
  • Insert Special Characters into Emacs (02:21)
  • ctanas/tiles: Tagged Instant Lightweight Emacs Snippets (TILES) (Reddit)
  • In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel (lemmy.ml, Irreal, Reddit)
• Denote:
  • TAONAW: Denote includes the option of adding different directories
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename :colnames header argument to :strip-colnames
  • Executive Function as Code: using (Doom) Emacs to script my brain (Reddit)
  • How I kickstart a new sprint in emacs (using org capture template) - short video in Reddit post
  • tzc/tzc-org.el at main · md-arif-shaikh/tzc · GitHub (Reddit)
  • (Experimental) Added custom view functionality to org-supertag
  • Jack Baty: Global org-capture shortcut in KDE (Irreal)
  • yingyu5658/niwa: My digital garden. (@Verdant@c7.io)
  • Aimé Bertrand: org-to-cal - Syncing Org Mode to macOS Calendar (Irreal)
  • [BLOG] #26 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, January 14, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: New keyword LATEX_CLASS_PRE to prepend lines before LaTeX preamble
    • org-update-statistics-cookies: Respect narrowing
• Completion: (the topic for this month's Emacs Carnival!)
  • Emacs Carnival: Completion — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • File name completion in Emacs - Dmitry Dolzhenko (@dsdolzhenko@fosstodon.org)
  • Completion (in Emacs hledger) — Arjen Wiersma
  • morazotti/resnippets.el: Regexp-based snippets for emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Release CIDER 1.21 ("Gràcia") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub - use buttons, drop support for Emacs 27
  • Thanos Apollo: (Video) Contributing to Git Projects with Magit: PRs, Patches & Agit workflow (YouTube 8:01)
  • Use prettierd as a formatter in apheleia
• Web:
  • ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme: A hugo theme that makes a blog look and operate like emacs (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • The Emacs RSS Reader I Wanted (Github, Reddit, YouTube 04:57)
• Doom Emacs:
  • PIMacs: A Modular, Documented, and Reproducible Doom Emacs Layer | PIPRIME.FR BLOG (@_PI_@fosstodon.org)
• Fun:
  • A SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp (Reddit, HN)
  • New version of the setup script for getting Emacspeak and Elmud working on Termux (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
• AI:
  • ElleNajt/agent-shell-to-go (Reddit)
  • majorgreys/org-roam-skill (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Spent a bit of free time polishing ollama-buddy - github Copilot is now onboard! ( Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-27 / week 04
  • Emacs ATX Feb 2026 meetup notes
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, religion, and cosmic consistency
• Other:
  • Two Neat Emacs Packages: Bufferfile and Stripspace #rename #whitespace (02:54)
  • Plain text agenda (Reddit)
  • era-emacs-tools/ERA: Emacs Remote Editing (Reddit)
  • Comprehending MELPA's size
  • Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Help wanted for the widget library
    • Re: Supporting stylistic sets - Eli Zaretskii - more notes on stylistic sets
    • Re: Is it possible to suppress 'after-string overlay property by placing other overlays? - Eli Zaretskii - considering before- and after-string
  • Do cache and timed invalidation in "VC-aware" project backend
  • Fix selected group sort with topics (bug#80341)
  • Add missing symbolic prefix keybinding
  • Change the type of 'python-eldoc-function-timeout' to number
  • Support D-Bus file descriptor manipulation
  • Separate input histories for 'C-x v !' and Git pulling & pushing
  • Allow using xref-find-references without visiting a tags table
  • New minibuffer history for vc-user-edit-command (bug#80169)
  • Fix [More] buttons in tutorial and other buttons in Semantic
• New packages:
  • auto-space-mode: Auto add space between CJK and ASCII (MELPA)
  • consult-spotlight: Consult interface to macOS mdfind (Spotlight) (MELPA)
  • ddgr: DuckDuckGo search (MELPA)
  • dialog-mode: Major mode for editing Dialog files (MELPA)
  • doing: Frictionless activity log and time tracking (MELPA)
  • duckdb-query: DuckDB query results as native Elisp data structures (MELPA)
  • edna-theme: A dark, Edna-inspired theme (MELPA)
  • eldc: Emacs Lisp Dictionary Converter (MELPA)
  • elsqlite: SQLite browser (MELPA)
  • hanfix-mode: Korean grammar checker (MELPA)
  • lazy: Lazy evaluation library (MELPA)
  • magit-gh: GitHub CLI integration for Magit (MELPA)
  • magit-pre-commit: Magit integration for pre-commit (MELPA)
  • org-window-habit: Time window based habits (MELPA)
  • project-rails: Rails support for project.el (MELPA)
  • system-idle: Poll the system-wide idle time (MELPA)
  • warm-mode: Warm colors for nighttime coding (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs: un editor del pasado para el futuro (in person) https://gpul.org/eventos/2026/emacs/ Thu Feb 5 1200 America/Toronto
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/ Thu Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Essential Tips and Tricks for Efficiency – Emacsfr (@unixbhaskar@mastodon.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Post your favorite DWIM commands, packages, or own hacks
  • Using Minimal Emacs with Nix (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Kickstart.emacs: Got a huge update. (Reddit)
  • Startup Changes in Emacs 31.1 The "user-lisp" Directory
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Use Batch Mode to Test Your Dot Emacs File (02:36)
  • Listful Andrew: ISO week dates in Emacs Lisp and Bash
  • Trevoke/elk: project management tool for emacs lisp - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • duckdb-query.el - DuckDB SQL/Elisp: query parquet, CSV, org-tables, alists in the same SQL statement seamlessly (Reddit, Reddit)
  • [17] Emacs Reader: Cursors, PALE, Canvas API and More! - 2/2/2026, 2:33:39 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • [17] Emacs Reader: Cursors, PALE, Canvas API and More! - 2/2/2026, 2:26:28 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • #80281 - 31.0.50; FR: Canvas object as display property - GNU bug report logs (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
  • pale: Picture and animation library for Emacs (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • halych/sans-mono: Configure proportional fonts for editing text in emacs - Codeberg.org (@halych@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 2.1.0
• Navigation:
  • Irreal: When Should You Use Visual-line-mode?
  • Tip about using hs-minor-mode for code folding
  • Recursion and Quitting in Emacs (07:06)
• Writing:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs and French: Focus flycheck-grammalecte on the narrowed part of the buffer
• Denote:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Why I use Denote?
• Org Mode:
  • Stefan van der Walt: org-mode Day Planning with Time Blocks
  • Irreal: Starting A Journal
  • James Dyer: Auto-Populating Weekly Dates in Org-Mode Tables
  • 我是如何构建这个站点的
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Org files to beautiful docx files with Pandoc (Irreal)
    • dwim-shell-command-pandoc-org-to-docx
  • PSA searching org mode notes for tags even with org roam? use 'org-match-sparse-tree' instead of 'org-roam-node-find'
  • bradmont/org-roam-tree: organize backlinks in the org-roam buffer as a tree (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • New option (org-latex-use-sans): Control using Sans as default font
    • Update all the links to savannah to use nongnu.org
    • ox-man: Add support for footer-inside and header-middle
    • org-lint: Add check for priorities
    • speed-commands: Adapt priority commands to user options
• Completion:
  • Snippy.el: VSCode/LSP snippet support for Emacs with Yasnippet. (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: ultisnips-mode.el (*.snippets files) (Github, Reddit) mode for editing Vim-compatible snippets (can be translated to Yasnippet for use with Emacs)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival February 2026: Completion
• Coding:
  • Paxedit - a complement to Paredit (Reddit)
  • Heads-up for CIDER users: Elisp sources are now under lisp/ (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Magnus: More on the switch to eglot
  • Marcin Borkowski: git-link
  • Mike Olson: First Week with Jujutsu VCS
• Math:
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Some Minor eplot Tweaks for CSV Files
  • Automatically Export Emacs SES Files to TSV - Lemmy.World
• Shells:
  • Charles Choi: Getting Eshell nth History to Work
• Web:
  • Converting Mozilla Firefox bookmarks to Org Mode (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Linkding: Add URLs from Emacs, open bookmark in preferred browser (@mmk2410@fosstodon.org) integration with linkding self-hosted bookmarking service
  • Vibe Coding an Emacs-Style Hugo Theme | Arthur's blog (Github, HN)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • punchagan: Why my Elfeed index was 0 bytes (Irreal)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Queuing multiple transcriptions with whisper.el speech recognition
  • Sacha Chua: Using Silero voice activity detection to automatically queue multiple transcriptions with natrys/whisper.el
  • Rendering 30FPS Video Inside Emacs Text Buffer (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • All codes lead to Home (Reddit)
  • minad/doom-on-emacs: DOOM on Emacs (Reddit, HN)
  • lichess.el: Watch Lichess games and play against Stockfish (HN)
  • Script for getting Emacs, Emacspeak, and Elmud running on Termux (@pixelate@tweesecake.social)
• AI:
  • Evan Moses: Yak Power-Shears: LLMs are pretty good at Emacs
  • Alternative transient documentation - also discussion about using AI to generate documentation
  • James Dyer: Ollama buddy now supports cloud models! (YouTube 01:04, Reddit)
  • ECA: AI pair programming in your editor - Dallo (32:33)
  • alvarmaciel/amp-emacs: Deep integration of Sourcegraph Amp with Emacs, inspired by amp.nvim. (Reddit)
  • I tested Claude Code today - And it built a proper agent package in emacs for me. (Reddit)
  • Stefan van der Walt: Using Gemini for Code Patches in Emacs
  • So, I "vibe-coded" features missing in Backpack Emacs, yet another GNU Emacs distribution (Reddit)
  • Short HN discussion about agent-shell
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-27 / week 04
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Reflection on my Emacs experience
  • Amy's story behind Org Real and the boxy layout system
  • Michal Sapka: RTE - Return to Emacs (Irreal)
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
    • Zimblo: Emacs Carnival Jan 26: “This Year, I’ll de-obfuscate” | zimblog
    • George Jones: This Year I'll… · Curious Musings
    • Arjen Wiersma: This year, I'll…..
    • Sacha Chua: Emacs: This year, I will… / Cette année, je vais…
    • John Rakestraw | Emacs Carnival: This year, I'll …
    • Neil Mather: Emacs Carnival: This year I'll…
    • Kana: This year, I will write a shitty GUI for my Emacs clone
    • Sebastian Larsen Prehn: This Year, I'll …
    • Christian Cleberg: Emacs Carnival: “This Year, I Will…”
    • Lio Novelli: This year I'll …
• Other:
  • Sorting Lines by Fields in Emacs (02:57)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.3.0
  • Irreal: Gruber On File Saving Ease
  • Irreal: Emacs Performance on macOS
  • teamtype/teamtype at emacs-plugin (@teamtype@fosstodon.org)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Some notes on stylistic sets and how shaping works
    • Trying to split feature/igc into smaller pieces
  • display-time: Add option to customize help-echo format
  • Add new input method for Tuscarora
  • New function 'truncate-string-pixelwise' (bug#80244)
  • Make diff-hunk-kill respect an active region
  • Bind 's' to diff-split-hunk in read-only diff-mode
  • New function 'checkdoc-batch' (bug#80199)
  • New key 'M-j' for 'icomplete-mode' (bug#62108)
  • New C-x v T l and C-x v T L commands (vc-log-outgoing-base, vc-root-log-outgoing-base) show corresponding revision logs
  • (minibuffer-message): Do not block while displaying message.
  • Move outstanding changes commands from 'o' to 'T'
  • Add 'select-frame-by-id' and 'undelete-frame-by-id' (Bug#80192)
  • Support cons cell for 'line-spacing'
  • New bindings for vc-revert
  • Flymake support for yaml-ts-mode.
  • Add JSON path utility command to json-ts-mode
  • (garbage-collect-heapsize): New function
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-split-tab): New command.
• New packages:
  • dialog-mode: Major mode for editing Dialog files (MELPA)
  • duckdb-query: DuckDB query results as native Elisp data structures (MELPA)
  • eldc: Emacs Lisp Dictionary Converter (MELPA)
  • lazy: Lazy evaluation library (MELPA)
  • magit-pre-commit: Magit integration for pre-commit (MELPA)
  • org-window-habit: Time window based habits (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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: UPDATED Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/january-2026/ Sat Jan 31 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d6225b76-8f80-46c7-bc14-35d21b0c5ef0 Mon Feb 2 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/ Thu Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs Lisp:
  • dash.el for nice list operations
  • Trevoke/mock-fs.el: "fake filesystem" for elisp test suites - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • duckdb-query.el - Bidirectional DuckDB SQL/Elisp bridge: query parquet, CSV, org-tables, alists IN THE SAME SQL statement SEAMLESSLY (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • indent-bars is now @v1.0 (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Three important distinctions in Emacs: mini buffer and echo, mark and point, window and frame (04:36)
  • You can now merge tabs in emacs (Reddit)
  • scroll-around.el: Scroll the view by paragraph or line while keeping the cursor at the same screen position. (Reddit) see alternatives in the comments
  • Avy-flash: replicating flash.nvim in Emacs (vibe-coded) (Reddit) - note discussion in comments; you can just use avy-flash.el instead of the full fork of avy
• Dired:
  • Why You Don’t Need a File Manager (If You Use Emacs) (13:47)
• Writing:
  • Developing yet another way to do research in Emacs - fool's errand? (13:34) - highlighting EPUBs, taking notes, organizing, doing syntopic reading
  • Emacs tricks DYI: surround src blocks in markdown (07:06)
• Org Mode:
  • Berean Standard Bible in org mode (Reddit)
  • Jack Baty: Blogging with org-mode and ox-hugo again
  • How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode – Curtis McHale (YouTube 2:46, @curtismchale)
  • Design Decisions: Building a Modern Technical Blog | Charlie Holland's Blog (Feature demo, Reddit) - org-mode and SvelteKit
  • Org development:
    • ox-man: Add support for footer-inside and header-middle
    • org-lint: Add check for priorities
    • speed-commands: Adapt priority commands to user options
• Completion:
  • Typing emojis with :shortcodes: in Emacs
• Coding:
  • Fast JSON path extraction via Tree-sitter (Reddit) - will be part of Emacs 31
  • Tree-sitter vs Language Servers (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Writing pipeline commands in Eshell
  • Major mode for Nushell scripts, powered by treesitter (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Announcing Casual EWW (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • punchagan: Elfeed DB backup hooks
  • [Package] sign.el: an Emacs interface for Signal via signal-cli JSON-RPC. (Reddit)
• Doom Emacs:
  • (Doom) Emacs Config Bits
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs and whisper.el: Trying out different speech-to-text backends and models
  • Yay Emacs live-coding: tweaking my whisper.el setup (46:11)
• AI:
  • OpenCode Agent Chaining: Planner-Editor-Review Workflow - ZashBoy.com
  • dev-agent-backlog (org-mode system for coding agents) is now a claude plugin (Reddit)
  • openspec.el - Interface for OpenSpec, a tool for spec-driven AI coding assistant development
  • You can have Andrej Kaparthy's Council of LLMs anywhere: Antigravity! Claude Code! Emacs! (27:32)
• Community:
  • Emacs vs. vim Real World Analogy: Cargo Bike Vs. Folding Bike (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
    • This Year I'll… · Curious Musings
    • Emacs Carnival Jan 26: “This Year, I’ll de-obfuscate” | zimblog
• Other:
  • Another beautiful modeline: maple-modeline, and share some packages that I've written: maple-preview, -note, -translate, -iedit, -scratch, -diff, -minibuffer
  • Emacs: easily set timers with TMR (14:33, Reddit)
  • Emacs в 2026: Секретное оружие или старый хлам? |vim, vscode, lisp, org-mode|Podlodka Podcast #460 (01:43:00)
  • Experimental Skia rendering backend as cairo alternative
  • Unofficial Emacs Portable Binary v31.0.50 (Reddit) - Linux only
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Re: Auto-suggesting Packages - Eli Zaretskii
  • Add 'select-frame-by-id' and 'undelete-frame-by-id' (Bug#80192)
  • Support cons cell for 'line-spacing'
  • New bindings for vc-revert
  • Flymake support for yaml-ts-mode.
  • Add JSON path utility command to json-ts-mode
  • (garbage-collect-heapsize): New function
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-split-tab): New command.

• New packages:

  • advent-mode: Advent of Code mode (MELPA)
  • denote-review: implements review process for denote notes (GNU ELPA)
  • devcontainer: Support for devcontainer (MELPA)
  • magit-git-toolbelt: A Magit interface for git-toolbelt (MELPA)
  • mu4e-llm: AI-powered email assistance for mu4e (MELPA)
  • org-roam-latte: Auto-highlight unlinked Org-roam references (MELPA)
  • ox-reveal-layouts: Predefined layouts for ox-reveal (MELPA)
  • signel: Signal client for Emacs via signal-cli JSON-RPC (MELPA)
  • tengo-mode: Major mode for the Tengo programming language (MELPA)
  • ultisnips-mode: Major mode for editing Ultisnips 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!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 22 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jan 24 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d6225b76-8f80-46c7-bc14-35d21b0c5ef0 Mon Feb 2 1900 CET
  • ELS 2026, Kraków and online - European Lisp Symposium - May 11-12 (@ThierryStoehr@framapiaf.org)
• Beginner:
  • Primeiros passos no GNU Emacs (@iui@organica.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Suggestions wanted for the next version of the Bedrock starter kit
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Editing one file twice at the same time (Irreal)
  • The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study (Reddit, HN)
  • [16] Emacs Reader: Fixing Memory Leaks and Isearch Integration - 1/18/2026, 2:42:15 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • Re: [ELPA] New package: vui - Boris - reactive user interface; comparison with widget.el
• Appearance:
  • honmaple/emacs-maple-modeline: Beautiful emacs modeline (Reddit)
  • [ANN] show-inactive-region now on MELPA (Reddit)
  • Picking an emacs colour theme (@totherme@tech.lgbt)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: doric-themes version 0.6.0
  • How to get Emacs to look like the Pulsar Editor (02:13)
• Navigation:
  • Old New Stock: Grouping and navigating buffers using Torus
• Dired:
  • Hide unwanted files and folders in Emacs (03:45)
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality
• Org Mode:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: org-mode capture: menu inside a menu
  • noa ks: The eternal struggle against org's overenthusiastic keybindings
  • Org Mode Tags +Agenda: My Real Meeting Workflow – Curtis McHale (@curtismchale@mastodon.social, YouTube)
  • Chris Maiorana: Workout tracking with Org Mode bounced up to HTML file (YouTube 13:46, GitHub)
  • Cute menu-bar pomodoro timer integrated with org-mode - typester.dev (@typester@pdx.social)
  • This Org Agenda View Replaced my Meeting Notes (05:51)
  • [Prototype] org-roam-calendar: A visual and chronological browser for your notes (Reddit)
  • What’s New in Org Social! (Jan 2026)
  • Introducing org-habit-ng (needs beta testers) (Reddit)
  • How are you liking vulpea ecosystem? database layer for org-mode
  • org-agenda-api + mova: Mobile org-mode without compromises
  • connormclaud/emacs_org_roam_calendar (Reddit)
  • GerardoCendejas/ox-reveal-layouts: Professional layouts for ox-reveal (Grids, Splits, Stickers) (Reddit)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] ensure that org-support-shift-select can conform fully to emacs defaults
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Build a flat list of HTML files out of Org Mode (@zyd@yap.zyd.lol)
  • org-social update: notifications, post previews
• Denote:
  • Tracking Time With Denote Journal and Org Clock (11:13)
• Completion:
  • Note about consult–source-… not being a command: see related commit (@wdenton@cosocial.ca)
  • Consult breaking change - options can be specified at the start
• Coding:
  • Tip about projectile-other-file-alist for switching to related files - @sigxcpu.org on Bluesky
  • A minor mode supporting Advent of Code puzzle solving in Emacs
  • ~dieggsy/scheme-ts-mode - Scheme tree-sitter mode for Emacs - sourcehut git (@ieugen@mas.to)
  • Tip about lsp-workspace-blocklist-remove
  • Rahul Juliato: Eglot with multiple LSP servers per buffer using rassumfrassum (HN)
  • Magnus: Trying eglot, again
  • Chris Maiorana: Git changes and commits in Emacs modeline (Irreal)
  • Open Jive Friday Night | More git foolishness in Emacs (21:39)
  • Hacking on Emacs #5: Allow linking the current Magit commit buffer using git-link (42:32)
• Math:
  • Plotting data with Emacs Calc (@Air4x@mastodon.uno)
• Shells:
  • Dave's blog: Tmux and the mouse
• Web:
  • Link checker for Gemini (@GF493D@mastodon.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Customizing The Emacs Email Experience With Mu4e | Brain Baking (@jefklak@dosgame.club)
  • E-Mails mit GNU Emacs und mu4e - GNU/Linux.ch (@gnulinux@social.anoxinon.de)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs: Updating a Mailchimp campaign using a template, sending test e-mails, and scheduling it
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: notmuch-indicator version 1.3.0
  • punchagan: Safari and invalid HTTP/2 headers
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Visualizing and managing Pipewire audio graphs from Emacs
• Fun:
  • Cookie monster! - taxman game (@gargle@floss.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Toy train timetable clock
• AI:
  • sczi/opencode.el: Emacs interface to opencode - Codeberg.org
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 10: agent-shell (YouTube 36:35, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Create ComfyUI pictures straight from Emacs (01:08)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-13 / week 02
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
  • Why Emacs in 2026? 10+ Powerful Reasons Developers Still Swear By It (08:48)
  • John Rakestraw | Why plain text? (@johnrakestraw@mastodon.online)
  • Quelques années d'Emacs - (@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com)
• Other:
  • [ANN] Emacs Docs: An Emacs documentation website with more colors (and shortdoc cheat sheets, and also docstrings, and elisp-demos examples…) (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Speed Reading in Emacs: Building an RSVP Reader
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: easily set timers with TMR (YouTube 14:32, Irreal)
  • [PSA] `pdf-tools` now supports continuous scrolling (experimental)
• Emacs development:
  • Disable diff-restrict-view by default
  • New minor mode center-line-mode
  • New D-Bus functions to support systemd inhibitor locks
  • New IELM option to insert newline when inside sexp (bug#80123)
  • (make-progress-reporter): Tweak wording of CONTEXT doc
  • Optionally inhibit echo area progress reporting (bug#80198)
  • Allow Ispell to save corrections as abbrevs
  • Rename VC outgoing and incoming log commands to include "-root-"
  • Add frame identifiers (bug#80138)
• New packages:
  • alabaster-themes: Alabaster themes collection (MELPA)
  • evil-insert-plus: Use insert and append as evil operators (MELPA)
  • guava-themes: A pack of plant-inspired themes (MELPA)
  • info-nav: Browse info docs with a 2 pane layout (MELPA)
  • lichess: Client for Lichess.org (MELPA)
  • pyasm-mode: Mode for editing assembler code (MELPA)
  • timu-symbol-extract: Extract symbols to org table (MELPA)
  • use-package-treesit: Automatically use tree-sitter enhanced major modes (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 want to review packages before upgrading them, check out the new package.el feature for reviewing diffs (Reddit, Irreal).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/312727757/ Tue Jan 13 1800 Europe/London
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jan 14 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/312735622/ Sat Jan 17 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 22 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jan 24 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • package.el - Package diff/review feature has landed (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Small experiment with a template library (Reddit)
  • The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study - Boris Buliga
  • vui.el: Declarative, component-based UI library for Emacs (Reddit)
  • New testing framework: e-unit.el
• Appearance:
  • Peek as you go (Reddit) - highlight symbol on double space
  • [ANN] show-inactive-region now on MELPA (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • James Dyer: A single function ripgrep alternative to rgrep
• Dired:
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs Way: Listing Directory Contents (Irreal)
  • Create Directories in Emacs Dired (Tips) (01:26)
  • New package dired-video-thumbnail on MELPA for image-dired style thumbnail viewing for video files (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Mike Olson - Automatic Arrow Characters in Emacs (@mikeozen@mastodon.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Making fill-paragraph more flexible (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Keeping appointments from my Org agenda updated | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org, Irreal)
  • Creating weekly diary-style timestamps in Org Mode | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • 200ok: Building Consistent Habits (Just in Time for New Year's Resolutions)
  • Tip about starting a list with - 0:00:00 :: for automatic org-timer-item handling
  • Emailing org-mode "TODO" Reminders with XProc
  • [BLOG] #25 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, December 10, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Behaviour of ‘org-agenda-clock-goto’ with ‘repeated’ tasks
  • Org development:
    • ob-core.el: Respect no/nil value in :wrap header argument
    • org-html-style-default: Add lowercase c to src languages
    • Rename org-edit-src-content-indentation to org-src-content-indentation
    • Revert "Clocktables: Indent inline tasks under their heading"
    • org-table.el: Cache invisibility spec for `org-string-width'
• Completion:
  • consult-ripfd: live finding + searching with an fd + rg consult mashup (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Emacs minor mode for bacon background compiler code checker (@cehteh@social.tchncs.de)
  • How to insert pairs without fancy packages in Emacs (03:49)
  • Announcing Casual HTML & CSS (Irreal)
  • Mike Olson: Announcing eglot-python-preset
  • eglot-python-preset: Python LSP support with PEP-723 scripts for Emacs (@mikeozen)
  • Open jive Friday night | Getting Python into Git (40:20)
  • Chris Maiorana: Selective staging in Magit
  • Tip about using magit-diff-visit-prefer-worktree
  • I made a pre-commit companion for Magit (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • harald/terminal-frame: Dedicated terminal frame for Emacs' M-x shell - Codeberg.org (@HaraldKi@nrw.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • James Endres Howell: Custom sorting of mu4e headers (Irreal, @jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • punchagan: An offline-friendly Elfeed web UI
• Evil mode:
  • I use Emacs' cursor model in evil-mode's normal state. (19:29)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Jack Baty: Dropping back to Doom Emacs
• Fun:
  • Download Anime From Nyaa from within Emacs (04:08)
• AI:
  • Fritz Grabo: How I Talk to Books and Source Code
  • pi-coding-agent: AI-assisted coding in Emacs (HN)
• Community:
  • Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
  • My People of Emacs – Curtis McHale (@curtismchale@mastodon.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2025-12 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • What is your insanely hidden official shortcut that people can never find out?
• Other:
  • gvalson/mir.el: An incremental reading package for emacs. (@gvalia@merveilles.town)
  • life-calendar.el – Your entire life as a grid of weeks (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 9: World times (Irreal, YouTube 06:32, Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Restful #03 - history, ordinal dates
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my ‘oxford-calendar’ package
  • abaj8494/bytelocker.el: Buffer and Region Encryption Plugin for Emacs with 3 Cipher implementations (Reddit, HN)
  • Running emacs daemon with style – Ahoi Blog (Irreal)
  • How have I only just discovered detached.el??
  • Using gtrash from Emacs · mkt3’s Notebook
  • Slides from a university course on interactive programming environments (@elb@social.sdf.org)
  • Complete Build: Emacs From Source, Reproducible Builds in Docker, WSL, and macOS (41:57)
  • Emacs Build Dependencies: Everything You Need Installed First (18:26)
  • Emacs AppImage Builder - Portable Emacs with Native Integration
  • emacs-plus now offers pre-built binaries - native compilation included
  • Bring your Emacs to Android (Reddit)
  • android emacs 30.2 (Reddit)
  • Emacs on Android as eBook reader and language learning tool
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: master 68418691267: In Elisp manual warn about unpredictable changes of point (Bug#79927) - Richard Stallman - clarifying points
    • Re: Package Keywords Ontology - Juri Linkov - current package keyword frequency
    • Re: Alternative handling of constants in .eln files - Andrea Corallo - garbage collection tradeoffs
    • Re: mode-line untrusted content indicator - Stéphane Marks
    • Tail recursion (was: bug#78872: Byte compiler: warning message lacks line and column numbers) - Stefan Monnier - challenges
    • Re: elpa.git and nongnu.git have moved - Collin Funk (no changes needed for most users, this is mostly a dev thing)
    • Re: LLM-coauthored contributions - Eli Zaretskii - probably best not to take risks for now
  • Update cursor display using Xterm escape sequences
  • Bind 'apropos-user-option' to C-h u
  • Allow 'package-isolate' to fetch missing packages
  • Allow reviewing packages before installaion
  • shadowfile.el uses eqhemeral buffer names now
  • External Tramp methods can be used in multi-hops
• New packages:
  • consult-vulpea: Use Consult in tandem with Vulpea (MELPA)
  • git-sync-mode: Automatically commit and sync local changes (MELPA)
  • go-template-mode: Major mode for Go templates (MELPA)
  • life-calendar: Display your life in weeks (MELPA)
  • mock-fs: Virtual filesystem for Emacs Lisp tests (MELPA)
  • pdffontetc: Display `pdffont' and other PDF information (MELPA)
  • pi-coding-agent: Emacs frontend for pi coding agent (MELPA)
  • show-inactive-region: Highlight the inactive region (MELPA)
  • vulpea-journal: Daily note interface for vulpea (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!