• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 29 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/311589597/ Thu Nov 6 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 7 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Upcoming events:
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 25, 2025
• Beginner:
  • أساسيات إيماكس كمحرر نصوص | The Basics of Emacs as a Text Editor (19:35)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Configuring display-buffer-alist is absolutely worth it
  • Philip Kaludercic: Ini-style Emacs Configuration Files?
  • FunMacs - Yet Another Lightweight Emacs Configuration, Using KISS philosophy. The second release (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Tip about using corfu-popupinfo-mode to show docs for candidates (00:26, Reddit) For company, use company-quickhelp or company-box
  • Solution to how to eval both function definition and test case - putting inside a progn or let
• Appearance:
  • High Contrast Theme : towards increased -nw usability (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about registering and restoring window configurations
• Dired:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 4: Batch renaming files (YouTube, Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 6: Welcome to Org Mode (11:54)
  • Randy Ridenour: A Simple Emacs Dashboard (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: A class register in Org Mode
  • Let Emacs figure out when you're free. Useful Org Agenda custom Elisp.
  • org-grapher: Simple graph view for org-mode (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • Kana: Using Emacs Org-mode As My Package Manager
  • [BLOG] #22 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, September 10, 19:00 UTC+3 - notes
  • Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social, previous)
  • novoid/orgmode-ACM-template: Using new Emacs Org-mode LaTeX exporter to generate LaTeX/PDF files that meet the requirements of ACM (unmaintained!) (2012, @publicvoit@graz.social)
  • org-social 2.3: discover, edit, interactive Org Mode, my profile, improvements (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Andros Fenollosa: Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without any performance issues (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Inline tasks in a clocktable…): Move to Miscellaneous section
    • Clocktables: Indent inline tasks under their heading
• Coding:
  • Tip about using emmet-mode to write HTML efficiently (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
  • "It Works": More Adventures with Racket and Emacs (23:55)
  • Treesitter "show definition" in C with Emacs (06:21)
• Shells:
  • Piping In&Out of Emacs buffers in terminal. (Reddit) mx-piper
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • MastodonEl + eev = Fediverse Programming (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
• AI:
  • agent-shell-manager.el (Reddit)
  • ECA: Hooks support and many more! (Reddit)
  • Emacs gptel and mcp-searxng enable web search for your llm's with searxng (01:11:34)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-10-21 / week 42
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Maxim about writing, thinking, criticism, narratives, and productivity
• Other:
  • boem-weather: A simple weather package (Reddit)
  • Emacs time-zones (lobste.rs)
  • Showcasing Some of My Essential Emacs and Shell Tools on GitHub - YouTube
  • Emacs Maintenance — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Jiewawa: Trying to do the last 20% - org-workout, koreader-import, eww-filters, meow-paren, Chinese helpers
  • oil.el: easily batch-add new files (Reddit, Irreal)
  • starling-el update: support for multiple accounts (@draxil@social.linux.pizza) - banking
  • my/jieba-chinese-word-at-point
  • cal-persia.el disagrees with Iranian calendar in A.D. 2025 - how to fix (@omidmnz@functional.cafe)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Some progress on cond*
    • Speeding up image scrolling/clipping with the Cairo backend
    • An idea for modifying the strategy for determining positions in byte compile warning/error messages - Alan Mackenzie
  • Avoid face inheritance cycles
  • Revert recent additions of 'split-frame' and 'merge-frames'
  • Document and announce 'split-frame' and 'merge-frames'
  • (custom-initialize-after-file): New function
  • Allow renaming of frames to F<num> on text terminals
  • Improve Dired handling of file names with newlines (bug#79528)
  • hideshow: Add new option for control how the block should be hidden.
• New packages:
  • acp: An ACP (Agent Client Protocol) implementation (MELPA)
  • auto-save-visited-local-mode: Buffer-local auto-save for visited files (MELPA)
  • ewm: Window manager (MELPA)
  • fj: Client for Forgejo instances (MELPA)
  • gtasks: Google Tasks API (sync) (MELPA)
  • org-social: An Org-social client (MELPA)
  • pretend-type: Reveal buffer as you pretend to type (MELPA)
  • renpy-mode: Major mode for editing Ren'Py files (MELPA)
  • starling: Starling bank interaction (MELPA)
  • time-zones: Time zone lookups (MELPA)
  • tts: Text-to-Speech (TTS) (MELPA)
  • zine-mode: Major mode for zine, the static site generator (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 APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 29 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 30 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • Formations Emacs en présenciel (à Paris) pour utilisateurs motivés - Nov 24/25 or 27/28
• Beginner:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 5: Basic File Management and Navigation (06:18)
  • Emacs Adventure | Exploring Vanilla Emacs (06:50)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs as Microsoft Word killer part 3. Using Conditionals and Defvar to Simplify Multiple Configs Across Multiple Platforms. (25:25)
  • FunMacs lightweight modular Emacs configuration (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Medicated Emacs: A minimal, modern Emacs configuration that just works (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Uncrustify config for Emacs
  • On Emacs theme precedence
  • Small utility package: lisp-toggle-docstrings (self explanatory) (Reddit)
  • [13] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on unmerged PRs and Catching Up - 10/19/2025, 3:01:36 PM - Dyne.org TV
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Theme: Tomorrow-Night-Deepblue (Release 1.2.3): A beautiful deep blue variant of the Tomorrow Night theme, which is renowned for its elegant color palette that is pleasing to the eyes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • The outline-indent.el Emacs package: Effortless Indentation-Based Code Folding for Emacs, the Modern Successor to origami.el and yafolding.el (Release 1.1.4) (Reddit)
  • easysession.el Emacs package: Persist and Restore your Emacs Sessions effortlessly (Release 1.1.6) (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Directory-local Org Agendas
  • linkin-org, meet unbreakable links! (Reddit)
  • (udpate) org-luhmann: Now support shortcut key
  • dr.ops/keymacs: Tool that reads Org tables and creates Emacs keybindings from them - Codeberg.org (@spacecadet@masto.plaindrops.de)
  • Share with Org - Android with Tasker (2024)
  • Jay_Mitchell/pf2e-homebrew - Codeberg.org - Org source for a homebrew RPG (@amy@ice.ch3.st)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: Denote version 4.1.0
• Coding:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 3: Git clone (the lazy way) (YouTube, Irreal)
  • Linux Mint: Set Up Python, R , duckdb and Emacs (35:51)
  • My first emacs package: lsp-cargo-feature-switcher (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Simple elisp snippet for validating links in MD/HTML/… files
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Slack search with results in Org-mode buffer. (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Norm: SVG? (Irreal)
  • tusharhero: SVG? Yes!
• Fun:
  • nethack-el version 0.15.0 released
• AI:
  • (released) superchat 0.4: add a simple workflow excutor
  • dm-gptel-simple-org-memory.el: an MCP tool use your org-notes as context
  • Fulltext, semantic text and image search in Emacs (18:20)
• Community:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ovi about Clojure development and business, Emacs, and AI
  • How to use Emacs on the go (Reddit, Irreal)
• Other:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs time-zones (Reddit, Irreal)
  • GitHub - haji-ali/pretend-type: Reveal emacs buffer as you pretend to type (Reddit)
  • Emacs in the terminal: keybindings, client and more | Gribouillis (HN)
  • skangas/mentor: mentor is a GNU Emacs frontend for the rTorrent bittorrent client. (@onokoto@mastodon.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: continued discussion of cond-let*
  • Add any and all (bug#79611)
  • Add drop-while and take-while (bug#79611)
  • New value 'auto' of user option 'flymake-indicator-type' used by default
  • Uninstalling a package now removes its directory from `load-path'.
  • Add functions 'combine-windows' and 'uncombine-window'
  • Add support for su-rs and sudo-rs programs
• New packages:
  • agda-lib-mode: Major mode for Agda library files (MELPA)
  • calctape: Adding-machine, tape calculator, column sum-mer (MELPA)
  • eldoc-mouse: Display documentation for mouse hover (MELPA)
  • flymake-x: Simple flymake checker definitions (MELPA)
  • helm-elfeed: Helm interface for Elfeed (MELPA)
  • jbeam-mode: Major mode for JBeam files (MELPA)
  • romkan: Romaji/Kana conversion library (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 Oct 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • London Emacs (in person): Emacs London meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/311459896/ Thu Oct 23 1830 Europe/London
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs For Writers Unit 4: Keybindings (06:17)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Why and how I ditched use-package? | Dragon’s notes (@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
  • Use-Package, or Not! | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 2: From vanilla to your flavor (YouTube 14:38, Reddit, Irreal)
  • D4lj337/Emacs-performance: Few of the settings for speeding up the Emacs. (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Nerding out about dotfiles, Qtile, Tmux, and Emacs (01:53:01)
  • Medicated Emacs: A minimal, modern Emacs configuration that just works
  • Emacs Backpack is a self-documenting GNU Emacs starter kit inspired after Bedrock and Doom. (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Red Meat Friday: Emacs Startup Time Again
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: A debug helper in Elisp (Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Rahul Juliato: Creating a Catppuccin-Mocha Theme in Emacs with Modus Themes (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • I recently discover "window-in-direction", for me this a game changer indeed.. share how you manage your window buffers if you like:D
• Org Mode:
  • Built a lightweight CLI for managing org-mode TODOs from the terminal
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: HTML export to work with TiddlyWiki
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Consider Org-social for community news feeds
  • org-social.el 2.1 release
• Denote:
  • How I as a PhD student use Emacs (and Zotero) to organize my research (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Emacs + Elixir Config (@edporras@c.im)
  • Steven Allen: Replacing Git-Link with Forge
• Shells:
  • Christian Tietze: Redirect Output to Buffers from Emacs Eshell (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Irreal: RSS Readers
• Fun:
  • tmythicator/lichess.el: A minimal Emacs client for the Lichess API - game viewer at the moment
• AI:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.5 improvements (HN)
  • Some functions for gptel
  • (released) superchat 0.4: add a simple workflow excutor
  • At Last Someone I Can Work With. His Name is Claude. (01:46)
  • Modeling bioreactor data with an LLM in Emacs (12:03)
  • AI pair programming and LLM chats in Emacs (01:14:02)
  • Ollama tool use demo on Android Emacs 30.1 (04:00)
• Community:
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Maintenance
  • Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten (02:20:26)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ag about Emacs, Lisps, LLMs, and story-telling
  • #climate, #gopher, catK, jns, hal9000 lots of guests live #lispyGopherClimate #lisp #gamedev #emacs #scheme, #books - Community Video
  • The IDEs we had 30 years ago… and we lost (some discussion of Emacs in the HN comments)
• Other:
  • Much Ado About Emacs 011 - Bicycle For Your Mind - md-capture, buffer-terminator, tab-sets, denote, books
  • Announcing a lightweight Emacs window manager for Mac OS
  • Emacs as a platform for bespoke software
  • Sacha Chua: Added multiple timezone support to casual-timezone-planner
  • Emacs Nov-mode and My Nov-highlights Package for EPUB Files (05:08)
  • My-whisper: A simple Emacs package that provides speech-to-text functionality using Whisper.cpp. (00:38)
  • draxil/starling-el: Access to Starling bank info, from Emacs! (@draxil@social.linux.pizza)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • 24-bit color support for TTY frames on MS-Windows Help wanted with testing
    • Re: [elpa] externals/tmr f38d1f0a20 1/5: Support sending notifications - waiting for alert.el copyright assignment
    • Re: feature/elisp-fontify-semantically 136c39438f7: Add optional semantic highlighting for Emacs Lisp
    • Re: Patch to vertically center line content when using line-spacing variable
    • Re: oauth2 redirect-uri & OOB flow - xoauth2 plugin helps
    • TIL wildcard-to-regexp - may be related to wildcard-to-regexp?
    • Re: Future history discoverability - tips for searching through future history
    • Shared margins
    • Re: master ae32e254191: Fix minibuffer-nonselected-mode when using recur some notes on frame-related variables
  • Document 'elisp-fontify-semantically' in the Emacs manual
  • defvar-keymap: New ':prefix t' abbreviation
• New packages:
  • mason: Package managers for LSP, DAP, linters, and more (MELPA)
  • minimail: Simple, non-blocking IMAP email client (GNU ELPA)
  • org-aws-iam-role: Browse, modify, and simulate AWS IAM Roles in Org Babel (MELPA)
  • org-links: Better manage line numbers in your org-mode links (MELPA)
  • quotient: A library for generating random quotes using a text corpus (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!

Why I Keep Blogging With Emacs is a short blog post that got a lot of comments on HN this week. Also, xenodium is trying out making videos, starting with batch-applying command-line utilities.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Oct 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b2ff9efd-eee0-414a-a933-90c4abc20dbe Tue Oct 7 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 10 1800 Europe/Paris
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Super simple Emacs config (05:51)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Guys, eldoc-mouse v1.0.0 released! (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Democratize can now offer more than 6000 Emacs Lisp usage examples
• Appearance:
  • mini-posframe — mirror your minibuffer in a floating frame (demo inside) (Reddit)
  • Pragmatic Opacity w/ Emacs (10:49)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: building on top of the Modus themes
    • ‘modus-themes’ as a basis for other themes; ‘ef-themes’ is first
    • ‘standard-themes’ are also built on top of the ‘modus-themes’
• Navigation:
  • Disproject v2.2.0 released - Dispatch project commands with Transient (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Improving dired-show-file-type
• Writing:
  • Emacs Abbrev Mode vs Microsoft Word Autocorrect (33:22, Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Why I Keep Blogging With Emacs (HN, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: calculating table sums using tag hierarchies
  • (update) org-supertag: support org-link convert to embed-block, fixed table view filter
  • How to Manage AWS IAM Roles with Emacs Org Mode | Full Tutorial (05:23)
  • Irreal: Org-transclusion
  • Jack Baty: CalDAV to my Emacs Diary - getting Fastmail calendar to show up in Org Agenda
  • [BLOG] #21 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, August 13, 19:00 UTC+3
  • org-social v2: new interface, avatars, thread nav, relays (@andros@activity.andros.dev, Reddit)
  • Orgdeep: Write plain Org Mode file and serve them as HTML without any explicit export step (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Add completion for ID links): Mention `org-id-completion-targets'
• Denote:
  • Lambda Land: How I Organize the Papers I Read (Irreal) denote-citar
• Completion:
  • Hanno: Find recently modified files using vertico in Emacs
• Coding:
  • hare-mode updated for current language specs (@grafov@fosstodon.org)
  • Evil + Magit: evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode activates text-mode
• Math:
  • Disabling MathJax in Brightspace - Sociology, statistics and software (@bthalpin@mastodon.social) - includes Org snippet
• Web:
  • Talking to the Wayback Machine // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Doodling icons in a grid
• AI:
  • Building workflows with gptel
  • Emacs RAG with LibSQL - Enabling semantic search of org-mode headings with Claude Code (18:57)
  • Emacs. Your Customizable AI Control Center with the llm Package (02:09)
  • Laurent Charignon: Building Software Faster with LLMs: Part 3 - Higher-Level Abstractions (org-roam via MCP)
    • Part 4 - The Way We Build Software Is Rapidly Evolving - code-review-logger
• Community:
  • Emacs philosophy thread (continued)
  • What is the point? | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr) - on writing an obscure package
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten
• Other:
  • My Morning Routine in Emacs | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 1: Applying CLI utils (YouTube 06:16, Reddit, Irreal)
  • RDF-editor: viewing, understanding and editing linked data in emacs (a work in progress)
  • GTD List Manager and Emacs (55:55) - low resolution video, though.
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs Garbage collection improvements by using the GCMH package
  • File management with fsel, draft integration with dired
  • Announcing twen-twen-tw.el: A package to reduce eye strain (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.2.0
  • Emacs users who bank with the UK Starling Bank - feat(starling.el): Added insight table by abdrysdaleGitHub (@draxil@social.linux.pizza)
  • Irreal: Eliminating Emacs “Bloat”
  • Getting meta-based Emacs shortcuts to work in Kitty terminals
• Emacs development:
  • Run buffer-local window change functions in their buffers now
  • Add fallback backend in auth-sources
  • VC: New commands for cherry-picking (bug#79408)
  • Improve log-view-copy-revision-as-kill
  • New command log-view-copy-revision-as-kill
  • New command log-view-unmark-all-entries
  • New command vc-kill-other-working-tree-buffers
  • VC: Allow deleting or moving current working tree
  • New value 'window' of 'global-hl-line-sticky-flag'
• New packages:
  • bmp: Version bumper for git projects (MELPA)
  • cacao-theme: Based on a image reversal (MELPA)
  • elkee: Keepass client (MELPA)
  • hare-mode: Hare mode (MELPA)
  • ob-ts-node: Org-Babel support for TypeScript via ts-node (MELPA)
  • ziggy-mode: Major mode for Ziggy, a data serialization language (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!

Very niche, but I'm happy to see that nethack-el is actively being worked on again. I remember having a lot of fun with that. =)

Also, the theme for October's Emacs Carnival is maintenance. Check out the posts for September's theme of obscure packages, too!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/310983729/ Thu Oct 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Oct 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • ZeniesQis/rrepo: Remote repository tracking and management. An exploration and discovery tool for Emacs configurations. - Codeberg.org (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
• Appearance:
  • Steven Allen: Dim Unfocused Minibuffer Prompts
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the next ‘ef-themes’ will build on top of the ‘modus-themes’
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.11.0
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: Emacs For Writers Version 2 Has Arrived
  • Emacs as a Microsoft Word killer (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs: Cycle through different paragraph formats: all on one line, wrapped, max one sentence per line, one sentence per line (Irreal)
  • Announcing Casual BibTeX (Reddit)
  • Storing a Link from your Web Browser to BibTeX using Org protocol (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Faking today's date in Org
  • (update) org-supertag: support tag inheritance (extends) (Reddit)
  • (update) org-workbench: Add export and help, fix ID detection
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: a LaTeX letter that includes PDFs and hyperlinked page numbers
  • Why Org Social when you can use… anything? | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Org-Roam-UI… oder: Wie wurde die Notizvorschau repariert. | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
  • IANA adopts text/org MIME type
  • Org development:
    • org-id: Implement org-insert-link completion for ID links
    • org-refile: Allow matching "all headings" in org-refile-targets
    • Support arrow keys and mouse wheel in export dispatcher
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: example of a custom Denote identifier to include day of week data
• Completion:
  • Randy Ridenour: An Obscure Emacs Package: Yankpad (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Kisaragi Hiu: How I currently (2025) set up Emacs for C++ and CMake
  • Andrea: How to make ob-python and UV work together (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: Emacs enhanced-evil-paredit.el package: Preventing Parenthesis Imbalance when Using Evil-mode with Paredit
  • James Cherti: Emacs flymake-ansible-lint.el – A Flymake backend for ansible-lint
  • James Cherti: Emacs flymake-bashate.el – A Flymake backend for bashate that provides style checking for Bash shell scripts within Emacs
  • 2025-09-26 MyCmd and MyProject Weekly Progress Report: 2025 Week 39 (@travisbhartwell@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs tree sitter integration AND it's published (04:39)
• Shells:
  • ICYMI: Emacs 29+ term-mode supports ANSI 256-color and 24-bit color!
• Fun:
  • progfolio/wordel: Wordle in Emacs (@XLBilly@social.vivaldi.net)
• AI:
  • (Release) Emacs front-end integrating multiple AI coding CLI tools, ai-code-interface.el
  • Vibe Coding an Emacs Package (Reddit, HN)
  • My experience using LLM's for checking ELisp
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP) (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN)
  • For Claude Code writing Elisp, add a hook blocking unbalanced parens
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Who is that actor on the screen? Emacs/LLM/Fun Redux
  • Emacs + GPTel: A Scientist's AI Notebook (14:44)
  • Studying Strategy (in Emacs (for writing an OS)) (44:30)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-09-23 / week 38
  • EmacsWiki Blog Carnival "Maintenance" | Plain DrOps (@spacecadet@masto.plaindrops.de)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-09 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ekaitz about Guix, bootstrapability, FOSS advocacy, and the Basque country
  • Emacs? (@simon@social.sgawolf.com)
• Other:
  • RDF-editor: viewing, understanding and editing linked data in emacs (a work in progress)
  • James Dyer: Planning my Weekly Meals in Emacs!
  • Tags, Not Taxonomies
  • Jakub Nowak: Obscure Package (?): tmr - timer
  • Caledonia: command-line and Emacs calendar client
  • Michal Sapka: My Software philosophy (Irreal)
  • Guys, updates from eldoc-mouse, display document on a popup for mouse hover.
  • James Cherti: inhibit-mouse.el – Deactivate mouse input in Emacs (Alternative to disable-mouse) (Irreal)
  • Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Incremental garbage collector feature in the works for Emacs on MS Windows (Reddit)
    • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Use a more responsive Emacs by testing the IGC development branch
  • emacs-devel: Re: Should accept-process-output reliably return early? (long discussion)
  • Detect suspicious email addresses in Rmail and Sendmail
  • Restore mouse line dragging in character increments (Bug#79351)
  • (electric-indent-actions): Add missing NEWS
  • Navigate Completions buffer based on 'completions-format'
• New packages:
  • elchacha: Elisp ChaCha20 implementation (MELPA)
  • git-bug: Conviences for git-bug local-first issues (MELPA)
  • insta-pocket: Instapaper client (MELPA)
  • kaomel: A snappy kaomoji picker (MELPA)
  • nethack: Run Nethack as a subprocess (MELPA)
  • procress: Process progress (MELPA)
  • tabbymacs: Inline AI code completions via Tabby LSP (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 write functions that let you pick values with completion, check out Manuel and Corwin's posts for simple examples, or chmouel's post for a yasnippet version. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 24 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 25 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs meetup in person in Novosibirsk, Russia ichernyshovvv@gmail.com - Sept 27 20:00 - 23:00 Asia/Novosibirsk
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/310983729/ Thu Oct 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Oct 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • [ANN]: MEEP modal editing now available on Melpa (Reddit)
  • automate your package refresh.
  • A minimal config for Emacs on macOS (@donaldh@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Manuel Uberti: Insert date at point
  • Corwin Brust: EmacsConf CFP ending and a completing-read example
  • Irreal: Extensibility In Lisp And Emacs
  • George Huebner: Speedier elisp-refs-* with Dumb Grep
  • GitHub - eshelyaron/semel: Semantic highlighting for Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • [Package] significant-other.el - Jump between related files (tests, components, etc.)
  • Magnus: Listing buffers by tab using consult and bufferlo
  • Irreal: Saving And Restoring Tab-sets
  • James Cherti: Emacs quick-fasd: Integrate Fasd for fast file and directory navigation
  • localauthor: Simple Document Tagging with 'doc-tags.el'
• TRAMP:
  • TIL remote-file-name-inhibit-delete-by-moving-to-trash for TRAMP
• Writing:
  • Schauderbasis - reformat paragraph (2021, @EFLS@mastodon.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Zettelkasten, Emacs, and Creative Thinking
  • Jeremy Friesen: Adding More Link Description Defaults
  • Jeremy Friesen: Generating Descriptions of org-insert-link
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow "independent" parent plain list checkboxes
  • Sacha Chua: Adding Org Mode link awesomeness elsewhere: my-org-insert-link-dwim - markdown, oddmuse, mastodon, web-mode (Irreal)
  • Fix Messy wide Org Mode Tables in 5 Minutes - phscroll Tutorial for Emacs Users (02:23)
  • How I read papers with Org-roam & Zotero #emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
  • I Wrote A Gnu Guile Script That Converts Mozilla Firefox Json Bookmarks Archive To An Org-Mode Format.
  • Sacha Chua: Getting a Google Docs draft ready for Mailchimp via Emacs and Org Mode
  • Org Social Relay (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the next version of Denote will support custom identifiers
• Completion:
  • yasnippet to choose code block type and yank clipboard text into markdown block
• Coding:
  • Read local copy of HyperSpec with eww
  • dotemacs/testiere-mode.el - inline tests library for Common Lisp (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • snSYNC.el - edit ServiceNow scripts in Emacs
  • Emacs flymake-ansible-lint: Real-Time Syntax and Style Checking for Ansible Playbooks and Roles Using ansible-lint (Release 1.0.4) (Reddit)
  • upcoming RacketCon talk "It Works: more adventures with Racket and Emacs" (@racketlang@functional.cafe)
  • Emacs UV Mode - Python Command VOD (55:14)
• Math:
  • calctape: Emacs adding-machine, tape calculator, column sum-mer
  • Emacs Speaks R: R's Tree Sitter Major Mode (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Entering dates in Emacs Calc (Irreal)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Custom Functions And Keybindings In Doom Emacs (18:37)
• AI:
  • Switch easily between gptel prompts in a directory
  • An electronic notebook with Emacs + gptel + mcp and claude-light (17:35)
  • Improving ACP traffic inspection (Reddit)
  • Generating a commit message using Magit and gptel
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Who knows what actors lurk in the heart of movies? The LLM knows.
• Community:
  • Still Using Emacs in 2025? Yes — And Here’s Why (Irreal)
  • Long term use.
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Julien about Emacs, functional package managers, Nix, Guix, and reproducibility (YouTube 01:24:40)
  • FrostyX/thanks: Say thanks to the authors of all your installed packages (Reddit)
  • Recomendando un par de blogs en español | Picando Código (@picandocodigo@mastodon.online)
• Other:
  • inhibit-mouse.el - Disable the mouse in Emacs (Release: 1.0.2) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eldoc-mouse to show document for mouse hover. (Reddit, Reddit, YouTube, Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Obscure Emacs package appreciation: backup-walker
  • Another minor issue with my use of svg-analog-clock.el - YouTube (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: More discussion of librsvg and Rust vs C
  • Support 'RET' for visiting URLs in read-only buffers (bug#74792)
  • (register-preview-info): sort registers in preview buffer
  • Add hideable indicators for hideshow. (Bug#79294)
  • New mode 'minibuffer-nonselected-mode'
  • Fixes for csharp-ts-mode fontification (bug#79406)
  • New mode 'mouse-shift-adjust-mode' for S-<mouse-1>
  • * lisp/hl-line.el (global-hl-line-sticky-flag): New value 'all'.
  • New commands to apply changes to other working trees
• New packages:
  • buframe: Buffer-local frames (GNU ELPA)
  • crystal-point: Dynamic cursor color matching face at point (MELPA)
  • double-press: Double-press key dispatcher (MELPA)
  • ical-form: A widget form for editing ical events (MELPA)
  • mu4e-walk: Send email addresses for a walk (MELPA)
  • org-repeat-by-cron: An Org mode task repeater based on Cron expressions (MELPA)
  • tintin-mode: Major mode for editing TinTin++ config files (MELPA)

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

There were lots of Emacs-related discussions on Hacker News, mainly because of two posts about Emacs's extensibility: an Org Mode example and a completion example. This guide on connecting to databases from Org Mode Babel blocks started a few discussions. There were a couple of Emacs Carnival posts on obscure packages, too. Also, if you want to present at EmacsConf 2025 (great way to meet like-minded folks), please send your proposal in by this Friday (Sept 19). Thanks!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • London Emacs (in person): M-x drinks https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/310874314/ Tue Sep 16 1800 Europe/London
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 24 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 25 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 27 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs meetup in person in Novosibirsk, Russia ichernyshovvv@gmail.com - Sept 27 20:00 - 23:00 Asia/Novosibirsk
• Emacs configuration:
  • dandrake/casual-eww: Emacs transient "casual" menu for the emacs web browser eww (@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs workflow ideas: How I use Hydra in a minor mode (15:50, Reddit)
  • ZeniesQis/Emacsn: Installation and multiple configuration management for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Everything with Emacs (@jnpn@mastodon.social) - vianney.leboutellier's Emacs configuration
  • meow-edit/meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑 (recent discussion on HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Sharing some thoughts on page-ext and building your own alternatives to packages (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Mondo — World's scripts, languages, places in any language (Emacs package)
  • Listful Andrew: Vexil — Create flags of countries and subdivisions (Emacs package)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs and dom.el: quick notes on parsing HTML and turning DOMs back into HTML
  • Ep699 Emacs Lisp defvar-keymap, define-keymap , part 2 (01:01:15)
  • [12] Emacs Reader's Development: Working on Partial & Tiled Rendering (Part III) - 9/14/2025, 2:31:27 PM - Dyne.org TV
  • How to Create and Test an Emacs Tree-Sitter Major Mode (emacs-devel)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs vim-tab-bar.el: A Vim-Inspired Emacs Tab-Bar That Automatically Adapts to Any Theme (Release 1.0.9)
• Navigation:
  • localauthor: Managing Emacs Tabs with 'tab-sets.el'
• Writing:
  • Powerful emacs hacks: patching markdown-mode (HN) - getting images from a different directory
  • Powerful emacs hacks: paste images to markdown from clipboard
  • Irreal: Semantic Line Breaks
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs: a paradigm shift (Reddit, HN, HN) - automatically sorting in Org Mode
  • Jeremy Friesen: Dynamic Org-Mode Block to List Books Read
  • (Update) org-supertag 5.1: Implement Interactive Schema View for Tag Management (Github)
  • Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
  • RangHo/svelte-preprocess-org: Svelte preprocessor for Org, the most superior markup language. (Reddit)
  • Sync Emacs Org Agenda and Google Calendar with the Org-Gcal Package (06:30)
  • Generating a website/blog from Org files with Hakyll
  • Org Social Preview Generator
• Coding:
  • dotemacs/lisp-comment-dwim.el: Do What I Mean mode for toggling comments in Lisp (@dotemacs@mastodon.xyz)
  • tomekw/doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax highlighting, LSP and Alire support (HN) - also usable from vanilla Emacs
  • Elisp For Clojure Developers
  • Clojuredocs.el from within emacs
  • A baseline indent rule for tree-sitter major modes (Reddit)
  • Integrate Emacs and Jira with Ejira3
  • James Dyer: Debugging Software Breakage with Git Stash and Emacs
  • Magit 4.4, Forge 0.6, Ghub 5.0 and Transient 0.10 released
• Shells:
  • Tip about using exec-path-from-shell-initialize to set the PATH
• Web:
  • Making use of Webmentions // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
  • Teaching Emacs to recognize thing-at-point (17:53)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Getting Started With Doom Emacs (16:34)
  • Doom Emacs And Creating A Literate Config (24:06)
• Fun:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Artist clock
• AI:
  • (Release) SuperChat: A friendly, Claude Code–style chat UI for gptel in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing acp.el (Reddit)
    • Alvaro Ramirez: So you want ACP (Agent Client Protocol) for Emacs?
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-09-09 / week 36
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: port19 about RSI, keyboard ergonomics, dictation tools, and geriatric nursing
  • Lobsters interview with Susam (Reddit)
  • Tell me you use emacs (without telling me you use emacs) (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Tip about using M-x decipher to solve cryptoquotes (single alphabet substitution ciphers)
  • Improved emacsclient-wrapper.sh. to be used as $VISUAL, $EDITOR
  • buffer-terminator.el: Safely terminate Emacs buffers automatically to enhance performance and reduce clutter in the buffer list (Release 1.2.0) (Reddit)
  • Announcing Numeri - an Emacs package for Roman number translation (Reddit, Irreal)
  • stripspace.el: Ensure Emacs Automatically removes trailing whitespace before saving a buffer (Release 1.0.2) (Reddit)
  • arkoinad/autopaste: Autopaste clipboard to current buffer - polls the MacOS clipboard with pbpaste
  • September Emacs Carnival: Obscure Packages
    • Emacs Obscure Package: transient — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
    • An obscure Emacs Package: Chart.el
    • An obscure Emacs package: decide | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
    • Obscure packages (Paquetes raros)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • long-term issue with emacs-devel search not showing recent messages
    • Another alternative Emacs logo proposal; side discussion about librsvg and Rust
  • Introduce auth-source-ignore-non-existing-file
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Fix last change.
  • Update to Unicode 17.0
  • Ignore non-existing or empty files in auth-sources
• New packages:
  • async1: Unroll chain of async callbacks, parallel and sequencial (MELPA)
  • blue: BLUE build system interface (MELPA)
  • consult-gh-nerd-icons: Nerd icons Integration for consult-gh (MELPA)
  • doxymacs: Emacs integration with Doxygen (MELPA)
  • meep: Lightweight modal editing (MELPA)
  • quick-fasd: Integration for the command-line tool `fasd' (MELPA)
  • thanks: Say thanks to the authors of all your installed packages (MELPA)
  • verse-mode: Major mode for Verse (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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!