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

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

• Help wanted:
  • Join Org mode contributor liaison team and help maintaining Org mode
  • Skeeto: "I have officially retired from Emacs" – looking for maintainers for Elfeed etc. (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #5 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b4192df7-3da4-41b8-95a3-532b93923656 Mon May 4 1900 CET
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/314341747/ Thu May 7 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri May 8 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri May 8 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Other stuff:
    • Sacha Chua: April 30 Yay Emacs: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs - Newbies/Starter Kits (Prot)
    • Battle of the Editors - Satellite Event - Tue Jun 30 4:30 PM Aachen, Seffenterweg 23 / Kopernikusstr. 6 (IT Center) for hackathon participants and guests
    • Sacha Chua: May 4: Emacs Chat with Amin Bandali
      • May 7: Shae Erisson
      • May 21: Raymond Zeitler
      • June 18: Ross A. Baker
• Emacs configuration:
  • What are your favorite Emacs packages? (Reddit, HN)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What are some common code smells that inexperienced Elispers make?
  • Dave Pearson: expando.el v1.6 - expand macro in a different window; fix keybinding
  • Protesilaos: Emacs livestream: Maintaining Denote, TMR, and more (YouTube 3:06:05)
  • Ideas for things to bind to C-z (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Configuration: Writing my own Theme Switcher (15:33)
  • yotsuba: 4chan aesthetic, this time based on the Tomorrow theme. (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Dave Pearson: itch.el v1.3.0 - switch to the scratch buffer
  • Tip: repeat-map and expreg-expand (@plantarum@ottawa.place)
  • The Definitive Guide to Code Folding in Emacs (Reddit, Irreal)
• Writing:
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.2 - cycle image extensions
  • Dave Pearson: kbdify.el v1.0.0 - marking up keys in Markdown
• Denote:
  • New package: denote-wordcloud
• Org Mode:
  • (emacs) org mode - your life in plain text (09:49)
  • Spacemacs | Org-contacts Agenda Anniversaires | Productivité (02:22)
  • How I use org-roam - The Universe of Joshua Blais
  • Spacemacs | Org-roam Notes avec tags | Productivité (00:59)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Quick tutorial to get a blog online from Org mode thanks to Org Social | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev, in Spanish, @hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
    • Como colorear los bloques de código en Org-mode | Andros Fenollosa (2016, @hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
    • Code for org-edit-special, eglot, and Python (@anoncheg@mastodontech.de)
    • Get ready for Orgy in 15 minutes — Bastien Guerry (Irreal, JC Helary) - static site generator
    • Tony Zorman: Writing Literate Blog Posts
• Completion:
  • Dave Pearson: unabbrev.el v1.0.0 - completing-read an abbrev
  • Charlie Holland: A VOMPECCC Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs (HN)
  • I made an Emacs completion style using nucleo, the fuzzy matcher from Helix (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • James Dyer: Highlighting git changes in a buffer with diff-hl
  • remoto.el: Browse GitHub repos without cloning. (Reddit, HN)
  • Exploring Semantic & Friends in Emacs for Development Without LSP - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@tv.dyne.org)
  • Mike Olson: Fixing typescript-ts-mode in Emacs 30.2
• Math:
  • Emacs: ses-mode (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet) (20:57)
• Shells:
  • kitty-graphics.el v0.5.0: tmux support for images inside terminal Emacs and much more! (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Emacs is my browser - The Universe of Joshua Blais (Irreal, lobste.rs)
• Multimedia:
  • Some code for working with playlists and mpc (mpd) (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
  • Spacemacs | Play music, recordings | Productivity (01:28)
  • Sam Aaron uses #emacs ! (01:27)
• AI:
  • claude-code-context - simple Emacs Buffer Awareness for Claude Code (Reddit)
  • AI For Boomers: Project Claude For Emacs (01:49)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-04-21 / week 16
  • Your sources for inspiration
  • Sacha Chua: YE20 braindump: Emacs Carnival: Newbies/starter kits (YouTube, 1:03:50)
    • Sacha Chua: YE21 April 23: Continuing to think about newbies / starter kits (YouTube, 1:00:51)
  • Randy Ridenour: Emacs and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
  • Emacs Philosophy and Infinite Depth with Protesilaos - The Universe of Joshua Blais (YouTube, 1:40:55)
  • A month of Elisp · Perpetually Curious Blog
• Other:
  • I made a TaskJuggler major mode for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Charles Choi: Some nice to know keybindings when using the mouse in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How I use my numeric keypad with Emacs Ledger mode
  • anju v1.2: center and fill menus, edit - duplicate, look up; improve mouse interactions in Emacs (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Rahul Juliato: Getting Emacs proced.el to Show CPU and Memory on macOS (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Re: About "prefixed-core" - Philip Kaludercic
  • Add treesit-query-with-fallback
  • New user option compilation-search-extra-path
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce "setrgbf" and "setrgbb" terminfo capabilities
  • Add language-environment and input methods for Syriac
  • Rebind 'tab-bar-mouse-close-tab' from <down-mouse-2> to <mouse-2>
  • Show executed tests from erts files via the ERT results buffer
• New packages:
  • denote-wordcloud: Generate a word cloud (MELPA)
  • dmsg: Timestamped debug messages with backtrace support (GNU ELPA)
  • evil-ghostel: Evil-mode integration for ghostel (MELPA)
  • mozc-modeless: Modeless Japanese input with Mozc (MELPA)
  • org-lark: Export Lark docs to Org (MELPA)
  • verdict: Generic test runner with treemacs results UI (MELPA)
  • with-command-redo: Repeat commands with automatic undo (MELPA)

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

I enjoyed reading Hot-wiring the Lisp machine (an adventure into modifying Org publishing). I'm also looking forward to debugging my Emacs Lisp better with timestamped debug messages and ert-play-keys. I hope you also find lots of things you like in the links below!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How do you keep track of new/useful keybindings?
• Emacs configuration:d
  • What modern Emacs packages am I missing?
  • Meow Made me Leave Evil-Mode - The Universe of Joshua Blais (YouTube, 17:00)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What are some common code smells that inexperienced Elispers make?
  • Updated kickingvegas/elisp-for-python - improved sections on map types and iteration (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • load settings from files sorted by number (@cage@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
  • dmsg.el: Timestamped debug messages with backtrace support (Reddit)
  • Defining λ as a macro for lambda (@marcel@van-der-boom.nl)
  • Listful Andrew: Mars Rovers IV: The Solutions — Emacs Lisp
  • Listful Andrew: Mars Rovers IX: The Grid Viz Solutions — Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Loading the theme and user face customizations at the right moment
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new modus-themes-exporter package (YouTube 2:56:36)
  • faff theme v4.0; now using modus-themes (Reddit)
  • folio-theme: a warm paper-like light theme for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: Batppuccin and Tokyo Night Themes Land on MELPA
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Query Replace Is A Bloody Good Way To Make Quick Changes 2026 04 15 02:51:42 (05:33)
  • Irreal: A Short Report On Help Focus
  • Tip about using consult-focus-lines
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Binding TAB in Dired to something useful (Irreal)
  • James Dyer: Emacs-DIYer: A Built-in dired-collapse Replacement
  • casual 2.16.0: improvements to Dired for marked file operations and context-sensitive behavior (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Writing:
  • Dave Pearson: boxquote.el v2.4 - added a transient
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.1 - change image extension to webp
  • Launching a new grammar/spell checking tool for Org-mode, LaTeX, Markdown, Python, Clang, etc. (Reddit)
  • ekg version 0.9.0: New notes UI, Apple Notes Syncing, agentic actions and org integration (YouTube 21:36)
• Org Mode:
  • Remember everything with Org Mode (10:17)
  • Organizing my retirement with org-mode – Andy Sylvester's Web
  • Org-roam pour la prise de notes (avec Spacemacs) (20:37)
  • org-auto-scheduler (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • folgezett.el a package for Org-Roam users (Reddit)
  • Avoiding mismatched Org versions by removing ELPA/MELPA packages and other Org performance tips (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Emacs as a Math Notebook and Advanced Symbolic Solver! (Irreal)
  • #28 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, March 11, 19:00 UTC+3 - meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Graphs in Org-Mode! Matplotlib Demo (Reddit)
    • [EMACS LAB] #4: "literate" programming (org-babel) (01:38:44)
    • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Drop GoogleCL from LoB + ideas for a replacement?
    • James Endres Howell: Embedding a Mastodon thread as comments to a blog post - org-static-blog-emfed
    • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: JS for translating times to people's local timezones
    • Sacha Chua: Create a Google Calendar event from an Org Mode timestamp
    • Recent Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator) (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
    • Hot-wiring the lisp machine (Reddit, lobste.rs) - modifying publishing
  • Org development:
    • New function org–forward-sentence-thing-at-point-provider
• Completion:
  • Completion is a Substrate, not a UI (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • VOMPECCC: A Modular Completion Framework for Emacs (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Tip about using eglot-extend-to-xref
  • New Package: eglot-rcpp for simplifying Rcpp package development in emacs (Reddit)
  • Scheme for Beginners 2: Guile and Emacs (04:56)
  • Shipit update: Atlassian Dashboard for Jira, PR↔issue linking, and activity-level notification navigation
  • [Showcase] k8s-to-puml: Deterministic Kubernetes diagrams from your manifests using Tree-sitter and GOFAI rules (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Gal Buki: Clipboard in terminal Emacs with WezTerm
• Web:
  • paw browser extension can now manage tabs and send tab info, copy links to Emacs (Reddit) Chrome/Firefox extension for sending page context via org-protocol
• Doom Emacs:
  • My Doom Emacs config for software development — 150 lines covering LSP, Magit, org-roam, and a custom dashboard
• Multimedia:
  • el-gpu (Video 1:46, 79M)
  • YE17: Livestream conveniences, editing yesterday's transcript (50:50)
  • Sacha Chua: Make chapter markers and video time hyperlinks easier to note while I livestream
• Fun:
  • Dave Pearson: wordcloud.el v1.4
  • Dave Pearson: slstats.el v1.11 - Second Life grid
• AI:
  • Agentic development workflow in Emacs
  • anvil.el — Forge Emacs into Claude Code's weapon (Reddit)
  • Headless Emacs + Org + LLMs in Docker as a backend for personal automation (Reddit)
  • Announcing llm-test, a very high-level testing framework for Emacs (Reddit)
• Community:
  • VSCode too SLOW | switch to Emacs and go to PLAID (06:59)
  • Cocinándose la renovación de la Web… | Hacia la Hispa-Emacs Conf. 2026 ! (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • Sacha Chua: YE16: Sacha and Prot talk Emacs
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-04 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • 26: Why You'll Never Switch Editors (And What You're Missing)
• Other:
  • Tip about setting w32-use-visible-system-caret to nil on Windows
  • # omarchy.el - Emacs integration for Omarchy (Reddit)
  • trust-manager.el — Towards Trust in Emacs (Reddit, HN, long discussion on emacs-devel)
  • emskin: a nested Wayland compositor in Rust that embeds any app into Emacs windows (Reddit)
  • Dave's blog: Posframe for everything
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • External loops and Emacs: state machines vs two C stacks - Vladimir Kazanov
    • Re: Alternative Emacs logo - Philip Kaludercic (SVG)
    • RE: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation) - Vincent Belaïche - texinfo bug for UTF-8
  • Restrict Dired handling of newlines in file names
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Presentational fixes and improvements.
  • Announce ert-play-keys in etc/NEWS.
  • New faces 'tab-line-active' and 'tab-line-inactive' (bug#80742)
• New packages:
  • agent-recall: Search and browse agent-shell conversation transcripts (MELPA)
  • batppuccin: Shared infrastructure for Batppuccin themes (MELPA)
  • citar-vulpea: Minor mode integrating Citar and Vulpea (MELPA)
  • comet-trail: Cursor comet trail effect (MELPA)
  • elixir-iex: IEx REPL via eat terminal emulator (MELPA)
  • go-prettify-mode: Hide `if err != nil' and prettify them (MELPA)
  • hidepass: Hide passwords at one or multiple lines (MELPA)
  • http-server: Speaks HTTP for you (MELPA)
  • modus-ewal-theme: Modus theme that uses pywal colors powered by ewal (MELPA)
  • python-unicode-escape: Completion for Python \N{NAME} escapes (MELPA)
  • rimel: A lightweight Rime input method (MELPA)
  • rocq-timing: Display timing of rocq commands in buffer (MELPA)
  • sidebuf: Buffer list sidebar panel (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 little improvements in this one! I'm looking forward to borrowing the config tweaks that bbatsov highlighted and also trying out popterm for quick-access shells. Also, the Emacs Carnival for April has a temporary home at Newbies/starter kits - feel free to write and share your thoughts!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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