The Emacs Carnival theme for November 2026 is Discovering Emacs features. Thanks to Raymond Zeitler for hosting. Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

There is a very long discussion about Human Emacs and LLM-assisted contributions on emacs-devel. It is a lot. I don't want to throw fuel on the fire. I'm mentioning it because it's a topic that a lot of people care very strongly about, and because there's a subdiscussion about slavery that might ripple out into the wider community. If you do decide to weigh in, please be kind and thoughtful. Thank you!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Nov 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Nov 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Nov 12 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 13 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/317358711/ Sat Nov 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Editing at the Speed of Thought in Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • blog.fidelramos.net – Supercharging Embark: custom actions for Org, Magit and gptel (@fidel)
    • blog.fidelramos.net – Potenciando Embark: acciones personalizadas para Org, Magit y gptel
  • Protesilaos: Reply to Emacs questions about configuration, Evil, and more
  • Emacs set-transient-map (without sacrificing my key-chord muscle memory) (18:51, Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A writeup on flymake + elisp (Reddit)
  • et: An experimental type-checker for elisp (GitHub, Reddit)
  • A Short Conversation About Types in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Bookmark – Just a Bitmap in the Fringe
• Hyperbole:
  • New Hyperbole Intro Videos - Hyperbole Teaser and Cross-Window Linking
    • Hyperbole Teaser (00:58)
    • Hyperbole Rapid Cross Window Links (08:01)
• Writing:
  • texpresso-view: live LaTeX preview inside Emacs, updated as you type (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Why Use A Word Processor When You Have Org?
  • Irreal: BYOK - talking about a writer deck for focusing on writing
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] LaTeX preview support Emacs without SVG support
  • Org mode from zero: a complete, friendly guide · Pablo Murad (@pablomurad.com on Bluesky)
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Tracking issues with Emacs and Org mode dynamic blocks (Reddit)
  • Word counting cookies
  • Diego Zamboni: My blogging setup in 2026: reducing friction
  • Einar Mostad: Adapting to text-based browser
  • Charles Choi: Beautifying Org HTML Export
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Add links to blogs from authors of the feature
    • ox-latex: Escape commas in :alt
    • org-hide: Inherit from fixed-pitch on most platforms
    • Add LATEX_FONTSPEC_DEFAULTS
• Coding:
  • Magnus: Follow-up: Switching to project.el
  • ZeniesQis/rrepo-fj: Integration with the fj package for managing Forgejo repos. - Codeberg.org (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • Made a package to query linux syscalls from my api.syscall.sh project (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: September and October 2026
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Neocaml 0.11: OxCaml, Indentation Styles, and odoc
  • looking at a sqlite database without using sqlite (04:38:13) livestream coding, also mentions exwm
• Math:
  • Randy Ridenour: Emacs Literate Calc Mode (Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Emacs beyond the basics, part I: feeds, gopher, the fediverse and mail · Pablo Murad (@pablomurad.com on Bluesky)
• Fun:
  • [ANN] I made an 'Emacs piano' that knows when you let go of a key (Linux) (Reddit) - Linux-only; listening to evdev directly to get keyup events
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Who’s That Actor? Revisited
    • Lars Ingebrigtsen: OK, OK, I’ll just use tmdb - actor profile
• LLMs:
  • emacs-devel: Human Emacs - Phil Hagelberg
  • hutch: local code reviews in emacs for the mildly disenfranchised (Reddit)
  • Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 Minutes (YouTube, 01:11, Reddit)
  • Are there lessons to be learnt from neomacs? (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-11-03 / week 44
  • Mehrad Personal Website | In pursuit of the perfect IDE (@Mehrad@fosstodon.org)
  • Philip Kaludercic: On Whether Emacs Is Here To Stay?
  • Emacs vs Neovim - Why the Emacs Community Is So Nice (Sacha Chua) (19:35)
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf: Thinking about the community panel
    • Yay Emacs 52: Drafting my responses for the community panel (14:45)
  • Protesilaos: EmacsConf 2026 community panel comments I made
  • I Hate Emacs | danielfm.me (HN) - getting used to good stuff in Emacs makes it hard to use anything else
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Carnival November 2026: discovering new features
    • Emacs carnival: (re-)discovery of new features
  • Calendar for dotfiles status bar (@hadi@fosstodon.org)
  • Make Emacs stop asking to confirm saves of unmodified files – Something better to do (@jikblog@blog.kamens.us)
  • Story of a bug (@blog@koldfront.dk)
  • I made a demo intro video for Portal (native web + terminal in emacs) (07:14, Reddit, Introducing Portal) - Mac-only
• Emacs development:
  • Improve SHR support for <ol> attributes
  • Move Roman numeral conversions to subr-x
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Add an entry for too many dialog items (bug#82193).
  • Support Ruff in compilation-mode
  • Add face mode-line-recursive-edit on mode line
  • Allow setting of TCP keepalive timer options
  • Help on-screen keyboards by setting default GTK input-purpose
• New packages:
  • agent-shell-consult: Consult UI for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • ajnc: A Janet (Spork) Netrepl Client (MELPA)
  • burnish: Automate Org export and view (MELPA)
  • emureader: General-purpose document reader (GNU ELPA)
  • ewc: Wayland client in Elisp (MELPA)
  • modus-vague: Emacs port of the popular vague theme (GNU ELPA)
  • readline-completion: CAPF based on GNU Readline (GNU ELPA)
  • yml: Fast YAML parser (dynamic module) (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!

Belated happy 50th birthday, Emacs!

In other news, you can now reach Emacs News at https://emacs.news. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • [emacs-berlin] 40c3 Assembly? (@emacs@toot.berlin)
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464081/ Thu Nov 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 6 0000 Etc/UTC - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #11 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b6afef85-3b06-44b8-af29-e8dcaabcab8a Mon Nov 9 1900 CET
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Nov 10 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Nov 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Nov 12 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 13 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 13 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • Emacs for the curious: install it, survive it, keep it · Pablo Murad (@pablo@murad.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • init.el - emacs - My EMACS configuration (@dakkar@s.thenautilus.net)
• Appearance:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Highlight Active Emacs Window (Irreal)
  • meeting-mode: Highlight the what's in focus during screen sharing (Reddit)
  • Test-Driving Fonts in Emacs with a Transient Menu
  • terminal-colors.el - Make your Emacs terminal color scheme look like a real terminal (vterm, eat, term, and ansi-color) (Reddit)
  • Greenit – a green-shifted terminal + Emacs theme family (dark & light) and more. (Reddit)
  • au-mysterium: a new low-glare theme for Halloween (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ef-halloween-dark is in ef-themes.git
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live refining ‘ef-themes’ Diff/Magit colours at 2026-10-29 18:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:14:56)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live new Halloween theme for ‘ef-themes’ at 2026-10-31 14:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:35:51)
• Navigation:
  • quick-fasd.el - Easily navigate your file system by using Fasd [Release 1.0.4]​ (Reddit)
  • James Dyer: Stop Going to the Top: isearch-allow-motion in Emacs (Irreal)
• Hyperbole:
  • GNU Hyperbole Release 9.3.2 is available (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing mdired, or adding a chainsaw to Dired
  • emacs-weirdware/dired-mime: MIME support for Emacs and Dired - Codeberg.org (@ieure@retro.social)
  • jwiegley/dired-filetags: Add-on for dired that implements Karl Voit's filetags utility · GitHub
• Writing:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Unicode punctuation in Emacs (Irreal)
  • Improvements in mw-thesaurus (Reddit)
  • "Obsidian is bloated," so use XML (07:48)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live refinements for Denote at 2026-10-30 14:45 Europe/Athens (YouTube, 01:51:30)
• Org Mode:
  • This Month in Org: November 2026: Fabulously Fancy Fragments (r/orgmode, r/emacs)
  • Understanding Org's LaTeX previews - karthinks (Reddit)
  • org-gcal - Google Calendar 이벤트도 Emacs 품 안으로 - (emacsian ohyecloudy) (@ohyecloudy.bsky.social)
  • DOrg 0.2: a structured query-and-edit API for your Org data plane, from Elisp or the CLI (Reddit)
  • Orgmode LSP - Language server for Orgmode (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Leaving asdf for mise - dev tools, env vars, tasks
  • Emacs: Git Rebase with Magit (4 Real Scenarios) (12:29, Reddit)
  • fj.el 0.49 - forgejo / codeberg client: jump to issue, own repo (@mousebot@todon.nl)
  • EmacsConf 2026: El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning them - Ag (12:11) Ag is sharing this talk early as an experiment, feel free to to start trying it out
  • licensel an Emacs package for inserting common software license texts into the current buffer. (Reddit)
  • Better lisp editing with `tree-guide.el` (and other packages) (YouTube, Reddit)
  • Run interactive Clojure workflows from Emacs w/ Admin Delux (09:01)
• Web:
  • proxymacs.el - An Emacs package that configures the HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy with optional authentication (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf: Using message-sent-hook to run buffer-specific code to keep track of e-mailed schedules
  • Reading RSS feeds with Emacs (2014, @swrogers@social.lol)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Revisiting My Doom Emacs Configuration
• Multimedia:
  • Emacs and its many (inter)faces (Reddit)
• EXWM:
  • EXWM as default session on Guix with slim
• LLMs:
  • hutch: local code reviews in emacs for the mildly disenfranchised — kitallis.in (lobste.rs)
  • How I streamlined PRs waiting for review with mu + Org-mode + AI
  • Supertag 0.4 for Emacs: one sentence, one interface for each kind of Org note (09:19)
    • (update) Supertag 0.4.0: lifestreams-style stream-agent, summary (03:47, Reddit)
  • aavanian/claude-archive.el: Browse, search and read your claude.ai conversation exports in Emacs. · GitHub (@alexandre.avanian.net)
• Community:
  • EMACS turns 50 (HN, r/emacs, lobste.rs, r/emacs again, programming.dev, Irreal)
    • 'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50
    • Emacs a 50 ans - LinuxFr.org (@benzogaga33@mamot.fr)
    • Emacs cumple 50 años: la historia del editor que sobrevivió a cinco décadas de informática - Somos Libres (@elfolio.bsky.social, @dogvilia.bsky.social)
  • Emacs for Everything - Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years (01:47:55, Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: My chat with Linkarzu
    • Yay Emacs 47: Editing the VTT for my chat with Linkarzu (01:56:24) livestream includes some Q&A on voice
    • Emacs Voice Control With Local AI on a 2018 Laptop - Sacha Chua's Setup (Reddit)
    • Sacha Chua: Clip: Emacs voice control - describing my setup during Linkarzu's livestream
    • Yay Emacs 46: Tinkering with my speech+typing workflows (02:05:58)
  • I Was Seven Months Pregnant With an Emacs Config | Psy-Q's Braindump (@psy-q.ch)
  • Badore: (message "hello world")
  • Sacha Chua: emacs.news
• Other:
  • teleprompter.el: turn any Emacs buffer into a teleprompter
  • Badore: M-x keep-lines
  • v1.10.0 · kickingvegas/anju - mouse menus: single/double-click behavior, Org block context, window layouts (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Raymond Zeitler: The Future of Human Interface for Emacs
  • Emacs + Termux Builder (Reddit)
  • Nicolas Cavigneaux: Emacs Everywhere on macOS with Shortcuts
• Emacs development:
  • Support Kitty Keyboard Protocol disambiguation of escape codes
  • Add mass unit 'stone' to calc (bug#82145)
  • etc/emacsclient.desktop: Replace –display with –reuse-frame
  • Add refactor.el; move generic code actions machinery out of Eglot
• New packages:
  • japanese-menu: Japanese menu translation (MELPA)
  • mdired: SIMD-style commands for marked Dired items (MELPA)
  • perl-live: Evaluate Perl in persistent project sessions (MELPA)
  • refactor: Language-agnostic refactoring interface (GNU ELPA)
  • xdg-redirect: Redirect Emacs files to XDG directories (MELPA)

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

The coolest thing I saw this week is Clerkenwell, a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github).

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 29 0200 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464081/ Thu Nov 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Nov 6 0000 Etc/UTC - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Nov 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Nov 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years
• Emacs configuration:
  • welkomscherm v1.2.1: a small, calm, extensible dashboard for Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Eric MacAdie: I Updated My Emacs Number Package
  • Flymake for Emacs Lisp (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Better lisp editing with `tree-guide.el` (and other packages) (28:53)
• Appearance:
  • region-cursors - Cursor overlays at both ends of the region (Reddit)
  • Flick: a quick and simple font picker (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: doric-themes version 1.4.0
• Navigation:
  • Some recent changes I've made to tab-config my tabbing package for emacs built on top of tab-line (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Emacs finally folds to my liking - jointhefreeworld
  • Emacs - Ripscope - search C symbol definitions
• Writing:
  • Letters to Auntie: spell-checking in Emacs (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • Emacs for obsessive word lovers (10:40)
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v5.4.0
  • Sacha Chua: Dictating blog posts into Emacs (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • modeorg.org: a human guide to Org Mode (@pablo@murad.social)
  • Martin Schell: Using Org-Capture Templates with Elisp Evaluation to Set Values Depending on User Input (Irreal)
  • How to export your org-mode and org-agenda to Apple Reminders · GitHub
  • Building a website with Org mode (Reddit)
  • Denden: Emacs Lisp SSG based on org-publish | Dilip's Log (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Adding Caching to org-publish-rss.el (@tiang)
  • org-constellation (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • cmd-rewind: resume last completing-read with saved input (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Using Typescript V7 With Emacs Eglot (@swrogers@social.lol)
  • Auto apply Emacs Eglot safe Code Actions (fixes) on Save
  • Video 3 - Configuring Emacs, Arrays, Slices, Vectors, and the Borrow Checker (15:47)
  • Back to Emacs with the SCSS workflow I always wanted
  • Writing an mTLS server in Go using Emacs (Reddit)
  • Clerkenwell: a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github)
• Shells:
  • Ghostel integration in Emacs (10:27)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Irreal: A Small Improvement - deleting cookies after using elfeed-webkit
• Evil mode:
  • evil-matchit 5.0.0 is published (Reddit) jumping between paired structures
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: subed.el and quoting snippets of YouTube videos from the auto captions
  • Yay Emacs 44: More conversational voice interfaces (01:11:04)
• LLMs:
  • nmagko/gptel-web: Web search tools for Emacs gptel · GitHub
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-20 / week 42
  • 40c3 - organizing a Lisp assembly for self-organized workshops (@nmeum@chaos.social)
  • Emacs Historical Archive (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Are keyboards and M-x here to stay?
  • Can your Vim do that? starts beatboxing (00:53) having fun with multiple cursors.
  • Sacha Chua: Upcoming chat with linkarzu about using Emacs for 25 years
  • Github PR box * tech chats * conference outfits * Emacs Conf prep (05:35:41)
  • Linkarzu clips:
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (01:30:34)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why He Switched for Good (12:27)
    • vim user admits emacs is better (14:08)
    • Emacs vs Neovim - Why Prot Won't Pick a Side (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Analyzing Emacs News: 564 posts over 11 years, > 34k items, ~60/post (Irreal)
• Other:
  • Raymond Zeitler: A Point-Based Tooltip for Emacs
  • Chai v2.1.0: Read Books in Emacs, Highlight, Search & Ask with Sources (01:36)
  • exc.el — Runs Excel in Emacs (18:48, Github)
  • Comparing file with autosaved file (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • anju 1.9: mouse menus for storing frameset, setting macro counter, fill functions (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • buffer-snapshotter: keeps snapshots of changed versions buffers (visiting files or not) written to disk (@morix@loci.onl)
  • Learning an Ancient Language with an Ancient Text Editor - SeaGL 2026 - pretalx
  • Profound anguish and Emacs persistent undos — (^ω^) (@jadedctrl@jam.xwx.moe)
  • returning nonzero exit code from emacsclient (@amy@ice.ch3.st)
  • Emacs and rust on an ASUS Eee PC 1000HA (03:51)
• Emacs development:
  • ekp-fill - line-breaking algorithm; some parts were LLM-generated, so the author is rewriting
• New packages:
  • ctftime: CTFtime dashboard (MELPA)
  • difflayer: Overlay diffs on selected regions (MELPA)
  • elark: Emacs interface to Lark/Feishu via lark-cli (MELPA)
  • fz-index: Sublime-style fuzzy file open with a native index (MELPA)
  • isbn: ISBN library (GNU ELPA)
  • modern-tab: The common part of the two tab modes (MELPA)
  • region-cursors: Display point and active mark using overlays (MELPA)
  • straight-overview: Selective upgrade UI for straight.el packages (MELPA)
  • typst-overlay: Overlay Typst equations (MELPA)
  • xc: Emacs interface for xc (GNU ELPA)

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

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There are a bunch of Eglot-related resources in the Coding category today. Nice to see people working on lots of cool stuff!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/317043388/ Sat Oct 24 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 29 0200 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Why Emacs Is For Beginners (04:33)
  • Taller de Configuración de Entorno (25:36)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A Mode for Every Occasion (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • Randy Ridenour: Finding Unbalanced Parens in Emacs (Irreal)
  • tree-guide.el: short editing demo (20 seconds, no audio) (00:22)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Using timers to perform weekly tasks (Irreal) - updating Org clock tables
  • Deleting variables in code with Emacs Lisp by using the face properties (@zwol@masto.hackers.town)
  • ETAF: a framework and ecosystem for building full text applications in Emacs - music player, RSS and ebook readers, desktop, games (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Header-modeline: move your modeline to header-line (top of your window) (Reddit)
  • au-themes: calm, low-glare themes I made because most themes are too loud for me (Reddit)
  • foxglove-themes: academic-inspired modus themes that support e-ink (Reddit)
  • I created a dark modus theme centered around teletype green (Reddit)
  • More fun with modus themes. #emacs (02:08)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live extracting the Modus themes core at 2026-10-17 14:30 Europe/Athens (YouTube 02:47:00)
  • emacs-init/lisp/modus-vivendi-matrix-theme.el at main · benleis1/emacs-init · GitHub (@benleis@mathstodon.xyz)
• Navigation:
  • bookmark-gt: a module to improve bookmark management (YouTube, Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Quick note on how to edit Emacs Dired buffers (@panmaster@mamot.fr)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs live continuing ‘denote’ maintenance and refinements (2026-10-15 16:30 Europe/Athens) (YouTube 02:14:35)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: Suggestion: Document `org-extend-today-until` in Clock Table section
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] LaTeX preview between #+begin_equation/#+end_equation
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] a small patch for the brave on emacs32
  • Quickly Copy Code and Example Block Contents in Emacs Org Mode | Helen Chong, Web Developer (@helenchong@social.lol)
  • org-diff-src: character-level diffs inside Org source blocks (no Ediff) (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: org-ibullets.el - Display Emacs org-mode heading stars as UTF-8 bullets (Irreal)
  • [Package] org-slideboard: An improved interactive presentation tool for Org mode (Reddit)
  • Supertag for Emacs: write first, organize when you need to (09:05, Reddit, Reddit)
  • org-semantic: embedding search for org-mode (Reddit)
  • [EVENT] #5 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, October 17, 19:00 UTC+3 - notes and recording
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • My org-attach config, only place files go (paste / drag / download), with names I can actually read (Reddit)
    • New latex preview merged into org mode! (Reddit)
    • Introducing ical-buddy.el (Reddit)
    • Omarchy Org Agenda Plugin: Your Org Agenda schedule at a glance, directly on the top bar (Reddit)
    • My Personal Intranet to Replace Cloud Subscriptions (30:21)
  • Org development:
    • ox-html: Restore numbering when exporting math with mathml
    • Merge branch 'main' into feature/org-latex-preview
    • org-manual.org: Document compat library installation
• Coding:
  • Auto rename compilation buffer if another process is still running (@stackeffect@social.tchncs.de)
  • Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-10-11 - compilation commands, git
  • Configuring Eglot to auto format code on save in Emacs (Reddit)
  • New refactor.el: code actions, rename and quickfixes, out of Eglot (Reddit)
  • Emacs: Configuring Eglot for Python with .dir-locals.el and python-lsp-server (Pylsp) (Reddit)
  • kubect: A text focused Emacs interface Kubernetes workflows through kubectl (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Working with multiple shell buffers (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Ghostel 0.58 released (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • ElNeo - a matrix client for emacs with native e2e encryption support, inspired by telegas architecture (Reddit)
  • emacs-fu: mu 1.14.4 (Irreal)
  • my email setup in emacs (46:24)
• Evil mode:
  • evil-matchit 5.0.0 is published (Reddit)
• Fun:
  • # Emacs Golf #031 The Kill Ring
  • # Emacs Golf #029 Register Roulette
• LLMs:
  • I can't express how happy I am with emacs and LLM-assisted emacs-fu
  • roost: Run coding agents in Git worktrees and tmux, from Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.87 updates (Reddit)
  • jdblair/waves-dashboard: bead-waves tooling for beads projects: the wave CLI, an Emacs dashboard (waves-dashboard.el) and the bead-waves Claude Code skill · GitHub (@jdblair@hachyderm.io)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: all my packages have an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to restrict use
• Community:
  • Sacha Chua: Added Javascript time zone translation to the EmacsConf schedule images on the wiki
  • Protesilaos: I will participate in EmacsConf 2026
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Hacker News Decoder Ring for Emacs
  • Andros Fenollosa: Org Social: the social network that survives its own infrastructure
• Other:
  • wizard.el: A lightweight suite of useful Emacs functions (Reddit, Irreal)
  • eludom/talk-tools: This is an emacs minor mode for use when giving talks · GitHub
  • wordwise.el - Kindle-style in-line vocabulary hints above words in Emacs Reading Buffer (Reddit)
  • Readq - incremental reading for emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Reader submitted to ELPA (Reddit)
  • Introducing Portal (Reddit, lobste.rs) - macOS-only
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: UX IS US
• Emacs development:
  • Saving and restoring a session will now save and restore 'buffer-list'.
  • Rename 'dired-jump-map' to 'dired-jump-repeat-map' (bug#82052)
• New packages:
  • agent-shell-attention: Mode-line attention tracker for agent-shell (MELPA)
  • devops: Infrastructure as an org file (MELPA)
  • magit-nix3: Nix3.el integration for Magit (MELPA)
  • org-semantic: Search org notes by meaning, or by word (MELPA)
  • supersonic: Music client for Subsonic servers and Music Assistant (MELPA)
  • ttl-ts-mode: RDF Turtle editing 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!

People have been having lots of fun playing Emacs Golf over in r/emacs. Check out the "Fun" category for some examples of people comparing how few keystrokes they need in order to get something done.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 12 1900 CET
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Oct 13 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Oct 13 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Oct 17 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sun Oct 18 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Oct 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Keith Waclena's "Use GNU Emacs the Plain Text Computing Environment" (Reddit)
  • Tips for beginners (@andyc@yakshaving.social)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Repeating commands
  • Tip about setting whitespace-global-modes so that it excludes some modes (@ablatedsprocket@hachyderm.io)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Desafios em Elisp | Emacs / Magit (01:47:11)
• Appearance:
  • [NEW] emacs32 master branch support scaling for underline, overline… face
  • Ayu themes for Emacs: night, dusk and day, built from the official palette (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using C-x 0 to delete the current window (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Tip: Use registers to save window configurations with C-x r w (@lispwizard@techhub.social) (Irreal)
  • Tip about setting scroll-conservatively (@BeefGriller@dice.camp)
  • persp-mode-tab-bar: Tab bar for persp-mode / Doom workspaces (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • joc-toggle-case.el: toggles case at point (@vnikolov@ieji.de)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 6 - abbrevs, grammar, Harper, LanguageTool
  • markdown-ts-appear: Rendered Markdown, editable in place (Reddit, lemmy.ml)
  • GitHub - rjprins/markdown-modern: Modern visual styling for Markdown buffers in Emacs (fork of mark-graf) (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again. — baty.net (HN)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: spontaneous live new ‘denote-data’ feature (2026-10-07 at 18:00 Europe/Athens) (YouTube, 01:22:16)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs ‘denote-data’ testing live today, 2026-10-12, at 16:00 Europe/Athens (YouTube)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: orgmode: do textsec-url-suspicious-p for http and https links
  • James Dyer: Org Speed Keys: Making t Land After the TODO Keyword
  • Deeper layers of Org Mode laziness explained (Reddit)
  • org-retroclock: Log CLOCK entries retrospectively without starting a timer (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Bringing micro-timers, checklist budgeting, and monotasking focus to Org-mode (org-focus-hud) (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Des commandes vocales pour ajouter des tâches sur Emacs (YouTube, 02:44)
  • excali-mode 0.3.0: an Org-mode whiteboard inside Emacs (Reddit, HN, Reddit) - excali-board-mode: Org headings as cards; diagram DSL
  • Comparing org-roam, org-node, Supertag and vulpea, with a benchmark you can re-run
  • Org development:
    • ox-latex: safe and keyword for org-latex-table-scientific-notation
    • Enhance prefix argument to org-open-at-point on URLs
    • ox-latex: pass :align to table.el tables
    • Announce 'org-latex-listings-env'
• Coding:
  • What I use Eglot for in GNU Emacs and what good it is (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Magit Fast Mode [fast use magit]​ (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs for Javascript development - skewer-mode for evaluating CSS and HTML (@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mu4e-send-later: A "Send Later" functionality for mu4e (Reddit)
  • aerc-mode: make it easier to use emacsclient within the aerc mail client (@PuercoPop)
• Multimedia:
  • supersonic.el Music Player v0.6.0 Update (added UPnP support) (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Oct 2026: Exploring keys and voice input in Emacs
  • Sacha Chua: Using Emacs to visualize speaking and target words/phrases in real-ish time
• Fun:
  • # Emacs Golf #028 Rectangle Wizard
  • # Emacs Golf #026 We Only Need The First
  • # Emacs Golf #023 — Case-Insensitive Assassin
  • # Emacs Golf #011 Number Cruncher Category: B. Multi-line transformations
  • Emacs Golf: fixing misplaced spaces
  • 004BEGINNINGS THE CATTLE ARE LISPING lambdamoo moo.el VR puppets with common lisp emacs slime (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • 3D in MY Emacs!? (Hack and overview) (14:21)
• LLMs:
  • Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 Minutes (YouTube, 01:11)
  • M-x Machina — a workspace for coding agents inside Emacs (Reddit)
  • Voice AI Editing and an Emacs Plugin (01:33)
  • Emacs ollama agent compare (01:29)
  • Update: ecc 0.4, Claude Code in Emacs: Spaces and an agentic diff review (release notes, Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-06 / week 40
  • Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival - Will we change how we interact with Emacs? (Irreal)
  • Clojure Corner: Interview with Bozhidar Batsov (01:18:53)
  • I Asked Prot If I Should Switch to Emacs (13:02)
  • Protesilaos: Live: Ask me ANYTHING (2026-10-10 16:00 Europe/Athens) (5:04:50)
  • Accessing Reddit from Emacs will be impossible after November 13th - or use emacs-reddigg
• Other:
  • emacs-reader: Help wanted with testing PR #199 - Refactor rendering pipeline architecture to avoid race conditions and other multi-threading issues (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • Tip about using negative prefix arguments (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Parse page ranges, insert issue references (Irreal, Irreal, Irreal)
  • New Emacs keepass package (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Lock mode
  • A small change in xdisp.c reduced allocations by ~42% in a boxed-text workload
  • Configuring the Emacs UI for Better Latency and Perceived Responsiveness (Reddit)
  • Fixing the tree-sitter syntax highlighting bug in Emacs 31+ indirect buffers (The Emacs maintainers will not fix it, so I did) (Reddit)
  • Rust bindings for Emacs dynamic modules support canvas_data API (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Fix/enhance prefix arguments to browse-url functions
  • Fix browse-url-chromium and browse-url-chrome NEW-WINDOW
  • Produce "!MEM FULL! " for %e in mode lines
  • Underline, overline, and strike-through can now be scaled with text.
  • New Tramp connection method "wslc"
  • * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face.
• New packages:
  • project-terminal: Per-project terminal management (MELPA)
  • org-timegrid: SVG week calendar with mouse and keyboard editing (MELPA)
  • markdown-ts-appear: Reveal Markdown source at point (MELPA)

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

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The Emacs Carnival for October is about looking into your crystal ball. I'd love to see what you're looking forward to exploring. Thanks to George Jones for hosting!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 5 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 9 1800 Europe/Paris
  • Emacs Berlin: In-Person-Only Emacs-Berlin Stammtisch https://emacs-berlin.org/ Tue Oct 13 1900 Europe/Berlin
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/UTC - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 15 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • A list of Emacs learning materials and references (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Customize Me (@marcin_bielewicz)
  • [ANN] package-load-indicator: instantly see which packages are loaded within your init file (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Reading the emacs compilation mode source code (01:29:41)
  • Reading some emacs package source code (e.g. comint) (01:20:07)
  • Desafio #1 | Divisão por 5 (Emacs+Elisp) (19:53)
• Appearance:
  • Tip: increase text scale for modes like elfeed-show - @citizen428.net on Bluesky
  • jamescherti/persist-text-scale.el: Emacs: Persist and Restore Text Scale (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ‘doric-meadow’ and ‘doric-mountain’ coming to the ‘doric-themes’
• Navigation:
  • Tip about C-r RET to turn isearch into a minibuffer prompt (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How many screens left
  • Overriding project.el project root in Emacs | Blog | Jade Michael Thornton (@artfulrobot@floss.social)
  • preview-tab: VS Code's preview tab for Emacs, now on MELPA (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Tip: dired-async-mode when you're doing long-running actions @citizen428.net on Bluesky
• Writing:
  • Emacs: Obsidian without external packages - citizen428.net
  • Christian Tietze: Watch My EmacsConf Talk: Zettelkasten for Regular Emacs Hackers
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: status update on the ‘denote-data’ cache for Denote
• Org Mode:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Opening org-capture in a new frame
  • org-incremental-writing package (Reddit) - written with agent assistance
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 31: Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez - Org LaTeX export with fallbacks (YouTube)
  • Raymond Zeitler: Now org-toggle-timestamp-overlays is Disabled
  • Org-roam-tree update: jit rendering, arbitrary search and more! (Reddit)
  • inline backlinks for org-roam (Reddit)
  • excali-mode 0.2.0: a diagram DSL with explicit placement and Org Babel support (Reddit, Reddit)
  • Github does not preview Org mode files any more (bug)
• Coding:
  • I've used emacs successfully for decades without using LSP or Eglot. Tell me what I'm missing.
  • A package using rope to do python code refactoring in emacs
  • Clutch update: a video walkthrough (PostgreSQL, JDBC, row editing, JSON hover preview) (YouTube 04:17, GitHub, Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Ankit Gadiya: Fix nested Emacs frames (Irreal)
• Web:
  • canvas-browser: a Chromium page in an Emacs buffer, drawn on an Emacs 32 canvas image (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • tootle: A tiny, text-only, read-only, emoji-free Mastodon client for Emacs. (Reddit) Also rougier's experiment in vibe-coding
  • Andros Fenollosa: How I built a WhatsApp client for Emacs without an API
• Multimedia:
  • nfdn: Announcing triode.el - control an app for playing Internet radio (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Fun:
  • Zippy in the mists of time · Curious Musings (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • Raymond Zeitler: What is spook?
  • el-gpu demo pix-el.mkv
• LLMs:
  • LLM release 0.33.0, with decisions! (Reddit, Reddit)
  • AI built my Emacs plugin (01:31)
  • Emacs ollama agent demo 01 (02:22)
    • introduction (配音版) (06:04)
    • change font and size (02:22)
    • 網站內容擷取 (01:14)
    • 排序 (02:17)
• Community:
  • EmacsWiki : CarnivalOctober2026 - Crystal ball (@eludom@fosstodon.org)
  • Matei Candea (social anthropologist) is looking for interviewees for a research project on Emacs, its users and its community (@emacs_london@hachyderm.io)
  • Looking for people who want to have a Lisp meetup in Hamburg (@omidmash@social.tchncs.de)
  • Chris Maiorana: M-x and the future of Emacs (Irreal)
  • Roman and Editors ⋄ ffloyd.space (@ffloyd)
  • Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • Yay Emacs 39: Testing my new streaming functions (01:54:59) working on Emacs News, tinkering with speech commands
    • Yay Emacs 40: Tinkering with my speech commands and working on the schedule for EmacsConf (58:14)
• Other:
  • Let Emacs make you happy (12:05) - Highlight mode, sentences, split windows, Org mode, functions, and navigation.
  • Emacs is now my new rofi (Reddit) - emacsclient + vertico for launching applications
  • nfdn: Announcing Aquí (Irreal) - location finder
  • isled - a personal issue ledger (Reddit) see also org-edna if you want to have task dependencies; mostly AI written
  • Emacs bufferfile.el: Rename, Delete, or Copy Files and Associated Buffers (e.g., clones/indirect buffers) [Release 1.0.9]​
  • qrencode-el 1.6: export QR codes as SVG, get the SVG DOM using Elisp (@ruediger@hachyderm.io)
  • [22] Emacs Reader: Rendering Architecture Refactor and Other Fixes - Dyne.org TV (@divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Getting rid of pathologically slow regexp matches - Stefan Monnier
    • Library for exporting PDF - Cecilio Pardo
    • Explanation of quoting in docstrings
  • * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face.
  • Add a 'syntax-propertize-function' to 'lisp-mode'
  • Indent HTML lists by a consistent width in SHR
• New packages:
  • ebuild-mode: edit ebuild and eclass files (NonGNU ELPA)
  • triode: Interface to Triode app, macOS internet radio (MELPA)
  • pyfun-mode: Major mode for the Pyfun language (MELPA)
  • neofetch: Pretty system information tool for the Eshell (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-latex: Preview LaTeX math as SVG in LaTeX buffers (MELPA)
  • gptel-annotate: Annotate files or buffers with LLMs (MELPA)
  • clel: Runtime library for ClojureElisp (MELPA)
  • brewpage: Publish buffers/regions to brewpage.app (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 nice long video about Org mode with plenty of tips for beginners. Also, it's the end of the month, so check out the submissions for the Emacs Carnival for September ("Games") and consider volunteering to host the next one!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 30 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 1 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464079/ Thu Oct 1 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Oct 2 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • Sacha Chua: Oct 2 - Emacs Chat 31: Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez (Protesilaos, YouTube)
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/df5d39f6-4d78-4841-b207-ef2c9e60bd5c Mon Oct 5 1900 CET
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 9 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Discussion about confirm-kill-emacs (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charles Choi: Announcing restlib - a utility library for building Emacs REST clients
• Appearance:
  • Tip about changing the default font size (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Per-mode themes (@masukomi@connectified.com)
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: forward-paragraph in Magit
  • jadedctrl/bookmark-groups.el: Easily manage separate Emacs bookmark files - Kodujo Ŝɪɴᴏɴᴏᴍᴇ (@jadedctrl@jam.xwx.moe)
  • Some updates on my package ilist-plus (Reddit) extensions to imenu-list
• Hyperbole:
  • Crie botões no Emacs (10:36)
• Dired:
  • C-u M-x dired to pass flags to ls command (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Charles Choi: Binding the SPC key in Dired and IBuffer (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • TIL about Remember mode - built-in persistent-scratch
  • How Emacs does things: flyspell's way of tracking misspelled words (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: find a file in the ‘denote-directory’
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: I am experimenting with a Denote cache
• Org Mode:
  • How I Actually Use Org Mode - Emacs Everywhere #3 (01:00:42)
  • Spacemacs | What kind of notes I take? | Productivity (07:04, in French)
  • org for creator - turn your thought from graphs into meaningful posts (13:43)
    • org per creatori - i tuoi pensieri in grafi che creano storie (12:55)
  • James Dyer: Copy Only What You See: Teaching M-w a Prefix Argument (Irreal)
  • org-table-widget 0.3.0: long Org tables now scroll like ordinary text (Reddit)
  • Org tangle and run
  • Supertag V2: I rebuilt a note-taking system, and what I learned (Reddit)
  • Chai 2.1: read, highlight, search and ask your Org book library, with notes you can carry out (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • Add OTHER_LANGUAGES to the metadata
    • ox-latex: add :alt attribute for images
• Coding:
  • Emacs: clangd and lsp-mode -> diagnostic lag while typing, and an on-demand solution
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.3.0
  • Varhammer 1.1.8 "Midnight" - Portable Common Lisp for Windows (Reddit)
• Math:
  • Tip: latex-math-mode minor mode has a menu of symbols (@aethor@fosstodon.org)
• Shells:
  • send-invisible: Handle password prompts in shells or comint when not properly detected (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
• Web:
  • andros/termweb.el: Reformat web pages so they read well in EWW, the Emacs browser (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Einar Mostad: EWW in Emacs 31 would not use browse-url-generic as browse-url-secondary-browser-function
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • GitHub - guibor/teams4e: A mu4e-inspired Microsoft Teams client for Emacs. (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • Playing around with OBS, Emacs, and speech commands (01:54)
• LLMs:
  • llm package support for jev / laya-style quick decisions (Reddit)
  • Brainiac v3.0 released (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.78 updates (Reddit)
  • Fazendo gambiarra com Emacs e Remux (55:31)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-09-22 / week 38
  • Everyday Emacs 2026-2027 Series - 1 (02:11) - Series of videos in Turkish; live-coding?
• Other:
  • The Emacs Cat: Running Emacs in microVM
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Detecting and warning about homoglyph attacks
  • Improve directory-files-recursively
  • Fix creation of commit message from ChangeLog (bug#81909)
  • New option vc-dir-simple-unmark-all-files
  • New option vc-quick-select-current-working-tree
  • New command diff-goto-old-source
• New packages:
  • adif: Major mode for viewing and editing ADIF log files (MELPA)
  • aqui: Location update (optimized for macOS) (MELPA)
  • consult-ghostel: Consult integration for ghostel (MELPA)
  • consult-zoxide: Jump to zoxide directories with Consult (MELPA)
  • dharmamitra: Sanskrit/Pāli/Tibetan/Chinese analysis via dharmamitra.org (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-markdown: Preview Markdown LaTeX math as SVG (MELPA)
  • preview-tab: Temporary file buffers, like VS Code's preview tab (MELPA)

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