Emacs Chat
The Emacs community has a lot of amazing people, although we rarely get to meet face to face. It's great to get a sense of what people are like. I've been enjoying the Prot Asks series of casual conversations with people about Emacs and their other interests, and I'd love to resume my Emacs Chats. There's a lot of cool workflow stuff that doesn't get captured in lists of keyboard shortcuts and functions.
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Upcoming episodes
: Oct 2 - Emacs Chat 31: Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/oct-2-emacs-chat-31-pedro-a-aranda-gutierrez/
On Oct 2, we'll chat with Pedro about Org Mode, LaTeX exports and font management including alternatives and things you can and can't do depending on your choices. He'll share some tips on fallbacks and emojis, which can help a lot with presentations and documentation. We might also discuss recent patches and realistic objectives.
2026-10-02 Fri 06:00-07:00 America/Toronto = Fri Oct 2 0600H EDT / 0500H CDT / 0400H MDT / 0300H PDT / 1000H UTC / 1200H CEST / 1300H EEST / 1530H IST / 1800H +08 / 1900H JST
Format
An Emacs Chat might start off with me asking a bunch of questions about your config, or you can walk through the things that you're the most excited about or that are hard to appreciate when people just read the code. Or we can just chat about whatever cool Emacs thing you want to share. =)
Some options in case you're worried about accidentally leaking private information:
- We can record the conversation without livestreaming and edit it to obscure or remove anything that needs removing. Benefits: Maximum control, and I get an excuse to make Emacs even more of a video editor
- We can livestream with a 15-second delay so that I can kill the livestream in case something gets flashed on the screen. Benefits: We can learn from other people's questions and comments.
- We can livestream it without a delay and make the recording unlisted until we can review it. Benefits: Possibly more lively conversations
After our conversation, I'd love to go back over it, edit the transcript, add some chapters and headings, run it by you for double-checking, and post it on my blog.
Let's schedule a chat!
E-mail me if you'd like me to reach out to you when I figure out how to schedule things again! 7 AM to 8 AM America/Toronto generally works well for me. I might also be able to squeeze in weekday evenings (7 PM to 9 PM America/Toronto, ex: ) if I clear it with W- and A+.
We will probably use Google Meet because sometimes Jitsi weirds out. Let me know if this isn't okay and I can bring up BigBlueButton instead.
People to arrange a time with once my schedule becomes predictable again:
- Karl Voit
Past episodes
I've got a TODO to make sure emacs-chat works as a podcast feed again. In the meantime:
- Emacs Chat 30: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2)
- Emacs Chat 29: Abdallah Maouche (en français)
- Emacs Chat 28: Fabrice Niessen (en français)
- Emacs Chat 27: Richard Bonichon (en français)
- Emacs Chat 26: Ross A. Baker
- Emacs Chat 25: Ben Zanin (@gnomon@mastodon.social)
- Emacs Chat 24: Omar Antolin Camarena (2026)
- Emacs Chat 23: Emacs Chat with Raymond Zeitler (2026)
- Emacs Chat 22: Shae Erisson (2026)
- Emacs Chat 21: Amin Bandali (2026)
- Emacs Chat 20: John Wiegley on maintaining Emacs and how you can help (2015)
- Emacs Chat 19: Emacs Lisp Development Tips with John Wiegley
- Emacs Chat 18: Steve Purcell
- Emacs Chat 17: Karl Voit
- Emacs Chat 16: Mickey Petersen
- Emacs Chat 15: Harry R. Schwartz - size
- Emacs Chat 14: Xah Lee (ErgoEmacs)
- Emacs Chat 13: Phil Hagelberg
- Emacs Chat: Oh no, my chat with Bodil Stokke didn't get recorded!
- Emacs Chat 12: Christopher Wellons
- Emacs Chat 11: Bozhidar Batsov
- Reflecting on 10 episodes of Emacs Chats
- Emacs Chat 10: Tom Marble
- Emacs Chat 9: Jānis Mancēvičs
- Emacs Chat 8: Iannis Zannos - Emacs and SuperCollider
- Emacs Chat 7: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks)
- Emacs Chat 6: Sacha Chua (with Bastien Guerry)
- Emacs Chat 5: Bastien Guerry
- Emacs Chat 4: Avdi Grimm (Org-mode, Ruby, etc.)
- Emacs chat 3: Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
- Emacs Chat 2: Carsten Dominik
- Transcript: Emacs chat with John Wiegley
- Emacs Chat 1: John Wiegley about the cool things he does with Emacs
- Emacs chat intro