2026-09-14 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-newsNot much commentary this week, but plenty of cool stuff to explore!
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Paris https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 15 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
- PDX Emacs (in person) https://pdx.social/@howard/117147689957341583 - Tue Sept 15 6:00 pm in Portland, OR
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- OrgDevMeetup https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup Sat Sep 19 0100 America/Vancouver - 0300 America/Chicago - 0400 America/Toronto - 0800 Etc/UTC - 1000 Europe/Berlin - 1330 Asia/Kolkata - 1600 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316535239/ Sat Sep 19 1100 America/Los_Angeles
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Tip of the Day — Alex Carney (@alcarney) - news entries on splash screen
- Personalized embark actions (@eslr)
- Emacs Meow Motions (15:44)
- Emacs Meow-mode (01:40:58)
- Emacs Lisp:
- Navigation:
- Writing:
- Org Mode:
- Un-Learning the LMS: Prepping Courses with Org Mode - Output Error (@swrogers@social.lol)
- org-grid (Reddit)
- org-timegrid now works on Android Emacs (Reddit)
- my dream setup (bonus: it’s free) (18:33) - Org
- [New Release] Whisper Engine v2.0.0 - Org static site generator (@silentarchitect)
- pjones/org-clock-dbus: Monitor org-clock from outside Emacs · GitHub (@devalot@hostux.social)
- [notes] #33 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, August 12, 19:00 UTC+3 (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
- Completion:
- Coding:
- Staging and Comitting using Magit (YouTube 12:14, Reddit)
- James Dyer: Emacs 31 Does Git Worktrees Natively: How My vc Setup Compares
- Further progress configuring java + eglot + dape (Reddit)
- Eglot DAPE debugging setup for java (jdtls) in emacs (05:39)
- maak.el: Lisp machine command runner, infinitely extensible, integrating nicely with Emacs, for Lisp power on your projects and automation at your fingertips (Reddit, HN)
- More tree-sitter, more neocaml, more elisp · Perpetually Curious (@tsmc@hachyderm.io)
- Meta Redux: Clojurists Together Update: July and August 2026
- martianh/fj.el 0.39 - performance boost (@mousebot@todon.nl)
- Doom Emacs:
- A Tour of Doom Emacs - Emacs Everywhere #1 (01:04:03)
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- LLMs:
- Community:
- Other:
- Marcin Borkowski: Duplicating lines and other Emacs miscellanea
- yank-transform-functions (@arensb@ooblick.com)
- visual-regexp-rx: write regexp with rx notation in visual-regexp (Reddit)
- Moving the Credentials I Kicked Out of init.el from Plaintext Files to Keychain | Masutaka's ChangeLog Memo (@masutaka@mstdn.love)
- The Root Causes of Scrolling Lag in Emacs display-line-numbers-mode (Reddit, Irreal)
- v31 for Windows heavily flagged by AV
- Emacs development:
- New packages:
- elfeed-protocol-freshrss: FreshRSS protocol for elfeed (MELPA)
- latex-to-svg-frontend: Preview LaTeX math in markup buffers as SVG (MELPA)
- nonogram: Play nonogram (picross) puzzles with SVG graphics (MELPA)
- org-clock-dbus: Monitor org-clock from D-Bus (MELPA)
- single-window: Always open buffers in the current window (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!