2026-10-12 Emacs news
=====================

  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 
https://emacslife.com/calendar/emacs-calendar.ics, Org 
https://emacslife.com/calendar/):
      - 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" 
https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/emacs/ (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wym10y/a_great_underappreciated_booktutorial_keith/)
      - Tips for beginners (@[email protected]) 
https://yakshaving.social/@andyc/01a12f88-45b3-7423-b7db-17705277e765
  - Emacs configuration:
      - Marcin Borkowski: Repeating commands 
https://mbork.pl/2026-10-10_Repeating_commands
      - Tip about setting whitespace-global-modes so that it excludes some 
modes (@[email protected]) 
https://hachyderm.io/@ablatedsprocket/117423591625857773
  - Emacs Lisp:
      - Desafios em Elisp | Emacs / Magit 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muihQdMqjS0 (01:47:11)
  - Appearance:
      - [NEW] emacs32 master branch support scaling for underline, overline... 
face 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0sgu7/new_emacs32_master_branch_support_scaling_for/
      - Ayu themes for Emacs: night, dusk and day, built from the official 
palette https://github.com/1buran/ayu-emacs-theme (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1pejl/ayu_themes_for_emacs_night_dusk_and_day_built/)
  - Navigation:
      - Tip about using C-x 0 to delete the current window 
(@[email protected]) 
https://techhub.social/@lispwizard/117399329453631153
      - Tip: Use registers to save window configurations with C-x r w 
(@[email protected]) 
https://techhub.social/@lispwizard/117410946106408409
      - Tip about setting scroll-conservatively (@[email protected]) 
https://dice.camp/@BeefGriller/117399853931169338
      - persp-mode-tab-bar: Tab bar for persp-mode / Doom workspaces 
https://github.com/Jotham-LEC/persp-mode-tab-bar (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wznm0f/perspmodetabbar_tab_bar_for_perspmode_doom/)
  - Writing:
      - joc-toggle-case.el: toggles case at point 
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/joc-toggle-case.el (@[email protected] 
https://ieji.de/@vnikolov/117409027686483659)
      - TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 6 
https://taonaw.com/2026/10/11/emacs-config-gems-part.html - abbrevs, grammar, 
Harper, LanguageTool
      - markdown-ts-appear: Rendered Markdown, editable in place 
https://i.redd.it/mqxpmtehvyuh1.gif (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3sv65/markdowntsappear_rendered_markdown_editable_in/,
 lemmy.ml https://lemmy.ml/post/53894748?scrollToComments=true)
      - GitHub - rjprins/markdown-modern: Modern visual styling for Markdown 
buffers in Emacs (fork of mark-graf) https://github.com/rjprins/markdown-modern 
(Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0nv9o/github_rjprinsmarkdownmodern_modern_visual/)
  - Denote:
      - I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again. — baty.net 
https://baty.net/posts/2026/10/i-tried-to-move-my-notes-out-of-emacs-i-failed/ 
(HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998350)
      - Protesilaos: Emacs: spontaneous live new ‘denote-data’ feature 
(2026-10-07 at 18:00 Europe/Athens) 
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-07-emacs-live-denote-data-development/ 
(YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjH82DeF7c, 01:22:16)
      - Protesilaos: Emacs ‘denote-data’ testing live today, 2026-10-12, at 
16:00 Europe/Athens 
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-12-emacs-live-denote-data-testing/ 
(YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xNWU8EcUeI)
  - Org Mode:
      - Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: orgmode: do textsec-url-suspicious-p for 
http and https links https://list.orgmode.org/87ecdxj2av.fsf@localhost
      - James Dyer: Org Speed Keys: Making t Land After the TODO Keyword 
https://emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20261008110300-emacs--org-speed-keys-making-t-land-after-the-todo-keyword/
      - Deeper layers of Org Mode laziness explained 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DrlMLgc5r2E&si=F7zqY9G0iZGoIXK5 (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0ylyr/deeper_layers_of_org_mode_laziness_explained/)
      - org-retroclock: Log CLOCK entries retrospectively without starting a 
timer https://github.com/Jotham-LEC/org-retroclock (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wzmx40/orgretroclock_log_clock_entries_retrospectively/,
 Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1wzmwlg/orgretroclock_log_clock_entries_retrospectively/)
      - Bringing micro-timers, checklist budgeting, and monotasking focus to 
Org-mode (org-focus-hud) https://github.com/SSD2019/org-focus-hud (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1wz7qiq/bringing_microtimers_checklist_budgeting_and/)
      - Sacha Chua: Des commandes vocales pour ajouter des tâches sur Emacs 
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/des-commandes-vocales-sur-emacs-pour-ajouter-des-taches/
 (YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGAXW9S4AiE, 02:44)
      - excali-mode 0.3.0: an Org-mode whiteboard inside Emacs 
https://github.com/yibie/excali-mode/releases/tag/v0.3.0 (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wyw5i3/excalimode_030_an_orgmode_whiteboard_inside_emacs/,
 HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015848, Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wy58em/excalimode_020_a_diagram_dsl_with_explicit/)
 - excali-board-mode: Org headings as cards; diagram DSL
      - Comparing org-roam, org-node, Supertag and vulpea, with a benchmark you 
can re-run 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3yhv2/comparing_orgroam_orgnode_supertag_and_vulpea/
      - Org development:
      - ox-latex: safe and keyword for org-latex-table-scientific-notation 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=70d5546a6ff37ea6fb71ccae5eb983f8ca071a2e
      - Enhance prefix argument to org-open-at-point on URLs 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=5ced7b8d75cddf848262f310feff9a6738dbf200
      - ox-latex: pass :align to table.el tables 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=fcfe93ad4ca3037268f600a2c5ad9c57cd75648a
      - Announce 'org-latex-listings-env' 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=363c311c45e2527498b2dd4ae9861b24454836ed
  - Coding:
      - What I use Eglot for in GNU Emacs and what good it is 
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsEglotWhyIUseIt 
(@[email protected] 
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsEglotWhyIUseIt)
      - Magit Fast Mode [fast use magit]​ 
https://github.com/zHaOdANiuu/magit-fast (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1ndn4/magit_fast_mode_fast_use_magit/)
      - Using Emacs for Javascript development - skewer-mode for evaluating CSS 
and HTML https://www.draketo.de/software/emacs-javascript#skewer 
(@[email protected] 
https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/117419050099113847)
  - Mail, news, and chat:
      - mu4e-send-later: A "Send Later" functionality for mu4e 
https://github.com/Jotham-LEC/mu4e-send-later (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wzpsdz/mu4esendlater_a_send_later_functionality_for_mu4e/)
      - aerc-mode: make it easier to use emacsclient within the aerc mail 
client 
https://git.sr.ht/~puercopop/.emacs.d/tree/default/item/user-lisp/aerc-mode.el 
(@PuercoPop https://mastodon.social/@PuercoPop/117402286016803490)
  - Multimedia:
      - supersonic.el Music Player v0.6.0 Update (added UPnP support) 
https://youtu.be/Gnq1EQaMn-4 (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0nurd/supersonicel_music_player_v060_update_added_upnp/)
  - Multimedia:
      - Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Oct 2026: Exploring keys and voice input in 
Emacs 
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/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 
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/using-emacs-to-visualize-speaking-and-target-words-phrases-in-real-ish-time/
  - Fun:
      - # Emacs Golf #028 Rectangle Wizard 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3h0vs/emacs_golf_028_rectangle_wizard/
      - # Emacs Golf #026 We Only Need The First 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3ebaz/emacs_golf_026_we_only_need_the_first/
      - # Emacs Golf #023 — Case-Insensitive Assassin 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x2n27s/emacs_golf_023_caseinsensitive_assassin/
      - # Emacs Golf #011 Number Cruncher Category: B. Multi-line 
transformations 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x2g49t/emacs_golf_011_number_crunchercategory_b/
      - Emacs Golf: fixing misplaced spaces 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1s14s/any_other_solutions/
      - 004BEGINNINGS THE CATTLE ARE LISPING lambdamoo moo.el VR puppets with 
common lisp emacs slime 
https://medium.com/@screwlisp/beginning004-the-cattle-are-lisping-lambdamoo-moo-el-vr-puppets-with-common-lisp-emacs-slime-d5eb369cf3b0
 (@[email protected] https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/117420900261767477)
      - 3D in MY Emacs!? (Hack and overview) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppL2eHJcwts (14:21)
  - LLMs:
      - Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 
Minutes https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt (YouTube 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuqZb6AvdCE, 01:11)
      - M-x Machina — a workspace for coding agents inside Emacs 
https://eliraz-refael.github.io/m-x-machina/ (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wy8n8y/mx_machina_a_workspace_for_coding_agents_inside/)
      - Voice AI Editing and an Emacs Plugin 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgLU7diWErA (01:33)
      - Emacs ollama agent compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_hIR0pTibM 
(01:29)
      - Update: ecc 0.4, Claude Code in Emacs: Spaces and an agentic diff 
review https://wakamenod.github.io/emacs-claude-code/usecases/agentic-review/ 
(release notes 
https://github.com/wakamenod/emacs-claude-code/releases/tag/v0.4.0, Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3fnsc/update_ecc_04_claude_code_in_emacs_spaces_and_an/)
  - Community:
      - Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-06 / week 40 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wyrv9u/fortnightly_tips_tricks_and_questions_20261006/
      - Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival - Will we change how we interact with 
Emacs? 
https://curtismchale.ca/2026/10/07/emacs-carnival-will-we-change-how-we-interact-with-emacs
 (Irreal https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14143)
      - Clojure Corner: Interview with Bozhidar Batsov 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgMH5An4YI (01:18:53)
      - I Asked Prot If I Should Switch to Emacs 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qS7Xiuh9E (13:02)
      - Protesilaos: Live: Ask me ANYTHING (2026-10-10 16:00 Europe/Athens) 
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-08-ask-me-anything-emacs-tech-politics-life/
 (5:04:50)
      - Accessing Reddit from Emacs will be impossible after November 13th 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x11igu/accessing_reddit_from_emacs_will_be_impossible/
 - 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 
https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/pulls/199 
(@[email protected] 
https://mathstodon.xyz/@divyaranjan/117396268489535426)
      - Tip about using negative prefix arguments (@[email protected]) 
https://techhub.social/@lispwizard/117401907147288233
      - Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Parse page ranges, insert issue references 
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/emacs-lisp-parse-page-ranges-insert-issue-references/
 (Irreal https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14131, Irreal 
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14133, Irreal https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14135)
      - New Emacs keepass package https://github.com/xpusostomos/keemacs 
(Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x273ip/new_emacs_keepass_package/)
      - Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Lock mode 
https://mbork.pl/2026-10-05_Emacs_Lock_mode
      - A small change in xdisp.c reduced allocations by ~42% in a boxed-text 
workload 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0ou3b/a_small_change_in_xdispc_reduced_allocations_by/
      - Configuring the Emacs UI for Better Latency and Perceived 
Responsiveness 
https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-user-interface-better-responsiveness-and-latency/
 (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wz5tup/configuring_the_emacs_ui_for_better_latency_and/)
      - Fixing the tree-sitter syntax highlighting bug in Emacs 31+ indirect 
buffers (The Emacs maintainers will not fix it, so I did) 
https://www.jamescherti.com/restore-emacs-tree-sitter-syntax-highlighting-in-indirect-buffers/
 (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0q2dc/fixing_the_treesitter_syntax_highlighting_bug_in/)
      - Rust bindings for Emacs dynamic modules support canvas_data API 
https://ubolonton.github.io/emacs-module-rs/latest/canvas.html (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1ph5i/rust_bindings_for_emacs_dynamic_modules_support/)
  - Emacs development:
      - Fix/enhance prefix arguments to browse-url functions 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=04a955a96f06cc39185bb05f529dd709efd19a1b
      - Fix browse-url-chromium and browse-url-chrome NEW-WINDOW 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=0a7d5ac2d02754d83af2f5f78be44f4b72543a63
      - Produce "!MEM FULL! " for %e in mode lines 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e181822151b90cf0145909c943d031b0ce1a334e
      - Underline, overline, and strike-through can now be scaled with text. 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9f2c03d04f9cf09aa4a12a399855c4d995bc1e6f
      - New Tramp connection method "wslc" 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=0b1a397b02d2538ce031b642e035e3bdf0c5cb18
      - * lisp/faces.el (header-line-emphasis): New face. 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=314cc0201f118daf5bd5a202a371166bbc3a492f
  - 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 https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode 
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode, r/spacemacs 
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs 
https://mastodon.social/tags/emacs, Bluesky #emacs 
https://bsky.app/hashtag/emacs, Hacker News 
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story,
 lobste.rs https://lobste.rs/search?q=emacs&what=stories&order=newest, 
programming.dev https://programming.dev/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New, 
lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/emacs, lemmy.ml 
https://lemmy.ml/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New, planet.emacslife.com 
https://planet.emacslife.com, YouTube 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4th0AZixyREOtvxDpdxC9oMuX7Ar7Sdt, the 
Emacs NEWS file http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS, Emacs 
Calendar https://emacslife.com/calendar/, and emacs-devel 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-10. Thanks to Andrés 
Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or 
announcement? Please e-mail me at [email protected] 
mailto:[email protected]. Thank you!


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* 2026-10-12 Emacs news
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 ([[https://emacslife.com/calendar/emacs-calendar.ics][iCal file]], [[https://emacslife.com/calendar/][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:
  - [[https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/emacs/][Keith Waclena's "Use GNU Emacs the Plain Text Computing Environment"]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wym10y/a_great_underappreciated_booktutorial_keith/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://yakshaving.social/@andyc/01a12f88-45b3-7423-b7db-17705277e765][Tips for beginners (@[email protected])]]
- Emacs configuration:
  - [[https://mbork.pl/2026-10-10_Repeating_commands][Marcin Borkowski: Repeating commands]]
  - [[https://hachyderm.io/@ablatedsprocket/117423591625857773][Tip about setting whitespace-global-modes so that it excludes some modes (@[email protected])]]
- Emacs Lisp:
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muihQdMqjS0][Desafios em Elisp | Emacs / Magit]] (01:47:11)
- Appearance:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0sgu7/new_emacs32_master_branch_support_scaling_for/][[NEW] emacs32 master branch support scaling for underline, overline... face]]
  - [[https://github.com/1buran/ayu-emacs-theme][Ayu themes for Emacs: night, dusk and day, built from the official palette]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1pejl/ayu_themes_for_emacs_night_dusk_and_day_built/][Reddit]])
- Navigation:
  - [[https://techhub.social/@lispwizard/117399329453631153][Tip about using C-x 0 to delete the current window (@[email protected])]]
  - [[https://techhub.social/@lispwizard/117410946106408409][Tip: Use registers to save window configurations with C-x r w (@[email protected])]]
  - [[https://dice.camp/@BeefGriller/117399853931169338][Tip about setting scroll-conservatively (@[email protected])]]
  - [[https://github.com/Jotham-LEC/persp-mode-tab-bar][persp-mode-tab-bar: Tab bar for persp-mode / Doom workspaces]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wznm0f/perspmodetabbar_tab_bar_for_perspmode_doom/][Reddit]])
- Writing:
  - [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/joc-toggle-case.el][joc-toggle-case.el: toggles case at point]] ([[https://ieji.de/@vnikolov/117409027686483659][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://taonaw.com/2026/10/11/emacs-config-gems-part.html][TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs Config Gems - Part 6]] - abbrevs, grammar, Harper, LanguageTool
  - [[https://i.redd.it/mqxpmtehvyuh1.gif][markdown-ts-appear: Rendered Markdown, editable in place]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3sv65/markdowntsappear_rendered_markdown_editable_in/][Reddit]], [[https://lemmy.ml/post/53894748?scrollToComments=true][lemmy.ml]])
  - [[https://github.com/rjprins/markdown-modern][GitHub - rjprins/markdown-modern: Modern visual styling for Markdown buffers in Emacs (fork of mark-graf)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0nv9o/github_rjprinsmarkdownmodern_modern_visual/][Reddit]])
- Denote:
  - [[https://baty.net/posts/2026/10/i-tried-to-move-my-notes-out-of-emacs-i-failed/][I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again. — baty.net]] ([[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998350][HN]])
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-07-emacs-live-denote-data-development/][Protesilaos: Emacs: spontaneous live new ‘denote-data’ feature (2026-10-07 at 18:00 Europe/Athens)]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjH82DeF7c][YouTube]], 01:22:16)
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-12-emacs-live-denote-data-testing/][Protesilaos: Emacs ‘denote-data’ testing live today, 2026-10-12, at 16:00 Europe/Athens]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xNWU8EcUeI][YouTube]])
- Org Mode:
  - [[https://list.orgmode.org/87ecdxj2av.fsf@localhost][Org Mode requests: [TASK] Re: orgmode: do textsec-url-suspicious-p for http and https links]]
  - [[https://emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20261008110300-emacs--org-speed-keys-making-t-land-after-the-todo-keyword/][James Dyer: Org Speed Keys: Making t Land After the TODO Keyword]]
  - [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=DrlMLgc5r2E&si=F7zqY9G0iZGoIXK5][Deeper layers of Org Mode laziness explained]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0ylyr/deeper_layers_of_org_mode_laziness_explained/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://github.com/Jotham-LEC/org-retroclock][org-retroclock: Log CLOCK entries retrospectively without starting a timer]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wzmx40/orgretroclock_log_clock_entries_retrospectively/][Reddit]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1wzmwlg/orgretroclock_log_clock_entries_retrospectively/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://github.com/SSD2019/org-focus-hud][Bringing micro-timers, checklist budgeting, and monotasking focus to Org-mode (org-focus-hud)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1wz7qiq/bringing_microtimers_checklist_budgeting_and/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/des-commandes-vocales-sur-emacs-pour-ajouter-des-taches/][Sacha Chua: Des commandes vocales pour ajouter des tâches sur Emacs]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGAXW9S4AiE][YouTube]], 02:44)
  - [[https://github.com/yibie/excali-mode/releases/tag/v0.3.0][excali-mode 0.3.0: an Org-mode whiteboard inside Emacs]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wyw5i3/excalimode_030_an_orgmode_whiteboard_inside_emacs/][Reddit]], [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015848][HN]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wy58em/excalimode_020_a_diagram_dsl_with_explicit/][Reddit]]) - excali-board-mode: Org headings as cards; diagram DSL
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3yhv2/comparing_orgroam_orgnode_supertag_and_vulpea/][Comparing org-roam, org-node, Supertag and vulpea, with a benchmark you can re-run]]
  - Org development:
    - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=70d5546a6ff37ea6fb71ccae5eb983f8ca071a2e][ox-latex: safe and keyword for org-latex-table-scientific-notation]]
    - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=5ced7b8d75cddf848262f310feff9a6738dbf200][Enhance prefix argument to org-open-at-point on URLs]]
    - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=fcfe93ad4ca3037268f600a2c5ad9c57cd75648a][ox-latex: pass :align to table.el tables]]
    - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=363c311c45e2527498b2dd4ae9861b24454836ed][Announce 'org-latex-listings-env']]
- Coding:
  - [[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsEglotWhyIUseIt][What I use Eglot for in GNU Emacs and what good it is]] ([[https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsEglotWhyIUseIt][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://github.com/zHaOdANiuu/magit-fast][Magit Fast Mode [fast use magit]​]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1ndn4/magit_fast_mode_fast_use_magit/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.draketo.de/software/emacs-javascript#skewer][Using Emacs for Javascript development - skewer-mode for evaluating CSS and HTML]] ([[https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/117419050099113847][@[email protected]]])
- Mail, news, and chat:
  - [[https://github.com/Jotham-LEC/mu4e-send-later][mu4e-send-later: A "Send Later" functionality for mu4e]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wzpsdz/mu4esendlater_a_send_later_functionality_for_mu4e/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://git.sr.ht/~puercopop/.emacs.d/tree/default/item/user-lisp/aerc-mode.el][aerc-mode: make it easier to use emacsclient within the aerc mail client]] ([[https://mastodon.social/@PuercoPop/117402286016803490][@PuercoPop]])
- Multimedia:
  - [[https://youtu.be/Gnq1EQaMn-4][supersonic.el Music Player v0.6.0 Update (added UPnP support)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0nurd/supersonicel_music_player_v060_update_added_upnp/][Reddit]])
- Multimedia:
  - [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/emacs-carnival-oct-2026-exploring-keys-and-voice-input-in-emacs/][Sacha Chua: Emacs Carnival Oct 2026: Exploring keys and voice input in Emacs]]
  - [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/using-emacs-to-visualize-speaking-and-target-words-phrases-in-real-ish-time/][Sacha Chua: Using Emacs to visualize speaking and target words/phrases in real-ish time]]
- Fun:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3h0vs/emacs_golf_028_rectangle_wizard/][# Emacs Golf #028   Rectangle Wizard]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3ebaz/emacs_golf_026_we_only_need_the_first/][# Emacs Golf #026   We Only Need The First]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x2n27s/emacs_golf_023_caseinsensitive_assassin/][# Emacs Golf #023 — Case-Insensitive Assassin]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x2g49t/emacs_golf_011_number_crunchercategory_b/][# Emacs Golf #011   Number Cruncher Category: B. Multi-line transformations]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1s14s/any_other_solutions/][Emacs Golf: fixing misplaced spaces]]
  - [[https://medium.com/@screwlisp/beginning004-the-cattle-are-lisping-lambdamoo-moo-el-vr-puppets-with-common-lisp-emacs-slime-d5eb369cf3b0][004BEGINNINGS THE CATTLE ARE LISPING lambdamoo moo.el VR puppets with common lisp emacs slime]] ([[https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/117420900261767477][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppL2eHJcwts][3D in MY Emacs!? (Hack and overview)]] (14:21)
- LLMs:
  - [[https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt][Emacs In the Age Of Magic / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, More Like 10 Minutes]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuqZb6AvdCE][YouTube]], 01:11)
  - [[https://eliraz-refael.github.io/m-x-machina/][M-x Machina — a workspace for coding agents inside Emacs]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wy8n8y/mx_machina_a_workspace_for_coding_agents_inside/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgLU7diWErA][Voice AI Editing and an Emacs Plugin]] (01:33)
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_hIR0pTibM][Emacs ollama agent compare]] (01:29)
  - [[https://wakamenod.github.io/emacs-claude-code/usecases/agentic-review/][Update: ecc 0.4, Claude Code in Emacs: Spaces and an agentic diff review]] ([[https://github.com/wakamenod/emacs-claude-code/releases/tag/v0.4.0][release notes]],  [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x3fnsc/update_ecc_04_claude_code_in_emacs_spaces_and_an/][Reddit]])
- Community:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wyrv9u/fortnightly_tips_tricks_and_questions_20261006/][Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-10-06 / week 40]]
  - [[https://curtismchale.ca/2026/10/07/emacs-carnival-will-we-change-how-we-interact-with-emacs][Curtis McHale: Emacs Carnival - Will we change how we interact with Emacs?]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14143][Irreal]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgMH5An4YI][Clojure Corner: Interview with Bozhidar Batsov]] (01:18:53)
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qS7Xiuh9E][I Asked Prot If I Should Switch to Emacs]] (13:02)
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-08-ask-me-anything-emacs-tech-politics-life/][Protesilaos: Live: Ask me ANYTHING (2026-10-10 16:00 Europe/Athens)]] (5:04:50)
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x11igu/accessing_reddit_from_emacs_will_be_impossible/][Accessing Reddit from Emacs will be impossible after November 13th]] - or use emacs-reddigg
- Other:
  - [[https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/pulls/199][emacs-reader: Help wanted with testing PR #199 - Refactor rendering pipeline architecture to avoid race conditions and other multi-threading issues]] ([[https://mathstodon.xyz/@divyaranjan/117396268489535426][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://techhub.social/@lispwizard/117401907147288233][Tip about using negative prefix arguments (@[email protected])]]
  - [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/emacs-lisp-parse-page-ranges-insert-issue-references/][Sacha Chua: Emacs Lisp: Parse page ranges, insert issue references]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14131][Irreal]], [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14133][Irreal]], [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=14135][Irreal]])
  - [[https://github.com/xpusostomos/keemacs][New Emacs keepass package]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x273ip/new_emacs_keepass_package/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://mbork.pl/2026-10-05_Emacs_Lock_mode][Marcin Borkowski: Emacs Lock mode]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0ou3b/a_small_change_in_xdispc_reduced_allocations_by/][A small change in xdisp.c reduced allocations by ~42% in a boxed-text workload]]
  - [[https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-user-interface-better-responsiveness-and-latency/][Configuring the Emacs UI for Better Latency and Perceived Responsiveness]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1wz5tup/configuring_the_emacs_ui_for_better_latency_and/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.jamescherti.com/restore-emacs-tree-sitter-syntax-highlighting-in-indirect-buffers/][Fixing the tree-sitter syntax highlighting bug in Emacs 31+ indirect buffers (The Emacs maintainers will not fix it, so I did)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x0q2dc/fixing_the_treesitter_syntax_highlighting_bug_in/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://ubolonton.github.io/emacs-module-rs/latest/canvas.html][Rust bindings for Emacs dynamic modules support canvas_data API]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1x1ph5i/rust_bindings_for_emacs_dynamic_modules_support/][Reddit]])
- Emacs development:
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=04a955a96f06cc39185bb05f529dd709efd19a1b][Fix/enhance prefix arguments to browse-url functions]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=0a7d5ac2d02754d83af2f5f78be44f4b72543a63][Fix browse-url-chromium and browse-url-chrome NEW-WINDOW]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e181822151b90cf0145909c943d031b0ce1a334e][Produce "!MEM FULL! " for %e in mode lines]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9f2c03d04f9cf09aa4a12a399855c4d995bc1e6f][Underline, overline, and strike-through can now be scaled with text.]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=0b1a397b02d2538ce031b642e035e3bdf0c5cb18][New Tramp connection method "wslc"]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=314cc0201f118daf5bd5a202a371166bbc3a492f][* 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 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs][reddit.com/r/emacs]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode][r/orgmode]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs][r/spacemacs]], [[https://mastodon.social/tags/emacs][Mastodon #emacs]], [[https://bsky.app/hashtag/emacs][Bluesky #emacs]], [[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story][Hacker News]], [[https://lobste.rs/search?q=emacs&what=stories&order=newest][lobste.rs]], [[https://programming.dev/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New][programming.dev]], [[https://lemmy.world/c/emacs][lemmy.world]], [[https://lemmy.ml/c/emacs?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New][lemmy.ml]], [[https://planet.emacslife.com][planet.emacslife.com]], [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4th0AZixyREOtvxDpdxC9oMuX7Ar7Sdt][YouTube]], [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS][the Emacs NEWS file]], [[https://emacslife.com/calendar/][Emacs Calendar]], and [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-10][emacs-devel]]. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at [[mailto:[email protected]][[email protected]]]. Thank you!

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