2026-01-26 Emacs news
=====================
- Upcoming events (iCal file
https://emacslife.com/calendar/emacs-calendar.ics, Org
https://emacslife.com/calendar/):
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) //emacs-berlin.org/
https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130
America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin -
2300 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Jan 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: UPDATED Emacs APAC meetup (virtual)
//emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/january-2026/
https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/january-2026/ Sat Jan 31 0030
America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT
- 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2026 (v #živo)
//dogodki.kompot.si/events/d6225b76-8f80-46c7-bc14-35d21b0c5ef0
https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d6225b76-8f80-46c7-bc14-35d21b0c5ef0 Mon Feb 2
1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social //www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/
https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/ Thu Feb 5 1600
America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto -- Fri Feb 6
0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA //m-x-research.github.io/
https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000
America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin -
2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Sat Feb 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Lisp:
- dash.el for nice list operations
https://beathagenlocher.com/stream/#00110
- Trevoke/mock-fs.el: "fake filesystem" for elisp test suites -
Codeberg.org https://codeberg.org/Trevoke/mock-fs.el (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qlza02/introducing_mockfsel_a_mock_filesystem/)
- duckdb-query.el - Bidirectional DuckDB SQL/Elisp bridge: query parquet,
CSV, org-tables, alists IN THE SAME SQL statement SEAMLESSLY
https://github.com/gggion/duckdb-query.el (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qj00l1/duckdbqueryel_bidirectional_duckdb_sqlelisp/)
- Appearance:
- indent-bars is now @v1.0 https://github.com/jdtsmith/indent-bars
(Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qhlop4/indentbars_is_now_v10/)
- Navigation:
- Three important distinctions in Emacs: mini buffer and echo, mark and
point, window and frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3e8e_jv_E (04:36)
- You can now merge tabs in emacs
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/9ba2f13176a756030e4d8476436662d630447f65
(Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qj7n1x/you_can_now_merge_tabs_in_emacs/)
- scroll-around.el: Scroll the view by paragraph or line while keeping
the cursor at the same screen position.
https://github.com/DamianB-BitFlipper/scroll-around.el (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjwbwe/i_made_a_viewscrolling_package_for_emacs/)
see alternatives in the comments
- Avy-flash: replicating flash.nvim in Emacs (vibe-coded)
https://github.com/ZenScriptor/avy-flash (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qlwq4b/avyflash_replicating_flashnvim_in_emacs_vibecoded/)
- note discussion in comments; you can just use avy-flash.el instead of the
full fork of avy
- Dired:
- Why You Don’t Need a File Manager (If You Use Emacs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshWBtefSmE (13:47)
- Writing:
- Developing yet another way to do research in Emacs - fool's errand?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqVIAVTzQmY (13:34) - highlighting EPUBs,
taking notes, organizing, doing syntopic reading
- Emacs tricks DYI: surround src blocks in markdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihf46UiZWwg (07:06)
- Org Mode:
- Berean Standard Bible in org mode
https://github.com/dharmatech/bsb-usfm (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qi4vd7/berean_standard_bible_in_org_mode/)
- Jack Baty: Blogging with org-mode and ox-hugo again
https://baty.net/posts/2026/01/blogging-with-org-mode-and-ox-hugo-again/
- How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode – Curtis McHale
https://curtismchale.ca/2026/01/22/how-to-open-obsidian-links-in-org-mode/
(YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er58i65BJuI 2:46, @curtismchale
https://mastodon.social/@curtismchale/115939108881455729)
- Design Decisions: Building a Modern Technical Blog | Charlie Holland's
Blog https://www.chiply.dev/post-design-decisions (Feature demo
https://www.chiply.dev/post0, Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qiy6kb/blogging_with_emacs_orgmode_and_sveltekit/)
- org-mode and SvelteKit
- Org development:
- ox-man: Add support for footer-inside and header-middle
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=8ace4093816b979a70c3b1b0b4781f286eec55a3
- org-lint: Add check for priorities
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=aa4cd87d86df6208acf008aa9307d87ef7b1dc44
- speed-commands: Adapt priority commands to user options
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=8e0c195ccacb4370706d369af5ee59fb06da6a5b
- Completion:
- Typing emojis with :shortcodes: in Emacs
https://beathagenlocher.com/stream/#00109
- Coding:
- Fast JSON path extraction via Tree-sitter
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/8ea6f6da7739adb054871da80a073672f6c706d7
(Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qlelxe/fast_json_path_extraction_via_treesitter/)
- will be part of Emacs 31
- Tree-sitter vs Language Servers
https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/ (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjyfr6/treesitter_vs_language_servers/)
- Shells:
- Writing pipeline commands in Eshell
https://e17i.github.io/articles-emacs-eshell/
- Major mode for Nushell scripts, powered by treesitter
https://github.com/ItsOleks/nu-ts-mode (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qmtw9z/nutsmode_my_first_attempt_at_an_emacs_plugin/)
- Web:
- Announcing Casual EWW
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-eww.html (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qk90n1/announcing_casual_eww/)
- Mail, news, and chat:
- punchagan: Elfeed DB backup hooks
https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/elfeed-db-back-up-hooks/
- [Package] sign.el: an Emacs interface for Signal via signal-cli
JSON-RPC. https://github.com/keenban/sign.el (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjesd7/package_signel_an_emacs_interface_for_signal_via/)
- Doom Emacs:
- (Doom) Emacs Config Bits
https://beathagenlocher.com/doom-emacs-config-bits/
- Multimedia:
- Sacha Chua: Emacs and whisper.el: Trying out different speech-to-text
backends and models
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/01/emacs-and-whisper-el-trying-out-different-speech-to-text-backends-and-models/
- Yay Emacs live-coding: tweaking my whisper.el setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtfxMFW0574 (46:11)
- AI:
- OpenCode Agent Chaining: Planner-Editor-Review Workflow - ZashBoy.com
https://www.zashboy.com/articles/opencode-agent-chaining-planner-editor-review-pipeline
- dev-agent-backlog (org-mode system for coding agents) is now a claude
plugin https://github.com/farra/dev-agent-backlog (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qncjzz/devagentbacklog_orgmode_system_for_coding_agents/)
- openspec.el - Interface for OpenSpec, a tool for spec-driven AI coding
assistant development https://github.com/Zacalot/openspec.el
- You can have Andrej Kaparthy's Council of LLMs anywhere: Antigravity!
Claude Code! Emacs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUCz4QnZA4I (27:32)
- Community:
- Emacs vs. vim Real World Analogy: Cargo Bike Vs. Folding Bike
https://karl-voit.at/2026/01/23/Emacs-vs-vim-Cargo-Folding-Bike/
(@[email protected] https://graz.social/@publicvoit/115944406944516221)
- Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll ...”
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/emacs-carnival-2026-01-this-year-i-will/
- This Year I'll… · Curious Musings
http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2026-01-19/
- Emacs Carnival Jan 26: “This Year, I’ll de-obfuscate” | zimblog
https://zimblo.bearblog.dev/emacs-carnival-jan26-this-year-ill-de-obfuscate/
- Other:
- Another beautiful modeline: maple-modeline, and share some packages
that I've written
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qhbtib/another_beautiful_modeline_maplemodeline_and/:
maple-preview, -note, -translate, -iedit, -scratch, -diff, -minibuffer
- Emacs: easily set timers with TMR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLuyt0hq4io (14:33, Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjpwam/emacs_easily_set_timers_with_tmr/)
- Emacs в 2026: Секретное оружие или старый хлам? |vim, vscode, lisp,
org-mode|Podlodka Podcast #460 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXPhel5VDNk
(01:43:00)
- Experimental Skia rendering backend as cairo alternative
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qitl8s/experimental_skia_rendering_backend_as_cairo/
- Unofficial Emacs Portable Binary v31.0.50
https://github.com/danrobi11/emacs-appimage/releases/tag/v31.0.50 (Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjuact/unofficial_emacs_portable_binary_v31050/)
- Linux only
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: Re: Auto-suggesting Packages - Eli Zaretskii
https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/
- Add 'select-frame-by-id' and 'undelete-frame-by-id' (Bug#80192)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=6a071ad37327eb318a1d796dd6d7d9edffd82950
- Support cons cell for 'line-spacing'
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e8f26d554b64ed63fe2b7f110d5247648b7322ed
- New bindings for vc-revert
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=29bdba37f2ac3a912d15d2b65169cfb312707da2
- Flymake support for yaml-ts-mode.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=15d3cc3f65e8ea3bc1e1a4c766f439bcad012150
- Add JSON path utility command to json-ts-mode
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=8ea6f6da7739adb054871da80a073672f6c706d7
- (garbage-collect-heapsize): New function
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4150c2e22e93ca6bdf682b0067d430e412db3688
- * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-split-tab): New command.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9ba2f13176a756030e4d8476436662d630447f65
- New packages:
- https://melpa.org/#/advent-mode: Advent of Code mode (MELPA)
- https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/denote-review.html: implements review
process for denote notes (GNU ELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/devcontainer: Support for devcontainer (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/magit-git-toolbelt: A Magit interface for
git-toolbelt (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/mu4e-llm: AI-powered email assistance for mu4e
(MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/org-roam-latte: Auto-highlight unlinked Org-roam
references (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/ox-reveal-layouts: Predefined layouts for ox-reveal
(MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/signel: Signal client for Emacs via signal-cli
JSON-RPC (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/tengo-mode: Major mode for the Tengo programming
language (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/ultisnips-mode: Major mode for editing Ultisnips
snippets (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/2026-01. Thanks to Andrés
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* 2026-01-26 Emacs news
- Upcoming events ([[https://emacslife.com/calendar/emacs-calendar.ics][iCal file]], [[https://emacslife.com/calendar/][Org]]):
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Jan 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: UPDATED Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/january-2026/ Sat Jan 31 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d6225b76-8f80-46c7-bc14-35d21b0c5ef0 Mon Feb 2 1900 CET
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/ Thu Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto -- Fri Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Sat Feb 7 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs Lisp:
- [[https://beathagenlocher.com/stream/#00110][dash.el for nice list operations]]
- [[https://codeberg.org/Trevoke/mock-fs.el][Trevoke/mock-fs.el: "fake filesystem" for elisp test suites - Codeberg.org]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qlza02/introducing_mockfsel_a_mock_filesystem/][Reddit]])
- [[https://github.com/gggion/duckdb-query.el][duckdb-query.el - Bidirectional DuckDB SQL/Elisp bridge: query parquet, CSV, org-tables, alists IN THE SAME SQL statement SEAMLESSLY]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qj00l1/duckdbqueryel_bidirectional_duckdb_sqlelisp/][Reddit]])
- Appearance:
- [[https://github.com/jdtsmith/indent-bars][indent-bars is now @v1.0]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qhlop4/indentbars_is_now_v10/][Reddit]])
- Navigation:
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3e8e_jv_E][Three important distinctions in Emacs: mini buffer and echo, mark and point, window and frame]] (04:36)
- [[https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/9ba2f13176a756030e4d8476436662d630447f65][You can now merge tabs in emacs]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qj7n1x/you_can_now_merge_tabs_in_emacs/][Reddit]])
- [[https://github.com/DamianB-BitFlipper/scroll-around.el][scroll-around.el: Scroll the view by paragraph or line while keeping the cursor at the same screen position.]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjwbwe/i_made_a_viewscrolling_package_for_emacs/][Reddit]]) see alternatives in the comments
- [[https://github.com/ZenScriptor/avy-flash][Avy-flash: replicating flash.nvim in Emacs (vibe-coded)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qlwq4b/avyflash_replicating_flashnvim_in_emacs_vibecoded/][Reddit]]) - note discussion in comments; you can just use avy-flash.el instead of the full fork of avy
- Dired:
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshWBtefSmE][Why You Don’t Need a File Manager (If You Use Emacs)]] (13:47)
- Writing:
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqVIAVTzQmY][Developing yet another way to do research in Emacs - fool's errand?]] (13:34) - highlighting EPUBs, taking notes, organizing, doing syntopic reading
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihf46UiZWwg][Emacs tricks DYI: surround src blocks in markdown]] (07:06)
- Org Mode:
- [[https://github.com/dharmatech/bsb-usfm][Berean Standard Bible in org mode]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qi4vd7/berean_standard_bible_in_org_mode/][Reddit]])
- [[https://baty.net/posts/2026/01/blogging-with-org-mode-and-ox-hugo-again/][Jack Baty: Blogging with org-mode and ox-hugo again]]
- [[https://curtismchale.ca/2026/01/22/how-to-open-obsidian-links-in-org-mode/][How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode – Curtis McHale]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er58i65BJuI][YouTube]] 2:46, [[https://mastodon.social/@curtismchale/115939108881455729][@curtismchale]])
- [[https://www.chiply.dev/post-design-decisions][Design Decisions: Building a Modern Technical Blog | Charlie Holland's Blog]] ([[https://www.chiply.dev/post0][Feature demo]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qiy6kb/blogging_with_emacs_orgmode_and_sveltekit/][Reddit]]) - org-mode and SvelteKit
- Org development:
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=8ace4093816b979a70c3b1b0b4781f286eec55a3][ox-man: Add support for footer-inside and header-middle]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=aa4cd87d86df6208acf008aa9307d87ef7b1dc44][org-lint: Add check for priorities]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=8e0c195ccacb4370706d369af5ee59fb06da6a5b][speed-commands: Adapt priority commands to user options]]
- Completion:
- [[https://beathagenlocher.com/stream/#00109][Typing emojis with :shortcodes: in Emacs]]
- Coding:
- [[https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/8ea6f6da7739adb054871da80a073672f6c706d7][Fast JSON path extraction via Tree-sitter]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qlelxe/fast_json_path_extraction_via_treesitter/][Reddit]]) - will be part of Emacs 31
- [[https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/][Tree-sitter vs Language Servers]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjyfr6/treesitter_vs_language_servers/][Reddit]])
- Shells:
- [[https://e17i.github.io/articles-emacs-eshell/][Writing pipeline commands in Eshell]]
- [[https://github.com/ItsOleks/nu-ts-mode][Major mode for Nushell scripts, powered by treesitter]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qmtw9z/nutsmode_my_first_attempt_at_an_emacs_plugin/][Reddit]])
- Web:
- [[http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-eww.html][Announcing Casual EWW]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qk90n1/announcing_casual_eww/][Reddit]])
- Mail, news, and chat:
- [[https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/elfeed-db-back-up-hooks/][punchagan: Elfeed DB backup hooks]]
- [[https://github.com/keenban/sign.el][[Package] sign.el: an Emacs interface for Signal via signal-cli JSON-RPC.]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjesd7/package_signel_an_emacs_interface_for_signal_via/][Reddit]])
- Doom Emacs:
- [[https://beathagenlocher.com/doom-emacs-config-bits/][(Doom) Emacs Config Bits]]
- Multimedia:
- [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/01/emacs-and-whisper-el-trying-out-different-speech-to-text-backends-and-models/][Sacha Chua: Emacs and whisper.el: Trying out different speech-to-text backends and models]]
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtfxMFW0574][Yay Emacs live-coding: tweaking my whisper.el setup]] (46:11)
- AI:
- [[https://www.zashboy.com/articles/opencode-agent-chaining-planner-editor-review-pipeline][OpenCode Agent Chaining: Planner-Editor-Review Workflow - ZashBoy.com]]
- [[https://github.com/farra/dev-agent-backlog][dev-agent-backlog (org-mode system for coding agents) is now a claude plugin]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qncjzz/devagentbacklog_orgmode_system_for_coding_agents/][Reddit]])
- [[https://github.com/Zacalot/openspec.el][openspec.el - Interface for OpenSpec, a tool for spec-driven AI coding assistant development]]
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUCz4QnZA4I][You can have Andrej Kaparthy's Council of LLMs anywhere: Antigravity! Claude Code! Emacs!]] (27:32)
- Community:
- [[https://karl-voit.at/2026/01/23/Emacs-vs-vim-Cargo-Folding-Bike/][Emacs vs. vim Real World Analogy: Cargo Bike Vs. Folding Bike]] ([[https://graz.social/@publicvoit/115944406944516221][@[email protected]]])
- [[https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/emacs-carnival-2026-01-this-year-i-will/][Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll ...”]]
- [[http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2026-01-19/][This Year I'll… · Curious Musings]]
- [[https://zimblo.bearblog.dev/emacs-carnival-jan26-this-year-ill-de-obfuscate/][Emacs Carnival Jan 26: “This Year, I’ll de-obfuscate” | zimblog]]
- Other:
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qhbtib/another_beautiful_modeline_maplemodeline_and/][Another beautiful modeline: maple-modeline, and share some packages that I've written]]: maple-preview, -note, -translate, -iedit, -scratch, -diff, -minibuffer
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLuyt0hq4io][Emacs: easily set timers with TMR]] (14:33, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjpwam/emacs_easily_set_timers_with_tmr/][Reddit]])
- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXPhel5VDNk][Emacs в 2026: Секретное оружие или старый хлам? |vim, vscode, lisp, org-mode|Podlodka Podcast #460]] (01:43:00)
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qitl8s/experimental_skia_rendering_backend_as_cairo/][Experimental Skia rendering backend as cairo alternative]]
- [[https://github.com/danrobi11/emacs-appimage/releases/tag/v31.0.50][Unofficial Emacs Portable Binary v31.0.50]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qjuact/unofficial_emacs_portable_binary_v31050/][Reddit]]) - Linux only
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel: [[https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/][Re: Auto-suggesting Packages - Eli Zaretskii]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=6a071ad37327eb318a1d796dd6d7d9edffd82950][Add 'select-frame-by-id' and 'undelete-frame-by-id' (Bug#80192)]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=e8f26d554b64ed63fe2b7f110d5247648b7322ed][Support cons cell for 'line-spacing']]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=29bdba37f2ac3a912d15d2b65169cfb312707da2][New bindings for vc-revert]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=15d3cc3f65e8ea3bc1e1a4c766f439bcad012150][Flymake support for yaml-ts-mode.]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=8ea6f6da7739adb054871da80a073672f6c706d7][Add JSON path utility command to json-ts-mode]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=4150c2e22e93ca6bdf682b0067d430e412db3688][(garbage-collect-heapsize): New function]]
- [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=9ba2f13176a756030e4d8476436662d630447f65][* lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-split-tab): New command.]]
- New packages:
- https://melpa.org/#/advent-mode: Advent of Code mode (MELPA)
- https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/denote-review.html: implements review process for denote notes (GNU ELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/devcontainer: Support for devcontainer (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/magit-git-toolbelt: A Magit interface for git-toolbelt (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/mu4e-llm: AI-powered email assistance for mu4e (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/org-roam-latte: Auto-highlight unlinked Org-roam references (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/ox-reveal-layouts: Predefined layouts for ox-reveal (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/signel: Signal client for Emacs via signal-cli JSON-RPC (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/tengo-mode: Major mode for the Tengo programming language (MELPA)
- https://melpa.org/#/ultisnips-mode: Major mode for editing Ultisnips snippets (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/2026-01][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!
