2026-02-09 Emacs news
=====================

  - Upcoming events (iCal file 
https://emacslife.com/calendar/emacs-calendar.ics, Org 
https://emacslife.com/calendar/):
      - OrgMeetup (virtual) //orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html 
https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 
1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin 
- 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Feb 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
      - Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) //lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs 
https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 13 1800 Europe/Paris
      - EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF 
//www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313232290/ 
https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313232290/ Sat Feb 14 1100 
America/Los_Angeles
      - M-x Research: TBA //m-x-research.github.io/ 
https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 
America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 
2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Feb 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
  - Emacs configuration:
      - Philip Kaludercic: A retrospective on “setup” 
https://sdf.org/~pkal//blog/emacs/setup5.html
      - Moving to vanilla Emacs - smallwat3r 
https://smallwat3r.com/blog/vanilla-emacs-config
      - verdant/emacs.d: My Emacs configuration. - Codeberg.org 
https://codeberg.org/verdant/emacs.d (@[email protected] 
https://c7.io/@Verdant/116018368199799088)
      - Lightning Talk: Skewed Emacs 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br5zNL_reC4 (04:47)
      - Declarative, reproducible Emacs – video/blog 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnCkMpBkDp4 (08:24, Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qx7kcv/declarative_reproducible_emacs_videoblog/,
 Irreal https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13594)
  - Emacs Lisp:
      - Toggle between let and let* 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qyp1rk/toggle_between_let_and_let/ 
(Irreal https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13596)
      - meedstrom/system-idle https://github.com/meedstrom/system-idle (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qzj8bh/a_little_library_systemidle/) 
get the number of seconds since last user activity on the computer
      - vui.el: Building a File Browser - Boris Buliga 
https://www.d12frosted.io/posts/2025-12-02-vui-real-ui
      - Lightning Talk: Emacs Lisp Rabbit Holes 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZQjdmTIXs (04:03)
      - Lightning Talk: Common Lisp packages in Emacs Lisp 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRPddpLOxE (04:23)
  - Appearance:
      - Yet Another Emacs Theme Gallery https://doc.emacsen.de/gallery.html 
(Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1r096eb/yet_another_emacs_theme_gallery/)
      - Prikaz98/jblow-nostalgia: Emacs themes is stolen from John Blow Emacs 
streams https://github.com/Prikaz98/jblow-nostalgia (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qyc0z4/old_style_john_blow_emacs_theme/)
      - Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-jade’ and 
‘doric-copper’ 
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-05-emacs-new-doric-themes-jade-copper/
      - doric-themes version 1.0.0 
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-09-emacs-doric-themes-1-0-0/
  - Navigation:
      - Charles Choi: Using Casual to work with Emacs Registers, Rectangles, 
and Windows 
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/using-casual-to-work-with-emacs-registers-rectangles-and-windows.html
 (Irreal https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13598)
      - outline-indent.el - A modern indentation-based folding mode for Emacs 
(Release: 1.1.7) https://github.com/jamescherti/outline-indent.el (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1r0bxog/outlineindentel_a_modern_indentationbased_folding/)
      - spatial-window https://github.com/lewang/spatial-window (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qvfr9q/ann_spatialwindow/)
      - Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.5.0 
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-04-emacs-beframe-1-5-0/
  - TRAMP:
      - ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc: High-performance TRAMP backend using 
JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing 
https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc (lobste.rs 
https://lobste.rs/s/tplqv1/emacs_tramp_rpc_high_performance_tramp, lemmy.ml 
https://lemmy.ml/post/42828848?scrollToComments=true)
  - Dired:
      - Symlinks and Hardlinks in Linux and Emacs 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOq9F-vJMc (03:37)
  - Writing:
      - Insert Special Characters into Emacs 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCtS4sspPM (02:21)
      - ctanas/tiles: Tagged Instant Lightweight Emacs Snippets (TILES) 
https://github.com/ctanas/tiles/ (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qycfl8/tiles_yet_another_notetaking_app_package/)
      - In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel 
https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal/ (lemmy.ml 
https://lemmy.ml/post/42883645?scrollToComments=true)
  - Denote:
      - TAONAW: Denote includes the option of adding different directories 
https://taonaw.com/2026/02/05/denote-includes-the-option-of.html
  - Org Mode:
      - Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename :colnames header argument to 
:strip-colnames https://list.orgmode.org/87343b1oky.fsf@localhost
      - Executive Function as Code: using (Doom) Emacs to script my brain 
https://milly.kittycloud.eu/posts/executive-function-as-code-doom-emacs-adhd/ 
(Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qxevz0/executive_function_as_code_using_doom_emacs_to/)
      - How I kickstart a new sprint in emacs (using org capture template) 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qxc94p/comment/o3vmkgr/ - short video 
in Reddit post
      - tzc/tzc-org.el at main · md-arif-shaikh/tzc · GitHub 
https://github.com/md-arif-shaikh/tzc/blob/main/tzc-org.el (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qvuut9/scheduledeadline_with_timezone_conversion_on_the/)
      - (Experimental) Added custom view functionality to org-supertag 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwg6uf/experimental_added_custom_view_functionality_to/
      - Jack Baty: Global org-capture shortcut in KDE 
https://baty.net/posts/2026/02/global-org-capture-shortcut-in-kde/ (Irreal 
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13592)
      - yingyu5658/niwa: My digital garden. https://github.com/yingyu5658/niwa 
(@[email protected] https://c7.io/@Verdant/116002122004190834)
      - Aimé Bertrand: org-to-cal - Syncing Org Mode to macOS Calendar 
https://macowners.club/posts/org-to-cal-sync-org-mode-macos-calendar/
      - [BLOG] #26 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, January 14, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor 
Radchenko https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87jywsl1v6.fsf@localhost/ 
(@[email protected] https://fosstodon.org/@yantar92/116014184779436352)
      - Org development:
      - ox-latex: New keyword LATEX_CLASS_PRE to prepend lines before LaTeX 
preamble 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=daf6b791756adcaee853ead1c200592f6cb9024e
      - org-update-statistics-cookies: Respect narrowing 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=d544a088391fb508f00f3503b06184a8f2243bbc
  - Completion: (the topic for this month's Emacs Carnival 
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/01/emacs-carnival-february-2026-completion/!)
      - Emacs Carnival: Completion — Where Are The Wise Men? 
https://mike.hostetlerhome.com/emacs-carnival-completion (@[email protected] 
https://appdot.net/@mikehoss/116042342655651108)
      - File name completion in Emacs - Dmitry Dolzhenko 
https://dolzhenko.me/blog/2026/02/file-name-completion-in-emacs/ 
(@[email protected] 
https://fosstodon.org/@dsdolzhenko/116022893344732182)
      - Completion (in Emacs hledger) — Arjen Wiersma 
https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/completion-in-emacs-hledger
      - morazotti/resnippets.el: Regexp-based snippets for emacs 
https://github.com/morazotti/resnippets.el (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qysf9e/resnippetsel_snippets_with_regex/)
  - Coding:
      - Release CIDER 1.21 ("Gràcia") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub 
https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/releases/tag/v1.21.0 - use buttons, drop 
support for Emacs 27
      - Thanos Apollo: (Video) Contributing to Git Projects with Magit: PRs, 
Patches & Agit workflow 
https://thanosapollo.org/posts/video-contributing-with-git-guide/ (YouTube 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSHw7D_88-0 8:01)
      - Use prettierd as a formatter in apheleia 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwsgv1/use_prettierd_as_a_formatter_in_apheleia/
  - Web:
      - ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme: A hugo theme that makes a blog look and 
operate like emacs https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qtvnpl/making_my_blog_look_and_feel_like_emacs/)
  - Mail, news, and chat:
      - The Emacs RSS Reader I Wanted 
https://curtismchale.ca/2026/02/01/the-emacs-rss-reader-i-wanted (Github 
https://github.com/curtismchale/feedsmith, Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1quzjxz/emacs_rss_reader/, YouTube 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nos24tNSKco 04:57)
  - Doom Emacs:
      - PIMacs: A Modular, Documented, and Reproducible Doom Emacs Layer | 
PIPRIME.FR BLOG 
https://blog.piprime.fr/en/pimacs-modular-documented-reproducible-doom-emacs-layer/
 (@[email protected] https://fosstodon.org/@_PI_/116036210838461002)
  - Fun:
      - A SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp https://github.com/vkazanov/elcity 
(Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwfjku/a_simcity_clone_in_emacs_lisp/, 
HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897332)
      - New version of the setup script for getting Emacspeak and Elmud working 
on Termux 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nn0bwdfegnjn1qnyfb440/setup-emacspeak-termux.sh?rlkey=k3999ra8l57722nqobsvvwz8k&dl=1
 (@[email protected] 
https://tweesecake.social/@pixelate/116023218389080353)
  - AI:
      - ElleNajt/agent-shell-to-go 
https://github.com/ElleNajt/agent-shell-to-go (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qv58oq/interact_with_agentshell_sessions_from_your/)
      - majorgreys/org-roam-skill https://github.com/majorgreys/org-roam-skill 
(Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1qzpsgs/orgroamskill_for_claude_code/)
      - James Dyer: Spent a bit of free time polishing ollama-buddy - github 
Copilot is now onboard! 
https://www.emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20260204100913-emacs--ollama-buddy-updates---github-copilot-integration-plus-others/
 ( Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qvld46/spent_a_bit_of_free_time_polishing_ollamabuddy/)
  - Community:
      - Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-27 / week 04 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qo1vc3/fortnightly_tips_tricks_and_questions_20260127/
      - Emacs ATX Feb 2026 meetup notes 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwrh0l/comment/o3twylt/
      - Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, 
religion, and cosmic consistency 
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-08-prot-asks-eric-free-software-art-religion-cosmic-consistency/
  - Other:
      - Two Neat Emacs Packages: Bufferfile and Stripspace #rename #whitespace 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8ywyX-03E (02:54)
      - Plain text agenda https://github.com/rougier/agenda (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1quqbzc/plain_text_agenda/)
      - era-emacs-tools/ERA: Emacs Remote Editing 
https://github.com/era-emacs-tools/ERA (Reddit 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwt79j/remote_connection_for_emacs/)
      - Comprehending MELPA's size 
https://bench.winny.tech/posts/comprehending_melpa_size/
      - Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern 
Research Data Management https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17157587 
(@[email protected] 
https://mastodon.social/@lukascbossert/116014875468979717)
  - Emacs development:
      - emacs-devel:
      - Help wanted for the widget library 
https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/
      - Re: Supporting stylistic sets - Eli Zaretskii 
https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/ - more notes on 
stylistic sets
      - Re: Is it possible to suppress 'after-string overlay property by 
placing other overlays? - Eli Zaretskii 
https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/ - considering before- 
and after-string
      - Do cache and timed invalidation in "VC-aware" project backend 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=583a112169f0c964552b94f84ea0c942377a14e6
      - Fix selected group sort with topics (bug#80341) 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=832580989619d3343f06cd9a9eeed9f22ddad376
      - Add missing symbolic prefix keybinding 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ed158fb8fcac73e557706f6f24f584e1bd3e9102
      - Change the type of 'python-eldoc-function-timeout' to number 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=3107c66c844355269c02dd3418e80275a33ed296
      - Support D-Bus file descriptor manipulation 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=89209a83b60c87d97f0c05dbf6cb29ff3cdf3d5a
      - Separate input histories for 'C-x v !' and Git pulling & pushing 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=c6e550c24eb25a72cdef2d691649a3754feb75d8
      - Allow using xref-find-references without visiting a tags table 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=90d3fdaffcc9b13103d6a4fa0afa972ae214739c
      - New minibuffer history for vc-user-edit-command (bug#80169) 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=dda572a2fad925d72fa19ee5724472d490d6cdb5
      - Fix [More] buttons in tutorial and other buttons in Semantic 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=083f89f85859add3d1ebfa41a4d77afd7692ae3b
  - New packages:
      - https://melpa.org/#/auto-space-mode: Auto add space between CJK and 
ASCII (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/consult-spotlight: Consult interface to macOS 
mdfind (Spotlight) (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/ddgr: DuckDuckGo search (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/dialog-mode: Major mode for editing Dialog files 
(MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/doing: Frictionless activity log and time tracking 
(MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/duckdb-query: DuckDB query results as native Elisp 
data structures (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/edna-theme: A dark, Edna-inspired theme (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/eldc: Emacs Lisp Dictionary Converter (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/elsqlite: SQLite browser (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/hanfix-mode: Korean grammar checker (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/lazy: Lazy evaluation library (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/magit-gh: GitHub CLI integration for Magit (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/magit-pre-commit: Magit integration for pre-commit 
(MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/org-window-habit: Time window based habits (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/project-rails: Rails support for project.el (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/system-idle: Poll the system-wide idle time (MELPA)
      - https://melpa.org/#/warm-mode: Warm colors for nighttime coding (MELPA)

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https://mastodon.social/tags/emacs, Bluesky #emacs 
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Emacs NEWS file http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS, Emacs 
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  * 2026-02-09 Emacs news
- Upcoming events ([[https://emacslife.com/calendar/emacs-calendar.ics][iCal file]], [[https://emacslife.com/calendar/][Org]]):
  - OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Feb 12 0000 Asia/Singapore
  - Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 13 1800 Europe/Paris
  - EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/313232290/ Sat Feb 14 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  - M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata -- Thu Feb 19 0000 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
  - [[https://sdf.org/~pkal//blog/emacs/setup5.html][Philip Kaludercic: A retrospective on “setup”]]
  - [[https://smallwat3r.com/blog/vanilla-emacs-config][Moving to vanilla Emacs - smallwat3r]]
  - [[https://codeberg.org/verdant/emacs.d][verdant/emacs.d: My Emacs configuration. - Codeberg.org]] ([[https://c7.io/@Verdant/116018368199799088][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br5zNL_reC4][Lightning Talk: Skewed Emacs]] (04:47)
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnCkMpBkDp4][Declarative, reproducible Emacs – video/blog]] (08:24, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qx7kcv/declarative_reproducible_emacs_videoblog/][Reddit]], [[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13594][Irreal]])
- Emacs Lisp:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qyp1rk/toggle_between_let_and_let/][Toggle between let and let*]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13596][Irreal]])
  - [[https://github.com/meedstrom/system-idle][meedstrom/system-idle]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qzj8bh/a_little_library_systemidle/][Reddit]]) get the number of seconds since last user activity on the computer
  - [[https://www.d12frosted.io/posts/2025-12-02-vui-real-ui][vui.el: Building a File Browser - Boris Buliga]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZQjdmTIXs][Lightning Talk: Emacs Lisp Rabbit Holes]] (04:03)
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRPddpLOxE][Lightning Talk: Common Lisp packages in Emacs Lisp]] (04:23)
- Appearance:
  - [[https://doc.emacsen.de/gallery.html][Yet Another Emacs Theme Gallery]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1r096eb/yet_another_emacs_theme_gallery/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://github.com/Prikaz98/jblow-nostalgia][Prikaz98/jblow-nostalgia: Emacs themes is stolen from John Blow Emacs streams]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qyc0z4/old_style_john_blow_emacs_theme/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-05-emacs-new-doric-themes-jade-copper/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-jade’ and ‘doric-copper’]]
    - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-09-emacs-doric-themes-1-0-0/][doric-themes version 1.0.0]]
- Navigation:
  - [[http://yummymelon.com/devnull/using-casual-to-work-with-emacs-registers-rectangles-and-windows.html][Charles Choi: Using Casual to work with Emacs Registers, Rectangles, and Windows]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13598][Irreal]])
  - [[https://github.com/jamescherti/outline-indent.el][outline-indent.el - A modern indentation-based folding mode for Emacs (Release: 1.1.7)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1r0bxog/outlineindentel_a_modern_indentationbased_folding/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://github.com/lewang/spatial-window][spatial-window]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qvfr9q/ann_spatialwindow/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-04-emacs-beframe-1-5-0/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: beframe version 1.5.0]]
- TRAMP:
  - [[https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc][ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc: High-performance TRAMP backend using JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing]] ([[https://lobste.rs/s/tplqv1/emacs_tramp_rpc_high_performance_tramp][lobste.rs]], [[https://lemmy.ml/post/42828848?scrollToComments=true][lemmy.ml]])
- Dired:
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOq9F-vJMc][Symlinks and Hardlinks in Linux and Emacs]] (03:37)
- Writing:
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCtS4sspPM][Insert Special Characters into Emacs]] (02:21)
  - [[https://github.com/ctanas/tiles/][ctanas/tiles: Tagged Instant Lightweight Emacs Snippets (TILES)]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qycfl8/tiles_yet_another_notetaking_app_package/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal/][In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel]] ([[https://lemmy.ml/post/42883645?scrollToComments=true][lemmy.ml]])
- Denote:
  - [[https://taonaw.com/2026/02/05/denote-includes-the-option-of.html][TAONAW: Denote includes the option of adding different directories]]
- Org Mode:
  - [[https://list.orgmode.org/87343b1oky.fsf@localhost][Org Mode requests: [RFC] Rename :colnames header argument to :strip-colnames]]
  - [[https://milly.kittycloud.eu/posts/executive-function-as-code-doom-emacs-adhd/][Executive Function as Code: using (Doom) Emacs to script my brain]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qxevz0/executive_function_as_code_using_doom_emacs_to/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qxc94p/comment/o3vmkgr/][How I kickstart a new sprint in emacs (using org capture template)]] - short video in Reddit post
  - [[https://github.com/md-arif-shaikh/tzc/blob/main/tzc-org.el][tzc/tzc-org.el at main · md-arif-shaikh/tzc · GitHub]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qvuut9/scheduledeadline_with_timezone_conversion_on_the/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwg6uf/experimental_added_custom_view_functionality_to/][(Experimental) Added custom view functionality to org-supertag]]
  - [[https://baty.net/posts/2026/02/global-org-capture-shortcut-in-kde/][Jack Baty: Global org-capture shortcut in KDE]] ([[https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13592][Irreal]])
  - [[https://github.com/yingyu5658/niwa][yingyu5658/niwa: My digital garden.]] ([[https://c7.io/@Verdant/116002122004190834][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://macowners.club/posts/org-to-cal-sync-org-mode-macos-calendar/][Aimé Bertrand: org-to-cal - Syncing Org Mode to macOS Calendar]]
  - [[https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87jywsl1v6.fsf@localhost/][[BLOG] #26 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, January 14, 19:00 UTC+3 - Ihor Radchenko]] ([[https://fosstodon.org/@yantar92/116014184779436352][@[email protected]]])
  - Org development:
    - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=daf6b791756adcaee853ead1c200592f6cb9024e][ox-latex: New keyword LATEX_CLASS_PRE to prepend lines before LaTeX preamble]]
    - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/etc/ORG-NEWS?id=d544a088391fb508f00f3503b06184a8f2243bbc][org-update-statistics-cookies: Respect narrowing]]
- Completion: (the topic for this month's [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/01/emacs-carnival-february-2026-completion/][Emacs Carnival]]!)
  - [[https://mike.hostetlerhome.com/emacs-carnival-completion][Emacs Carnival: Completion — Where Are The Wise Men?]] ([[https://appdot.net/@mikehoss/116042342655651108][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://dolzhenko.me/blog/2026/02/file-name-completion-in-emacs/][File name completion in Emacs - Dmitry Dolzhenko]] ([[https://fosstodon.org/@dsdolzhenko/116022893344732182][@[email protected]]])
  - [[https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/completion-in-emacs-hledger][Completion (in Emacs hledger) — Arjen Wiersma]]
  - [[https://github.com/morazotti/resnippets.el][morazotti/resnippets.el: Regexp-based snippets for emacs]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qysf9e/resnippetsel_snippets_with_regex/][Reddit]])
- Coding:
  - [[https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/releases/tag/v1.21.0][Release CIDER 1.21 ("Gràcia") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub]] - use buttons, drop support for Emacs 27
  - [[https://thanosapollo.org/posts/video-contributing-with-git-guide/][Thanos Apollo: (Video) Contributing to Git Projects with Magit: PRs, Patches & Agit workflow]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSHw7D_88-0][YouTube]] 8:01)
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwsgv1/use_prettierd_as_a_formatter_in_apheleia/][Use prettierd as a formatter in apheleia]]
- Web:
  - [[https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme][ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme: A hugo theme that makes a blog look and operate like emacs]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qtvnpl/making_my_blog_look_and_feel_like_emacs/][Reddit]])
- Mail, news, and chat:
  - [[https://curtismchale.ca/2026/02/01/the-emacs-rss-reader-i-wanted][The Emacs RSS Reader I Wanted]] ([[https://github.com/curtismchale/feedsmith][Github]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1quzjxz/emacs_rss_reader/][Reddit]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nos24tNSKco][YouTube]] 04:57)
- Doom Emacs:
  - [[https://blog.piprime.fr/en/pimacs-modular-documented-reproducible-doom-emacs-layer/][PIMacs: A Modular, Documented, and Reproducible Doom Emacs Layer | PIPRIME.FR BLOG]] ([[https://fosstodon.org/@_PI_/116036210838461002][@[email protected]]])
- Fun:
  - [[https://github.com/vkazanov/elcity][A SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwfjku/a_simcity_clone_in_emacs_lisp/][Reddit]], [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897332][HN]])
  - [[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nn0bwdfegnjn1qnyfb440/setup-emacspeak-termux.sh?rlkey=k3999ra8l57722nqobsvvwz8k&dl=1][New version of the setup script for getting Emacspeak and Elmud working on Termux]] ([[https://tweesecake.social/@pixelate/116023218389080353][@[email protected]]])
- AI:
  - [[https://github.com/ElleNajt/agent-shell-to-go][ElleNajt/agent-shell-to-go]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qv58oq/interact_with_agentshell_sessions_from_your/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://github.com/majorgreys/org-roam-skill][majorgreys/org-roam-skill]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1qzpsgs/orgroamskill_for_claude_code/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://www.emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20260204100913-emacs--ollama-buddy-updates---github-copilot-integration-plus-others/][James Dyer: Spent a bit of free time polishing ollama-buddy - github Copilot is now onboard!]] ( [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qvld46/spent_a_bit_of_free_time_polishing_ollamabuddy/][Reddit]])
- Community:
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qo1vc3/fortnightly_tips_tricks_and_questions_20260127/][Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-01-27 / week 04]]
  - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwrh0l/comment/o3twylt/][Emacs ATX Feb 2026 meetup notes]]
  - [[https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-02-08-prot-asks-eric-free-software-art-religion-cosmic-consistency/][Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, religion, and cosmic consistency]]
- Other:
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8ywyX-03E][Two Neat Emacs Packages: Bufferfile and Stripspace #rename #whitespace]] (02:54)
  - [[https://github.com/rougier/agenda][Plain text agenda]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1quqbzc/plain_text_agenda/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://github.com/era-emacs-tools/ERA][era-emacs-tools/ERA: Emacs Remote Editing]] ([[https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qwt79j/remote_connection_for_emacs/][Reddit]])
  - [[https://bench.winny.tech/posts/comprehending_melpa_size/][Comprehending MELPA's size]]
  - [[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17157587][Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management]] ([[https://mastodon.social/@lukascbossert/116014875468979717][@[email protected]]])
- Emacs development:
  - emacs-devel:
    - [[https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/][Help wanted for the widget library]]
    - [[https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/][Re: Supporting stylistic sets - Eli Zaretskii]] - more notes on stylistic sets
    - [[https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/][Re: Is it possible to suppress 'after-string overlay property by placing other overlays? - Eli Zaretskii]] - considering before- and after-string
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=583a112169f0c964552b94f84ea0c942377a14e6][Do cache and timed invalidation in "VC-aware" project backend]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=832580989619d3343f06cd9a9eeed9f22ddad376][Fix selected group sort with topics (bug#80341)]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=ed158fb8fcac73e557706f6f24f584e1bd3e9102][Add missing symbolic prefix keybinding]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=3107c66c844355269c02dd3418e80275a33ed296][Change the type of 'python-eldoc-function-timeout' to number]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=89209a83b60c87d97f0c05dbf6cb29ff3cdf3d5a][Support D-Bus file descriptor manipulation]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=c6e550c24eb25a72cdef2d691649a3754feb75d8][Separate input histories for 'C-x v !' and Git pulling & pushing]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=90d3fdaffcc9b13103d6a4fa0afa972ae214739c][Allow using xref-find-references without visiting a tags table]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=dda572a2fad925d72fa19ee5724472d490d6cdb5][New minibuffer history for vc-user-edit-command (bug#80169)]]
  - [[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?id=083f89f85859add3d1ebfa41a4d77afd7692ae3b][Fix [More] buttons in tutorial and other buttons in Semantic]]
- New packages:
  - https://melpa.org/#/auto-space-mode: Auto add space between CJK and ASCII (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/consult-spotlight: Consult interface to macOS mdfind (Spotlight) (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/ddgr: DuckDuckGo search (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/dialog-mode: Major mode for editing Dialog files (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/doing: Frictionless activity log and time tracking (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/duckdb-query: DuckDB query results as native Elisp data structures (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/edna-theme: A dark, Edna-inspired theme (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/eldc: Emacs Lisp Dictionary Converter (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/elsqlite: SQLite browser (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/hanfix-mode: Korean grammar checker (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/lazy: Lazy evaluation library (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/magit-gh: GitHub CLI integration for Magit (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/magit-pre-commit: Magit integration for pre-commit (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/org-window-habit: Time window based habits (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/project-rails: Rails support for project.el (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/system-idle: Poll the system-wide idle time (MELPA)
  - https://melpa.org/#/warm-mode: Warm colors for nighttime coding (MELPA)

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