2026-03-23 Emacs news
| emacs, emacs-news: Removed elecxzy comment-dwim, whoops.
Might be a good opportunity to set up better auto-saves, with buffer-guardian.el inspiring an update to super-save 0.5. Also, there were a couple of interesting experiments embedding Chromium (Reddit) or native macOS views in Emacs (Reddit), and one about embedding Emacs in a webpage (Reddit).
- Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 25 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1800 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2330 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 26 0200 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 28 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/313720093/ Thu Apr 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Apr 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Apr 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
- Emacs configuration:
- Emacs Lisp:
- elisp-2025/el-xeger.el (Reddit)- generate text from a regex
- [20] Working on Canvas Patch (Contd..) - 3/22/2026, 2:31:11 PM - Dyne.org TV
- Writing:
- Appearance:
- Navigation:
- Dired:
- Org Mode:
- Which org-related packages do you use?
- Taking Notes With Emacs Org Mode (It's Easy!) (15:35)
- Reading your Emacs notes on-the-go, minimally. (12:07, (Reddit)
- Srijan Choudhary: 2026-03-18-001: move Org heading title into body
- Resilient Technologies. Why Decades-Old Tools Define the ROOT of Modern Research Data Management — Workshop Documents (@lukascbossert@mastodon.social)
- Coding:
- aspiers/madolt: magit-like emacs mode for dolt · GitHub (Reddit)
- Emacs VC-mode in action (01:34)
- Projeto Omega - Cifra de Cesar (Emacs+Magit) (14:39)
- Lycomedes1814/temme-mode: A rewrite of emmet-mode for Emacs, aiming for a clean and modern codebase · GitHub (Reddit)
- Emacs Redux: surround.el: Vim-Style Pair Editing Comes to Emacs (Irreal)
- Emacs Redux: Tree-sitter Font-Lock and Indentation in Comint Buffers
- Tip about using python-indent-def-block-scale - mutliplier applied to indentation
- Einar Mostad: Use virtual environment in Emacs' Python Mode if in a project with a venv
- Monday Live Coding with Emacs. 3/16/2026 #coding #livecoding #emacs #learnc (01:16:08)
- Mail, news, and chat:
- Multimedia:
- Fun:
- AI:
- Agile & Coding: The tools of an Agentic Engineer (Reddit)
- jlouisbiz/rcd-mcp-emacs-documentation: get_documentation, list_functions_by_prefix, search_functions, rcd_elisp_function_definition
- MCP for Emacs - Improve your notes with ORG MODE 🦄 (10:27)
- agent-shell-notifications released! (Reddit)
- Jeremias-A-Queiroz/emacs-gptel-slim-tools: leverage etags for precise code fragment extraction (Reddit)
- Fritz Grabo:
acp2ollamain Emacs for fun and profit - James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Seven Lines to Any LLM Provider
- Community:
- Shells:
- Other:
- buffer-terminator.el - safely auto terminate buffers for performance and reduced clutter [Release 1.2.1] (Reddit)
- James Cherti: buffer-guardian.el – Automatically Save Emacs Buffers Without Manual Intervention (When Buffers Lose Focus, Regularly, or After Emacs is Idle) (Reddit, Irreal)
- super-save 0.5: Modernized and Better Than Ever (Reddit)
- Much Ado About Emacs 012: kirigami, visible-mark, javelin, opml, appine, buffer-guardian, isearch-lazy-count, markdown-table-wrap, surround
- chaoswork/appine: embed native macOS views (WebKit, PDFKit etc.) directly inside Emacs windows. · GitHub (Reddit)
- emacs-os/embr.el: Emacs is the display server. Headless Chromium via CloakBrowser is the renderer. · GitHub (Reddit)
- Why fork+exec Takes 100ms on My Mac: Debugging Slow Emacs with Instruments (Reddit)
- exlee/emacs-reporter: Emacs data collector for macOS · GitHub (Reddit)
- Emacs development:
- emacs-devel:
- Re: MacOS/NS Events Processing Queue - Przemysław Kamiński - VM compacting patch in case anyone wants to try it out
- Re: Tree-sitter: Correctly parsing template-like embeddings - Yuan Fu - trade-offs for performance?
- Re: feature/igc3 44f854bad09 2/5: Avoid remote references in face cache (analogous to bug#80601) - Eli Zaretskii - challenges with igc branch
- Re: some Eglot-related options to consider for newcomers-presets - João Távora - language servers and newcomers-presets?
- (Fmakunbound): Break aliasing, if present (bug#80538)
- hideshow: Fix 'hs-hide-block-behavior' set to 'after-cursor'.
- hideshow: New minor mode 'hs-indentation-mode'. (Bug#80179)
- emacs-devel:
- New packages:
- async-http-queue: Async HTTP queue with parallel fetching (MELPA)
- consult-symbol: Consult-based symbol search with narrowing (MELPA)
- flymake-zizmor: Flymake backend for zizmor, a Github Actions static analyzer (MELPA)
- org-snitch: Project-specific org-capture and link faces (MELPA)
- org-tag-cloud: Easily maintain a tag-cloud of org-mode tags (MELPA)
- tiles: Tagged Instant Lightweight Emacs Snippets (MELPA)
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