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The article requests testers for the Canvas patch for GNU Emacs, providing building instructions for MS Windows and a test code snippet.
EmacsConf 2026 is a virtual conference for Emacs enthusiasts, with a call for talk proposals due by September 18, 2026. The conference will be held December 12-13, 2026.
A developer's Emacs performance patch, assisted by GLM 5.2, was rejected by GNU due to a policy against LLM-assisted contributions, sparking criticism of the policy's effect on honesty.
The article discusses the challenges of regex portability across tools like sed, awk, grep, and Emacs, and provides a subset of regex features that work reliably across these environments.
The author describes building a GPU-based display backend for Emacs using Metal on macOS and OpenGL on Linux, improving rendering performance and enabling new effects like video playback and animated cursors, without modifying the core redisplay engine.
A new Emacs package called ytr enables streaming YouTube audio as a radio widget, powered by mpv and yt-dlp, and is available on GitHub.
A personal reflection on the author's decades-long relationship with Emacs, including switching to VSCode and IntelliJ, and ultimately returning to Emacs for its unique features.
Emacs 31 is approaching with improvements like simpler tree-sitter setup and a built-in markdown-ts-mode. The article details features the author has been using from the development branch, highlighting reduced configuration overhead.
A blog post highlighting lesser-known but useful built-in features of Emacs, continuing a series that aims to improve discoverability of stock Emacs capabilities.
A blog post introducing Emacs rec mode as a plain-text database system, used for tracking books and integrating with Org mode.
agent-shell 0.55 adds support for new AI agents like CodeBuddy, Hermes, and Kimi Code, emphasizing vendor-neutral ACP. The update also discusses ecosystem changes and calls for community support.
A blog post cataloguing appearances of the Emacs text editor in films and TV, including The Social Network, Tron: Legacy, Arctic Blast, and Silicon Valley.
An exploration of the Embark package in GNU Emacs, covering basic understanding and some 'stupid' tricks for using it.
Introduces svg-line, an Emacs package that uses SVG rendering to create consistent, multi-line, and feature-rich status bars across mode-line, header-line, tab-bar, and tab-line.
A blog post describing a custom Emacs Lisp function that uses Calc unit conversion and Org table formulas to compute bra sizes in EU, UK, and US standards from band and bust measurements.
A developer describes patching the i3 window manager to pass key events to Emacs when focused, enabling shared keybindings between i3 and Emacs.
A blog post detailing the debugging of a recurring XF86AudioPlay key event in Emacs, traced to a headphone device driver using libinput and evtest.
A blog post describing org-remark, an Emacs package for annotating files in-place, addressing the decoupling problem in digital note-taking by keeping notes attached to their source.
The author recounts their experience moving away from the Magit Git interface for Emacs and adopting alternatives like VC-mode and custom Git scripts, highlighting the adjustments and lessons learned.
The article recommends using Emacs' eww web browser, highlighting how its lack of JavaScript improves many websites and how Emacs offers unique UI innovations like per-image resizing and keyboard navigation.