@itskamrankhan In a free/libre and extremely capable software called #orgmode whose limits are only bound by the limits of your imagination. (1)

Through #FOSS and (in contrast to #Markdown (3)) well designed and easily re-used clear text data format #orgdown (2, 5), I do have many possibilities to generate input for it and re-use output in other tools. Orgdown is recognized without any manual conversion in lots of tools (4).

Let me cite Dominik's tenth rule: Any sufficiently complicated #PIM or note-taking program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode.

1 https://karl-voit.at/orgmode/
2 https://karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdown/
3 https://www.karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/
4 https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool-Support.org
5 https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown

#Emacs #PKM #Zettelkasten #Obsidian #MD #notion #logseq

@divyaranjan Decided you no longer want the crazy cool insane mode-line? #emacs got you covered.

@divyaranjan @minad
I have become too dangerous now...

#emacs

Alt...

a bat shit insane mode-line with a trippy animation on it.

Prompted from the latest #Emacs Canvas patch discussion, me and @minad worked on making canvas work in display margins. We wondered if it would work in the mode-line, and voila it does! Look at that looping magical thing in the mode-line. The best part is that none of this is memory intensive or laggy anymore :D

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So after one frenzy #Emacs Saturday, earlier today the LLM commit has been removed from the Emacs git log. Thanks to the Emacs maintainers and #Savannah admins for handling this swiftly.

Hopefully this never happens again.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-07/msg00398.html

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Needed to do some file system archaeology to find some work I did back in… 1993.
find-grep-dired and locate-with-filter commands FTW.

#Emacs

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#mastodonEl #emacs #lisp

hey programming nerds, i am considering moving from being a hobbyist Elisp/CL programmer into doing some more professional work. probably in webdev land.

do you have any tips for how to do so? what to learn/polish up on, how to showcase self, or related things, or resources for doing same, etc. does one need to do a bootcamp to learn stuff, or to become employable? (for context: i don't have a background in stem, but rather humanities. currently work as a translator. am self-taught in lisp stuff and feel my blind spots pretty acutely.)

i assume i need to focus on python, sql, js, or other similar things, but perhaps this is not necessarily so? i condered learning clojure properly, but it seems a higher barrier to entry also, job-wise...

I've only recently started using wdired-mode and it feels like magic each time. #emacs

TIL m-x prepare-user-lisp

"Byte-compile, scrape autoloads and prepare files in ‘user-lisp-directory’."

It redoes what it needs to, in case you add a new .el file to the user-lisp dir, or make a change in an existing one.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@chiply/116936162114620556

I've really enjoyed reading #EmacsCarnival posts for quite a while now. When I saw @chiply announce "The Search For Knowledge" as the topic for August, I thought I might have something useful/interesting to contribute. At the very least, I'm looking forward to reading everyone else's posts!

https://robmoss.github.io/blog/emacs-carnival-search-for-knowledge

#emacs

Charlie Holland [He/Him/His] » 🌐 2026-07-17
@chiply@fosstodon.org

I'm hosting August's #emacs carnival! The topic is "The Search for Knowledge".

Check out the post for the topic and how to submit.

https://www.chiply.dev/post-august-emacs-carnival

#emacs #software #foss #programming #knowledge #knowledgeGraphs

New #emacs post!

"Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros"

https://www.chiply.dev/post-elisp-macros-are-beautiful

#foss #lisp #software #programming

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If you have ever thought, “hey it’d be nice to remote control the macOS Music app from Emacs”, today’s your lucky day.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-now-playing-el.html

#Emacs #macOS

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I am revisiting a *very* long review of a feature branch by @paaguti and thinking about balancing between code quality, future stability, and adding significant new features. This is tricky. On one hand, I usually try to review every detail of the code and explain any issues. On the other hand, for large patches, this makes things slow, especially if I have many comments, potentially creating high contribution barrier. Any insights from fellow maintainers?
#orgmode #emacs
https://list.orgmode.org/CAO48Bk9GjRGO=gBa2HRszeSx4RjGc9-jVdHWHMMoSO4k9SMeQg@mail.gmail.com/

"Guix shell now inside Emacs!"

https://tusharhero.codeberg.page/guix-shell-in-emacs.html

#emacs #guix #opensource #linux

Thinking about restructuring my #emacs config. Right now it is divided in 4 files and it still "requires" packages instead of use- package. The latter would make it possible to defer loading, but in the other hand i set up all of my extreme personalized keybindings at the end of config in one place. Would that work if I use-package. As I understand i would also have to use an :commands to create autoloads for all those binds.

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@jeremiah_

#Ghostel appears to be the intellectual successor of #GNU #Emacs ansi-term. Thing is, M-x shell has the advantage of being more like an Emacs buffer than it is like a terminal. I mean, I'll eventually try Ghostel (on my very long TODO list now), but the reason I stopped using ansi-term was I didn't really want a terminal emulator in Emacs, I wanted an interactive buffer talking to #Bash. M-x shell used to be kinda buggy for this purpose, now it DWIM's smoothly (10 yrs later!)

I've used #GNU #Emacs ≥ 30 years (since bf. #Linux even existed)! I've cycled btw using:
* M-! (b/c #Unix SYSVR3.2.3 had no job control!)
* C-x C-z
* `xterm`s alongside with Emacs
* M-x ansi-term
* M-x shell

For ≈ 8 years, it's been 💯 `xterm`s beside Emacs.

I just got fed up with a task that included lots of pointer cut-and-paste. I started M-x shell out of desperation.

😲🤯 M-x shell is *really* good now.

Should I say goodbye to `xterm` forever?

(BTW, I still use #vi — once in a while!)

For anyone who maintains Emacs packages on ELPA, I would be interested in feedback to this thread on emacs-devel: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-08/msg00029.html

The basic question is what the preferred approach would be to annotate what parts of a changelog file pertain to a specific/current release, so that we could extract this information and use it in say the Atom feed or a package, or in the future in package-specific bots on the Fediverse.

Comments are welcome here, on emacs-devel or privately.

#elpa #emacs

Finally after about 6 months of revising and polishing with @minad, we have resubmitted the #Emacs Canvas patch to bug tracker:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=80281#419

We have incorporated all of the suggestions made by Eli and others last time. Very excited about this. Fingers crossed.

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https://tusharhero.codeberg.page/guix-shell-in-emacs.html

The recent emacs-guix release contained the guix-shell feature.

#emacs #guix

After 4 months of slow progress, my Wayland window manager built on #river and written in #guile #scheme is finally functional!

I call it #gliver, it's heavily inspired by #emacs. It also inherits many of the architectural decisions and lessons learned from my other project #guile-swayer.

The screenshot shows a describe-variable function similar to #emacs

The manual of your daily driver for text editing, EMACS for ITS. MIT AI Memo 554 by Richard Stallman published in 1981, newly uploaded to Bitsavers.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/ai/aim/AIM-554-Stallman.pdf

#emacs #its #retrocomputing

(setq dired-mouse-drag-files t)

to let #Emacs Dired drag files into other X windows. Works well, especially if they are on the same virtual desktop.

New post on M-x apropos Emacs! May I recommend eww for Emacs's innovative UI?

https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/apropos-emacs.html#may-i-recommend-eww-for-emacs-innovative-ui

Please consider this as entry for the May edition of the #Emacs Carnival, @sacha.