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Emacs folks re-discovering X windows, and what XEmacs has done for 25 years.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-05/msg00605.html

If people are worried about #emacs #vc-mode executing code when doing #git operations they are going to be shocked about the amount of access your average

A rare example of somebody switching from #Emacs to #vim:
"I have officially retired from Emacs"
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04…

Yes, #Emacs. You can render SVG. Very clever. But I actually want to *edit the text* of the file (you know, in a text editor. Like... oh, $DEITY, never mind).
Yes, Emacs, you almost certainly do have some weird key combination to switch back to ACTUALLY BEING A TEXT EDITOR, but I don't know it, and, being Emacs, you're too damned arrogant to make it discoverable.
Typing `<esc&…

After making my network simpler I thought I would fill the time by yak shaving my #Emacs config and throwing my muscle memory out of the window by trying to replace evil with #meow.
We will see if this is a good idea.

from my link log —
Towards trust in Emacs.
https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2026-04-15-towards-trust-in-emacs.html
saved 2026-04-18 ht…

one can summarize the whole computer experience by saying that emacs is both great and terrible because it's written in a custom lisp

Wow, I finally have a functional grammar check in #emacs that seems like what I've been looking for.
https://stebalien.com/blog/grammar-tools-in-emacs/

A new update to starling-el today, but only to remove the starling-insights feature because sadly #starlingbank have removed that API.
https://codeberg.org/draxil/starling-el
Thanks agai…

from my link log —
Stealing from the best Emacs configs.
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/04/07/stealing-from-the-best-emacs-configs/
saved 2026-04-07

Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs
Good artists borrow, great artists steal. – Pablo Picasso After spending the past couple of weeks updating Prelude and my personal Emacs config, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to see what the competition has been up to. I hadn’t done a proper survey of other people’s configs in years, and the Emacs landscape has changed quite a bit since the last time I looked. So I went through Doom Emacs, Purcell’s emacs.d, Centaur Emacs, Prot’s dotfiles, and a handful of others. Here are some of the …

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/116283016837715719
I guess people are tired of the Vim vs. Emacs or the tabs vs. spaces holy wars? 😅

#Monsterdon #Emacs hex-mode!

I'm working on something big: A new package for async communication between R and Emacs. The output should be a terminal run in Emacs, at the level of Arf and Radian.
If you use #rstats on #emacs stay tunned

from my link log —
Emacs internals: tagged union, tagged pointer, and poor man's inheritance.
https://thecloudlet.github.io/blog/project/emacs-03/
saved 2026-03-12

«Ausgerechnet eine KI findet #ZeroDay's in den Editoren Vim und Emacs:
Unter #Hacker'n und Sicherheitsexperten scheiden sich seit Jahrzehnten die Geister, ob nun #Vim oder

Ausgerechnet eine KI findet Zero-Days in den Editoren Vim und Emacs
Unter Hackern und Sicherheitsexperten scheiden sich seit Jahrzehnten die Geister, ob nun Vim oder Emacs der bessere Editor ist. Klar ist nun allerdings, dass beiden der zweifelhafte Ruhm zukommt, von einer KI eigenständig für unsicher erklärt zu werden.

Der #emacs und #orgmode basics Workshop heute bei den Linuxtagen war richtig interessant. Eine Welt tut sich da auf! :emacs: :orgmode:
Danke @…, war richtig gut gemacht.

If you're facing weird effects or poor performance when working with #Emacs (or #orgmode) and you're having a customized setup:
One thing that may solve some issues is removing your elpa/melpa packages and let it install from scratch.
It might be a good idea not to mix up

"because Linux to read text from the terminal uses this thing called readline that implements the Emacs key bindings, so in the terminal you can use ctrl-a to go to the beginning of the line, ctrl-e to the end, etc. Mac OS, the billionaire operating system uses these key bindings system wide, so in every fucking place you can write text, you can use the same shortcuts. Linux desktop for some goddamn reason instead uses... the Windows key bindings"

This is no joke -- today's Metacurity is packed with the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--N. Korean hackers were behind malicious versions of Axios,
--Threat actors compromised Cisco with stolen creds from Trivy attack,
--Anthropic leaked part of Claude's source code,
--Apple alters its upgrade-or-stay vulnerable method,
--Recruiting startup Mecor hit by incident linked to LiteLLM attack,
--Vim and GNU Emacs text editor…

N. Korean hackers were behind malicious versions of Axios
Actors compromised Cisco with stolen creds from Trivy attack, Anthropic leaked part of Claude's source code, Apple alters its upgrade-or-stay vulnerable method, Recruiting firm Mecor hit by incident linked to LiteLLM attack, Vim and GNU Emacs text editors' flaws surfaced by Claude prompts, much more

from my link log —
Emacs after Magit.
https://sdf.org/~pkal/blog/emacs/sans-magit.html
saved 2026-05-20 https://dotat.at/:/WYLG…

Today, I learned that emacs can access remote files:
/ssh:<host>:<path>
Why do I feel like I should have known this like thirty years ago?

@… @… @… I agree,

@… @… @… I agree,

Every time that "json" is mentioned in one sentence with a Lisp (machine), a fairy dies.
Sorry for killing two fairies here, please try not to boost! 💕
#emacs
#emacsJsonRpc
#json

Make sure your code follows a consitent style using the {lintr} package. #rstats

A Linter for R Code
Checks adherence to a given style, syntax errors and possible semantic issues. Supports on the fly checking of R code edited with RStudio IDE, Emacs, Vim, Sublime Text, Atom and Visual Studio Code.

ed(1) @… https://nein.ftrv.se/@sigrid/statuses/01KK980HZEX9AMG101RW07EKJW

Post by Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir, @sigrid@ftrv.se
I hear the vim vs emacs was is over.

¿Quién acaba de descubrir que en emacs se puede configurar la comprobación automštica de texto? https://www.spacemacs.org/layers/ checkers/spell-checking/README.html

I have just released version 1.0.0 of ESR: an R tree sitter mode for #emacs
It is the first version independent of #ESS although tree sitter can be paired with ESS.
ESR's interaction mode can use comint or

RE: #Emacs and its community.
In ca…

You are a vim/neovim user. You have a few plugins installed.
How do you remind yourself of those that you are not using on a regular basis?
I guess the question applies to any text editor or IDE.
#vim #neovim #emacs #intellij #VSCode

RE: https://mastodon.social/@never_released/116448271035656857
“there shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi” –

The #Memacs framework just learned how to get your #PodcastAddict #podcast episodes into your #Emacs

I wrote a short post with my thoughts on #emacs #ESS and why I created ESR, my tree sitter mode for R. After 10 years doing #rstats programming in ESS, I finally managed to move away from it.
P…

fettling my emacs config
i have some old elisp that un-bolds faces, and it's turning them white when i prefer it to just make them brighter
so i'm testing a replacement and trying to find a bold face that isn't already bright
it's surprisingly hard!

wake me up when AI can do the dishes… or rewire the linux kernel so that we can have Little Snith working the same way it does on macOS… or write a emacs vim code editor that can be extended by Kids Who Can’t Lisp Good

So I had this idea, if I could make the #Emacs #OrgRoamUI accessible on the LAN, I could potentially navigate my notes from any device anywhere!
It was listed in the GitHub as a request, but the advice there didn't work, it only acted as a redirect to nowhere. I could change the url from localhost to the lan name, opened 8080 in ufw and then port-forwarded with
sudo socat TCP-LISTEN:8080,fork TCP:localhost:35901
And that let me see the UI, but only the controls, no nodes, no notes. Noting the websocket claiming port 35903, I removed :host (to use all interfaces) and opened ufw for LAN access to that port which all /seemed/ really logical, but …
I still see only the controls, no nodes or notes 😞

RE: #GLT26 zu

from my link log —
Notes on using GNU Emacs Tramp in an unusual shell environment.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsTrampNotes
saved 2026-05-09

emacs plugin repo compromised https://github.com/kubernetes-el/kubernetes-el/issues/383 apparently via github actions

This repository has been compromised · Issue #383 · kubernetes-el/kubernetes-el
@noorul 929c639 This repository has been compromised a few days ago. I've just discovered this a few minutes ago. Apparently a Github action was used. I've removed the package from Melpa and blocke...

It is nice to see how the community of a small Emacs package I created is growing. And people are willing to crash into the bugs just to see the project improve.
I've done that for other projects as well, but it is my first time for my own code. Is kind of inspiring and encouraging.

from my link log —
Some better defaults for Emacs.
https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/better-defaults/blob/main/better-defaults.el
saved 2026-04-08

Has anybody ever written a conversion tool from the #orgmode syntax by #logseq to a cleaner version of #orgmode syntax for Emacs?
Background: logseq has a unique interpretation of the