It has been '0' days since some of my GNU Emacs hooks didn't fire as expected because of the difference between *-mode and *-ts-mode. I have opinions.

(I am using *-ts-mode modes in a spirit of eating my vegetables, more or less. As far as I can see so far I'm not getting anything out of it except the feeling that I'm doing the modern Right Thing™.)

#emacs

#Emacs Custom Mode Hack. Sets Cursor into search field after entering Customize Mode

(defun my/timer-cursor-to-row3-col1 ()
(interactive)
(run-at-time "0.3 sec" nil
(lambda ()
(move-to-column 0)
(goto-line 3)
)))

(add-hook 'Custom-mode-hook #'my/timer-cursor-to-row3-col1)

@projectgus I use package.el with package-review-policy=t such that I can inspect all diffs on upgrade. Furthermore I mirror all package versions with daily tags for potential analysis. https://github.com/emacs-elpa/mirror #emacs #elpa

@paniash #org-noted [1] might help. I've not really settled on anything myself. It's been on the TODO list for a while now...

I think @yantar92 likely has a pretty good setup. Some details in a recent org leadup.

Zotero seems useful if you want to interact with your system from outside emacs and/want to leverage all of Zotero's existing tech. Using org-publish could solve the first part and the second is surely largely solved already with various #emacs packages, but might need some work to put it all together.

I'll be very interested to see what you come up with!

[1] https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you Maximilian Cook for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/4bl #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments

To the folks who live at the intersection of #academia and #emacs, how do you read papers, keep annotated notes in the pdfs and maintain the corresponding bibliography in an org file?

Currently I do my reading, annotated notes and bibliography in zotero while writing separate notes in an org file. Ideally I'd like to do all of this within emacs.

Happy to hear suggestions!

#emacs #orgmode #BibliographyManager

I have just added a new feature to my Jinx spell-checking package. The new command jinx-remove-word removes words from the personal dictionary, file-local variables and so on. Reuben Thomas (the maintainer of the Enchant library backing Jinx) suggested this addition. He is also an #emacs and #jinx user!

https://github.com/minad/jinx/discussions/269

Oh, the non-LLM commit has landed again on #emacs master:

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=fb5cf238a9da9e2b182d27e94fbee63a184fc02f

Sometimes when I implement a new feature for an #emacs package I discover an upstream bug on the way. Not unusual for lesser trodden code paths and features. This time while working on the Jinx spell checker, a bug about file local variables in the property line:

https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/87ecglj15s.fsf@daniel-mendler.de/T/#t

Emacs is the most convenient software to report bugs and I can only recommend to take advantage of this functionality! Of the 160 bugs I've reported so far, only 45 are still open.

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=mail%40daniel-mendler.de;archive=both

Flycheck 38: Might & Magic via @eh https://lobste.rs/s/odojje #emacs #release
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/07/29/flycheck-38/

Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse https://lobste.rs/s/5z7akz #emacs
https://www.chiply.dev/post-hyperbole-implicit-buttons

FYI: If you use Magit and don't know about magit-commit-extend (c e) and magit-commit-instant-fixup (c F), prepare to have your 🤯.

https://docs.magit.vc/magit/Editing-the-last-commit.html
https://docs.magit.vc/magit/Editing-any-reachable-commit-and-rebasing-immediately.html

#emacs #magit

«can't be guarded with 'eval-while-compile' because then they get run twice»

Yes...

It is not for nothing that Common Lisp's `eval-when' works in the (different) way it works (and then it had to be revised and specified in more detail after the first edition).

#CommonLisp
#Elisp
#Emacs

@cks

My GNU Emacs tiny kingdom for something that only ran at byte-compile time purely so I can pacify ELisp checker errors that only happen then (in a file that is not byte compiled otherwise), and which can't be guarded with 'eval-while-compile' because then they get run twice.

(It's complicated. This file is load-file'd by my .emacs and needs macros from third party packages to pass type checking.)

#emacs

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you Maximilian Cook for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/4bl #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments

The #orgmode configuration file works as a charm. Now I have a web socket server that can send these keypad layouts defined there, to its companion app on my phone. So I have a kind of 4x8 keys stream deck on my phone and can remote control my computer.

Next step is to integrate d-bus because of course #emacs can send major-mode change events to the d-bus - and my SpaceCadet Deck will automatically change its layout according to this event.

For GNU Emacs people who use Eglot and Flycheck: the latest Flycheck MELPA version has added direct support for Eglot, basically folding the previously flycheck-eglot¹ package into Flycheck. It looks like the main Flycheck has picked up a bunch of useful LSP integrations as well (which I think work with Eglot or lsp-mode or etc). Also, Flycheck now has inline annotations (flycheck-annotate-mode) to make diagnostics really obvious.

These are nice improvements!

#emacs

¹ https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck-eglot

Meeting notes: https://list.orgmode.org/87cxw7rqw9.fsf@localhost/T/#u

TL;DR: ox-latex survey; non-Latin PDF export; exporting tagged PDFs; buffer-locals vs Org keywords; DEADLINE syntax; Org parser in Rust; large Org files; sparse trees; anju; org-export-region-to-md; importing to Org; transient menus in Org; org-inside; canvas patch + babel = jupyter notebooks; transferring data between Emacs and browsers; LLMs (local); email providers; OrgDevMeetup

Earlier notes: https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html
#orgmode #orgmeetup #emacs
@sacha

#Emacs #Eglot

My current version is 1.23.xxx, list-package shows a 1.24. Nice.

Yet: any idea how to get any information about what is new? The github repo now seems to be really outdated. Is it really like
% git clone ...savannah...emacs...
git log -- lisp/progmodes/eglot.el

Or am I missing something?

@flohoff

Btw. there is a curious special case: When a whole ecosystem is prectically using the same license. If somebody uses #LLM for writing #Emacs #elisp code, the #AI has been trained most likely from #GPL code, either GPL3+ or GPL2+. The software written with LLM help will probably be GPL, too. So the license would be correct. But not the GPL requirement of preserving original copyright notices, in case a code snippet that AI copied verbatim is large enough to be copyrightable.

@ed1conf @nixCraft

Nahhhh, real programmers use the good old Butterfly Mode on Emacs.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png

#Emacs

Alt...

Real programmers use the old good Butterfly Mode on Emacs