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2026-10-26 Emacs news

The coolest thing I saw this week is Clerkenwell, a handwritten Clojure notebook (Github). Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 28 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toront...

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subed.el and quoting snippets of YouTube videos from the auto captions

I'm preparing for a conversation with linkarzu. It would be fun to quote snippets from some of the other videos he has. I like the way he does a lot of reaction videos that build on what people have shared. He tends to listen to things at 1.25 or 1.5x speed. I'm not sure if...

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Analyzing Emacs News: 564 posts over 11 years, > 34k items, ~60/post

While summarizing my history with Emacs, I was curious about just how many Emacs News posts I've written and how many links I've highlighted. 564 posts, > 34000 items, an average of 60 items per posts. Analysis: It turned out that my emacs-news/index.org only went bac...

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Upcoming chat with linkarzu about using Emacs for 25 years

Next Thursday, I'm going to be chatting with linkarzu about Emacs and life. He's more of a Vim person than an Emacs person, so I'll try to share things that are generally useful. He's called it: "Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years." Watch on YouTube ...

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Dictating blog posts into Emacs

Matt is experimenting with dictating his blog posts. He says: I write really well. I have very good grammatical skills, for the most part, when I’m typing. But when I speak, I don’t speak like that. My grammar is not very good. I say words out of order a lot. I have fil...

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2026-10-19 Emacs news

There are a bunch of Eglot-related resources in the Coding category today. Nice to see people working on lots of cool stuff! Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 11...

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Added Javascript time zone translation to the EmacsConf schedule images on the wiki

Nudged by Ihor Radchenko's suggestion, I added some JavaScript to translate the graphical SVG schedule on the EmacsConf wiki to your local time zone. I'll post the schedule on the wiki next week, but in the meantime, you can take a look at the draft schedule in the organize...

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Semaine du 5 au 11 octobre

lundi 5 J'ai travaillé comme consultante. J'ai cherché la cause d'un bug dans la liste d'événements. J'ai affiché un message quand un évènement n'a pas besoin d'inscription. J'ai restauré le code d'application dans les titres de documents. J'ai aussi organisé mes notes. ...

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Semaine du 28 septembre au 4 octobre

lundi 28 Avant ma séance avec un nouveau tuteur, j'ai rassemblé des entrées de mon journal et les corrigés. Il y avait même une journée entière où je n'ai rien noté. Heureusement, j'ai pu reconstruire ma journée avec l'aide d'autres données. journal:2026-09-28-01 J'ai ...

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Visualizing the balance of speaking in my French conversations with tutors

I've been studying French since November 2025 because I want to help my daughter learn it. After about eight months of taking pronunciation tutoring sessions once or twice a week and writing my journal in French, I decided to try conversation-focused tutoring sessions in Ju...

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2026-10-12 Emacs news

People have been having lots of fun playing Emacs Golf over in r/emacs. Check out the "Fun" category for some examples of people comparing how few keystrokes they need in order to get something done. Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetu...

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Continuing my experiment with (semi-)retirement

Winding down consulting Retirement Parenting My own interests Winding down consulting I've been working with the same consulting client since February 2012, when I decided to start this experiment with semi-retirement. We figured out an arrangement that worked ou...

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Des commandes vocales pour ajouter des tâches sur Emacs

Watch on YouTube Liens : Orukeet pour la reconnaissance vocale parce qu'il est assez rapide et assez précis. sachac/whisper.el speech-input 0:00 Introduction Je veux vous présenter ma petite expérience de la reconnaissance vocale pour dicter dans Emacs et...

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Emacs Carnival Oct 2026: Exploring keys and voice input in Emacs

Making more use of the keyboard Some reasons why I'm curious about speech recognition Quick benefits from voice commands Prior work on voice control of Emacs: Voicemacs, Emacslisten Imagining a hybrid approach: keyboard, voice, even mouse/stylus? Making more use of t...

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Using Emacs to visualize speaking and target words/phrases in real-ish time

Figure 1: Screenshot showing my list of target phrases and which ones have been recognized When I'm working with a tutor to improve my French, I sometimes need to push myself to provide more details when I'm sharing and ask more follow-up questions in response to what ...

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Emacs Lisp: Parse page ranges, insert issue references

David Pape asked: I just typed >Closes: #47, #48, #49, #50, #51, #52, #53, #54 into a commit description, all by hand. Is there a way in Emacs to expand some kind of range description to make this easier? 😅 I want to expand strings like "5-10, 15-18, 3" i...

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2026-10-05 Emacs news

The Emacs Carnival for October is about looking into your crystal ball. I'd love to see what you're looking forward to exploring. Thanks to George Jones for hosting! Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2026 (v #živo) https://dogod...

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Semaine du 21 au 27 septembre

lundi 21 J'ai emmené ma fille au cours de gymnastique. J'ai travaillé sur l'organisation de la conférence. mardi 22 J'ai essayé mon nouveau microphone AT2040USB. Il est meilleur que le précédent (un Blue Yeti) parce qu'il réduit le bruit. J'ai mis à jour no...

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Semaine du 14 au 20 septembre

lundi 14 Ma fille n'a pas voulu se réveiller à l'heure de la classe. Je l'ai laissée parce que c'est inutile de l'harceler. Si je mets la pression sans motivation de son côté, elle va perdre la journée entière dans sa mauvaise humeur. Si je la laisse parce que c'est son e...

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Semaine du 31 août au 6 septembre

lundi 31 J'ai emmené ma fille au cours de gymnastique. Elle était très fière de sa souplesse. J'ai fait les courses. Nous avons encore préparé des lo mai gai. mardi 1 J'ai corrigé la transcription de ma deuxième conversation avec Fabrice Niessen. J'ai p...

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2026-09-28 Emacs news

There's a nice long video about Org mode with plenty of tips for beginners. Also, it's the end of the month, so check out the submissions for the Emacs Carnival for September ("Games") and consider volunteering to host the next one! Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Ema...

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Practising French pronunciation on the go; experimenting with a Bluetooth phone controller ring

I want to practice French pronunciation while I'm walking around or biking in a relatively safe place. Having done the work to extract the tongue twisters and expressions from my recordings, it was pretty easy to use some Emacs Lisp, subed-record, and compile-media to creat...

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Oct 2 - Emacs Chat 31: Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez

On Oct 2, we'll chat with Pedro about Org Mode, LaTeX exports and font management including alternatives and things you can and can't do depending on your choices. He'll share some tips on fallbacks and emojis, which can help a lot with presentations and documentation. We might also discuss recent patches and realistic objectives.

America/Toronto = Fri Oct 2 0600H EDT / 0500H CDT / 0400H MDT / 0300H PDT / 1000H UTC / 1200H CEST / 1300H EEST / 1530H IST / 1800H +08 / 1900H JST

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2026-09-21 Emacs news

I put the new typewriter mode in the Fun category, but people might actually find the constraints useful for focused writing. Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 26 0130 America/Va...

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2026-09-14 Emacs news

Not much commentary this week, but plenty of cool stuff to explore! Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Paris https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 15 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/UTC - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Ko...

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Experimenting with Orukeet for speech recognition

Watch on YouTube This is a quick demonstration of using Orukeet as a speech recognition model inside Emacs. I'm recording this in real time on a Lenovo P52 laptop using only CPU. I can replay just one part of my recording. I can switch languages in the middle of recor...

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2026-09-07 Emacs news

The Emacs Carnival theme for September is "Games". Enjoy! Other really cool uses of graphics in Emacs: org-timegrid, poimap, canvas-minimap. Also, public service announcement: doomemacs.com is not affiliated with doomemacs.org (see this Github discussion). Just in case s...

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Emacs Carnival September 2026: Games

The theme for the Emacs Carnival this September is "Games". Thanks to Raymond Zeitler for hosting! One of the things I love about the Emacs community is people's sense of humour and whimsy. There's a grand tradition of people hiding Easter eggs in software, a bit of h...

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Semaine du 24 au 30 août

lundi 24 Nous avons joué à Donjons et Dragons. Cette fois, ma fille a eu envie d'une aventure où notre ours-hibou Snowy nous secourt avec l'aide de l'ogre amical Clonker. Nous avons eu aussi une autre aventure où le personnage de ma fille a exploré son parentage qui est u...

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Semaine du 17 au 23 août

lundi 17 J'ai envoyé de nouveau des documents aux Philippines pour les actions. En guise de récompense après la tâche, j'ai mangé de la crème glacée. J'ai emmené ma fille à la médecin pour le rendez-vous sur un diagnostic potentiel d'autisme. Il s'est avéré qu'il n'av...