Here I tend to read a lot of negative comments about #LLMs, but does anyone share my experience? I use them as an aid to mostly write #rstats and #LaTeX #tikz code faster or recently to clean up a very messy #emacs configuration file. They may hallucinate and I always need to double check the output, but I find #LLMs extremely useful. The ecological footprint is a discussion for another day.

It is amazing how many interesting questions I find on Reddit by people who would genuinely like to improve their terminal experience, or their text or data manipulation workflows, to which I am tempted to reply:

EMACS! EMACS! EMACS!

because what they mean is, really!, a cry for having Emacs in their life.

But I just refrain, because, you know, I cannot promote Emacs with everybody I meet, their brother, their children and their neighbors.

But really, #Emacs is so criminally underrated.

New blog post for this month's Emacs Carnival: an elevator pitch. This post includes a little case study on how I modified the gnus implementation for RSS feeds to provide useful extra information (author, tags) for RSS feeds from the fediverse.

https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html

Well, after using #orgmode extensively for a few months now today I opened a markdown file in #emacs and used markdown-mode.

Pretty impressive! So many cool features, like folding headings, concealing the markup, previews, etc...

The more I use Emacs the more I find it useful, it's incredible.

Loving it.

emacs/vim/similar users: How do you assign key bindings? Do you have some sort of system by which you choose the keys you use for a binding?
#emacs #vim

"Generate a heavy metal band logo for a band called EMACS, use themes and colors from the Emacs text editor and logo, and parenthesis to emphasize the lisp component of the editor."

Todays #LunchTimeHack - TL;DR when using Evil mode (the best vim is the one written in elisp obvs) sometimes using (evil-set-initial-state 'X 'emacs) isn't totally reliable for me. Then I discovered there isn't a reliable hook that runs after every major mode change.

So I wrote major-mode-change-watcher-mode to attempt to catch when the major mode changes, then my-evil-initial-emacs-state-mode to enforce emacs mode for some modes.

https://github.com/twitchy-ears/major-mode-change-watcher-mode

https://github.com/twitchy-ears/my-evil-initial-emacs-state-mode

I might have a wrist issue because of using Macbook’s keyboard. I use quite a lot my left thumb for ctrl (remapped to left command) and meta (remapped to left option) in #emacs and it seems the issue stems from there. I’m seriously thinking of a separate split keyboard now. I’m not a touch typist and I’m wondering how much I would spend re-learning all my typing habits.

I recently learned about world-clock in #emacs and started using it quite regularly to keep track of the different timezones that people I talk to regularly are in. So I thought it'd be cool to have display-time-mode display time for all locations I've configured in my zoneinfo-style-world-list instead of just my local time as well.

https://codeberg.org/theesm/modeline-multi-tz.el

@Cnoceda explains his way of using @delta and org-mode for collecting things on the go:
https://cnoceda.com/tecnologia/posts/20250615T191346--delta-chat-and-org-mode__blog_tecnologia.html

He adapts the deltachat inbox bot to his needs, just like the free software gods intended. Great stuff!

Just published my post on DeltaChat and Orgmode ️ It’s long, but I felt it had to be this way. In the future I’ll be adding new features and will keep you posted.
https://cnoceda.com/tecnologia/posts/20250615T191346--delta-chat-and-org-mode__blog_tecnologia.html
Now let's go for a coffee at my favorite spot — I’ve earned it!
Have a great Sunday!

Lobsters client for Emacs https://lobste.rs/s/ray4zn #emacs
https://github.com/tanrax/lobsters.el

My First Week With Emacs https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/blaugust2025/my-first-week-with-emacs/ #blaugust2025 #blaugust #emacs #writing

Question to the #EXWM bubble: To what functions did you bind XF86MonBrightnessDown, XF86MonBrightnessUp, and XF86RFKill? TIA!

Can you get a job where you just hack on Emacs lisp all the time?

I've been doing nothing useful at all for the 1st 3 hours of this holy Saturday, but I've had 5 (6?) cups of coffee and have fiddled around with my Emacs config non-stop, and I feel insanely happy. Emacs and elisp is the best programming environment I've ever used.

Is there any mode for Emacs helping to work with CodeBerg issues and merge requests not leaving the editor with listing/replying/closing functions?

#Emacs
#CodeBerg @Codeberg
#forge