Agent-shell 0.73, a native Emacs mode for interacting with AI agents via the Agent Client Protocol, introduces chat mode as the default interface, a new 'latest' expansion option for grouped activity,…
A new Emacs Lisp configuration lets Magit users insert an "Assisted-by" commit trailer to credit AI coding agents, prompted via the transient menu at C-c TAB with completion history. The snippet, publ…
Agent-shell 0.63, an Emacs mode for interacting with AI agents via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), adds two new agents, a markdown renderer extensible by third-party packages, inline image rendering,…
A developer who experimented with Neovim has returned to Emacs, citing a personal preference for Emacs's features, particularly Org-Mode, Dired, Embark, and Magit. The shift was initially driven by th…
More than 50 Emacs community members, led by technomancy, signed the Human Emacs declaration threatening to fork GNU Emacs if LLM-generated contributions are accepted, citing copyright and ethical con…
A group of Emacs users and developers announced their intent to fork the GNU Emacs project into an LLM-free version if the GNU Project's upcoming policy permits LLM-generated contributions. The group …
An Emacs user and developer has signed the Human Emacs pledge, committing to fork the editor if the GNU Project ever accepts LLM-generated code. The GNU Project currently bans LLMs for its projects du…
Ryan Fleck, a Canadian computer engineer (University of Ottawa, 2021) currently at IBM Canada, has publicly shared personal details including his location in Calgary, Alberta, his work on AI/LLM exper…
A developer shared reflections after six months of using agentic engineering for software development, finding the shift surprisingly easy and noting that good coding practices remain relevant. Human …
A developer reports that large language models consistently struggle with balancing parentheses in Lisp dialects like Racket and Emacs Lisp, leading to cascading syntax errors. The user seeks workflow…
A developer built a GPU display backend for Emacs, creating Metal and OpenGL drivers that offload text rendering from the CPU to the GPU, enabling video playback and animated cursor effects without mo…
Agent-shell 0.55 introduces a new inline markdown renderer with improved performance and accessible, navigable tables. The Emacs AI agent mode now supports additional agents and remains vendor-neutral…
Incremental completing read (ICR) is a structural change in how interaction costs scale with data size, not merely a convenience feature. The author argues that most software — email, file browsers, m…
Emacs developer Chiply released svg-line, a new package that renders all four Emacs status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-bar, and tab-line) as SVG images to provide consistent multi-line layout, a…
The article describes the author's attempt to integrate the i3 tiling window manager with the Emacs text editor by creating shared keybindings. After finding that using a script with xdotool and emacs…
A proposed header file for AI-specific error codes, published May 19, 2026, defines 30 new errno values ranging from 201 to 230, including entries for hallucination, unjustified confidence, and accide…
Vivek Haldar, a former heavy Emacs user, has abandoned the text editor after decades of use because AI agents have replaced it as his primary computing interface. Haldar's GitHub commits have surged w…
A blogger known as "Cons ulet" published a post arguing that Emacs is easy to use, not arcane or complicated as commonly believed. The post, part of a series on Emacs usage patterns, aims to dispel th…
This article provides step-by-step instructions for installing Doom Emacs on Windows, beginning with installing Emacs via Chocolatey and cloning the Doom Emacs repository. It then explains how to set …