Developer jjba23 released OrgWebAlchemy, a Guile Scheme library that parses Org-mode documents into an AST using Parsing Expression Grammars via the (ice-9 peg) module and renders them to HTML through…
Fly.io published a blog post warning that VSCode's remote SSH feature stages a Bash snippet that downloads an agent, including a binary installation of Node, onto the remote host rather than living of…
The ai-mode package brings AI-assisted coding, chat, completion, refactoring, and bug fixing directly into Emacs, with multi-backend support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Google Generative …
Agent-shell released version 0.78, adding a persistent writable prompt, mid-turn prompt queueing and steering, and two new agents, Antigravity and Qoder, to the Emacs mode for interacting with AI agen…
A developer released a coding agent built from scratch using a custom Rust-based ML DSL, publishing the implementation under an MIT license with a demo video, sample code, and an Emacs org-mode litera…
Steve Yegge asked on X for recommendations on managing 10 to 20 or more coding agents, drawing 600 replies that surfaced tools like Herdr, cmux, Conductor, and the Claude and Codex desktop apps, plus …
Emacs upstream maintainer Sean Whitton announced that the original fix for the arbitrary code execution flaw CVE-2024-53920 was incomplete, after Bas Alberts found that viewing or editing untrusted fi…
A new language server for Tcl 8.4-9.1 and F5 iRules/iApps dialects, written in Python using pygls, provides multi-editor support via stdio and includes 25+ commands, 16 built-in snippets, and an MCP c…
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…