@tarsius Thank you for this Jonas! 🚀 🙏
I switched to the new *snaphshots* channel today, following your instructions to force reinstallation. But the packages seem the same as before. Is it possible that I have to delete the `.emacs.d/elpa` directory, instead of copying it? Or maybe it's because I byte-compiled the packages?

For instance, this is what I see for the `nyan` package, after restarting Emacs, `M-x package-refresh-contents`, and `M-x package-install-selected-packages` – note the "Other versions" at the end:

```
Package nyan-mode is installed.

Status: Installed in ‘nyan-mode-20220408.2334/’ (unsigned). Delete
Version: 20220408.2334
Commit: 09904af23adb839c6a9c1175349a1fb67f5b4370
Summary: Nyan Cat shows position in current buffer in mode-line
Requires: emacs-24.1
Website: https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode/
Keywords: convenience games mouse multimedia
Maintainer: Jacek "TeMPOraL" Zlydach <temporal.pl@gmail.com>
Author: Jacek "TeMPOraL" Zlydach <temporal.pl@gmail.com>
Other versions: 1.1.3.0.20220408.8 (melpa).
```

#emacs

Finally, I ended my writing about how I'm using Dired in the Emacs. With some configuration examples.

Tried to not just write about ELisp code, but also give some examples, how I'm using it in the real life.

This is a first blogpost, prepared with org-static-blog, not with Jekyll

https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-07-05-my-emacs-configuration-dired.html

#Emacs #Dired

Right.

And once you get to use Emacs Lisp as a _programming_ language for Emacs,
yours is the world.

#Emacs
#EmacsLisp
#Lisp

@Saorsa @nadiyar

Besides, Emacs does have evil mode which should make you feel right at home as a VIM user.

@nadiyar@nadiyar.com

*Edited.

Tags: #Vim, #Neovim, #Guix, #Emacs, #Lisp, #Freesoftware, #FLOSS, #FOSS.

@nadiyar You do not need to switch to emacs. You just need to use vi on emacs. One of its name on emacs is evil mode.

#emacs #vi

Besides, Emacs does have evil mode which should make you feel right at home as a VIM user.

@nadiyar@nadiyar.com

Tags: #Vim, #Neovim, #Guix, #Emacs, #Lisp, #Freesoftware, #FLOSS, #FOSS.

Besides, Emacs does have evil mode which should make you feel right at home as a VIM user.

Tags #Vim, #Neovim, #Guix, #Emacs, #Lisp, #Freesoftware, #FLOSS, #FOSS.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@tarsius/116857447830546754

I admire @tarsius so much. I wish I had more money to send him. You know he makes his living this way, right? Come on, #Emacs, support him however you can.

Jonas Bernoulli » 🌐 2026-07-03
@tarsius@fosstodon.org

MELPA has two new experimental channels with better version strings!

And soon you might have your very own ELPA too!

https://emacsair.me/2026/07/03/melpa-channels/

Tags: #Guix, #Emacs, #Lisp, #Freesoftware, #FLOSS, #FOSS.

Now I'm also on #Usenet via Eternal September. To my surprise, #Emacs #Gnus was easier to set up than its documentation initially promised...

Alt...

A tablet running Emacs in Termux with extended keyboard, showing Gnus buffers with available posts and the body of my intro post, where I talk about how I got into FOSS.

@creideiki

Ah yes, git and its new history subcommand. I wonder how well #Magit would play with this, though ​​ ​​

#git #magit #emacs

RE: https://akkoma.xn--pikabl-0xa.se/objects/54ec6979-68ef-409e-955d-679284e1643d

Today I wrote some QoL functions for my org-mode files. I think elisp is growing on me. Thinking in lisp paradigm is different from what I'm used to (R, Python, C++, Perl, etc.) and I typically am lost on which part of the problem I should start with, but when the code comes together, its "elegance" brings so much satisfaction and feeling of accomplishment 🤓

#Emacs #elisp

Not trying to incite a flame war but…
#vim or #emacs. Which do you prefer and why?

@chesheer @cos

It would be interesting to trace the relationships, if any, between the twain.

Here's something for your doco: Pendleton's actual shar posting to comp.unix.wizards in 1988, complete with UUCP bang paths in the signature block.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.wizards/c/HVObC4kIJ9g/m/q6PYo0bEUL8J

Notice that Pendleton did VMS emulation before emacs.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.questions/c/zvywB_vQt2s/m/bg2TiwXL8aUJ

Also note that the BSDs have cfmakeraw(3) available in the C library.

#readline #ile #Unix #emacs #VMS #termios #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

I've been fascinated by old school #Unix #workstation for a while now, so I ended up buying this old iMac and setting up my TWM-based GUI with #voidlinux on it. It's mostly dedicated to distraction-free software experimentation and writing, so only terminal tools and #Emacs and the only browsers are #Amfora (for #geminiprotocol) and #lynxbrowser.

Alt...

Picture of an iMac on a desk. The iMac screen displays a really old-school looking GUI with a lot of terminal windows with purple decorations. The foremost terminal window is displaying the Void Linux logo as ascii-art.

New blog post: Overriding #emacs' broken bookmark position code.

https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/editors/emacs-bookmarks-position.html

Thanks to a suggestion from @hmelman (thanks!), I now have #Emacs bookmarks playing nicely with save-place-mode, which several people suggested as a way to save position in all files, not just bookmarked ones. But it requires a little elisp to get books to place nice with save-place. I've updated the blog article:
https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/editors/emacs-bookmarks-position.html

@akkana @hmelman I tried save-place-mode but found that it made #emacs unbearably slow when used offline.

Anju v1.7.0 update now available on MELPA. New features include: 1) a new Registers menu for the menu bar. 2) A context menu for the Xref buffer. 3) Enhancements to the Org Agenda context menu and Macro Recorder menu. Learn more about it at https://github.com/kickingvegas/anju/discussions/164

https://melpa.org/#/anju

#Emacs

Alt...

Screenshot of Registers menu provided by Anju for Emacs.

Alt...

Screenshot of context menu for Xref in Emacs provided by Anju.

This is a nice video by @sacha and @protesilaosstavrou about under appreciated builtins in #Emacs. 15 minutes in, and they mentioned things that I spent days to figure out in Emacs back in the day, mainly because I didn't know the correct terminology. I definitely recommend watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/live/yuJYEua0ZwA?is=DEkRa9MHsW26L68N

Has anyone else using #emacs wanted the status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-line, tab-bar) to be multi-line? Similarly, have any users ever wanted the margin to be multi-column?

I'm working on a couple extensions that enable these that I'll publish next week. Just wanted to assay the community to see how prevalent this issue is.

#TIL by accident that #Emacs has a built-in dictionary. I was using all CPU cores of my PC and couldn't afford opening a web browser, but I was reviewing a manuscript and my Emacs was also open. I went out on a limp and tried `M-x dictionary` and there it was, the glorious `dictionary-search` and `dictionary-lookup-definition`.