September 2026 Emacs meetup recap [video]

iLemming

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1w4jiiv/emacs_atx_me... Good discussions. Various topics. We went over three hours, so I had to make a shorter recap video. - We've talked some good amount of gptel-related stuff: Jon mentioned introspective abilities, being able to ask an agent questions about active Emacs instance and troubleshooting is very nice. Karhink published a video two weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEnWvKmSKM - My favorite feature of gptel is gptel-send - being able to chat with an LLM from just about any buffer is very cool. - I made a Consult font picker for the buffer - https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1w31p3u/what_it_feel... - Groups in gptel model picker - magit-gha-badge - https://github.com/agzam/magit-gha-badge.el - pdf-text - https://github.com/agzam/pdf-text - Discussion around avy, avy-dispatch-alist and the actions key help display. https://github.com/agzam/.emacs.d/commit/f61087a https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/ https://github.com/karthink/.emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/setup-avy.el - gptel's new feature - steering with C-u - Blaine demoes https://github.com/MooersLab/writing-schedule We then discussed new project that seems related: https://github.com/Gleek/org-timegrid Blaine used the term "barbel strategy" to explain the idea with his scheduling, but I don't think anyone else were familiar with it, I don't know if this is in relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbell_strategy