Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

Posted by frou_dh 7 hours ago

Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving(www.rahuljuliato.com)

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scoops_ 6 hours ago|

Wow, auto install treesitter grammars, editable xref, transposing window layouts, speed bar as a side window in frame, I had no idea any of these things were coming and were all some passing thoughts I’ve had in the last few weeks “it would be cool if this was supported OOTB”. Some dreams do come true!

johanvts 2 hours ago||

Excellent news! But what are the odds that “treesit-auto-install-grammar” is going to work on Windows? Finding precompiled grammars is so annoying. Windows support would be fantastic, and im hoping these improvements come to eglot next.

asimovDev 5 hours ago||

back in 2nd year of university I remember thinking that vim is complicated so i went with Emacs. Now after using vim for couple years , I can't imagine going to Emacs and learning it. The availability of vim emulation in majority of text editors and IDEs has been a lifesaver

although the brief time I used Magit I was enamored I gotta say. I tried lazygit recently and it evoked the same feeling I had when trying Magit for the first time

joshuastuden 5 hours ago|

Emacs evil-mode gives you vim bindings.

shuvrojit 2 hours ago||

Emacs works perfectly in sync with claude code/codex/opencode or any cli ai coding tools, it's never going to go away.

ryanolsonx 2 hours ago|

How do you use it in relation to claude?

dschrempf 4 hours ago||

Emacs is the best. Thanks a lot for writing this up!

zhxhhshshs 2 hours ago|

It is definitely not the best. It is an acceptable but inferior product when compared to the gold standard. I have spoken!

mfld 6 hours ago||

Very cool! Looking forward to try out the xref and markdown features. The latter becomes increasingly important since the developer community at large seems to disagree with org-mode being the superior syntax...

arikrahman 6 hours ago||

Excited to try out the native frame transposition this update and how it plays with pgtk

AlphaGeekZulu 4 hours ago||

I am always a little bit puzzled with the versions. I use Emacs from Snap on Ubuntu.

I have to use the pgtk channel, because Wayland.

pgtk/stable is 30.2, pgtk/edge is 32.0.50. Version 31 is not even offered on snap, in none of the channels. I am running on edge (32.0.50) with no problems.

pdyc 5 hours ago||

I have been using Emacs for more than a decade, and I was always excited about the features. But with AI, something has changed. I no longer type/edit that much. Recently, LSP stopped working, and I was completely oblivious to it for about a week. Earlier, something like this would have been a major annoyance.

TFNA 5 hours ago||

Emacs is more than a dev environment for coders. Some of us here use it for everything that can possibly be represented in text form: our TODO lists, our calendar, our RSS reader, our mail reader, etc. Me, I even maintain billing spreadsheets for a side business as Org-Mode tables. New features in the latest Emacs releases, and in successive releases of individual packages, have brought some nice improvements in those areas.

bryanlarsen 5 hours ago||

In 2026 I'm using the editor less and using magit a lot more. IOW, emacs has become more indispensable, not less.

RahulMJ 6 hours ago|

Thanks for sharing, frou_dh! Author here btw :)

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