Welcome to the Emacs Carnival for June, 2026. This month’s prompt is underappreciated features built into Emacs. Elaboration # Thanks to tusharhero for the original topic idea. With all the great third-party packages, it’s easy to overlook the treasures built into stock Emacs. There are almost two million lines of Lisp and C in the main repository. Where might we look? The Emacs manual (C-h r) is full of them. Maybe something in the concept index strikes your fancy. Browse the built-in packages with list-packages. Filter by status with / s and select built-in. Check the help inside a comfy old mode with (C-h m) and learn something new. Try the news file (C-h n). Try dired-jump (C-j) in there to find ancient wisdom from older versions. versions. You never know when the boss will ask you to work in an aigrapped environment. It happened to me last week. I look forward to treating your posts as survival tips! How to participate # Send me your post about an underappreciated built-in in…
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