2026-08-17 Emacs news

The canvas patch has been merged upstream, very cool! I'm looking forward to seeing the kinds of experiments and tools this enables. Also, there's a release candidate for the next version of Emacs, please go try it out! Emacs 31: Emacs 31.1 RC1 is available ( HN ) Upcoming events ( iCal file , Org ): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000…