• Coding:
  • Another approach to diffs in Emacs
  • cmake-ide V0.5 released: Now with less cmake! (Reddit)
  • Combining company-irony-c-headers and company-c-headers
  • Running Mocha tests from within Emacs
• Other:
  • Temporarily Changing the Dired Listing
  • View man pages in emacs with woman
  • A quick guide to directory-local (or project-specific) variables
  • Keeping Secrets in Emacs with GnuPG and Auth Sources (Reddit)
  • Looking for package that makes the mouse powerful in Emacs.
  • Is there an Android terminal/putty app so good it can flawlessly run emacs in a linux term?
  • Email in emacs, I want to, but wow, it's overwhelming
  • font-man-mode, a minor global mode that will scale the font of all your visible buffers temporally
  • Is it possible to active which-key only for some prefix keys not for all prefix keys
• Emacs devel:
  • New option dired-always-read-filesystem
  • Efficient built-in mapcan
  • New option mouse-select-region-move-to-beginning
  • New commands ibuffer-copy-buffername-as-kill, ibuffer-change-marks, ibuffer-mark-by-locked
  • Discussion about changelogs
  • Eli Zaretskii is now the co-maintainer of Emacs
• New packages:
  • buffer-sets: Sets of Buffers for Buffer Management
  • contrast-color: Pick best contrast color for you
  • editorconfig-domain-specific: Apply brace style and other “domain-specific” EditorConfig properties
  • hal-mode: Major mode for editing HAL files
  • kodi-remote: functions to remote control a kodi instance
  • metalheart-theme: Low-contrast theme with a dark blue-green background.
  • nash-mode: Nash major mode
  • org2elcomment: Convert Org file to Elisp comments
  • parsec: Parser combinator library
  • pushover: Pushover API Access
  • strace-mode: strace output syntax highlighting
  • tern-context-coloring: Use Tern for context coloring
  • vdiff: A diff tool similar to vimdiff

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

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