• Learning:
  • Learning as Much Emacs as I Can in a Weekend
  • Why I persisted to learn Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Course Material (WIP) (Reddit)
  • Emacs Bullet Points
  • emacs_gifs on twitter – prompted by vimgifs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • org-minimal-html-theme (Reddit)
  • Latest using emacs post – org-mode and reveal.js (Reddit)
  • Emacs for note-taking / outlining, quick demo (13:34)
• Coding:
  • React Codebase Navigation
  • Setting up Emacs for Clojure (Reddit)
  • Attempt at literate programming with org-mode and Rust (Reddit)
  • Variable inspection for R/Python
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 25.1 RC1 now available (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers (Hacker News, emacs-devel)
  • Discussion about managing environments
  • Discussion about debbugs tracker
• Other:
  • Making directories on the fly
  • slack -> jabber -> irc -> erc
  • Use visible bookmarks to quickly jump around a file (Reddit)
  • TIL there's a thriving Emacs community in China. (Reddit)
  • m-buffer.el: get a list of strings matching a regexp in a given buffer (very easily) (Reddit)
  • Discussion of Emacs documentation on Stack Overflow
  • “Emacs in space, but with a sci-fi novella in it” (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • evil-mc-extras: Extra functionality for evil-mc
  • delight: A dimmer switch for your lighter text.
  • ivy-purpose: Ivy Interface for Purpose
  • keyswap: swap bindings between key pairs
  • kiwix: Kiwix interface and support.
  • lyrics: Show lyrics
  • php-scratch: A scratch buffer to interactively evaluate php code
  • system-packages: functions to manage system packages
  • widgetjs: Widgetjs mode
  • xwidgete: enhances usability of current xwidget browser

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

Past Emacs News round-ups