• New Emacs maintainer: John Wiegley – discussion on Reddit, Hacker News
• Emacs configuration:
  • Join line to following line – see Kaushal’s comment for an alternate binding that treats comments differently
  • Emacs and email, also saving mu4e sent mail in Gmail
  • more keybinding tips
  • Moving beyond starter kits like spacemacs
  • It’s okay to use hundreds of packages. By the way, the use-package package can help you streamline your Emacs startup.
  • You can use desktop-save-mode, saveplace, and savehist-mode to pick up where you quit Emacs
  • helm-descbinds is handy for searching through your current keybindings
• Text manipulation:
  • Yasnippet video (7:57)
  • Easily convert web pages to text using Lynx
  • ivy-occur – multiple sessions, even
  • If you use console Emacs instead of GUI, you can still interact with the X clipboard
  • Wgrep (writeable grep) is handy for replacing text in various files
• Emacs Lisp:
  • How to define your own Helm menu
  • How to use org-element-map and org-element-parse-buffer
  • How to search for all matches using Emacs regular expressions
  • How to use org-table-get-remote-range to look up data from Org tables
• Other coding:
  • clj-refactor
  • Python package recommendations
  • C++ IDE tips including autocompletion, function arguments, and docstrings
  • new release of web-mode.el
  • You can add yasnippet to company-mode
  • You can change the keybindings for company-mode autocompletion (and in general, pretty much everything else)
• Selected Emacs changelog news:
  • Added support for retrieving paths to JSON elements
  • New function bookmark-set-no-overwrite (C-x r M)
• Others:
  • Capturing links quickly with org-protocol
  • SyncTeX and pdf-view-mode for emacs
  • discussion about a possible new Emacs logo
  • a few people like this Emacs X window manager
  • mu4e config for saving sent mail
  • background process runner
• New packages:
  • commify: Toggle grouping commas in numbers
  • emoji-fontset: Set font face for Emoji.
  • evil-magit: evil-based key bindings for magit
  • github-notifier: Displays your GitHub notifications unread count in mode-line
  • gmpl-mode: Major mode for editing GMPL(MathProg) files
  • graphene-meta-theme: Integrated theming for common packages
  • live-py-mode: Live Coding in Python
  • noxml-fold: Fold away XML things.
  • typing-game: a simple typing game
  • x86-lookup: jump to x86 instruction documentation
  • exwm: Emacs X Window Manager

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, and the Emacs commit log.

Past Emacs News round-ups