• For beginners
  • Things I wish they told you about Emacs
  • Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
  • CleanNeedles–Download Emacs Part 1 (7:13)
• Navigation
  • pop-global-mark and pop-tag-mark are handy ways of going back to positions in files. See the discussion on Reddit for more navigation tips.
  • Move through edit points with goto-chg
• Org Mode
  • Capture webpages and insert into Emacs as Org
  • Track your time in Org mode
  • Take notes on PDFs
  • Export to a temporary location
• Writing
  • org-tracktable: track writing progress
  • Unfilling/unwrapping paragraphs
• Coding
  • Whitespace
    • It can be useful to add delete-trailing-whitespace to your before-save-hook.
    • Electric indentation is handy for keeping things indented as you type.
    • Translate indentation settings for different editors
    • Discussion of options for paren-ifying or indenting Emacs Lisp
  • Testing
    • Test-Driven-Development in CIDER and Emacs – add it to your after-save-hook
    • Travis + Cask + ERT for continuous integration testing of Emacs Lisp
    • emacs-quickrun or cc-chainsaw can make compiling and running C/C++ files a little faster. emacs-quickrun can be used for other languages, too.
  • comint-send-string lets you send commands from Emacs Lisp to shell buffers and other interactive processes
  • Github issue tracker interface, might become more generic later on
  • Heroku Emacs Docker image
  • How to use Clojure macros to refactor Clojure code in Emacs (17:07)
  • Web dev seminar: Emacs (3:28), More HTML and Emacs (6:29)
• Security
  • keychain-environment is handy for passing your SSH authentication agent to Emacs
  • Consider verifying SSL to improve your security when it comes to installing Emacs packages.
• Other links
  • Emacs Hangout (Google+): Nov 18 (Wed) 9 PM EST (GMT-5)
  • Some options for keeping your data safe from accidental edits, C-x C-q (read-only-mode), autosaving
  • emacsthemes.com is a handy way of checking out lots of themes
  • Possible questions for podcast with John Wiegley – maybe he should do an AMA on Reddit…
  • Synthesize speech using multiple streams in Emacspeak
  • Convert numbers to strings with padding and varying decimal places
  • E-mail client discussion: notmuch, mu4e, gnus, etc.
  • Discussion about core vs package
  • Keymapping discussion for a Macbook Pro
  • GNU Emacs por Patricio Páez (2:03:47)
• New packages
  • bind-map: Bind personal keymaps in multiple locations
  • buffer-flip: Use key-chord to cycle through buffers like Alt-Tab in Windows
  • color-theme-modern: Reimplement colortheme with Emacs 24 theme framework.
  • elog: logging library extended from logito
  • emojify: Display emojis in Emacs – Reddit discussion
  • evil-indent-plus: Evil textobjects based on indentation
  • flymake-less: Flymake handler for LESS stylesheets (lesscss.org)
  • fortune-cookie: Print a fortune in your scratch buffer.
  • highlight-indent-guides: Minor mode to highlight indentation
  • ido-skk: ido interface for skk henkan
  • jumplist: Jump like vim jumplist
  • org-time-budgets: Define time budgets and display clocked time.
  • phabricator: Phabricator/Arcanist helpers for Emacs.
  • region-state: Show the number of chars/lines or rows/columns in the region
  • sift: Front-end for sift, a fast and powerful grep alternative
  • sweetgreen: Order Salads from sweetgreen.com
  • therapy: Hooks for managing multiple Python major versions
  • wilt: An extensions for calculating WILT in a buffer.
• Emacs dev news:
  • json-pretty-print-ordered and related functions will sort object keys when encoding
  • Support rectangular regions for more commands – query-replace, query-replace-regexp
  • Release process documentation improved
  • dir-locals wildcards
  • gitmerge changes: git log command, cherry-pick detection
  • Updates to verilog-mode, soap-client

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

Past Emacs News round-ups