• Beginner tips
  • Get started with Emacs
  • Get pop-up help for keybindings with which-key
• Coding
  • Make spell check handle code better
  • Highlight indentation
  • Split statements onto multiple lines
  • Move s-expressions around with hydra and lisp
  • Emacs – the best Python editor?
  • Use pymacs for a bidirectional connection between Emacs and Python
  • Code completion for HTML/JS/CSS
  • Dash/zeal: Look up documentation
  • Tips for interactive testing
  • Use Paradox for Github notifications
  • Magit discussion on Hacker News
  • Stop/start AWS instances with helm-aws
  • Managing dockers (and some Emacs help)
  • Learn more about the C part of Emacs
• Org Mode
  • Discussion of Org Mode + iPhone sync: org-toodledo, MobileOrg, reminders
  • Immediately finish an org-capture after org-protocol
  • Navigate through org-babel source blocks
  • Quickly add a note with org-add-note: C-c C-z
  • Org Mode tables and fill-in quizzes – Latin verb conjugation drills in Emacs
• Configuration
  • Literate Emacs config using Markdown
  • Manage Emacs packages as git subtrees
  • Try out Spacemacs without messing with your current config
  • Emacs + Vim: Spacemacs, etc.
  • Customize the vertical border between windows
  • Pragmatic Emacs: Show unfinished keybindings early
  • Fix mml-attach-file using advice: An example of using advice to tweak a function
• Other
  • Setting and using Emacs in three columns: good for wide screens
  • Discussion of Emacs and keyboard-driven window managers: xmonad window modifier keys, in particular
  • Another Slack client for Emacs
  • InternalReprogrammability – Martin Fowler
  • Dired additions
  • emacs-tangents mailing list
  • Circe 2.1 released
  • Discussion of A CEO’s Guide to Emacs on Hacker News
• Dev news
  • calculator.el: Simplified code
  • kqueue library for file notifications on *BSD and Mac OS X
  • Lots of file notification changes
  • Renamed automated tests
  • Draft of new Emacs website
  • Discussion of documentation for debugging Emacs
  • Lots of messages about dynamic modules: errors, callbacks, …
• For fun
  • Selectric Mode – make Emacs sound like a typewriter
• New packages
  • baidu-life: Use baidu api to do some interesting things
  • code-library: use org-mode to collect code snippets
  • easy-lentic: Write org style comment with lentic
  • encourage-mode: Encourages you in your work. :D
  • flycheck-typescript-tslint: Typescript tslint error checker
  • ghq: Ghq interface for emacs
  • hlint-refactor: Apply HLint suggestions
  • ntlm: NTLM (NT LanManager) authentication support
  • org-tracktable: Track your writing progress in an org-table
  • resize-window: easily resize windows
  • soap-client: Access SOAP web services
  • transcribe: package for audio transcriptions

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

Past Emacs News round-ups