• Beginner tips:
  • Beginner’s tweaks for emacs
  • How to Fix a Stuck Emacs
• Navigation:
  • Helm + LDAP in emacs (7:55)
  • DWIM Narrowing Improvement
  • Ivy-mode 0.7.0 is out · (or emacs
  • Scroll so that whole paragraphs stay visible.
  • Setting up tabs to behave similar to Sublime
  • Emacs keybindings in Firefox
• Coding:
  • Naming and saving macros for repetitive tasks
  • Improving Lua support in etags
  • Autocompletion for Swift on Emacs
  • ESUP: Emacs Start-Up Profiler
  • Tracking your side project’s performance using Emacs, Org-mode, and Python’s Scipy stack
  • next-error-follow-minor-mode (automatically opens files from search and compilation buffers)
  • Swift/Xcode auto completion on emacs, beat vim to it!
  • An example of using Emacs 25 dynamic modules to evaluate Ruby code
• Emacspeak:
  • Emacspeak 43.0 (SoundDog) Unleashed
  • EMACSPEAK The Complete Audio Desktop: A Ladspa Work-Bench For The Emacspeak Desktop
• Elfeed (an RSS/ATOM reader):
  • Useful extensions to Elfeed
  • 9 Elfeed Features You Might Not Know
• Emacs and operating systems:
  • GNU Emacs FAQ For MS Windows: EZWinPorts
  • Tips for dealing with Emacs crashes on Mac OS X
• Other:
  • EMMS and Hydra
  • Emacs and writers – What novels have been written with emacs?
  • Emacs auto-completion for non-programmers
  • The Design of the Emacs Logo: Part II (2003)
  • Show all processes in proced
  • Long discussion of what Emacs can’t do (yet)
  • Setting up gnus in emacs – simple how-to
  • Using Rsync as an alternative to TRAMP
  • Making my to-do list more detailed; process versus outcome
  • xbm-life – Conway’s Game of Life using Emacs’ support for XBM images
• Emacs devel:
  • Explanation of master vs emacs-25
  • Discussion of new draft for Emacs website (also on Reddit)
  • Discussion about whether lax matching is a good or bad default
  • Better handling of window margins when multiple packages want to display information
• New packages
  • angular-mode: Major mode for Angular.js
  • borland-blue-theme: Blue/yellow theme based on old DOS Borland/Turbo C IDE
  • character-fold+: Extensions to `character-fold.el’
  • cheatsheet: create your own cheatsheet
  • elfeed-goodies: Elfeed goodies
  • flycheck-gometalinter: flycheck checker for gometalinter
  • github-issues: Emacs utility functions and modes for managing GitHub projects’ issues
  • haskell-tab-indent: tab-based indentation for haskell-mode
  • java-imports: Code for dealing with Java imports
  • mb-url: Multiple Backends for Emacs URL package.
  • selectric-mode: IBM Selectric mode for Emacs
  • sibilant-mode: Support for the Sibilant programming language
  • sproto-mode: Major mode for editing sproto.
  • python: Python’s flying circus support for Emacs

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.

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