• Configuration:
  • Magnar’s collection of defuns
  • ocodo’s collection of defuns
  • Making My Emacs Start Faster | Hacker News: emacsclient, lazy loading, dumping; also on Reddit
  • Vertical Minibuffer list
  • Spacemacs for Emacs users?
• Coding:
  • Magit key commands changed?: Good explanation of change
  • Is there anything like tagbar for Emacs/Spacemacs?
  • Omnisharp extension to emacs
  • evil-nerd-commenter v2.2
  • What mode(s) should I use for Java?
  • emacs one day – YouTube (2:35)
• Org Mode:
  • Org-mode basics VII: A TODO list with schedules and deadlines
  • Reading offline in batch mode with Org Mode
  • Storing a collection of web bookmarks with Org Mode
  • fniessen/org-html-themes: Pretty themes for exporting HTML
• Other:
  • “How did I get here” – command: view-lossage
  • Drawille library in elisp: graphics with text using braille characters.
  • Counting sentences
  • Ivy-mode 0.7.0 is out
  • Moving from mu4e to gnus?
  • Marking Emacs chat buffers as read (erc, jabber, etc)
  • Emacs Chat: John Wiegley on maintaining Emacs and how you can help (summary on Irreal, discussion on Reddit)
  • An improved Firefox controller for Emacs
• A few recent EmacsWiki changes:
  • Python programming in Emacs: Added anaconda-mode, updated Indenting Python
  • User groups: Added Denver Emacs meetup
  • Tramp mode: Added plink with keyfile without pageant
• emacs-devel discussions:
  • What would be the best screenshot of Emacs for the homepage? Might be a good idea to have a gallery…
  • Visual lines and keyboard macro performance
  • Autoloads and MD5sums
  • builds are getting slower?
  • UP and DOWN with multi-line minibuffer history
  • Switch to Automake?
  • Emacs website updates
• New packages:
  • company-sourcekit: company-mode completion backend for SourceKit
  • dired-filetype-face: Set different faces for different filetypes in dired
  • dmenu: use ido to simulate the dmenu command line program
  • drawille: Drawille implementation in elisp
  • firefox-controller: An improved Firefox controller
  • fxrd-mode: Major mode for editing fixed field width files
  • golden-ratio-scroll-screen: Scroll half screen down or up, and highlight current line
  • idea-darkula-theme: Color theme based on IntelliJ IDEA Darkula color theme
  • minizinc-mode: Major mode for MiniZinc code
  • org-iv: a tool used to view html (in browser) generated by org-file once the org-file changes
  • slack: Slack client for Emacs
  • sourcekit: Library to interact with sourcekittendaemon

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

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