• Navigation:
  • Use Ivy-mode to tweak workgroups2 (Reddit)
  • Faster pop-to-mark command: Go back to the last place – C-u C-SPC
  • popup-imenu – select imenu items via popup window with fuzzy matching (Reddit)
  • super-save – save Emacs buffers when they lose focus (Reddit)
  • 10 emacs productivity plugins (Reddit) – see suggested substitutions in the comments
  • ivy+flx for fuzzy matching
  • Evil: map unused “namespace” in operator-pending commands (like vim-impaired)
• Display:
  • Adjusting text size in Emacs: C-x C-+ C-+ C-+, etc.
  • Evil Mode hack for a colorful mode line
  • Spellchecking in Emacs: flyspell, ispell
  • Using a different colour scheme for M-x shell
• Coding:
  • fixed vc-darcs package (Reddit)
  • Autocompletion: hippie-expand, company-mode
  • emacs and C/C++, irony or rtags or…both?
  • Any cool yasnippets to share with us?
  • Package of the day: press semicolon-key to close it, without figuring out which semicolon/parentheses/bracket (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Learning the right tools
  • Challenge: enumerate all the things you currently do in Emacs!
  • Participate In Emacs Mailinglists Via Gmane (Reddit)
  • Emacswiki needs cleaning up
  • 2015-12-21 Emacs Hangout
• Emacs development:
  • Rant: Obfuscation in Emacs: inhibit-startup-echo-area-message is special (Reddit)
  • Elang – a small Python-like language for the Emacs VM (Reddit)
  • Changes
    • erc-related fixes: also, async, proxy, tls
    • IDNA domain encode/decode
    • URL parsing
    • eww-related changes: colours, meta-refresh, file name coding, history, left-to-right, checkboxes, filenames
    • clipboard even without interprogram-*
    • dired – W views files in browser
  • emacs-devel discussions
    • Apostrophes and the startup message
    • Bug triage process, how to use debbugs; also, debbugs limit
    • Bug triage progress
    • Continued discussion of dynamic modules
• Other:
  • Clock in and get-shit-done: Disable social media sites temporarily
  • Running external executables from Emacs Lisp: start-process, shell-command
  • How can I implement “twiddle case” in emacs?
  • Using emacs org mode for fitness – YouTube (7:46)
  • 011 Editing Files with Emacs – YouTube (5:40) – beginner tutorial
• New packages:
  • ac-html-angular: Auto complete angular15 data for `ac-html’ and `company-web’
  • cff: Search of the C/C++ file header by the source and vice versa
  • clean-buffers: Clean useless buffers
  • crux: Miscellaneous commands such as crux-open-with, crux-view-url, crux-swap-windows
  • dim: Change mode-line names of major/minor modes
  • elisp-lint: Basic linting for Emacs Lisp
  • git-command: Yet another Git interface
  • helm-img: Utilities for making image sources for helm.
  • helm-img-tiqav: An helm-source for joking.
  • helm-xcdoc: Search Xcode Document by docsetutil and eww with helm interface
  • import-js: Import Javascript dependencies
  • kooten-theme: Dark color theme
  • latex-math-preview: preview LaTeX mathematical expressions.
  • platformio-mode: PlatformIO integration
  • popup-imenu: Imenu index popup
  • super-save: Auto-save buffers, based on your activity.
  • verify-url: Find invalid URLs in the buffer or region

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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