• Emacs Lisp
  • New in Emacs 25.1: Have prettify-symbols-mode reveal the symbol at point – also, prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point
  • Implementing Queue in Emacs Lisp
  • Tips for binding keys with a prefix
  • Merge local changes and updates in packages – quelpa, git branches, advice
  • How to detect if emacs is running in a bare console or X terminal
• Coding
  • Program ~200 embedded boards using PlatformIO-Mode package (Arduino, ESP8266, mbed, etc.) (Reddit) – atmelavr, atmelsam, espressif, freescalekinetis, nordicnrf51, nxplpc, siliconlabsefm32, ststm32, teensy, timsp430, and titiva
  • Nice PyLint and flymake-mode configuration for Python
  • Alpha Preview of EMacs Python (EMP) (Reddit)
  • How modern languages will save the text editor
  • Elang – a small Python-like language for the Emacs VM (Reddit)
  • Highlight diffs on the fly with diff-hl-flydiff-mode
  • Chicken scheme under cygwin, emacs geiser org setup (19:31)
  • Magit prompting for password
• Org Mode
  • How to exclude certain tags from inheritance
  • Using emacs org mode for fitness (7:46) (Reddit)
  • Encrypting org files – but keeping them searchable?
  • org-mode custom Latex/PDF export custom style.
• Navigation and display
  • Package of the day: jump to symbols/variables/etc (Reddit)
  • link-hint.el – Use avy to open/copy urls, file paths, info links, etc.
  • Dictionary and thesaurus in Emacs
  • helm-mini in full screen? helm-full-frame
  • Emacs New Year's resolution: use undo-tree
  • Flexible isearch without a package – search-whitespace-regexp
  • Spacemacs with a dvorak keyboard
• Other
  • Emacs as an X Clipboard Manager (Reddit)
  • Why I Use Emacs – because it's fun!
  • moment of enlightenment, “once you go ‘macs, there is no going back.”
  • Emacs.el Episode 3 – Tobias Macey and Chris Patti – VIM and Python
  • Spacemacs 0.105 released: new website and layouts system
  • Regex search/replace w/ lisp function (0:30) (Reddit)
  • Emacsでいろいろ遊ぶ:hiroyasu2003 (36:55) – Games in Emacs
• New packages:
  • czech-holidays: Adds a list of Czech public holidays to Emacs calendar
  • elang: A Python-like language for the Emacs VM
  • evil-textobj-column: Provides column text objects.
  • flycheck-checkbashisms: checkbashisms checker for flycheck
  • go-playground-cli: Go Playground client tool
  • helm-codesearch: helm interface for codesearch
  • helm-ispell: ispell-complete-word with helm interface
  • hydandata-light-theme: A light color theme that is easy on your eyes
  • key-leap: Leap between lines by typing keywords
  • org-attach-screenshot: screenshots integrated with org attachment dirs
  • org-eww: automatically use eww to preview current org-file when save
  • python-info: Python info manual for Emacs
  • start-menu: start-menu for executing external program like in windows
  • status: This package adds support for status icons to Emacs.
  • vhdl-tools: Utilities for navigating vhdl sources.
  • xml-quotes: read quotations from an XML document
• Emacs development:
  • Changes:
    • ftfont rendering
    • Bug triage process
    • Distinguish nil from “” when printing spreadsheet cells
    • Bidirectional filling
    • TRAMP update
    • Note TLS failure with non-verifiable hosts
  • Discussions:
    • Wrapping up pcase discussion
    • Moving Gnus development to Emacs
    • Categorizing tests
    • Emacs Mac port
    • Automatic crash reporting?
    • Availability of older manuals

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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