• Configuration:
  • Doing Away with Autosave Files
  • Define context-aware keys in Emacs
  • Smart text templates with yasnippet
  • Disable tree-ification of Ctrl Left-Click Menu
  • ThemeCreator
• Navigation:
  • Better fuzzy matching support in Ivy
  • Make emacs remember position where last self-insert-command happened: consider save-place or goto-chg
  • Ivy is now available in Spacemacs
• Org:
  • Changing clock timestamps from org mode's agenda view (org-clock-convenience.el) (Reddit)
  • noob: org-mode custom Latex/PDF export custom style.
  • Plugin for bidirectional org-mode sync with RTM – anyone working on it?
• Coding:
  • Git gutter tip
  • TIL: ediff-revision
  • Store your compile calls for immediate retrieval: compilation-bookmarks (Reddit)
  • Setup for JavaScript development
  • List of projects in initial buffer
  • Narrow to embedded CSS and JavaScript of a HTML file
• Emacs Lisp:
  • mrr-auto-replace: multi-replace regex
  • Buttercup 1.3 released: Emacs Lisp behaviour-driven tests
• Emacs development:
  • Attempting to figure emacs long lines issues (Reddit)
  • A proposal for removing obsolete Emacs packages | Hacker News
  • Please do not delete this commented-out version | Hacker News
  • Let users disable unsafe signal handling code
  • Discussion about possibly filtering M-x
  • Changing the default keybinding for tags-loop-continue
  • Proposal for emacsclient and opening a file at a specific line
  • Continuing discussion of new Emacs homepage
  • find-file-project
  • Overriding MS Windows key combination
• Conversion:
  • Pitfalls moving from Vim to Evil?
  • Would you recommend spacemacs to a non-vim user?
  • Would you tell 20 year old you now to pick up and learn Emacs?
• Other:
  • How to use Gnus Group Topics efficiently
  • Realtime markdown preview as you type with Eww (Reddit)
  • Emacs goes Windows: get a start menu with all your packages (Reddit)
  • reykjavik theme, a theme with low saturated colors and a dark green background. (Reddit)
  • Now Emacs Lisp is represented in the Github Showcase pages! (Reddit)
  • How I use Emacs (by MJ Wall) (Reddit)
  • Just a guy showing of his GNU/Linux-fu and having fun with emacs (2:04:44) (Reddit)
  • Spacemacs 0.105 released: new website and layouts system
• New packages:
  • anybar: Control AnyBar from Emacs
  • bitbake: Running bitbake from emacs
  • caseformat: Format based letter case converter
  • config-parser: a library for parsing config file
  • elscreen-buffer-group: elscreen buffer group
  • mexican-holidays: Mexico holidays for Emacs calendar.
  • multishell: manage interaction with multiple local and remote shells
  • projectile-sift: Run a sift with Projectile
  • prompt-text: Various information in minibuffer prompt
  • reykjavik-theme: Theme with a dark background.
  • tldr: tldr client for Emacs

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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