• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs bankruptcy and starter kits
  • Smooth-scrolling – always keeps n lines of context at top and bottom of screen
  • Emacs Tutorial – Git Your First Init File (13:11)
  • Running Emacs as a Daemon
• Text:
  • Aligning text
  • Email templates in mu4e with yasnippet
  • An improvement to Emacs auto-correct
  • Emacs autocorrect mode
  • region-state – A global minor-mode that shows the number of chars/lines or rows/columns in the region (aka. selection). (Reddit)
  • Emacs Shortcuts for Writing Posts Using Jekyll
• Web:
  • Emacs user agent? Also, notes about proxies
  • Emacs for landing pages / simple websites?
  • New EmacsWiki theme
• Org Mode:
  • Pimp Up Your Org-mode Files (Reddit)
  • How to use org-mode to write documentation for general audience?
  • Prettier org-mode source code blocks?
  • What's your todo workflow within Emacs at work?
• Coding:
  • Using smart-quotes with the electric pair mode
  • save-excursion changed semantics
  • Magit v2.4 released
  • How hard it'd be to migrate a helm-* to ivy-* ?
  • Emacs elm-mode TAGS demo (2:14)
  • Emacs elm-mode demo (9:01)
  • List comprehend refactor in Emacs (0:10)
• Other:
  • 2016-01-16 Emacs Hangout
  • Encrypted backups
  • “Practical Guide for Gnus” updated
  • ERC Messages Read Aloud
• New packages:
  • haxor-mode: Major mode for exiting .hax files
  • markdown-preview-eww: Realtime preview by eww
  • markdown-preview-mode: markdown realtime preview minor mode.
  • repo: Running repo from Emacs
  • sisyphus: Support for ERT (Emacs Regression Test)
  • yahoo-weather: Displays weather information in mode-line
  • html5-schema: Add HTML5 schemas for use by nXML
• Emacs development:
  • nxml now uses standard completion, Unicode and lexical-binding
  • New Tramp method: sg (edit as different group)

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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