• Navigation
  • Use ivy-mode to search bash history
  • (or emacs: avy 0.4.0 is out: avy-goto-char-timer, switch action, avy-pop-mark
  • Quickly search for occurrences of the symbol at point
  • Comparison of file managers for Emacs (Reddit)
• Configuration:
  • How to automatically execute commands when launching interactive Emacs sessions?
  • Defining shortcuts that apply only to files with a specific name (Reddit)
  • emacs OS X smooth scroll
  • Associate major mode with files without extensions
  • Theme recommendations for a projector
• Org Mode:
  • Org-mode with the ox-twbs package: Better HTML export (Reddit, Irreal summary)
  • London Public Transportation with helm and org
  • Version control or persistent undo for org files? gitwatch, git gc
  • Tracking time on tasks in Emacs org-mode (6:45)
• Mail:
  • Help with save sent messages with Gnus, Offlineimap and office365 – gnus-message-archive-group
  • Testing Encrypted Mail Setup – update to Gmail Gnus GPG guide
  • mu/mu4e 0.9.16 released, context, UI, indexing
• Coding:
  • auto insertion of a function header when I write a function. yasnippet
  • Haskell Mode 2015 retrospective (Reddit)
  • How modern languages will save the text editor (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Xwidget Branch Merged Into Emacs 25.1 (Reddit)
  • About how to use the pcase macro in Emacs
  • Spreadsheet-related bug fixes
  • Merges from emacs-25 to master
  • Discussion of asynchronous DNS
  • Discussion of options.el
• Other:
  • Matrix-Client.el 0.3.0
  • What are some lesser-known packages that you love?
  • EmacsWiki theme v2
  • Hand/Finger placement
  • Emacs for a cross-platform user–a few questions.
  • Emacs Shortcuts for Writing Posts Using Jekyll (Reddit)
  • Emacs demonstration (3:06)
  • AWS – How to edit using Emacs (6:44)
• New packages:
  • avy-menu: Library providing avy-powered popup menu
  • doom: DOM implementation and manipulation library
  • evil-ediff: Make ediff a little evil
  • faust-mode: Basic faust syntax colorizer for emacs.
  • fix-input: Make input methods play nicely with alternative keyboard layout on OS level
  • flycheck-purescript: Flycheck: PureScript support
  • hamburg-theme: Color Theme with a dark blue background.
  • helm-safari: Helm interface for Safari Bookmarks and History
  • html-check-frag: Check html-fragments
  • kaomoji: Input kaomoji superb easily
  • mutant: An interface for the Mutant testing tool
  • org-rtm: Simple import/export from rememberthemilk to org-mode
  • org-themis: Experimental project management mode for org-mode
  • psysh: PsySH, PHP interactive shell (REPL)
  • pyenv-mode-auto: Automatically activates pyenv version if .python-version file exists.
  • rtm: An elisp implementation of the Remember The Milk API
  • slirm: Systematic Literature Review Mode for Emacs.
  • sly-hello-world: A template SLY contrib
  • sly-macrostep: fancy macro-expansion via macrostep.el
  • zone-rainbow: Zone out with rainbow.
  • zone-select: Select zone programs.
  • gnome-c-style: minor mode for editing GNOME-style C source code

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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