• Beginner tips:
  • GNU Emacs: Intro – YouTube (Spanish; 7:47)
  • Look up the keybindings for some command
• Navigation:
  • Pragmatic Emacs: Open a recent directory in dired: revisited
  • Marcin Borkowski: Looking for keywords
  • With this trick, Helm-dash gets find-as-you-type for free, developers hate it…
• Configuration:
  • Running two instances simultaneously, with different dotfiles. Is it possible? env
  • Autocorrecting typos in Emacs (2:46)
  • Disable annoying audio notifications
  • Great tip to reduce init-time (workaround for TRAMP's bug) (Reddit)
  • Quick .emacs snippet to automatically use emacsclient if Emacs is already running
  • Dedicated company completion for your shell (Reddit)
  • How to transfer my emacs setup to a different workstation? (specifically the plugins)
  • Learnt some new modes from this page … (Reddit)
  • solving Emacs pinky problem on the macbook (2:00)
• Org Mode:
  • Configurations for beautifying Emacs org mode
  • Org-mode: Start a numbered list from any number
  • Switch to nlinum Immediately – good for Org Mode and large files
  • Small hack to let orgmode babel JS blocks use skewer if it's currently connected
  • Get org-mode on iOs with Editorial app: functions linked
  • How to specify which tex engine for org latex export
• Coding:
  • Implementing pwdw pwdc, a summary of manipulating directory name strings in Emacs lisp
  • What's your workflow; running a shell with localhost server for development?
  • Smartparens for C-like modes?
  • Parinfer in Emacs Lisp (Hacker News)
  • Emacs Aggressive Indent Demo (0:53)
  • {EN} Hacking Emacs and Brains — Morning Tsoding #24 (1:02:29) Developing a brainfuck compiler to Emacs Lisp
• Emacs development:
  • New in Emacs 25.1: EWW improvements
  • State of concurrency in Emacs
  • More commands for inserted images
  • New commands for mpc media player
  • New timer-list
  • Continued discussion of character folding
  • Borderless frames
• Other:
  • #ilovefs: Why GNU Emacs? (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Adding mu4e Support To Emacs (the hard way) (Reddit)
  • Linting prose in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Alex Schroeder: New Look for Emacs Wiki
  • An Emacs QR encoder (no external tools)
  • Pdf Tools – faster than docview
  • End of an era? (Magit's maintainer is taking a “break”)
  • My path to emacs
  • How to Order Salads From Inside Emacs (40:33)
  • emacs glass demo (5:42)
  • Emacs Keyboard Macro Demo 1 (1:58)
• New packages:
  • alda-mode: A simple major mode for the musical programming language Alda
  • auto-virtualenv: Auto activate python virtualenvs
  • company-shell: Company mode backend for shell functions
  • ebf: brainfuck language transpiler to Emacs Lisp
  • erc-hipchatify: Provide emoticons and html rendering for HipChat
  • foggy-night-theme: Dark low contrast theme with soft and muted colors.
  • helm-describe-modes: Helm interface to major and minor modes.
  • ob-go: org-babel functions for go evaluation
  • ob-scala: org-babel functions for scala evaluation
  • pov-mode: Major mode for editing POV-Ray scene files.
  • sly-repl-ansi-color: Add ANSI colors support to the sly mrepl.

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, EmacsWiki:RecentChanges, the Emacs commit log, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

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