• Navigation:
  • Use Spacemacs's improved evil-mode bindings in emacs
  • How do you guys set up your keys in OS X?
  • Use ivy to open recent directories (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Making org-mode look like a word processor (Reddit)
  • Emacs Org-mode – Use good header ids!
  • Blog from Org-Mode to Hugo (Reddit)
  • Hacker News discussion of Org Mode, spacemacs, etc.
  • Updated org-protocol-capture-html (Reddit) – Capture HTML from the browser and convert to Org Mode
  • ob-hy.el – or better integration of hylang in org-mode (Hat tip to Irreal)
• Coding:
  • TIL: 2 extra comment-dwim features
  • (comment-do-what-i-want) (Reddit)
  • Month in Haskell Mode March 2016 (Reddit)
  • List of existing emacs modules (samples, lib bindings, …)
  • Has anyone used Scala-mode professionally? How does it compare with Intellij?
  • using company-mode, yasnippet and irony mode for C programming
  • Magit v2.6 released
• Emacs Lisp:
  • scratch buffer hacks to increase its utility?
  • Eval-result-overlays in Emacs-lisp (Reddit)
  • Buttercup 1.5 released – Emacs Lisp behavior-driven tests
• Emacs development:
  • Incompatible change to format-time-string
  • Support completion of bang-rules in CSS mode
  • A vision for multiple major modes
  • About column numbers
  • New Notifications-To: keyword
• Other:
  • GNU Emacs webpage gets a nice facelift (Reddit)
  • Customizing Emacs's modeline
  • Emacs Calc for Programmers and Computer Scientists (Reddit)
  • Should i learn emacs first or start directly with spacemacs ?
  • The holy war soldiers on (Reddit)
  • diff-actor.el – Act out diff's between files in Emacs
  • Secure in the knowledge your packages are safe? – archiving packages
  • Package of the day: mode-icons (Reddit)
  • Linting Prose in Emacs with ProseLinter (Hacker News)
  • GNU Emacs #3: Archivo .emacs (5:22)
  • Learn Emacs in 21 Days: Day 1 (46:44) – Mandarin
• New packages:
  • blockdiag-mode: Major mode for editing blockdiag files
  • clear-text: Make you use clear text
  • flycheck-pkg-config: configure flycheck using pkg-config
  • helm-org-rifle: Rifle through your Org files
  • hfst-mode: major mode for editing HFST files
  • otama: Org-table Manipulator
  • xo: XO linter integration with compilation mode

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

Past Emacs News round-ups