• Org Mode:
  • Blogging with Emacs, Jekyll and Nikola
  • helm-org-rifle updated with new commands (Reddit)
  • About frustrations from erraneous science papers and Emacs to the rescue (Reddit)
  • Org as a word processor (Hacker News)
• Coding:
  • Showing some of those Async Shell Command buffers
  • Improving Projectile with extra commands
  • A nice and clear summary of Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
  • cl-format – Common Lisp format for Emacs
  • Step-by-step guide to C++ navigation and completion with Emacs and the Clang-based rtags (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Added external socket launching support
  • Added time zone conversion functions
  • Discussion of docstrings and manuals
  • Re-introducing the Emacsmirror
• Other:
  • Atreus, Windows, and Emacs: keyboards
  • Efficient use of multi-button mice with emacs
  • Pragmatic Emacs: Undo-send and schedule email in mu4e
  • neato-graph-bar.el – htop-like CPU and memory graphs for Emacs
  • “Emacs beta is now available on chromebooks (and in chrome)!” (Reddit)
  • Koeeoadi: A Theme Creator for Emacs and Vim (Reddit)
  • Check out which-key!
• New packages:
  • cl-format: CL format routine.
  • clomacs: Simplifies Emacs Lisp interaction with Clojure.
  • closql: store EIEIO objects using EmacSQL
  • counsel-projectile: Ivy integration for Projectile
  • devdocs: Launch DevDocs search
  • epkg: browse the Emacsmirror package database
  • euslisp-mode: Major mode for Euslisp-formatted text
  • helm-notmuch: Search emails with Notmuch and Helm
  • labburn-theme: A lab color space zenburn theme.
  • liso-theme: Eclectic Dark Theme for GNU Emacs
  • micgoline: powerline mode, color schemes from microsoft and google's logo.
  • niceify-info: improve usability of Info pages
  • ob-lua: Execute Lua code within org-mode blocks.
  • vue-mode: Major mode for vue component based on web-mode and mmm-mode
  • weechat-alert: Weechat notifier using alerts

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