• Navigation:
  • Quickly move a file to the current directory (Reddit)
  • selected.el – Keymap for when region is active (Reddit)
  • Dumb Jump – since last post: can use ag (way faster), supports more languages and has windows support. (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs for Prose – link to an old post
  • yankpad.el — Paste snippets from an org-mode file
  • Blogging with Orgmode (Reddit)
  • near instantaneous plantuml org-babel execution
  • Building a hugo blog from org-mode with org-babel-tangle (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • The conditional-save-excursion macro
  • Steven Pigeon: Respace
  • My emacs c++ ide (Reddit)
  • embrace.el: Add/Change/Delete pairs based on `expand-region`, similar to `evil-surround`. (Reddit)
  • Like lisp and evil-mode? Read how evil-lispy will help you get the most out of both modes. (Reddit)
  • Code completion in Emacs for Hylang (5:05)
• Emacs development:
  • Patchwork: all patches sent to emacs-dev collected (Reddit)
  • Emacs pretest 25.0.93 available (Reddit)
  • Emacs multithread demo (1:45)
  • url-user-agent, url-privacy-level
  • New character name escape sequences
  • Discussion of design for multiple major modes
• Other:
  • Keep Emacs alive through X crashes by running it in the background with –daemon
  • Emacs is available on Chromebook and Chrome
  • Emacs course content?
  • Support for Twitch emotes on ERC (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • arview: extract and view archives in the temporary directory
  • docker-api: Emacs interface to the Docker API
  • ego: a static site generator based on org mode, forked from org-page.
  • embrace: Add/Change/Delete pairs based on `expand-region'
  • emms-status: Display track description and playing time in the mode line
  • erc-twitch: Support for Twitch emotes for ERC.
  • fifo-class: First in first out abstract class
  • flymake-solidity: A flymake handler for solidity using solc
  • helm-systemd: helm's systemd interface
  • imapfilter: run the imapfilter executable
  • ivy-bibtex: A BibTeX bibliography manager based on Ivy
  • pathify: Symlink your scripts into a PATH directory
  • sendto: send the region content to a function
  • shift-number: Increase/decrease the number at point
  • signal: Advanced hook
  • xref-js2: Jump to references/definitions using ag & js2-mode's AST

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