• Configuration:
  • Configuration setup for dropbox and github
  • How to import your spacemacs configurations – 20 comments, /r/emacs
  • How to import your spacemacs configurations – 11 comments, /r/spacemacs
• Org Mode:
  • Github Pages for Reveal.js Slides Created With Emacs Org-Mode
  • Help me with my org-mode workflow for note-taking? – good discussion
  • How to auto export html when saving in org-mode
• Mail:
  • Notmuch version 0.22 is out (2016-04-26) (Reddit)
  • Windows users – What email client are you currently using? – includes Outlook linking
• Coding:
  • Show Magit Status window in fullscreen
  • ANSI-colors in the compilation buffer output
  • shen-elisp – Evaluate Shen completely within Emacs.
  • Getting pyenv and Elpy to play nice together
• Emacs development:
  • Effortless Major Mode Development
  • find-library-name now uses load-history too
  • C-u M-x find-library opens in a different window
  • Minibuffer prompts can use faces
  • New variable extended-command-suggest-shorter
  • Optional timeout for url-retrieve-synchronously
  • New function char-from-name converts from Unicode name
• Keyboards and input devices:
  • Reviewing Kinesis Foot Pedal and Emacs (Reddit) – used for avy navigation
  • Emacs Keyboard Design 31 and 32: Give Emacs More Logical Modifiers
  • Emacs Keyboard Design 30: Smaller Modifiers
• Other:
  • What to do when Emacs hangs, freezes or crashes (Reddit)
  • Emacspeak 44.0 (SteadyDog) Unleashed
  • fill-single-char-nobreak-p
  • Ivy 0.8.0 is out
  • cliphist 0.3.0
  • electric-align.el – align columns automatically (Reddit)
  • osx-trash.el – making the dired function `delete-by-moving-to-trash` work correctly on OS X (Reddit)
  • New NyanMode release – now with scroll-to-click! (Reddit)
  • Emacs, Google This (Hacker News)
• New packages:
  • ejc-sql: Emacs SQL client uses Clojure JDBC.
  • elisp-format: Format elisp code
  • evil-embrace: Evil integration of embrace.el
  • evil-lispy: precision Lisp editing with Evil and Lispy
  • flycheck-pony: Pony support in Flycheck
  • flycheck-stack: Flychecker using stack ghci
  • geben-helm-projectile: Integrate helm-projectile with geben
  • go: Play GO, translate and transfer between GO back ends
  • ivy: Incremental Vertical completYon
  • selected: Keymap for when region is active
  • shen-elisp: Shen implementation in Elisp
  • sql-impala: comint support for Cloudera Impala
  • ttl-mode: mode for Turtle (and Notation 3)
  • ycmd: emacs bindings to the ycmd completion server

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