• Org Mode:
  • Conforguration – configuration management with Org
  • hn2org, read HN pages in Emacs Org mode
  • Is using babel + org for configuration files worth it?
  • Video from EmacsNYC: Have Emacs Teach You Chinese (Reddit) – org-drill
  • org-fstree: an org package that inserts a directory tree into your Org buffer
  • Video from EmacsBoston: Getting Started with Org-mode (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Emacs Keyboard Design 33: What If Emacs Pinky Isn't Real and 34: Grid Layout Revisited
  • Tiling managers and emacs
  • Silent and auto package upgrader (Reddit)
  • New GNU Emacs website (Hacker News) – 210+ comments
  • I wrote a little script for downloading / updating all of the themes indexed over at emacsthemes.com (Reddit)
  • a nicer notmuch-hello screen for Emacs
  • how much evil in emacs
  • BBDB autocomplete different ways?
  • kraklisp-meeting #4.2 – Emacs od zera by KZiemian (1:08:25)
• Navigation:
  • Volatile Highlights: highlights recent change
  • Day 10 – Search and Replace Using Regex – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Swiper/Ivy tip
  • Disable Mouse only inside Emacs
  • Equivalent to todo-show in atom?
  • Moving Between Emacs Windows (Reddit)
  • Vim like scrolling in Emacs
  • Spacemacs (Vim mode) Cheatsheet (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • emacsrepl, a new Emacs Lisp REPL (Reddit)
  • Compile time .emacs.d versioning with Nix(OS)
  • Emacs multithreading library
  • web-mode.el v14 is released
  • elpa-mirror v1.2.2
  • Emacs Bug Trends (Reddit)
  • Emacs and Visual Studio – Emacs for editing, VS for debugging
• Emacs development:
  • New :after-hook for define-derived-mode
  • New option edebug-sit-on-break
  • text-quoting-style, message-user-fqdn
  • HTML tags can be completed in css-mode
  • Discussion of M-x send-emacs-patch
  • Volunteers to implement test for stuff called at startup?
• New packages:
  • coverlay: Test coverage overlays
  • darkokai-theme: A darker variant on Monokai.
  • dired-quick-sort: Persistent quick sorting of dired buffers in various ways.
  • dix-evil: optional evil-integration with dix.el
  • emms-state: Display track description and playing time in the mode line
  • evil-find-char-pinyin: Evil's f/F/t/T commands with Pinyin support
  • flyspell-correct: correcting words with flyspell via custom interface
  • helm-qiita: Qiita with helm interface
  • hgrc-mode: major mode for editing hgrc files
  • ksp-cfg-mode: major mode for editing KSP CFG files
  • moonscript: Major mode for editing MoonScript code
  • ob-php: Execute PHP within org-mode blocks.
  • ob-swift: org-babel functions for swift evaluation
  • org-capture-pop-frame: Run org-capture in a new pop frame
  • paganini-theme: an Emacs 24 theme based on FireCode
  • pinyinlib: Convert first letter of Pinyin to Simplified/Traditional Chinese characters
  • plur: Easily search and replace multiple variants of a word
  • projectile-hanami: Minor mode for Hanami projects based on projectile
  • quiet: disconnect from the online world for a while
  • spu: Silently upgrade package in the background
  • steam: Organize and launch Steam games
  • tawny-mode: Ontology Editing with Tawny-OWL
  • timp: Multithreading library
  • validate: Schema validation for Emacs-lisp

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

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