• Beginners:
  • Good place to find how to start customising Emacs
• Text input and navigation:
  • How to input Non-English character in evil-mode efficiently
  • Overwrite selected text
  • Asymmetry on searching
• Org Mode:
  • Conforguring dotfiles
  • Do you use Pandoc? What would be your wishes regarding Pandoc and Org-mode?
  • Toodledo and org still relevant?
• Coding:
  • debug-on-whatever
  • Remote Shells with Tramp
  • Uniquify your buffer names
  • validate.el: Schema validation for Emacs-Lisp
  • I live-coded a django site from scratch in Emacs (Reddit)
  • On the fly markdown preview
  • Hidden gem bundled with Emacs: find-cmd.el (Reddit)
  • Fancy Rust development with Emacs (Reddit)
  • “org-mode”-like promote/demote tree for editing whitespace significant files
  • bug-mode, a mode to interact with Bugzilla and Rally issue trackers
  • I figure it out how to use Emacsclient as Git's mergetool and have the frame close itself after you finish merging
  • Executing commands as root on multiple hosts in parallel from Emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Gmail, Gnus, GPG Guide Update
  • Monotropic — (Almost) monochromatic theme for emacs. (Reddit)
  • Investing in Emacs. Is it worth it? Spoiler: Yes.
  • Emacs Right Click Context menu (Reddit)
  • Spaceline 2.0 — modeline compiler
  • Emacs dired (Portuguese, 6:08)
  • Emacs shell (Portuguese, 5:26)
  • Emacs: regexp I-search macro (0:24)
• Emacs development:
  • New basic face fixed-pitch-serif
  • Discussion of release-blocking bugs and timeline
  • Discussion of whether messages should continue to be included in bug reports
• New packages:
  • aws-ec2: Manage AWS EC2 instances
  • ebib-handy: ebib window as a cite chooser when write org file
  • flymd: On the fly markdown preview
  • helm-phpunit: Helm integration for phpunit.el
  • nlinum-relative: Relative line number with nlinum
  • ob-ml-marklogic: org-babel functions for MarkLogic evaluation
  • org-chinese-utils: Some org-mode utils for Chinese users
  • ox-bibtex-chinese: Let ox-bibtex work well for Chinese users
  • ox-latex-chinese: An example org latex exporter configure for Chinese users
  • say-what-im-doing: dictate what you're doing with text to speech
  • sql-mssql: Connect Microsoft SQL Server with sql.el in Linux/Unix environment
  • viking-mode: kill first, ask later
  • yankpad: Paste snippets from an org-mode file

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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