• Coding:
  • Literal values and destructive functions
  • Complete line with ivy-mode
  • Making git and Emacs' eshell work together
  • Locally configure or disable show-paren-mode
  • One of my favorite things about Helm: live git grep searching (Reddit)
  • Stripping “all space” lines created while typing – ws-butler, too
  • Reference look up in JS2 mode. (Reddit)
  • nlinum-relative-mode – Emacs relative line number besed on nlinum-mode (Reddit)
  • emacs/git workflow
  • “protip” disable global-semanticdb-minor-mode for a faster C IDE
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs Lisp closures demystified
  • Emacs Testing with Assess (Reddit)
  • Hook Helpers – A Package to Cleanly Add Functions to Hooks (Reddit)
  • Indenting the statements after case labels in c-mode – sample indent function
• Other:
  • blog-admin and Nikola
  • Three Ways to Quote in your Notes with Org-Mode
  • Emacs: Find number of days between dates
  • emacs 25.1 NEWS
  • Renaming Files
  • Make Messages Buffer modifiable in Emacs 24.4
  • (mastering Emacs) book is 50% off
  • Emacs for writing ? Tell me your tricks !
  • The Universal Latin input method for Emacs. (Reddit)
  • A Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs (Reddit)
  • GNU Emacs pretest 25.0.94 now available (Reddit)
  • What's the 20% of emacs/spacemacs that you use 80% of the time?
  • Evil tabbar – rearranging tabs – eyebrowse
  • Can I kill idle buffers? clean-buffer-list
  • Assimilate Emacs packages using Git submodules
  • Living in Emacs (22:52, German)
• New packages:
  • annotate-depth: Annotate buffer if indentation depth is beyond threshold.
  • cursor-in-brackets: move cursor in brackets/quotes when right bracket/quote is inserted
  • datetime: Parsing, formatting and matching timestamps
  • datetime-format: Datetime functions
  • fastdef: Insert terminology from Google top search results
  • highlight-operators: a face for operators in programming modes
  • immortal-scratch: respawn the scratch buffer when it's killed
  • ivy-gitlab: Ivy interface to Gitlab
  • ivy-hydra: Additional key bindings for Ivy
  • judge-indent: judge indent and tab widths
  • llvm-mode: Major mode for the LLVM assembler language.
  • markdown-mac-link: Insert Markdown links to items selected in various Mac apps
  • modern-cpp-font-lock: Font-locking for “Modern C++”
  • org-eww: automatically use eww to preview current org-file when save
  • restclient-test: Run tests with restclient.el
  • timecop: Freeze Time for testing
  • smart-yank: A different approach of yank pointer handling

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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