• Configuration and workflow:
  • Pragmatic Emacs: Auto Save and Backup Every Save
  • I tried Intellij IDEA and it was faster than emacs – then I tried emacs -q and that's how I found out it was time to nuke my .emacs.d
  • Easiest package management plan for an emacs beginner
  • Show different quotes in frame each time you launch your emacs.
  • Tell us about a minor change you made in your Emacs usage recently
  • Viking-mode: Kill first, ask later – an emacs mode for killing things quickly (Reddit)
  • init-open-recentf
  • ryuslash/eshell-fringe-status
  • An another interesting approach to load your extensive dot-Emacs configuration (Reddit)
  • I wanna see your init file(s)! Share 'em!
• Coding:
  • John Stevenson: Using Github Gists From Spacemacs
  • counsel-dash – Browse Dash docsets using Ivy (Reddit)
  • My first minor-mode: “Modern C++” font-lock for Emacs
  • Refactor support for Python
  • Take Your Emacs to the Next Level by Writing Custom Packages
  • Dumb-jump: an Emacs “jump to definition” package (Hacker News)
• Other:
  • A review of Mickey Petersen's “Mastering Emacs” book, for beginners and advanced users
  • Weather in Emacs with ASCII art, even
  • Snapshot-timemachine: a polished interface to step through the snapshots of a file made by a third-party snapshot or backup facility, e.g. ZFS, etc. (Reddit)
  • Wiki for personal use that plays nicely with Emacs?
  • How I like to think about Emacs
  • Snappy Markdown preview minor mode
  • Emacs and Ergodox
  • Emacs and RSI…
  • As a developer in 2016, you need to learn Emacs (Reddit)
  • New series of Emacs videos / posts
  • Orgzly now supports folding
  • TimoB: Emacs – Beating the Learning Curve (1:08:46, German)
• New packages:
  • avandu: Gateway to Tiny Tiny RSS
  • counsel-dash: Browse dash docsets using Ivy
  • counsel-osx-app: launch osx applications via ivy interface
  • epm: Emacs Package Manager
  • ghost-blog: A package to manage Ghost blog
  • ivy-erlang-complete: Erlang completion at point using ivy.
  • pocket-api: another pocket api
  • pug-mode: Major mode for jade/pug template files
  • scrooge: Major mode for Twitter Scrooge files
  • spike-theme: A light color theme with muted, autumnal colors.
  • tiny-menu: Run a selected command from one menu.

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