• Beginner:
  • Learning Emacs the right way?
  • Emacs Beginner Configuration
  • Customize
• Coding:
  • Using Github Gists From Spacemacs
  • New git-timemachine UI based on ivy-mode
  • Creating and running unit tests directly in source files with Org Mode (hat tip to Irreal for the link)
  • Intero for Emacs (for Haskell-programmers) (Reddit)
  • Best practice of lua programming in emacs?
  • New completion package for erlang
  • How to make gdb behave more like an IDE?
  • Setup python environment (7:08)
• Other:
  • Fill and unfill paragraphs with a single key
  • (Blog or Screencast) The Best Emacs Modifier Key Setup for OS X (Reddit)
  • Check out this hydra I made for Ibuffer. Also share hydras plz
  • How do you persist buffers and save your window state across sessions?
  • org-mode is very handy for writing documents with generated images or script outputs
• New packages:
  • bnfc: Define context-free grammars for the BNFC tool
  • circe-notifications: Add desktop notifications to Circe.
  • cricbuzz: Cricket scores from cricbuzz in emacs
  • eshell-fringe-status: Show last status in fringe
  • helm-smex: Helm interface for smex
  • intero: Complete development mode for Haskell
  • prettify-greek: Greek letters for prettify-symbols
  • related: Switch back and forth between similarly named buffers.
  • term-manager: Contextual terminal management
  • term-projectile: projectile terminal management
  • trr: a type-writing training program on GNU Emacs.
  • vmd-mode: Fast Github-flavored Markdown preview using a vmd subprocess.
  • cycle-quotes: Cycle between quote styles

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