• Navigation:
  • Edit file as another user in Emacs
  • When a bookmark is a directory, do find-file from there…
  • 1st Plugin! Search youtube from in emacs. Play in browser/tool of choice (Reddit) Small library for Helm
  • Neotree – yanking full path of note at point
  • Adding a custom “watch” icon to the modeline?
  • Date-sorted interactive recursive search with ivy, counsel and ag (Reddit)
  • Persistent highlighting in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Counting words in org-mode (hat-tip to Irreal for the link and a note about customization)
  • Instantly insert org todo via AutoHotKey (Windows) while emacs is closed
  • Styling exported Agenda HTML.
  • My Emacs Writing Setup
• Emacs Lisp:
  • debug-on-entry – how to find out what's calling a function
  • Displaying nonexistent text in Emacs buffers
  • How to write a function to transform a function to ivy action ?
  • GitHub – atomontage/xterm-color: ANSI -> xterm-256 color text property translator for Emacs (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • A persistent scratch buffer
  • Growing playlist of Emacs videos I make for the clojure community: CIDER, paredit and Magit up to now
  • Installing Emacs from Source: Avoid the Conflict of ctags (Reddit)
  • How to set up Emacs for Rust Language using Spacemacs (4:30)
• Magit:
  • Magit: Git in Emacs – Grumpy Gits SG (55:23)
  • Productive Emacs: Magit (18:05)
• Emacs development:
  • Connection-local variables
  • Include a systemd user init file
  • New function file-name-case-insensitive-p, case sensitivity check when renaming files
  • Discussion of prefix arguments for filling text
  • Discussion of performance issues with Emacs 25.1 Windows build
  • Patches for url-auth
  • Long philosophical discussion about lldb, Emacs, and GNU
  • Long discussion regarding support for Windows 9X
• Other:
  • Using Emacs – 20 – yanking
  • nice looking light on dark theme (Reddit)
  • What would make Emacs News better?
  • Using Emacs – 19 – moving to a live config (Reddit)
  • My first emacs package! Detect conflicted copies of files in your Dropbox on open (Reddit)
  • Emacs Lisp Animations
• New packages:
  • all-the-icons-dired: Shows icons for each file in dired mode
  • counsel-bbdb: Quick search&input email from BBDB based on ivy
  • csv: Functions for reading and parsing CSV files.
  • dante: Development mode for Haskell
  • darkane-theme: A dark theme with strong colors
  • emlib: A Machine Learning library for Emacs
  • fluxus-mode: Major mode for interfacing with Fluxus
  • flycheck-demjsonlint: Flychecker for json-mode using jsonlint from demjson
  • flycheck-title: show flycheck errors in the frame title
  • helm-bbdb: Helm interface for bbdb
  • helm-youtube: Query YouTube and play videos in your browser
  • projectile-git-autofetch: automatically fetch git repositories
  • sudoku: Simple sudoku game, can download puzzles
  • web-mode-edit-element: Helper-functions for attribute- and element-handling
  • whizzml-mode: Programming mode for editing WhizzML files

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

Past Emacs News round-ups