• Org Mode:
  • Use org-mode tables and structures in emails and elsewhere
  • Using Emacs – 23 – Org Capture 1
  • Using Emacs – 24 – Org Capture 2
• Coding:
  • Emacs CL intro (29:13)
  • Use Perforce inside Emacs (Reddit)
  • Magit v2.9 released
  • Gitlab integration: get and insert an issue on “Fixes #” (Reddit)
  • RedBaron4Emacs v0.2 python FST manipulation: add a decorator, add and toggle args on multilines, unit tests – and still very experimental ! (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Show HN: Emacs Bootstrap (Hacker News)
  • Format XML in Emacs – demonstrates how to call a shell command with parameters on a region
  • Emacs Advent of Code
  • When Data Becomes Code
  • When to use alist vs plist?
  • Rig: config file loader (Reddit)
  • Move files in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Bootstrapping an Emacs config with quelpa-use-package (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • First pretest for Emacs 25.2 is out!
  • emacs-jit: Emacs with an Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • No, I'm not forking right now
  • Website for creating. emacs
  • The Emacs dumper dispute (Reddit, Hacker News, emacs-devel)
  • Evil needs a new maintainer (Reddit)
  • New: file name quoting
  • New function add-variable-watcher, debug command debug-on-variable-change
  • New variable dired-omit-case-fold
  • New website for GNU ELPA – elpa.gnu.org
• Other:
  • Emacs in Conforguration
  • A Showerthoughts Fortune File
  • Follow-Up: Soundscapes On The Emacspeak Audio Desktop
  • Scroll other window – C-M-v and C-M-V
  • Use Keychain and ssh-agent with Tramp for passwordless remote editing (Reddit)
  • Wand – Execute actions based on text patterns
  • Stupid Emacs Tricks
  • Making C-c C-j in AUCTeX do something more useful
• New packages:
  • edit-indirect-region-latex: Edit LaTeX regions in separate buffers, e.g. for English grammar checks
  • helm-rdefs: rdefs with helm interface
  • sdlang-mode: Major mode for Simple Declarative Language 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