• Emacs Lisp:
  • Using isearch-string on exit from isearch – fiddling with last-command
  • Asynchronous Requests from Emacs Dynamic Modules
  • BBDB on EIEIO – An Introduction to Object-Oriented Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-announce: Emacs 25.2 RC1
  • use-package.el about to be moved to Emacs core (Reddit)
  • Support 24-bit direct colors on text terminals
  • Discussion of possible way to ship native modules – GSS support for Gnus
  • Continued discussion of overlays as AA-tree
  • Gathering input for enwc – Emacs network client
• Navigation:
  • xkeymacs: use emacs keybindings everywhere on Windows (Reddit)
  • Helm vs Counsel/Ivy
• Appearance:
  • Mathematical Notation in Emacs (Reddit)
  • My first Emacs dark theme
  • improving shell-script-mode highlight
  • Color function calls in code
• Org Mode:
  • Sorting Org entries by most recent activity
  • Blogging with Hugo (markdown) using org-mode, ox-pandoc, and yasnippet
  • ob-async: Asynchronous src-block execution for org-babel
  • Org-Mode: how to create link to a target with completion? – added to org-ref
  • Sync Org with Asana
  • Optimal Emacs Settings for Org-mode for Literate Programming (2016, HN)
• Other:
  • Paperless
  • Batch-edit file permissions in dired
  • Just discovered emacs as a Windows user and I LOVE IT – tips in the comments
  • Portable and multiplatform Emacs25 (without xwidgets. Comes from Portacle, a Common Lisp development environment) (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • cov: Show coverage stats in the fringe.
  • dokuwiki: Edit Remote DokuWiki Pages Using XML-RPC
  • eslintd-fix: use eslint_d to automatically fix js files
  • flycheck-checkpatch: Flycheck support for checkpatch.pl tool
  • futhark-mode: major mode for editing Futhark source files
  • highlight-refontification: Visualize font-lock refontification.
  • messages-are-flowing: visible indication when composing “flowed” emails
  • nocomments-mode: Minor mode that makes comments invisible.
  • nv-delete-back: backward delete like modern text editors
  • org-table-sticky-header: Sticky header for org-mode tables

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.

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