• Beginner:
  • Newbie tips for non-programmers – see comments for tips
  • Learning Resource Recommendation: beyond the basics
  • Some intro-level Spacemacs videos
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Less Than Exceptional
  • Building a tree-view for xml data
  • Is it possible to make a face immune to region highlighting? – overlay that overlay!
  • How to properly save sensitive information in emacs configs?
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 25.2 RC2 is out!
  • Syntax ambiguities in narrowed buffers and multiple major modes: a proposed solution
  • What Packages Are You Working On?
  • New command ibuffer-jump
  • vc-dir branch support
  • New emacsclient option –suppress-output
• Navigation:
  • Uncommon document navigation tips?
  • other-window-or-switch-buffer
  • Find the buffer with Chinese name
  • Some Dirty Hacks for Helm (Reddit)
  • golden-ratio-scroll-screen: scroll half the page and highlight line before and after scroll (Reddit)
  • Why use recentf when you can just reverse isearch find-file history?
• Appearance:
  • Dynamically change font size in Emacs
• Org Mode:
  • Tag multiple headlines at once in org-mode
  • org-agenda-reschedule-to-today
  • Hugo v0.19 – with native Emacs Org-mode content support (Reddit, HN)
• Coding:
  • Make it so: file1 -> Makefile -> file2 (Reddit)
  • A minimal C++ IDE setup for Emacs?
  • Portacle – Adventures in Cross-Platform Deployment (Reddit)
  • The Continued Existence of the Emacs IPython Notebook (Reddit, HN)
  • Using tab for both yasnippet and company
  • Backing up/versioning : .emacs.d, .bashrc, .xmonad, etc config…
• Other:
  • Fun and Games in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs – 29 -elfeed part 1 (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs – 30 – elfeed part 2 – Hydras (Reddit)
  • Some useful mu4e shortcuts
• New packages:
  • build-status: Mode line build status indicator
  • cl-print: CL-style generic printer facilies
  • ede-php-autoload-composer-installers: Composer installers support for ede-php-autoload
  • ede-php-autoload-drupal: Drupal support for ede-php-autoload
  • flycheck-clang-tidy: Flycheck syntax checker using clang-tidy
  • kaolin-theme: A dark jade theme inspired by Sierra.vim
  • ob-async: Asynchronous org-babel src block execution
  • ob-sql-mode: SQL code blocks evaluated by sql-mode
  • picpocket: Image viewer
  • prassee-theme: A high contrast color theme
  • vue-html-mode: Major mode for editing Vue.js templates

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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