• Navigation:
  • Add multiple cursors with mouse clicks
  • Bookmarking directories in Eshell
  • “A scroll wheel mapped to send a stream ‘undo’ and ‘redo’ events could be kind of cool.”
  • Using Emacs – 31 – elfeed part 3 – macros (Reddit)
• Appearance:
  • Making Emacs More Presentable
  • Show long filenames in ibuffer
  • Mathematical Notation in Emacs
• Emacs Lisp:
  • How to blacklist packages from being auto-installed – for overriding dependencies
  • Emacs: Check Interactive Call For Emacspeak
• Emacs development:
  • Rounding-related fixes: format “%f”, comparisons
  • Floating point fixes: ffloor, fceiling, ftruncate, fround, error signals, min and max
  • logb now works correctly on large integers
  • May need to follow up on patches so they don’t fall through the cracks
  • Manual suggestions for quit-restore documentation
• Org Mode:
  • Setting up the blog – Org Mode and Hugo, hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • A Simple Static Site Generator for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Taking notes for a Juniper lab with Emacs and Org mode (5:58)
  • Network cookbook using Emacs and Org mode (1:22) and applying changes, too (4:27)
• Coding:
  • Python Experiment Mode – new package around
  • evil-nerd-commenter v3.0.0
  • Using Emacs – 32 – C
  • Switch python interpreter
• Other:
  • Copying files between dired buffers
  • Pomidor is a simple and cool pomodoro technique timer. (Reddit)
  • What is the current best way to set up emacs on Windows?
  • Newsticker vs Elfeed
  • Steven Pinker mentions Emacs in his “The Language Instinct” (Reddit)
  • A Complete Guide to Email in Emacs using Mu and Mu4e (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • apiwrap: api-wrapping tools
  • blog-minimal: a very simple static site generator based on org mode
  • elquery: The HTML library for elisp.
  • exiftool: Elisp wrapper around ExifTool
  • flow-mode: Flow type mode based on web-mode.
  • helm-ext: A few extensions to Helm
  • korean-holidays: Korean holidays for calendar.
  • luarocks: luarocks tools
  • mandm-theme: An M&M color theme.
  • nikola: Simple wrapper for nikola
  • remember-last-theme: Remember the last used theme between sessions.
  • sayid: sayid nREPL middleware client

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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