• Emacs Lisp:
  • easy-escape – syntax highlighting and composition to make ELisp regular expressions more readable (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • GNU Emacs bug report statistics, by OS and architecture (Reddit)
  • Now installs update-game-score only on request
  • New ‘switch’ bytecode
  • Tramp syntax changing
  • Continued work on skipping unexec via big .elc
• Coding:
  • Using Emacs – 32 – C++
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode Resources
  • Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (HN)
  • Show HN: Emacs’ org-mode for non-Emacs users, within Emacs
  • Org-Mode Driven Presentations With Org-Reveal & Spacemacs
  • A code snippet navigator and collector with Org (Reddit)
  • Gantt Charts for Org-Mode
  • Installing bleeding edge Hugo + Goorgeous (org-mode) (Reddit)
  • Batch Jekyll publishing
• Eshell:
  • Eshell – warn about non-zero exit status
  • Tramp, Eshell, and finding files with sudo
  • Eshell – kill previous output
  • Eshell customizations
• Other:
  • mu4e 0.9.18: E-Mailing with Emacs now even better – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Spacemacs – Managing Broken Emacs Packages
  • Take Elfeed everywhere: Mobile rss reading Emacs-style (for free/cheap)
  • Control Spotify search and select music with HELM (plus-version)
  • Simple package for korean emacs users. korean-holidays.el (Reddit)
  • Ask HN: Emacs Users, what’s in your .emacs file? (2017)
  • Wireworld in Emacs – DustyCloud Brainstorms
  • Dired limiting
• New packages:
  • auto-virtualenvwrapper: Auto activate python virtualenvs
  • elisp-docstring-mode: Major mode for editing elisp docstrings.
  • gtk-pomodoro-indicator: A pomodoro indicator for the GTK tray
  • helm-spotify-plus: Control Spotify, search and select music with Helm.
  • highlight-context-line: Improve orientation when scrolling
  • historian: Persistently store selected minibuffer candidates
  • ivy-historian: Persistently store selected minibuffer candidates
  • literal-string: edit string literals in a dedicated buffer
  • magit-lfs: Magit plugin for Git LFS
  • org-notebook: Ease the use of org-mode as a notebook
  • ox-epub: Export org mode projects to EPUB
  • pomidor: Simple and cool pomodoro timer
  • project-shells: Manage the shell buffers of each project
  • ssass-mode: Edit Sass without a Turing Machine

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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