• Emacs Lisp:
  • Spacemacs – Managing Broken Emacs Packages
  • Pattern Matching in Emacs Lisp
• Emacs development:
  • New configure option –with-mailutils
  • New option ediff-show-ancestor and new toggle ediff-toggle-show-ancestor
  • master has switched from Automake to GNU Make
  • Discussion of user-defined record types
  • Bug report statistics on OS and arch, now with graphs
• Navigation:
  • Ibuffer
  • Shell & Comint Secrets: History commands (Reddit)
  • Quickly ediff files from dired
  • ediff with a predicate – narrowing helps
  • Package of the day: exwm-x, another window manager (Reddit)
  • The Silver Searcher, Ivy-occur, and Swiper
  • Some “Windows style” defaults in a Spacemacs layer
• Appearance:
  • hl-line and wrap-prefix
• Org Mode:
  • Export org-mode headlines to separate files
  • Capturing Data for Org Via Email (Reddit)
  • ivy-todo – Manage org-mode TODO lists with ivy (Reddit)
  • org for collecting bookmarks (with content)
• Coding:
  • Browsing allegro lisp docs inside emacs
  • dwim python-send-to-shell function that behaves much like it might in ESS mode
  • emacs for html+css+php+javascript
  • Project Shells: Manage multiple shell (or terminal, eshell) buffers for each project (Reddit)
  • GNU Guile 2.2.0 released – “Guile’s Elisp implementation is now fully Emacs-compatible” (Reddit)
  • A better imenu for go-mode in emacs (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Stein’s Emacs Productivity Series
  • Deleting all instances of a LaTeX environment
  • New version of Notmuch (0.24) is out. (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • auto-read-only: Automatically make the buffer to read-only
  • comint-intercept: Intercept input in comint-mode
  • dired-hide-dotfiles: Hide dotfiles in dired
  • el2org: Convert elisp file to org file
  • hack-time-mode: Forge time
  • ivy-todo: Manage org-mode TODOs with ivy
  • lastpass: LastPass command wrapper
  • nimbus-theme: An Awesome Dark Theme
  • org-mru-clock: load most recently used clocks into history
  • persp-mode-projectile-bridge: persp-mode + projectile integration.
  • pippel: Emacs frontend to python package manager pip
  • pocket-mode: Manage your pocket

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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