• Emacs Lisp:
  • Borg: Manage packages as Git submodules (Reddit)
  • Tips on reading dense Emacs Lisp code?
  • Centralized Windows/Linux Emacs directory on a NTFS partition
  • helm-company looking for a new maintainer
• Navigation:
  • Dumb Jump v0.5 Released (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • org-sync-snippets: export snippets to org-mode and vice versa (Reddit)
  • org – auto capture TODOs from code comments?
  • org-brain – Concept mapping using org-mode (Reddit)
  • My first package: org-edit-latex – edit embedded LaTeX in a dedicated buffer (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • My solution to untabification (Reddit)
  • A simple statically typed language that compiles to JavaScript, Lua, Ruby and “Emacs Lisp” (Reddit)
  • My first package: pippel – manage your python packages easily (Reddit)
  • evil-lion – align operator for evil-mode, port of vim-lion (Reddit)
• Other:
  • The emacs 30 Day Challenge: Using ‘gnus’ to read mail
  • Speedy sorting in dired with dired-quick-sort
  • Name Three Useful Packages You Recently Started Using
  • What are some advanced editing techniques that save you a lot of time?
• New packages:
  • easy-hugo: Package for writing blogs made with hugo
  • evil-lion: Evil align operator, port of vim-lion
  • flycheck-yamllint: Flycheck integration for YAMLLint
  • helm-books: Helm interface for searching books
  • helm-sql-connect: Choose a database to connect to via Helm.
  • ido-flex-with-migemo: use ido with flex and migemo
  • monokai-alt-theme: Theme with a dark background. Based on sublime monokai theme.
  • obfusurl: Obfuscate URLs so they aren’t spoilers
  • org-edit-latex: Edit embedded LaTeX in a dedicated buffer
  • org-sync-snippets: Export snippets to org-mode and vice versa
  • ox-minutes: Plain text backend for Org for Meeting Minutes
  • thinks: Insert text in a think bubble.
  • uptimes: Track and display emacs session uptimes.
  • wotd: Fetch word-of-the-day from multiple online sources

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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