• Emacs Lisp:
  • Quickly loading and finding your elisp files
  • cl-defstruct and defclass now makes new types (Reddit)
  • Fuzzy matching for hippie-expand (Reddit)
  • Object-oriented font-lock in Emacs (Reddit)
  • use package vs require
  • Are emacs package repositories a security risk?
• Emacs development:
  • Continued work on continuous integration
  • Discussion on package security auditing and isolation
  • New tramp-change-syntax command
  • copy-record deprecated in favor of copy-sequence
  • write-region, append-to-file, etc. now output number of characters added
  • Unicode special casing and special sigma casing rule
  • mhtml-mode is now default mode for *.html files
• Navigation:
  • Ivy 0.9.0 is Out (Reddit)
  • How do you use the select.el package? Share some examples. (Reddit)
  • “Dragging” a line
• Org Mode:
  • A better return in org-mode
  • Writing a book with emacs org-mode and Leanpub – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Good collection of themes for an org based blog?
  • Org mode and Anki – see also org-drill or pamparam
• Coding:
  • Using dired, magit, and some elisp for a Dropbox+git workflow
  • How to grab “bootstrap glyphicon list” using mozilla/firefox and emacs/multiple-cursors (1:27)
• Other:
  • Make Emacs a bit quieter
  • Pasting with the mouse without moving the point – mouse-yank-at-point
  • Automatically revert buffers
  • Emacs April 2017 Meetup @ Skills Matter (Reddit)
  • Spreadsheets: is there a de facto “good one”, or what are the pros/cons?
  • How Can I Create a Screencast of an Emacs Session?
  • Lastpass command wrapper for Emacs with interactive manager and auth-source (Reddit)
  • Playing around in Emacs and Helm (4:26)
• New packages:
  • ac-rtags: auto-complete back-end for RTags
  • challenger-deep-theme: Orbit Theme
  • company-rtags: RTags back-end for company
  • flycheck-rtags: RTags Flycheck integration.
  • helm-rtags: A front-end for rtags
  • ivy-rtags: RTags completion back-end for ivy
  • kubernetes-evil: Kubernetes keybindings for evil-mode.
  • meson-mode: Major mode for the Meson build system files
  • symbol-overlay: Highlighting symbols with keymap-enabled overlays
  • terminal-here: Run an external terminal in current directory
  • waf-mode: Waf integration for Emacs

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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