• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 25.2 released (Reddit, HN, HN also)
  • Continued work on libnettle/libhogweed WIP
• Emacs Lisp:
  • .emacs bankruptcy and structure
  • elisp for scripting
• Org Mode:
  • helm-org-rifle 1.4.0 released
  • org-sticky-header: Show off-screen Org heading in header line
  • org board
  • Monospace font for Calendar in org-mode, proportional font in main buffer
  • Agenda view with random sorting of the entries
  • Some questions about a songwriting workflow in emacs.
  • Converting org-journal entry to org-page post
• Coding:
  • Patch Emacs to speedup Magit on macOS (Reddit)
  • Inserting shebangs in files
  • Can I have line numbers only show up in the active (focused) window?
  • Productive Emacs: Paredit (19:03, from 2016) – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
• Other:
  • Try Spacemacs directly in the browser! (Reddit)
  • Mail On The emacspeak Audio Desktop
  • How to rebind the meta key for emacs only?
  • tmux-like behavior in Emacs
  • Copying large files in dired
  • State of spell checking in emacs for non English writers
  • Foot pedal recommendations
• New packages:
  • binclock: Display the current time using a binary clock.
  • exsqlaim-mode: Use variables inside sql queries
  • flatui-dark-theme: Dark color theme with colors from https://flatuicolors.com/
  • flow-minor-mode: Flow type mode based on web-mode.
  • frame-mode: Use frames instead of windows
  • lsp-go: Go support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-haskell: Haskell support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-java: Java support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-python: Python support for lsp-mode
  • lsp-rust: Rust support for lsp-mode”

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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