• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs is easy if you read code (Reddit)
  • Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence (2014)
  • Preferred syntax for defining keys
  • Emacs init performance analysis
  • macshax – Extensible macro system similar to god-mode or evil-mode
• Emacs development:
  • Length of Emacs NEWS file by version (Reddit)
  • New behavior of mark-defun
  • New minor mode pixel-scroll-mode
  • Variable old-style-backquotes renamed and made internal
  • DNS lookup commands can now specify name server
  • New variable column-number-indicator-zero-based
• Navigation:
  • Save window layouts with ivy-view
  • Support for imenu in dired – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • NeoTree: Open default system application on a file under point.
  • Emacs navigate backwards and forwards?
• Coding:
  • Webpaste 1.4.0 released!
  • Can somebody share their c++ workflow.
  • Suggestions: Smartparens with AucTex ?
  • Version control:
    • Magithub is now hub-independent! Important instructions for existing users…
    • How to manage multiple git-repositories at once with magit/emacs?
  • Javascript:
    • How to find all unused functions in JS buffers
    • Setting up Emacs for JavaScript (part #2)
  • Python:
    • elpy for python data science/analysis?
    • Pseudo-custom infix operators in Python.
    • While using Python for interactive data analysis, how to send a paragraph to shell then step? – comments have more tips
• Other:
  • Emacs.el Episode 6 – Charles Lowell
  • Emacs is sexy (Hacker News)
  • Flycheck integration for vale, a natural language linter. (Reddit)
  • froscon12 lisp open emacs workshop (1:48:23)
  • ledger/ledger-mode tips and tricks?
  • How I setup emacs daemon and client to work with graphical file manager (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • all-the-icons-ivy: Shows icons while using ivy and counsel
  • editorconfig-charset-extras: Extra EditorConfig Charset Support
  • ghub+: a thick GitHub API client built on ghub
  • ob-blockdiag: org-babel functions for blockdiag evaluation

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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