• Configuration:
  • Advice for .emacs.d refresh? How often do you guys rework your configs?
  • Doom: an emacs.d to espouse and surpass vim in any way possible (Reddit)
  • ohai-emacs starter config – from spacemacs jealousy Reddit thread
  • Whats the most useful plugin you couldn’t live without?
• Emacs development:
  • New emacsclient option -T/–tramp can edit remote files
  • New single line horizontal scrolling mode – from this Reddit request
  • New commands: find-library-other-window, find-library-other-frame
  • Reimplemented module functions
  • Enhanced mode-line percentage offset facility, with “%o” and “%q”
  • New variable eval-expression-print-maximum-character prevents large integers from being displayed as characters
  • smerge-refine-regions can refine regions in separate buffers
  • Emacs memory consumption
  • Status of emacs-25 branch
  • The Dude Abides – old comments
• Navigation:
  • imenu-anywhere: ido/ivy/helm imenu tag selection across buffers with the same mode/project etc
  • PSA: If you’re using window-numbering consider switching to winum
  • Fast buffer switching
• Org Mode:
  • Never used Emacs before–can I pick up Org mode quickly? Tips in comments
  • Syntax Highlighting with Pygments for Org-mode Src Blocks (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Smerge mode
  • PnP JavaScript REPL
  • Rtags is great
• Other:
  • emacswiki down since yesterday ?
  • Some emacs-devel humor
  • Emacs 25 on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Reddit)
  • The comforting Emacs environment (personal story of the day)
  • Screencast – Introducing Emacs (Reddit)
  • History of Emacs and vi keys (2010) – (Hacker News)
• New packages:
  • ceylon-mode: Major mode for editing Ceylon source code
  • flycheck-coverity: Integrate Coverity with flycheck
  • flycheck-vale: flycheck integration for vale
  • php-cs-fixer: php-cs-fixer wrapper.
  • shr-tag-pre-highlight: Syntax highlighting code block in HTML
  • slstats: Acquire and display stats about Second Life
  • vdiff-magit: magit integration for vdiff

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.

Past Emacs News round-ups