• Emacs development:
  • New user option mouse-drag-and-drop-region
  • New dns-mode command for IPv6 address conversion
  • “Possibly improving the load time further: Changing the .elc file format to a binary one.” (Reddit)
  • Lots of discussion around localization, summary
• Beginner:
  • Any blogs, tutorials, guides, screencasts, etc. you guys would suggest?
• Navigation:
  • Snippet Search cheat.sh Using Ivy
  • Have counsel-ag and counsel-projectile-ag open in a clickable links buffer like igrep
• Org Mode:
  • A new iPhone Org-mode app
  • Fontify broken links in org-mode – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Fontify done checkbox items in org-mode – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Org mode tables, exporting only specific columns
  • It is possible to display numbers at the beginning of headerlines instead of asterisks when editing org-mode?
  • Extending Org-Mode’s org-export-as-odt function to convert directly to Microsoft Word docx format on Windows 10
  • Any way to extract a PDF’s contents to use in orgs mode? – note about interleave
  • emacs-freex, org-brain – hat-tip to ThierryStoehr for the links
• Coding:
  • Is there a good solution to relative line numbering?
  • pyplotter – Python IDE for working with plots and data
  • Open license for Emacs configuration files
• Other:
  • What are some packages you once used but have found a better alternative?
  • The surprisingly simple path to a foot powered emacs
  • How can I permanently highlight blocks of text?
  • Evil mode users, do you bind CAPS LOCK to ESC or CTRL? – neat tip for using xcape to bind short/long press
  • Reformatting Tabular Data
  • Use wgrep and evil to replace text efficiently
  • Using less inside of M-x shell – eless, other workarounds
  • Tips for syncing GNUs messages (and emacs in general) across multiple computers?
  • rectangular cut/paste, overwrite mode, ascii-art diagrams – picture-mode
  • straight.el – source based package manager for Emacs (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • counsel-spotify: Control Spotify search and select music with Ivy.
  • nubox: Nubox color theme (dark, light and tty versions)
  • ob-uart: org-babel support for UART communication
  • shx: “Extras” for the (comint-mode) shell

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