• Emacs Lisp:
  • The absolute awesomeness of anchored font-lock matchers – thanks to Irreal for the link
  • My fancy eshell prompt
  • Emacs Buffers, Windows, and Frames Explained (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • You can now provide explicit field numbers in format specifiers
  • New variable display-raw-bytes-as-hex
  • Renamed –new-daemon to –fg-daemon and –old-daemon to –bg-daemon
• Navigation:
  • evil-goggles – displays a visual hint when editing with evil-mode (Reddit)
  • Introducing sidebar.el, a customizable file explorer with git integration (Reddit)
  • ELPA – dired-du-mode gives recursive directory size in dired mode (Reddit)
  • Workflow with Emacs, many buffers/windows & tiling window manager?
• Org Mode:
  • A shorter shortcut to capture todo tasks
  • Org-mode and ipython enhancements in scimax – thanks to Irreal for the link
  • Querying RESTful webservices into Emacs orgmode tables
  • Lessons learned when creating a GitHub Wiki using orgmode files (Reddit)
  • org-toggl
• Coding:
  • Emacs cafe: Indium 0.6 is out! – JavaScript development environment
  • Enhance diff-mode with Ivy
  • gited.el: : A Dired like interface for Git (Reddit)
  • YASnippet is a nice tool! You can make customizable, dynamic code snippets.
• Other:
  • Soji wrapper for Emacs – Pomodoro, note-taking, meditation, reading (Reddit) – see also bash script
  • emacs setups on windows
• New packages:
  • auto-minor-mode: Enable minor modes by file name and contents
  • dired-du: Dired with recursive directory sizes
  • gift-mode: major mode for editing GIFT format quizzes
  • jemdoc-mode: Major mode for editing jemdoc files
  • json-navigator: View and navigate JSON structures
  • kmb: Kill buffers matching a regexp w/o confirmation
  • org-edna: Extensible Dependencies ‘N’ Actions
  • orgnav: Org tree navigation using helm
  • pfuture: a simple wrapper around asynchronous processes
  • postcss-sorting: postcss-sorting interface
  • prettier-js: Minor mode to format JS code on file save
  • qt-pro-mode: Qt Pro/Pri major 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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