• Emacs Lisp:
  • Ways in which Emacs selects the major mode
  • Keeping your .emacs.d clean
  • Misc functions – save macro, delete span, rename file/buffer, etc. (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Native display of line numbers (Reddit)
  • New command replace-buffer-contents
  • New command-line option –module-assertions
  • Proposed patch: New commands for bulk tracing of elisp functions, including `trace-package` and `trace-regexp`
• Navigation:
  • smart-next-window-or-buffer
  • Some interesting hydras (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Adding keymaps to src blocks via org-font-lock-hook – hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Nuage: a web app to edit your org files (Reddit)
  • Reading for Programmers
• Coding:
  • Not a fan of Emacs Lisp? Hack Emacs in Go! (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Yet another completion engine powered by “git grep” (Reddit)
  • json-navigator, x-path-walker, json-snatcher and all – json support in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Package/tool to mark newly written and uncommitted code
  • Using Emacs – 34 – ibuffer and emmet (Reddit)
• Other:
  • A little trick with EWW
  • Do you run emacs in daemon mode?
• New packages:
  • helm-frame: open helm buffers in a dedicated frame
  • ivy-dired-history: use ivy to open recent directories

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