• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial Series => the learning path I wanted to read while I was getting started (Reddit) – from March 2017
  • The Complete Emacs Course – Udemy
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Making eshell your own (Reddit)
  • “Isolated” and “reproducible” Emacs environment for emacs –script?
  • Anonymous function macro in elisp (Reddit)
  • Unsecured remote code evaluation. Fun but dangerous!
  • Elisp – How long have you maintained a package? – a few tips in the comments
  • How do leader keys, hydra, and general.el differ? Use cases?
• Emacs development:
  • A proof concept of built-in multiple fake cursors. (Reddit)
  • “a small patch that adds some touch event handling to Emacs. Currently it only works on macOS” (Reddit)
  • Provide additional support for child frames
  • html2text now marked obsolete
  • Don’t put deleted packages in the trash
  • Native display of line numbers, improved
• Org Mode:
  • Literate programming:
    • Using org-mode to write about computer programming (Reddit)
    • Maybe The Four Most Important Key-Bindings For High-Speed Org-Mode Literate Programming
  • LaTeX:
    • Preview LaTeX Fragments in Org Src Buffer with org-edit-latex (Reddit)
    • Using org-modes tables inside of LaTeX (Reddit)
  • Blogging:
    • Auto-Loading Org2Blog Mode
    • An Emacs Blogging Workflow (Reddit) – Hugo tools
  • Links:
    • Article – How to add extra attributes to link in Org-mode?
    • Insert internal org-mode links the ivy way
    • org-brain v. 0.4: Major changes to concept map package (Reddit)
  • Protecting Line Breaks from Fill
  • Make M-RET better in Org Mode
  • If you use orgzly, how do you sync your Emacs org mode with it?
• Coding:
  • Multiple choices in yasnippets
  • Best way to read JavaScript documentation (e.g., MDN) within Emacs?
  • Pretty Magit – Integrating commit leaders (Reddit)
  • My epiphany this morning: Save your current working directory to a file (Reddit)
  • company-rofi – using rofi as a frontend for company-mode completion
  • Smarter clang-format In Emacs
• Other:
  • OSX – If you’re not already using the railwaycat port of emacs, you should go ahead and make that happen
  • TIL: evil-buffer-regexps
  • Just happy that I can use Emacs at work now
  • Does anyone following the Emacs updates which Sacha is doing for years? (Reddit) – aww, shucks =)
  • The Lisp machine and GNU – LibrePlanet 2017 (Reddit) – see comments for link to Org file
  • ELPA packages included in the new release of Debian (Reddit)
  • Recorded a video about how I configure my Emacs (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • bifocal: Split-screen scrolling for comint-mode buffers
  • dad-joke: Get/display dad jokes
  • flycheck-clang-analyzer: Integrate Clang Analyzer with flycheck
  • flycheck-julia: Julia support for Flycheck
  • github-modern-theme: The GitHub color theme for Emacs.
  • hugsql-ghosts: Display ghostly hugsql defqueries inline
  • ob-fsharp: Org-Babel F#
  • ob-rust: org-babel functions for rust evaluation
  • org-link-minor-mode: Enable org-mode links in non-org modes
  • org-static-blog: a simple org-mode based static blog generator
  • pasp-mode: – A major mode for editing Answer Set Programs.

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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