• Emacs Lisp:
  • Synthesising Elisp Code – input + desired output -> Emacs Lisp function suggestions
  • Getting your head around Emacs Lisp macros (Reddit)
  • Using yasnippet programmatically
  • Hierarchy.el
  • Discovering free keybindings – unbound, free-keys
  • Emulating Sparql queries in emacs-lisp with pattern matching (from April)
• Emacs development:
  • Native line numbers, final testing (Reddit)
  • Work on touch events
  • Continued discussion of format strings and internationalization
  • New functions related to shr
  • Electric quotes: Improve support for Markdown mode
  • New dired-do-shell-command substitution: ? replaced by current file name
  • describe-key-briefly now ignores mouse movement
  • Escape NUL bytes in X selections
  • Hide byte code in backtrace
• Navigation:
  • Ivy, Counsel, and Swiper (from April; thanks to Irreal for the link)
  • Looking for navigable stack of points. – back-button
• Org Mode:
  • Five Useful Org-Mode Features – thanks to Irreal for the link
  • Orgmode for GTD
  • Org2Blog v1.0.0 Released!
  • Would anyone be interested in mathematical documentation written in org?
• Coding:
  • Managing code with Outlines (Reddit)
  • Python flycheck, what are the best choices?
  • Version control:
    • Announcing commit-msg-prefix.
    • vcs-msg (Show commit message of current line, support Perforce and other alien VCS)
    • Git hub comment integration – ah-github
    • Use emacs to browse commit diffs – magit-log-buffer-file
• Other:
  • The Emacs Confessional Booth. Post your sins here, and you will be forgiven.
  • Professional programmers, did you ever need to give up your config?
  • Episode 7 – Jorgen Schäfer
  • Using Emacs 35 – Blogging
  • Recommended upgrades to Emacs’ autosave?
• New packages:
  • livereload: Livereload server
  • lockfile-mode: Major mode for .lock files
  • magit-tbdiff: Magit extension for git-tbdiff

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