• Emacs Lisp:
  • Measuring Package Load Times
  • Migrating to Spacemacs Layers
  • customizing the new native line numbers in emacs master (Reddit)
  • What are some useful, potentially unknown libraries that you use?
  • Recommendation for a package that has a well written lisp code ?
  • (Screencast) Building A Little UI To Manage Buffers
  • Dynamic modules:
    • An Emacs zeromq library using an ffi
    • Zeromq bindings for Emacs via dynamic modules
    • Adding linear algebra to Emacs with the GSL and dynamic modules
    • Adding GSL constants to Emacs in a dynamic module
• Emacs development:
  • Native line numbers landed on master (Reddit)
  • Emacs Dev: GNU Savannah vs Gitlab
  • Want to get started with Emacs dev? Try these documentation tasks
  • Discussion about improving GNU ELPA
  • Magit and Emacs:
    • Jonas Bernoulli on Magit and Emacs
    • Some debate on LWM why Magit was not shipped with Emacs yet. (Reddit)
    • ELI5: FSF copyright assignment
  • News:
    • Make combinations of :width/:max-height image specs work reliably
    • GnuTLS HMAC and symmetric cipher support
    • Do not convert ij and IJ to compatibility chars
    • Remove Turkish ligatures from Dutch input method
    • Minor tweaks of new line number display variables
    • Add an optional testfn parameter to assoc
• Appearance:
  • base16: The holy grail of emacs theming? (Reddit)
  • Zen Mode – distraction free editing (small hack) (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs Org + GTD Inbox: How do you use it?
  • Syncing org files to Android (Orgzly) with Tasker, Termux and git (Reddit)
  • org-duration-format and other clock-related settings
  • Emacs master now updated to Org 9.0.9 (Reddit)
  • Two Ways To Share Static Key Pair Values Across Different Tangled Source Files With Org-Mode Literate Programming
  • Remove Every Source Block Results
• IRC:
  • rcirc omit mode
  • Bitlbee, Twitter, and Bold
• Other:
  • Favorite editing tricks or keybindings
  • Collapse unique nested paths in dired with dired-collapse-mode
  • Self-contained/relocatable/portable emacs24 for linux?
  • Looking For Tips On Making Emacs Screencasts
  • Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust (Hacker News)
  • These Weeks in Remacs II (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • all-the-icons-gnus: Shows icons for in Gnus
  • calfw-cal: calendar view for emacs diary
  • calfw-howm: calendar view for howm
  • calfw-ical: calendar view for ical format
  • calfw-org: calendar view for org-agenda
  • config-general-mode: Config::General config file mode
  • dired-collapse: Collapse unique nested paths in dired listing
  • helm-ghs: ghs with helm interface
  • inverse-acme-theme: A theme that looks like an inverse of Acme’s color scheme.
  • ob-coffeescript: org-babel functions for Coffee evaluation
  • paste-of-code: paste code on https://paste.ofcode.org
  • poly-ruby: Provides poly-ruby-mode
  • proportional: use a proportional font everywhere
  • underline-with-char: Underline with a char
  • yarn-mode: Major mode for yarn.lock files.

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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