• Emacs Lisp:
  • Test interactive Emacs commands easily with with-simulated-input (Reddit)
  • Generic tree traversal tools for Emacs Lisp
  • TeX-parse-macro
  • John Wiegley and Sacha Chua on use-package
  • emacshorrors: make-temp-name
  • Minimal Spacemacs like evil + emacs configuration. mostly scala development with ensime. (Reddit)
  • recommend a nice tutorial about emacs face system
  • Config: One large file or many smaller ones? Thoughts?
  • Overloading mathematical operators in elisp
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs and Magit – LWN.net (Hacker News)
  • Add ‘rx’ pattern for pcase
  • Enable GUI Emacs without ‘make install’ on macOS
  • Signal error for symbol names with strange quotes
  • Add a minor mode interface for display-line-numbers
  • Emacs now obeys the X resource “scrollBar” at startup
  • New variable ‘executable-prefix-env’ for inserting magic signatures
  • Grep commands will now use GNU grep’s ‘–null’ option if available
  • Allow user control on what starts and ends a paragraph for bidi
  • alist-get: Add optional arg TESTFN
• Appearance:
  • New package: mixed-pitch for mixing variable and fixed pitch fonts
  • Icons for Emacs (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • A New Blog Post Searching Protocol – using counsel-git-grep to simplify linking to old posts
  • Using pandoc to import a Wikipedia page to org mode
  • ANN: org-web-tools (Reddit)
  • ANN: org-super-agenda (Reddit)
  • Building Org Development version (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Emacs as JavaScript IDE in 2017 – which tools do you use?
  • What is the best practice for coding react-native use emacs?
  • Emacs auto commit with magit
• Other:
  • Considering Colemak. As an Emacs/EVIL (vim) user. How is it?
  • How to increase granularity of undo?
  • Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Terminal and shell performance (Reddit)
  • What text would you recommend for really learning Emacs?
  • Some of the features that make Emacs a good choice of editor for bidirectional (‘bidi’) text (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • a: Associative data structure functions
  • csound-mode: A major mode for interacting and coding Csound
  • docker-compose-mode: major mode for editing docker-compose files
  • dut-mode: Major mode for the Dut programming language
  • eve-mode: Major mode for editing Eve documents.
  • gitpatch: Git-format patch toolkit
  • gnus-select-account: Select an account before writing a mail in gnus
  • iqa: Init file(and directory) Quick Access.
  • letterbox-mode: hide sensitive text on a buffer
  • mac-pseudo-daemon: Daemon mode that plays nice with Mac OS.
  • mixed-pitch: Use a variable pitch, keeping fixed pitch where it’s sensible
  • noaa: Get NOAA weather data
  • opencc: 中文简繁转换 <-> 中文簡繁轉換 (Convert Chinese with OpenCC)
  • pamparam: Simple and fast flashcards.
  • rib-mode: RenderMan® Interface Bytestream (RIB) Major Mode
  • treepy: Generic tree traversing tools
  • with-simulated-input: A macro to simulate user input non-interactively

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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