• Emacs Lisp:
  • Using Emacs 36 – A Touch of Elisp (Reddit)
  • Optimising Dash.el (Reddit)
  • Data-Binding In Emacs Lisp: let-alist When Processing JSON Data
  • Request: The Future of PHP Mode (TL;DR Near Bottom)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Abelardo Jara-Berrocal from Intel (Ergoemacs, helm-fonts, Spacemacs or Prelude) (Reddit)
  • QuickStart Tutorial for Emacs Newbies with Doom Configs (Reddit)
  • How to have byte-compiled very fast to start .emacs with use-package and package.el (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • News:
    • Dired: Handle posix wildcards in directory part
    • password-data is now a hash-table
    • New function define-symbol-prop
    • New function cl-generic-p
    • New commands apropos-local-variable and apropos-local-value
  • Community support:
    • Sustainable Emacs development – some thoughts and analysis
    • Make Emacs Pay What You Want
  • Progress on clarifying the licenses used by elisp packages
  • Propose to add emacs support on netlify build (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • outline-toc.el: a table-of-contents sidebar for outline, markdown, org, etc. (Reddit)
  • Managing/switching between many files at a time in Emacs
  • hydra.el@london.el (Reddit)
  • Yet Another Ag Hydra
• Org Mode:
  • Changing the format of Org-mode clock reports
  • Is there some script I can use to set a default schedule and deadline to my TODO tasks?
  • I have started working on Orgmode ODT exporter after a long gap – fork, will not be upstream
  • How Fast Can You Tangle In Org-Mode?
  • Org-Mode Documents Can Generate PDFs Which Include Any Data Including Themselves
• Coding:
  • Emacs Feature Branch Tip – current state to branch in Magit; hat-tip to Irreal for the link
  • Emacs cafe: Indium 0.7 is out!
• Mail:
  • The configuration procedure for emacs + notmuch + offlineimap
  • Select an account from ~/.authinfo.gpg to send mail in gnus
  • Quickly send a git-format patch with message-mode or gnus (Reddit)
• Other:
  • ‘Using Emacs’ series (Hacker News)
  • What Are You Currently Developing in Emacs Lisp?
  • Sanitize buffer by replacing words with random words of same length (Reddit)
  • use Emacs to create a research compendium for reproducible research (contributions welcome) (Reddit)
  • TimoB: Emacs – Beating the Learning Curve (Reddit) – in German
  • Building Emacs 25.2 on XUbuntu 17.04
• New packages:
  • cnfonts: A simple Chinese fonts config tool
  • elvish-mode: Defines a major mode for Elvish
  • evil-test-helpers: unit test helpers for Evil
  • flycheck-inline: Display flycheck error messages with inline popup style.
  • flycheck-pycheckers: multiple syntax checker for Python
  • isortify: (automatically) format python buffers using isort.
  • ivy-pass: ivy interface for pass
  • magit-imerge: Magit extension for git-imerge
  • org-category-capture: Contextualy capture of org-mode TODOs.
  • org-projectile-helm: helm functions for org-projectile
  • org-super-agenda: Supercharge your agenda
  • pyim: A Chinese input method which support quanpin, shuangpin, wubi and cangjie.
  • pyim-basedict: The default pinyin dict of pyim
  • pyim-cangjie5dict: Some cangjie5 dicts for pyim
  • pyim-greatdict: A pyim dict, which include three million words.
  • pyim-wbdict: Some wubi dicts for pyim
  • snoopy: minor mode for number row unshifted character insertion

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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