• Emacs Lisp:
  • Command to mark single packages for upgrade
  • el-patch: Future-proof your Emacs Lisp customizations! (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Response to the emacshorror.com post on make-temp-name
  • Continued work on possibly using a Gitlab private install for continuous integration testing
  • NEWS file:
    • The arguments LOCKNAME and MUSTBENEW of ‘write-region’ are propagated to file name handlers now
    • New face ‘header-line-highlight’
    • Show number of errors in compilation-mode mode-line
    • Allow async command output buffer to be shown only on output
    • dired-do-delete: Allow to delete dirs recursively without prompts
• Org Mode:
  • What are the best packages / plugins for org mode?
  • Which help forum? (Or, where do the cool kids hang?)
  • org-parser: parses org-files into structured datatypes (Reddit)
  • Generating a word cloud using GNU/Emacs and org-mode (2015)
  • org mode dot emacs
  • Hide :PROPERTIES: drawer
  • New iOS org mode app available
  • Realized that org mode is a rabbit hole
• Coding:
  • Fence Edit
  • ANN: highlight-function-calls-mode (Reddit)
  • Any good Emacs extensions for Java programming?
  • dotnet.el interact with .NET Core CLI
  • Magit:
    • Magit Tutorial – Bisect (Reddit)
    • Magit: Git in Emacs – Grumpy Gits SG 2016 (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Useful packages
  • Rcirc Menu
  • Am I misunderstanding eyebrowse?
  • checking publications with emacs (1:13)
  • demo-it recording
• New packages:
  • amx: Alternative M-x with extra features.
  • cfml-mode: Emacs mode for editing CFML files
  • cftag-mode: Emacs mode for editing tag-based CFML files
  • company-terraform: A company backend for terraform
  • dotnet: Interact with dotnet CLI tool
  • eg: Norton Guide reader
  • exotica-theme: A dark theme with vibrant colors
  • flycheck-popup-tip: Display Flycheck error messages using popup.el
  • hasky-stack: Interface to the Stack Haskell development tool
  • helm-lastpass: Helm interface of LastPass
  • highlight-function-calls: Highlight function/macro calls
  • himp: Automatically hide imports/documentation
  • jump-tree: Treat position history as a tree
  • kaleidoscope: Controlling Kaleidoscope-powered devices.
  • kaleidoscope-evil-state-flash: Flash keyboard LEDs when changing Evil state
  • lms: Squeezebox / Logitech Media Server frontend
  • neato-graph-bar: Neat-o graph bars CPU/memory etc.
  • ob-crystal: org-babel functions for Crystal evaluation
  • org2web: A static site generator based on org mode – renamed from org-webpage
  • outline-toc: Sidebar showing a “table of contents”.
  • pelican-mode: Minor mode for editing Pelican sites
  • rimero-theme: Theme with a dark background suitable for UI and terminal usage.
  • shrink-path: fish-style path
  • vc-msg: Show commit information of current line
  • windwow: simple workspace management
  • yasnippet-snippets: Collection of yasnippet snippets
  • zephir-mode: Major mode for editing Zephir code

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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