• Emacs Lisp:
  • An Elisp Introduction
  • Developing Elisp
  • Emacs Lisp Development Tools
  • Organizing personal Emacs Lisp code
• Emacs development:
  • Enchant is now supported as a spell-checker
  • Don’t adjust CRLF in file names
  • Rename `no-delete-other-window’ to `no-delete-other-windows’
  • New major mode less-css-mdode for editing Less files
  • Continued discussion of package-initialize
  • Checking if there’s interest in refactoring flymake
• Dired:
  • Case-Insensitive Sorting in Dired on OS X
  • do we have something like vimv? (Reddit) – PSA, wdired rocks.
• Navigation:
  • Never Too Late To Learn `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers’
  • Tips for navigating a large code base
• Org Mode:
  • CFT – Capture items from Pocket reading list to Org mode
  • Org refile/navigation hydra
  • Automatically Tangling Generated Code for Export / Exporting Code Generated from Tables
  • MathJax Support In Org2Blog
• Other:
  • What’s your coolest Emacs find as of recent?
  • Set up a shortcut to insert a symbol
  • Yet another emacs terminal emulator (Reddit)
  • A simple script that re-indexes emails using mu and sends a desktop notification if new emails are detected. (Reddit)
  • straight.el – Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker
  • Text Editor Performance Comparison (Emacs turns up respectable numbers) (Reddit)
  • The highlight.el library
• Non-Emacs things:
  • … I can make the games I’m developing be more like Emacs with this: Minibuffer Console (Reddit)
  • Emacsy browser extensions
  • bit of history – multics emacs extension writer’s guide (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • copy-file-on-save: Copy file on save, automatic deployment it.
  • old-norse-input: An input method for Old Norse
  • org-mind-map: Creates a directed graph from org-mode files
  • outrespace: c++ namespace utility functions
  • quiz: Multiple choice quiz game
  • rcirc-menu: A menu of all your rcirc connections
  • helm-ebdb: Helm integration for EBDB
  • ebdb-i18n-chn: China-specific internationalization support for EBDB
  • ebdb-gnorb: Utilities for connecting EBDB to Gnorb
  • ebdb: Contact management package
  • counsel-ebdb: Counsel integration for EBDB
  • company-ebdb: company-mode completion backend for EBDB in message-mode

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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