Update: Added Paris meetup, Apr 18

• Emacs Lisp:
  • How to ensure that lexical binding won’t break my code?
  • tui.el: An experimental text-based UI framework for Emacs modeled after React – requires emacs 26.1
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs 26.2 released (Reddit, HN)
  • What is new Emacs 26.2 | Linux Softpedia
  • Emacs stable releases (including 26.2) on Ubuntu : Kevin Kelley
  • Bump minimum GTK versions to 2.24 and 3.10
  • Rename new user variable `next-error-verbosity’ to `next-error-verbose’
  • * lisp/simple.el (shell-command-width): New defcustom.
  • * lisp/help-fns.el (help-fns-describe-variable-functions): New hook
  • Make `next-error’ output fewer messages about locus
  • Bring back dmpstruct.h
  • * etc/NEWS: Document js-jsx-align->-with-<
  • * etc/NEWS: Document way to revert to old JSX indentation behavior
• Emacs configuration:
  • Which Emacs distrib do you use?
  • Centaur Emacs – A Fancy and Fast Emacs Configuration (Reddit)
  • Sanemacs is a minimal Emacs configuration designed to get out of your way (Reddit)
  • Installing and getting started with Spacemacs (video tutorial) (Reddit)
  • Better Defaults for Emacs
• Appearance:
  • icons-in-terminal: propertize Icon Fonts in both GUI and TUI with Emacs (Reddit)
  • smart-mode-line: colors, a prefix feature, and smart truncation
  • powerline: Emacs version of the Vim powerline.
  • Centaur Emacs integrates colorful icons (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • bird-mode: Birds eye view for your emacs buffers. (Reddit)
  • zop-to-char: A visual zap-to-char command for Emacs.
  • bookmark+: Various improvements to the standard ‘bookmark.el’.
  • browse-kill-ring: For when ‘C-y M-y M-y M-y’ gets you down
  • easy-kill: Kill & Mark Things Easily in Emacs
  • emacs-purpose: Manage Windows and Buffers According to Purposes
  • counsel-projectile: selecting and applying an action without leaving the completion session.
  • frog-jump-buffer: Hop to any Emacs buffer in 2-3 key strokes – avy via frog-menu
  • ace-jump-buffer: avy and the native bs buffer menu that lets you hop to Emacs buffers in 2-3 key strokes.
  • Emacs Rocks! Episode 09: expand-region
• Evil Mode:
  • lispyville: lispy + evil = lispyville
  • evil-tabs: Vim-style tabs for Evil mode users.
  • evil-escape: Customizable key sequence to escape from insert state and everything else in Emacs.
• Org Mode:
  • Publishing a leanpub book using org-mode – Lakshmi Narasimhan
  • org-bookmark-heading: Bookmark headings in org-mode files and jump to them using standard Emacs bookmark commands
  • Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
  • The compact Org-mode Guide: Clean view
  • org-fit: A “fitness tracking utility” (i.e. Strava/Runkeeper) based on org format. and inspired by Runalyze
  • Org Mode productivity:
    • Change the current time in Org-mode
    • Agenda, and the Benfit of Having Multiple Files
    • Plan Your Day: Daily Time Management With Emacs, Org-Mode, and Google Calendar
    • My experiences with ‘Org-Cal’ and why it failed to meet my needs
    • Going paperless, replacing my notebooks and journals with 1’s and 0’s
  • Org Babel:
    • Introduction to Org Babel
    • ob-sql-mode: sql-mode backend for Org Babel
    • Airtable Expense Logging with Ledger Mode and Org Babel – Levi Tan Ong
    • Literate Programming with Org-mode
    • FUN – Recherche reproductible : principes methodologiques pour une science transparente
    • Solution – Run/eval mysql in org babel source block
  • Org Mode videos:
    • Emacs Org-mode: Organizing a Scientist’s Life and Work by Prof. Carsten Dominik (52:44)
    • EmacsCast Episode 8: Writing in Emacs and Org mode, part 1
    • Orgmode TV – A new episode – YouTube
    • Orgmode TV – News about the future plans – YouTube
  • Org Mode and other platforms:
    • Kulfon: Convert Org-Mode to HTML Without Emacs
    • org-rs – Org parser rewrite in Rust (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Compilation database – A must-have if you are using Language Server Protocol client/server
  • Emacs vs. WebStorm For Node.js Development
  • ahk-mode: A major mode for editing AutoHotkey scripts (.ahk).
  • Let’s Code – 202 – Emacs (11:56)
  • Version control:
    • Magit: How to quickly view the history of a file like in Google Docs? (Reddit)
    • View of listing last commits of each file like GitHub repo file list (in dired or Magit)?
  • Completion:
    • emacs-racer: Rust Auto-Complete-er
    • company-frame: A company extension, which let company use child frame as its candidate menu. (Reddit)
    • ac-dcd: Auto completion for Emacs using DCD: the D completion daemon
  • Databases:
    • edbi: ‘Emacs Database Interface’ – deal with multiple databases in a uniform way.
    • SQL workflows inside emacs anyone have a nice setup ?
    • sqlup-mode.el: An emacs minor mode to upcase SQL keyword and functions
  • Web development:
    • skewer-reload-stylesheets: Emacs minor-mode for live-editing CSS, SCSS, Less and other stylesheets
    • jsSlime – An emacs interface to webkit and mozilla debuggers
  • Clojure:
    • How to Use Emacs, an Excellent Clojure Editor | Clojure for the Brave and True
    • clojure-lsp: A language server for clojure (Reddit)
• Music:
  • Playing music using mpsyt from Emacs – Noetic Nought
  • pulseaudio-control: Control PulseAudio volumes from Emacs, via `pactl`.
• Mail:
  • Practical guide to use Gnus with Gmail
  • Mu/mu4e 1.2 Available
• Community:
  • Paris Emacs meetup, Apr 18
  • First McMaster Emacs Meetup ;; Hamilton ;; Ontario (1:03:52)
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • Norwescon 33 – Vernor Vinge, an Emacs user – incl. a screenshot of him editing his novel in Emacs
  • What’s your job? What’s your daily emacs workflow?
• Other:
  • Emacs cheatsheet (Reddit)
  • wmii-el: elisp-based config and manipulation of wmii, a good alternative to StumpWm
  • fountain-mode: Emacs major mode for screenwriting in Fountain plaintext markup
  • My Emacs Workflow: projects, navigation, editing (16:25)
  • god-mode: Global minor mode for entering Emacs commands without modifier keys
  • uptimes.el: Uptime tracking system for emacs.
  • Watch pdf-tools in action – Video Dailymotion
  • kiwix.el: Search offline Wikipedia/Project Gutenberg/TED Talks through Kiwix HTTP Server
  • Emacs 26.2 on WSL with working X-Windows UI
  • Ben’s Journal: The Embarrassingly Simple Source for An Up To Date Windows Version of emacs
  • Wrapping up the Emacs on Mac OS X saga
  • Start Emacs server as a systemd unit | Archlinux wiki
  • A discussion of the desire for internationalization and localization
• New packages:
  • smalltalk-mode: Major mode for the GNU Smalltalk programming language
  • shelisp: execute elisp in shell
  • eev: Support for e-scripts (eepitch blocks, elisp hyperlinks, etc)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, /r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.