• Upcoming events:
  • Livestream: Keeping organized with Emacs and Orgmode, by Henrique Castro – Thu Jan 14 1030H EST / 1530H UTC / 1630H CET / 2100H IST / 2330H +08
  • EmacsFFM: Creating our own major mode (virtual) – Wed Jan 20 1400H EST / 1900H UTC / 2000H CET / Thu Jan 21 0030H IST / 0300H +08
  • Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, January 23, 2021
• Beginner:
  • A Vim user's introduction to Emacs (March 2020)
  • 5 Reasons to Learn Emacs in 2021 (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Witchmacs: My emacs configuration files
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Current Emacs commit revisited
  • Introduction to Emacs Lisp – Fundamentals (LIVE 1/8 9:15 am PST) (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • New command xref-quit-and-pop-marker-stack
  • Fix incompleteness in the implementation of minibuffer-follows-selected-frame
  • Respect message-forward-ignored-headers more
  • Default python-shell-interpreter to python3
  • Add support for ‘process-attributes' on OpenBSD
  • Add support for flat buttons
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el: Improve tab-bar-show (bug#45556)
  • Add a display-buffer window selection function that's more like XEmacs
  • * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-tab-name-format-function): New defcustom.
  • Pretty-print keys without <> around modifiers (bug#45536)
  • perl-mode: Display here-docs as strings instead of comments
• Appearance:
  • Ben Simon: Seeing All The Pretty Colors: optimizing emacs + screen + Secure Shell Chrome App
• Navigation:
  • ffipf – quickly jump to file in a project with a native module (Reddit)
  • [ANN] ‘xref-rst' for reStructuredText cross-references on melpa (Reddit)
  • Dired-auto-readme – Automatically display Readme files in dired buffers. (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • [ANN] elegant-agenda-mode landed on MELPA (Reddit)
  • org-menu: A discoverable menu for Emacs org-mode using transient (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Group Tags in Org-mode
  • org-msg 3.1 HTML email composer has been published
  • Corwin Brust: The Automation Begins
  • ox-bb, Org exporter for BBCode
  • Uniorg — I wrote an org-mode parser for js
  • Corwin Brust: Overdozing Rx
• Completion:
  • Selectrum, Prescient, Consult, Embark – getting started
  • Emacs: completion framework (Embark, Consult, Orderless, etc.) (Reddit, post)
  • Emacs: Embark and my extras (Reddit)
  • My selectrum, prescient, consult and embark configuration
  • tycho garen: Better Company
• Coding:
  • [Tutorial] Configuring Emacs as a Clojure IDE – LSP Mode (Reddit)
  • Emacs – Guile Hacker Handbook (also in French)
  • Emacs as your code-compass: how related are these modules?
  • Rust por encima, comparando con erlang (Includes configuring Emacs for Rust)
• Mail and news:
  • Managing Multiple Email Accounts with mu4e – Emacs Mail (Reddit)
• Evil Mode:
  • Introducing Plus-Minus: working on numbers like Vim
• Doom Emacs:
  • spacemacs_module_for_doom: Aim to port spacemacs features (defaults keybinding, transient state and layers) to doom, and provides a spacemacs module for doom.
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • I am very impressed by the reactivity and the care that the lsp-dart team gives to issues (Reddit)
  • Some more analysis of the 2020 Emacs User Survey
• Finance:
  • Anyone using Emacs for trading?
  • helm-coinmarketcap: Search cryptocurrency prices using Coinmarketcap and show them with helm
  • chartprog.el shows the Chart watchlist and gets quotes within Emacs
• Other:
  • The best sources to master Emacs
  • Keeping the Focus with Eww, Elfeed & Keepass
  • Ben Simon: hbo-blogger.el: A Simple Strategy for Editing Blogger posts in emacs
  • jwz: “Very much do not have my Emacs setup just how I like it” [how to configure `display-buffer` to be like XEmacs?]​ (Reddit)
  • Emacs on the Go (and on a Linux phone)
  • Emacs ⇒ Quran ∧ Bible (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Using Emacs to fix automatically generated subtitle timestamps
  • coin-ticker-mode: Emacs minor mode for showing the price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies.
  • A new snapshot build of Emacs 28.0.50 for Windows is available
  • Tory Anderson: Binding keypad numbers for exwm screen shifting
  • Tory Anderson: Adding a new monitor to my exwm setup
  • Configuración de Jabber en Emacs
• New packages:
  • counsel-ag-popup: Interactive search with counsel-ag
  • dtb-mode: Show device tree souce in dtbs
  • transient-posframe: Using posframe to show transient
  • wikinforg: Org-mode wikinfo integration
  • xref-rst: Lookup reStructuredText symbols

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