I shuffled the sections around a bit to emphasize Emacs Lisp and Emacs development, based on John Wiegley's suggestion. Enjoy!

• Beginner:
  • Resources to learn better Emacs editing/movement
  • Using Emacs - 27 - shell and eshell (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Scan text in shell mode
• Emacs development:
  • Discussion of syncing Org in Emacs master, and plans for ELPA in Emacs 26
  • Discussion of defaults for -predicate and -function variables
  • New Gnus command for sorting by read marks - C-c C-s C-m C-m
  • Gnus .newsrc will now be saved only for NNTP select methods
  • car and cdr compositions cXXXr and cXXXXr now part of Emacs Lisp (ex: caddr)
• Org Mode:
  • Tools for making good documentation? Org-mode or some other tools?
  • How to archive all DONE tasks under the current sub-tree
  • Best method for orgmode Google calendar integration?
  • Recommendations for professional quality styling of exported org documents ( PDF, ODT )
  • ob-ipython and inline figures in org-mode
• Evil:
  • Vim Within Emacs: An Anecdotal Guide (Evil without Spacemacs) (Reddit)
  • Evil got a new home (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • eziam-theme: A mostly monochrome color theme, inspired by Tao and Leuven. Comes with dark and light background.
  • flycheck-dialyxir: flycheck checker for elixir dialyxir
  • flycheck-dogma: flycheck checker for elixir dogma
  • fn: Concise anonymous functions for Emacs Lisp
  • frames-only-mode: Use frames instead of Emacs windows
  • fuff: Find files with findutils.
  • hacker-typer: Pretend to write code like a pro
  • inline-docs: Show inline contextual docs.
  • major-mode-icons: display icon for major-mode on mode-line.
  • mmm-jinja2: MMM submode class for Jinja2 Templates
  • org-parser: parse org files into structured datatypes.
  • psgml: SGML-editing mode with parsing support
  • salt-mode: Major mode for Salt States
  • socyl: Frontend for several search tools
  • test-c: quickly test c 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.

Past Emacs News round-ups