• Org Mode:
  • Sorting an org-mode table
  • Using categories to organize your Org agenda
  • Rails remote console in emacs and org-mode
  • Open a section in org-file programmatically
  • Change the color of the TODO keyword you use to mark tasks that are in progress.
  • Advanced Usage of Dependencies Between Tasks Using org-depend.el (Reddit)
  • Org-mode babel is cool
• Coding:
  • indent-tools: navigate in yaml, indent python etc by blocks of indentation
  • git-elisp-overview: Git-related Emacs packages (Reddit)
  • Some react es6 yasnippets
  • Browse stackoverflow in Emacs
  • js-comint v1.0.0
  • Add Python docstring to the beginning of anything in Emacs
• Emacs Lisp:
  • momentary-string-display
  • Race conditions in Emacs' process filter functions
  • lexical-binding: t vs lexical-let?
  • How I chased down a PHP mode indention bug in Emacs (Reddit)
  • eros: Evaluation Result OverlayS for Emacs Lisp
  • Don’t kill-buffer, kill-this-buffer instead (Reddit)
  • New maintainer for omnisharp-emacs is needed (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Concurrency has landed (Reddit)
  • ibuffer: new filters and commands
  • Image-Dired improvements
  • New commands image-scroll-left and image-scroll-right
  • Discussion of linking to Javascript libraries within Emacs core
  • Discussion of event handling
  • Continued discussion about narrowing and widening
  • Regular expression libraries
• Other:
  • Generating links to info buffers
  • Converting files from DOS to UNIX file formats using Emacs
  • Tmux + Emacs
  • Nice email configuration using Emacs, mbsync, notmuch, msmtp, msmtpq, pgp, and gnus-alias (Reddit)
  • Breaking the dependency on the terminal
  • Running Multiple Emacs Daemons on a Single System · tychoish (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • blackboard-theme: TextMate Blackboard Theme
  • flycheck-objc-clang: Flycheck: Objective-C support using Clang
  • flycheck-swift3: Flycheck: Swift support for Apple swift-mode
  • indent-tools: Indent, navigate (and more) by blocks of indentation: yaml, python etc.
  • ivy-rich: More friendly display transformer for ivy.
  • jastadd-ast-mode: Major mode for editing JastAdd AST files
  • js-format: Format or transform code style using NodeJS server with different javascript formatter
  • org-seek: Searching Org-mode files with search tools.
  • syntactic-close: Insert closing delimiter
  • winum: Navigate windows and frames using numbers.

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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