Org Mode version attached; HTML version available at http://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news

• Emacs configuration:
  • [Emacs bankruptcy and starter kits] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/419zj1/emacs_bankruptcy_and_starter_kits/)
  • [Smooth-scrolling - always keeps n lines of context at top and bottom of screen] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40yzb8/smoothscrolling_always_keeps_n_lines_of_context/)
  • [Emacs Tutorial - Git Your First Init File (13:11)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyWn30HMgQg)
  • [Running Emacs as a Daemon] (http://irreal.org/blog/?p=4887)
• Text:
  • [Aligning text] (http://pragmaticemacs.com/emacs/aligning-text/)
  • [Email templates in mu4e with yasnippet] (http://pragmaticemacs.com/emacs/email-templates-in-mu4e-with-yasnippet/)
  • [An improvement to Emacs auto-correct] (http://endlessparentheses.com/an-improvement-to-emacs-auto-correct.html?source=rss)
  • [Emacs autocorrect mode] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/41jkuf/emacs_autocorrect_mode/)
  • [region-state - A global minor-mode that shows the number of chars/lines or rows/columns in the region (aka. selection).] (https://github.com/xuchunyang/region-state.el) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/41i6mg/regionstate_a_global_minormode_that_shows_the/))
  • [Emacs Shortcuts for Writing Posts Using Jekyll] (http://pasoev.github.io/programming/2015/10/31/jekyll-posts-emacs-capture/)
• Web:
  • [Emacs user agent?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40sol0/emacs_user_agent/) Also, notes about proxies
  • [Emacs for landing pages / simple websites?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40nte5/emacs_for_landing_pages_simple_websites/)
  • [New EmacsWiki theme] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40u8fx/new_emacswiki_theme/)
• Org Mode:
  • [Pimp Up Your Org-mode Files] (https://thraxys.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/pimp-up-your-org-agenda/) ([Reddit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40zrny/pimp_up_your_orgmode_files/))
  • [How to use org-mode to write documentation for general audience?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/418rzk/how_to_use_orgmode_to_write_documentation_for/)
  • [Prettier org-mode source code blocks?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/415imd/prettier_orgmode_source_code_blocks/)
  • [What's your todo workflow within Emacs at work?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40hzjt/whats_your_todo_workflow_within_emacs_at_work/)
• Coding:
  • [Using smart-quotes with the electric pair mode] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/41i156/using_smartquotes_with_the_electric_pair_mode/)
  • [save-excursion changed semantics] (http://mbork.pl/2016-01-16_save-excursion_changed_semantics)
  • [Magit v2.4 released] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/41gd3h/magit_v24_released/)
  • [How hard it'd be to migrate a helm-* to ivy-* ?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/41dt4d/how_hard_itd_be_to_migrate_a_helm_to_ivy/)
  • [Emacs elm-mode TAGS demo (2:14)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZJBLNCv4Q)
  • [Emacs elm-mode demo (9:01)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9uvU0lZ-E)
  • [List comprehend refactor in Emacs (0:10)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaeAaj7Kf9Q)
• Other:
  • [2016-01-16 Emacs Hangout] (http://sachachua.com/blog/2016/01/2016-01-16-emacs-hangout/)
  • [Encrypted backups] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40xq0s/encrypted_backups/)
  • ["Practical Guide for Gnus" updated] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40w7fh/practical_guide_for_gnus_updated/)
  • [ERC Messages Read Aloud] (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/40w1xq/erc_messages_read_aloud/)
• New packages:
  • haxor-mode <http://melpa.org/#/haxor-mode>: Major mode for exiting .hax files
  • markdown-preview-eww <http://melpa.org/#/markdown-preview-eww>: Realtime preview by eww
  • markdown-preview-mode <http://melpa.org/#/markdown-preview-mode>: markdown realtime preview minor mode.
  • repo <http://melpa.org/#/repo>: Running repo from Emacs
  • sisyphus <http://melpa.org/#/sisyphus>: Support for ERT (Emacs Regression Test)
  • yahoo-weather <http://melpa.org/#/yahoo-weather>: Displays weather information in mode-line
  • html5-schema <https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/html5-schema.html>: Add HTML5 schemas for use by nXML
• Emacs development:
  • [nxml now uses standard completion] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=d7896a6f773dc4ae4e1b56c34b6708fe2bc5610a), [Unicode and lexical-binding] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=930f8e8377e40ba161bd16ea4d612cb4c570ee1b)
  • [New Tramp method: sg] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a600f4c69309bf37f67c02cbcc9a9e4ba1e69c76) (edit as different group)

Links from [reddit.com/r/emacs] (http://reddit.com/r/emacs/new), [/r/orgmode] (http://reddit.com/r/orgmode), [Hacker News] (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=emacs&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story), [planet.emacsen.org] (http://planet.emacsen.org), [Youtube] (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emacs&search_sort=video_date_uploaded), the [Emacs commit log] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?showmsg=1), the changes to the [Emacs NEWS file] (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/etc/NEWS), and [emacs-devel] (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-01).

[Past Emacs News round-ups]
(http://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news)