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Redefining mark-paragraph and mark-word
I can’t say that I’m completely happy with the way emacs marks some elements, namely : mark-paragraph …
Describe Character / Face Under Cursor
Every now and then I find myself tweaking the look of emacs and have started to build up a list of my own common faces …
I seemed to temporarily lose the rounded corners in SwayFX and I think the reason for this is that the gaps inner need …
Quick Search Through Org Headers using Consult Outline
I’ve been on the lookout for an efficient way to swiftly scan through org headings exclusively for a specified …
Battery Laptop Optimisations on Garuda Linux
Table Of Contents auto-cpufreq intel_pstate=passive turning of bluetooth There are quite a few different ways to reduce …
I was playing around with the look of emacs and thought it might be nice to have more control over the border between …
Digital Art Using Artist Mode #1
I have been using ArtRage, Krita and Infinite Painter for many years now but I thought I would try that other well known …
Better Syntax Highlighting Sway Configuration Files
I have been delving into the nuts and bolts of the Sway window manager lately and especially its fork SwayFX which adds …
Guide to Creating an Advent Calendar
Table of Contents template get images resize images import images export print create Here are the steps to create a new …
More Improvements to Dired Duplicate Here
On a previous post I created an elisp function to quickly duplicate a file or directory in dired, by default it would …
More Improvements To My Weight Loss Org Table
More improvements to my weight loss table, this time I have added the following: The first column now auto populates an …
Recursively Listing Files in Size Order using find-name-dired
For a while now I have been looking for a simple method in emacs for trimming down my largest files, usually this means …
I’m currently in the process of learning how to create graphical plots from org tables using gnuplot. I’ve …
Plotting Org Table Weight Loss Using gnuplot
Now I have a weight loss org table defined and therefore an easy way to track the total amount of weight loss each week …
Opening Files Externally from dired
I have been using C-RET or W in dired for a while now to open a file externally via browse-url-of-dired-file. I was …
Org Table to Calculate Weight Loss
For a while now I have been using org tables to represent and calculate pieces of data, obviating the need to open up a …
I am a tinkerer and of course emacs is a perfect vehicle for this mentality. A prime example of this is my constant …
ahk-mode and Updating To AutoHotKey Version 2
I have now managed to set up my external USB numeric keypad on Linux using kmonad which lets me use any regular …
It is not uncommon for me to want to revert my current buffer. For a long while I have used (find-alternate-file) which …
Fun With Emacs Theming Using Alpha Background on Wayland
Simply put here is me playing around with emacs transparency using alpha-background to set up sway the way I want it to …
Now I have set (pixel-scroll-precision-mode 1) which comes with emacs 29 this has led to an unexpected issue in that I …
Emacs 29.1 Transparency Alpha On Sway
I have just been been going through the new features added to emacs 29.1 and have been trying out the transparency or …
Saving My Favourite Wallpapers
I am using the styli.sh script as my wallpaper changer in sway and with a little transparency and wallpapers from …
After watching the latest informative video from Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot): Emacs: write custom mode line I decided to …
Showing Org Agenda For The Year
I am just starting to include more of my org files into org-agenda. By default C-c a a gives a show for the next 7 days …
Shrinking Media With The Help Of Emacs
Often I find myself refining my collection of photos and family videos, usually with the following process: removing …
Defining Categories in Org Files for Hugo
I use Hugo to generate my web site and I made a decision early on to use ox-hugo withing emacs and to manage a single …
Porting Dolphin Context Sensitive Scripts To Thunar
I have decided to switch my linux file manager from Dolphin to Thunar and this means transferring the context sensitive …
Dired Duplicate Here Revisited
It is not uncommon for me to want the ability to quickly duplicate a file, especially if I am hacking around and just …
Cycling Colours in CSS and Other Files
I try and keep a simple colour scheme definition for my web site using some CSS variables: --theme-fg: #2b2d3a; …
Revert Git Permission Changes On Repository Transfer
I recently reinstalled my laptop and copied across my git repositories from an external backup drive. However most of my …
Magit Status To Show Tracked Files
While currently piecing together my git repositories and figuring out which files to commit I am invariably going to …
Quickly Deleting Duplicate Blank Lines
I am currently hacking around with my org files and in fact macro removing quite a few unnecessary lines. However this …
I had tried to implement a debugging logging/print method myself using macros but hadn’t really achieved the level …
Just a quick one today! I am finding occur extremely useful, from building an index from my emacs init file to …
Sometimes I can find a blinking cursor distracting and somewhat expectant!, so currently I am favouring a solid non …
Imenu Indexing My emacs Init File
After implementing my simple occur indexing in my last post : Indexing My Emacs Init File A suggestion was made to put …
Since I keep all my emacs configuration in a single .emacs file and in a hyper organised manner it means I have my init …
Sorting Org Tags using Org Mode!
Well as always a little more time with emacs a little feedback and then finding more about org I have now figured out (I …
I use a package called org-rainbow-tags which adds random colours to org tags to provide a consistent colour between …
Trimming ArtRage Playback Scripts using Emacs
Emacs isn’t my only obsession, I like to create digital art and for that I use ArtRage. The interesting thing …
Editing org files on an Android device - Part 1
Now that there is a build for emacs on Android I thought I would try and develop an emacs workflow between my Galaxy …
Replacing deadgrep with consult-ripgrep
I have been evolving my way through many differing ways of grepping recently from standard built-in greps to a few …
Once a digital piece of art has been created then it is time to print it. A few tweaks are required in my image editor …
Using Macros to Help Code Debugging
Often I find myself requiring the most rudimentary of methods of debugging and that is to push text to standard output …
As the title says, it is with a heavy heart that I have decided to move away from deft. There are a few reasons for …
After watching an interesting video by EmacsElements regarding commenting and un-commenting I have to say that I …
I have written before about smooth scrolling using good-scroll and how I managed to find a semi satisfactory way of …
How to Display Google Calendar
Emacs is subsuming me! I have managed to get email up and running using mu4e and rss using elfeed and image viewing with …
Given my recent forays into the world of grepping in emacs using deadgrep (and hence ripgrep) and my use of find-file-rg …
More flexible grepping with deadgrep
I seem to be grepping a lot recently and I think the way I use deadgrep can be improved a little. Currently deadgrep …
Using org-copy-visible in dired
Just a quick one. Often it seems I need a copy of a list of files / directories in plain text without any gubbins such …
Creating Album Art Thumbnails for EMMS
I have been looking for a music player on Linux for a while now but haven’t really settled on one; I have simple …
dired can do most things for me especially now I have my DWIM image conversion scripts working and image-dired …
Merging org files for Hugo static site
I have just started the process of reducing the number of org files I maintain for my web site. I now have a greater …
Creating a DVD from a video file
This year I have been starting to archive anything of interest from the family VHS collection. There are certainly slim …