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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …