2022
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 …
Quick Bash Scripts Augmenting Org Files
This post isn’t strictly about what can be achieved within the emacs ecosystem but what can be achieved outside it …
NAS Synology Setup to Icedrive
These are instructions on how to setup a connection to icedrive from a Synology app to backup your data! NAS package …
RIP ripgrep-regexp, long live deadgrep!
Well this is quite a turn up for the books, I seem to have already quickly moved on from emacs ripgrep-regexp! to …
I have come to the realisation that I can be a little more efficient when it comes to searching for text within files, …
Expanding Text using abbrev and skeletons
My next investigation into trying to improve my emacs workflow is expanding entered text for repetitive tasks. I’m …
Revisiting Window Cut / Copy Files with DWIM
I previously wrote about wanting the ability in emacs to copy and paste files from one window to another just like a …
By default dired orders its files in alphanumeric order and when s is selected it sorts by date according to : …
Something is still bugging me with my dired tidy up and I think it is wanting to add the ability to remove dot files. I …
Bit by bit I am getting to grips with dired and using this for more operations on my files. The next step is to reduce …
Centering the Cursor After a Scroll
Something has been nagging at me for a while now, I seem to spend a lot of time moving the cursor to the next or …
I am currently keeping all my textual notes in a separate org file called appropriately, notes.org. This is pretty much …
My dired replacement of Dolphin / linux terminal continues. The next thing is something useful to me but uncommon and …
Now dired is becoming more ingrained into my muscle memory, navigating efficiently through the folder structure is …
Cut / Copy between Windows using Dired Buffers
The next step in my emacs journey is to move files around a little more easily, in fact more like a regular file …
I am having a bet!, it is one of my few vices, and it shall be on the horses. I don’t often have a bet and in fact …
Now I am appreciating the power and simplicity of ripgrep and have it available on all my systems I was hunting around …
I was recently reading a post about deleting files from within emacs and pushing them to the local Trash, this seems …
Efficient Deletion and Insertion
As my emacs keybindings journey continues to evolve and to delete more efficiently with delete word it has lead to an …
Currently I am just displaying the title of my posts with no filtering. Now that I have developed a general format to …
Hugo No Carriage Return After Frame
I am currently polishing up my web page and I am now focussing on the little annoying formatting / alignment issues. One …
I am just playing around with writing some sort of “techy” blog, trying to focus on a couple of my favourite …
Profiling and Accidental Learning
My sacred emacs is taking 13 seconds to start up! This is not good, I have read somewhere about a built in profiler, and …
— TOC Local ELPA MELPA ORG Local from Mirror Extra Steps to locally download emacs packages for offline …