Previously I wrote about the incompatibility of some Emacs themes with the tab-bar and my temporary fix:

Today I'll simply delve into two custom functions that I've had in my init file for quite some time, my/dired-create-directory and my/dired-create-empty-file

Just a quick one today. One of the great strengths of Emacs is its extensibility, I have mentioned before in adding the ability to disk report on the size of a directory in dired but I thought I would quickly revisit the topic, demonstrating the function I currently use.

As an avid ArtRage user for almost 10 years I have in the past delved into the subtle art of editing arscript files:

In this post, I will describe the small enhancements and tweaks I have applied to eshell to make it feel more like a typical linux terminal using the fish shell and especially the inline autosuggestion feature that fish has out-of-the-box.

Using tabs as part of my workflow has enabled a nice encapsulation and collection of files per tab that I can quickly switch to.

I have updated my emacs package selected-window-accent-mode

Regarding my previous post, you can now disregard my little Frankensteinian elisp effort!:

I'm really enjoying ready-player at the moment, so much so I think it might end up replacing emms.

I thought I would share a little bit of elisp that I've been using for a while now that allows me to quickly find a file. It leverages completing-read, allows the selection of the find method and will search recursively.

A common activity for a Software Engineer is to compare two directories, especially those that might require a level of merging. My preferred tool of choice in this instance is Meld

I've noticed that my Emacs blog is now almost 2 years old!

I really want to finally get to grips with my spelling / dictionary set-up.

I'm happy with jinx instead of flyspell. I like powerthesaurus and, of course, dictionary-lookup-definition. It is mainly the keybindings I want to finally settle on. I have been moving them around for a while now but haven't really established something comfortable.

More tinkering and enhancements to some AutoHotKey scripts with WOWEE to allow some emacs keybindings throughout the realm of Windows.

I have been continuing to tinker with this project over the last week…

My Emacs usage on Windows seems to be more prevalent at the moment, and I'm having to drop into Visual Studio for C# development.

The next stage on my quest to mitigate any RSI issues when using Emacs on a laptop is to see if it is a viable option to use a mechanical keyboard on a laptop.

Based on my recent forays into ergonomic key-mapping in Emacs for SwayWM, and effectively for any Wayland compositor or X11-based system using the X Keyboard Extension (XKB) standard, I realized that there doesn't seem to be an Emacs mode to edit these keyboard configuration files (*.xkb). This is surprising, considering they have been around for more than 30 years!

I thought I would provide an example of how I typically use elisp to make my life easier (well eventually - I still need to write the function after all!)

Every now and then I find it necessary to use Vim! (mainly for work) - was that clickbait on an Emacs blog?! 😀

In a recent post I was talking about the benefits of mapping the RAlt key to the Ctrl key and this set up is so far still feeling very comfortable.

I am just at the moment reflecting on how my experience with Emacs over the last 30 years has evolved. I thought that just for fun I would list all the key moments along my Emacs journey regarding work-flow efficiency breakthroughs, roughly in year order!.

In the midst of adjusting my Emacs keybindings for a more ergonomic workflow, I've experimented with various configurations. For example, I duplicated the right Alt key (RAlt) to function as an additional Alt key allowing for versatile key presses across the keyboard based on command keybinding locations.