For my previous post I was talking about a software visual indicator to discern which key has been locked in a sticky key situation. For example there are typically two modes of stickiness, being latched and locked, by default I had set up the locked variant as I thought it would be more useful for Emacs and in fact I have found this to be the case. For example, double tapping the Control key allows nice easy single key navigation via 'n' 'p' 'f' and 'b', possible page down with 'v' and to delete lines I can use 'k' .e.t.c.

From my previous post regarding setting up sticky keys mainly for Control, Alt and Shift in Emacs to remove the dependence on key chording I just wanted to scratch another itch, and that was to provide a modifier LED indicator type experience on a laptop that you would commonly get on a full size keyboard.

I spend many hours living in emacs and a large proportion of this time is using a laptop. Recently I have been thinking about my hands and how to protect them from any future pain or RSI.

Simply a link to my emacs literate config file 😀

I primarily use Emacs on a laptop, and unfortunately, Emacs isn't inherently designed for ergonomic use. Coupled with the less-than-ideal typing experience of continuous laptop use, I'm considering adopting preemptive measures to protect my hands from potential strain injuries, including the infamous emacs pinky and RSI.

Now I have ditched save-desktop for recentf which gives me a faster startup time but still being able to quickly access my most common files (i.e. those I have most recently opened) I have realised that I would like to have quick access to other Emacs resources after a startup.

The selected-window-accent-mode is now present on MELPA and is my first Emacs package!

Now I am using the tab-bar workflow I noticed that winner-mode was not working per tab in that the winner undo would return to the previous state of another tab, pretty annoying! 😕

Periodically, I find myself in situations where I restart Emacs frequently, such as when tweaking my configuration or simply experimenting. During these phases, to achieve a swift start-up, I often resorted to clearing my ibuffer as I tended to have more of an automatic desktop-save type workflow for restoring Emacs sessions. However this would leave me with the task of manually reconstructing my previous session by reopening files.

For a while now I've been using an rsync based dired-copy replacement for large copy asynchronous operations within emacs. It is not uncommon for me to want to copy large files in emacs and rather than waiting for the operation to finish I leveraged async-shell-command to perform an rsync copy as thus:

From my previous two posts regarding defining a Selected Window Accent some interesting posts from irreal arose, especially:

Given my previous post regarding accenting the current window:

Borrowing from the concept of a tiling window manager I thought that emacs could better indicate the currently selected window by a form of highlight/emphasis like the following:

I can't say that I'm completely happy with the way emacs marks some elements, namely :

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 in custom-set-faces to suit my needs, for example here is my current setup:

I've been on the lookout for an efficient way to swiftly scan through org headings exclusively for a specified input string, akin to the functionality of isearch. This would enable me to promptly navigate to a past blog post which is typically stored under an org heading.

I was playing around with the look of emacs and thought it might be nice to have more control over the border between windows (I have now learnt that this is referred to as a window divider!)

I have been using ArtRage, Krita and Infinite Painter for many years now but I thought I would try that other well known digital art tool… emacs!

I have been delving into the nuts and bolts of the Sway window manager lately and especially its fork SwayFX which adds a little eye candy in the style of Hyprland.

On a previous post I created an elisp function to quickly duplicate a file or directory in dired, by default it would copy the dired item under the cursor to an old suffix or append a number based on the universal argument.

More improvements to my weight loss table, this time I have added the following:

For a while now I have been looking for a simple method in emacs for trimming down my largest files, usually this means locating those large image files and compressing them as I like keeping my media compressed or deleting any large files I didn't know were lurking around my system.

I'm currently in the process of learning how to create graphical plots from org tables using gnuplot. I've noticed that it's generally more straightforward to extract x-axis data from an org table column with incrementing numbers, as opposed to relying on gnuplot to potentially sort out data from an existing column (which may not be plot-friendly)

Now I have a weight loss org table defined and therefore an easy way to track the total amount of weight loss each week I had an idea for an improvement with some form of a satisfying graphical representation.