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.

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: