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.

For a while now I have been using org tables to represent and calculate pieces of data, obviating the need to open up a normal spreadsheet.

I am a tinkerer and of course emacs is a perfect vehicle for this mentality. A prime example of this is my constant evolving modeline. For many years the default modeline hasn't presented itself as being a problem, but is it optimal for me?, the answer I have now realised is no, and I think I can do better for my use cases.

I have now managed to set up my external USB numeric keypad on Linux using kmonad which lets me use any regular plugged-in number keypad as a shortcut tool for my digital art.

It is not uncommon for me to want to revert my current buffer.

Simply put here is me playing around with emacs transparency using alpha-background to set up sway the way I want it to look - I think there is some kind of well known term for this! (no neofetch involved 🙂)

Now I have set (pixel-scroll-precision-mode 1) which comes with emacs 29 this has led to an unexpected issue in that I now often get the following messages which cause a bell sound to be generated each time:

I have just been been going through the new features added to emacs 29.1 and have been trying out the transparency or alpha-background on sway.

I am using the styli.sh script as my wallpaper changer in sway and with a little transparency and wallpapers from unsplash I can quickly switch randomly through my wallpaper images and get things looking pretty nice.

After watching the latest informative video from Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot):

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 but I think for now I would like something of a more calendarish overview with a long form look of scheduled and completed tasks.

Often I find myself refining my collection of photos and family videos, usually with the following process:

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 large org file with each subheading a blog post and each subheading tag representing… well, tags! I was aware of the concept of defining categories but decided to sort that out at a later date until I really understood what I was doing - this is a common thing that I do.

I have decided to switch my linux file manager from Dolphin to Thunar and this means transferring the context sensitive menus I have set up through KDE Plasma to using Thunar's custom actions.

It is not uncommon for me to want the ability to quickly duplicate a file, especially if I am hacking around and just want a quick snapshot of a working file.

I try and keep a simple colour scheme definition for my web site using some CSS variables:

I recently reinstalled my laptop and copied across my git repositories from an external backup drive. However most of my repositories were flagged by magit as having been updated mainly with the following issue on multiple files:

While currently piecing together my git repositories and figuring out which files to commit I am invariably going to have some Untracked files but I also would like to see the Tracked files in magit-status

I am currently hacking around with my org files and in fact macro removing quite a few unnecessary lines. However this has had the side effect of leaving some significant holes in the form of blank lines. Sometimes just two duplicate blank lines and sometimes more!

I had tried to implement a debugging logging/print method myself using macros but hadn't really achieved the level of elegance outlined in https://xenodium.com/sprinkle-me-logs/

Just a quick one today!

I am finding occur extremely useful, from building an index from my emacs init file to searching through org headers to generally just having my isearch all there in a single window.

Sometimes I can find a blinking cursor distracting and somewhat expectant!, so currently I am favouring a solid non blinking cursor while still being able to easily locate my cursor using hl-line-mode

Since I keep all my emacs configuration in a single .emacs file and in a hyper organised manner it means I have my init file split into different sections, for example :