Well as always a little more time with emacs a little feedback and then finding more about org I have now figured out (I think) how I can better sort tags in an org file. In my previous post:

I use a package called org-rainbow-tags which adds random colours to org tags to provide a consistent colour between identical tags. This helps to identify common tags throughout the file but has the side effect of emphasising the lack of my coherent tag ordering.

Emacs isn't my only obsession, I like to create digital art and for that I use ArtRage. The interesting thing about ArtRage is that each brush stroke or editing action can be recorded in a text file or script for later playback. I use this facility for creating time-lapses.

Now that there is a build for emacs on Android I thought I would try and develop an emacs workflow between my Galaxy Note 8 / Galaxy Tab S7+ and my linux laptop.

I have been evolving my way through many differing ways of grepping recently from standard built-in greps to a few ripgrep front ends until I finally settled on deadgrep

Often I find myself requiring the most rudimentary of methods of debugging and that is to push text to standard output from within a running executable to indicate the logical structure of a program.

As the title says, it is with a heavy heart that I have decided to move away from deft. There are a few reasons for this:

After watching an interesting video by EmacsElements regarding commenting and un-commenting I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree. I really don't like the way comment-dwim works and made me think back to one of the first elisp functions I commandeered from the interwebs :

I have written before about smooth scrolling using good-scroll and how I managed to find a semi satisfactory way of centering my cursor after a single scroll which meant I would then have a minimal amount of subsequent line movement to get to the line I want.

Emacs is subsuming me! I have managed to get email up and running using mu4e and rss using elfeed and image viewing with image-dired

Given my recent forays into the world of grepping in emacs using deadgrep (and hence ripgrep) and my use of find-file-rg which feeds into my current completion system of ivy I think the next step is to try to set up a project and to see if I can gain any advantages in my workflow.

I seem to be grepping a lot recently and I think the way I use deadgrep can be improved a little.

Just a quick one.

I have been looking for a music player on Linux for a while now but haven't really settled on one; I have simple requirements:

dired can do most things for me especially now I have my DWIM image conversion scripts working and image-dired configured to my liking.

I have just started the process of reducing the number of org files I maintain for my web site. I now have a greater understanding of how Hugo handles these files and I think can both simplify and make them more flexible.

This post isn't strictly about what can be achieved within the emacs ecosystem but what can be achieved outside it while still binding to the workflow principles of org mode.

Well this is quite a turn up for the books, I seem to have already quickly moved on from emacs ripgrep-regexp! to something better and that is a package called deadgrep

I have come to the realisation that I can be a little more efficient when it comes to searching for text within files, or as it is known in software engineering circles, grepping!

My next investigation into trying to improve my emacs workflow is expanding entered text for repetitive tasks.

I previously wrote about wanting the ability in emacs to copy and paste files from one window to another just like a linux GUI file manager and after a little hunting around and experimentation I settled on putting together some elisp:

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.

Bit by bit I am getting to grips with dired and using this for more operations on my files.