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 :

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.