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.

Something has been nagging at me for a while now, I seem to spend a lot of time moving the cursor to the next or previous line within a window, spamming C-n and C-p to get where I want to within a file.

I am currently keeping all my textual notes in a separate org file called appropriately, notes.org. This is pretty much just a random rambling set of text containing bits and bobs that I don't want to forget.

My dired replacement of Dolphin / linux terminal continues. The next thing is something useful to me but uncommon and something that dired didn't seem to be able to do out of the box.

Now dired is becoming more ingrained into my muscle memory, navigating efficiently through the folder structure is becoming more prominent in my mind and it still doesn't feel natural enough.

The next step in my emacs journey is to move files around a little more easily, in fact more like a regular file explorer using the concept of file / folder selection copy and paste. That concept seems a little more natural to me than dired file marking, renaming / copying and then entering the path of the destination address.

I am having a bet!, it is one of my few vices, and it shall be on the horses. I don't often have a bet and in fact I generally only ever have a bet on a special occasion, like the grand national or a random parallel bet with my dad.

Now I am appreciating the power and simplicity of ripgrep and have it available on all my systems I was hunting around emacs to see the best way to leverage this tool for quick file searching.

I was recently reading a post about deleting files from within emacs and pushing them to the local Trash, this seems like a good idea especially now I am using dired more often.

As my emacs keybindings journey continues to evolve and to delete more efficiently with delete word it has lead to an interesting issue for me.

I am just playing around with writing some sort of "techy" blog, trying to focus on a couple of my favourite things in the world, namely linux and emacs, so I thought I would do the best productive thing in the world and just start to type.

My sacred emacs is taking 13 seconds to start up!