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!

Steps to locally download emacs packages for offline installation.