emacs

Editing org files on an Android device - Part 1

Now that there is a build for emacs on Android I thought I would try and develop an emacs workflow between my Galaxy …

Replacing deadgrep with consult-ripgrep

I have been evolving my way through many differing ways of grepping recently from standard built-in greps to a few …

Using Macros to Help Code Debugging

Often I find myself requiring the most rudimentary of methods of debugging and that is to push text to standard output …

Moving Away From Deft

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 …

Commenting Un-commenting

After watching an interesting video by EmacsElements regarding commenting and un-commenting I have to say that I …

Simple Flexible Scrolling

I have written before about smooth scrolling using good-scroll and how I managed to find a semi satisfactory way of …

How to Display Google Calendar

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

Using ripgrep within Projects

Given my recent forays into the world of grepping in emacs using deadgrep (and hence ripgrep) and my use of find-file-rg …

More flexible grepping with deadgrep

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

Using org-copy-visible in dired

Just a quick one. Often it seems I need a copy of a list of files / directories in plain text without any gubbins such …

Creating Album Art Thumbnails for EMMS

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

Dired Duplicate Here

dired can do most things for me especially now I have my DWIM image conversion scripts working and image-dired …

Merging org files for Hugo static site

I have just started the process of reducing the number of org files I maintain for my web site. I now have a greater …

Quick Bash Scripts Augmenting Org Files

This post isn’t strictly about what can be achieved within the emacs ecosystem but what can be achieved outside it …

RIP ripgrep-regexp, long live deadgrep!

Well this is quite a turn up for the books, I seem to have already quickly moved on from emacs ripgrep-regexp! to …

RIP grep, long live ripgrep!

I have come to the realisation that I can be a little more efficient when it comes to searching for text within files, …

Expanding Text using abbrev and skeletons

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

Revisiting Window Cut / Copy Files with DWIM

I previously wrote about wanting the ability in emacs to copy and paste files from one window to another just like a …

Dired ordering by size

By default dired orders its files in alphanumeric order and when s is selected it sorts by date according to : …

Tidying up Dired Further

Something is still bugging me with my dired tidy up and I think it is wanting to add the ability to remove dot files. I …

Tidying up Dired

Bit by bit I am getting to grips with dired and using this for more operations on my files. The next step is to reduce …

Centering the Cursor After a Scroll

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 …

Do You Remember?

I am currently keeping all my textual notes in a separate org file called appropriately, notes.org. This is pretty much …

Dired folder size

My dired replacement of Dolphin / linux terminal continues. The next thing is something useful to me but uncommon and …

Dired going Up Directories

Now dired is becoming more ingrained into my muscle memory, navigating efficiently through the folder structure is …

Cut / Copy between Windows using Dired Buffers

The next step in my emacs journey is to move files around a little more easily, in fact more like a regular file …

Trimming Text With Macros

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 …

Finding Files With RipGrep

Now I am appreciating the power and simplicity of ripgrep and have it available on all my systems I was hunting around …