If you spend any time browsing files in Emacs, you've probably wished for a bit more visual distinction in dired buffers?. While packages like all-the-icons-dired provide beautiful icon sets, they come with dependencies, font requirements, and potential compatibility issues. What if you could get meaningful visual file type indicators with just a few simple lines of pure Elisp? I have adapted the original idea provided by Emacs-solo and focused more on the earlier Unicode characters that are most likely to always be present in an Emacs environment.

Now finding a little more time to read!

While packages like orderless provide flexible “any word, any order” completion, sometimes you want something lightweight and easy to tweak (well I do anyway). In this post, I’ll show you how to implement a simple orderless-like completion style using only Emacs Lisp, and how to integrate it smoothly into your workflow.

Smiley smiley!

Cot standing!

I created a new package!, here are the details:

Bank Buddy is an Emacs package that provides financial analysis and reporting capabilities for your bank statements. It processes CSV bank statement data, categorizes transactions using customizable patterns, and generates detailed reports in Org-mode format.

There have been quite a few updates recently. The main highlights include support for attachments, so you can push a file to the chat directly from dired for potential inclusion in your next query.

If you’re an Emacs user (which I know you are), especially one who lives in dired-mode, you’re probably familiar with the quick power of isearch for finding files or directories. But if you’re like me, you might have noticed a tiny speed bump in the workflow: after finding a file or directory with isearch, you would typically have to hit <enter> to exit the search, and then <enter> again to open the entry. That’s two steps for something that feels like it should be one and this has been a very minor annoyance for me for a very long time now.

Evie and Jimmy!

Evie is mobile!

While exploring Emacs-solo, I was struck by how closely its philosophy aligned with my own Emacs-DIYer project. The parallels were sometimes uncanny, for example, we had independently chosen identical keybindings like "M-s g" for grep functionality. I had been also considering "M-s f" for my find variant and was looking for a home for recentf, potentially at "M-g r". There were also some ideas around using other finding tools such as ripgrep and fd as a callout to some external tools and there were many other similarities.

Daddy clambering!

Now eating!

More improvements to ollama-buddy https://github.com/captainflasmr/ollama-buddy

Baby vs Binkle!

Several improvements in the latest Ollama Buddy updates (versions 0.9.21 through 0.9.35):

Sitting around

I'm having issues with isearch!

I've been using fido-mode for a while now (I'm one of those weirdos who transitioned from the Vertico/Marginalia/Orderless stack back to an Emacs built-in) and have become accustomed to the flexible matching that fido offers. For example, I often shorten commands to find them, such as:

• Added ollama-buddy-awesome.el to integrate Awesome ChatGPT Prompts.

ollama-buddy-awesome is an ollama-buddy extension that integrates the popular Awesome ChatGPT Prompts repository, allowing you to leverage hundreds of curated prompts for various tasks and roles right within your Emacs environment, I thought that since I have integrated the fabric set of curated prompts, so then why not these!

Simply sitting

I’ve added experimental support for Claude AI, aligning its implementation with my support for ChatGPT, to pave the way for external AI templating which should make it easier to integrate new models in the future. Like the ChatGPT implementation, it doesn’t stream tokens in real time but instead outputs the final result all at once. However, after testing it further, I’m actually starting to prefer it. The response speed is so fast that not seeing a real-time “Typing” indicator isn’t a big deal. I think that streaming feels more relevant for local LLMs running through ollama, where token generation is slower, making real-time output more useful.

Ball pit!

High chair!

This week in ollama-buddy updates, I have mostly been experimenting with ChatGPT integration! Yes, it is not a local LLM, so not ollama, hence entirely subverting the whole notion and fundamental principles of this package! This I know, and I don't care; I'm having fun. I use ChatGPT and would rather use it in Emacs through the now-familiar ollama-buddy framework, so why not? I'm also working on Claude integration too.