As someone who enjoys using Emacs for almost everything, I recently began exploring an alternative Emacs-native method for publishing static websites.

Currently, I use [ox-hugo](https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo) to build a static site from a single Org file, and it works beautifully for exporting content to Hugo-compatible Markdown. However, I wanted to create a backup web generation system entirely within Emacs that doesn't rely on external tools like Hugo and might fit into my overarching Emacs Enhancements project concept.

My Emacs Enhancements project focuses on replacing significant external packages that I commonly use with a collection of simple Elisp functions and built-in functionality. This approach is ideal for situations where I run Emacs on an air-gapped system or even on Windows, where I have found package management to be somewhat unreliable. You can check out my progress on [GitHub](https://github.com/captainflasmr/Emacs-enhanced).

Just a very quick one today.

I recently needed to find the number of days between two dates. I thought this would be easy in Emacs, and indeed it was, but as with most things in Emacs, you need to know exactly what you're doing. Here is the method I used:

The original implementation of my/quick-window-jump worked perfectly for multi-window setups. It enabled you to assign character labels to each window, display them as overlays within the windows themselves, and jump to your desired window by typing its corresponding key. However, for setups with just two windows (a very common scenario in Emacs), this process felt unnecessarily complicated. Why go through the entire label-assignment process when a single key press could suffice?

Already I think I can improve my/quick-window-jump: which was a window jumping mechanism I created in my previous post which uses a unique key identifier for window navigation just like ace-window but condensed into a minimal elisp defun implementation.

I thought I would share a simple concept that I have found very beneficial: creating an Emacs init file that remains almost fully functional for my use but doesn't include any external packages!

The Christmas decorations are up!

This post is more of a note to myself, something I can store in my single emacs blog org file, so if I forget again, I can quickly search.

I keep forgetting the keybinding to shrink and expand an org table.

I often define tables to have a narrower width than content using the <num> concept in the top line of the table, but when I want to expand, I just can't remember the keybinding.

A search in *help* for org-table-shrink and org-table-expand reveals nothing!

Just a quick one today.

In keeping with the ongoing effort to reduce friction in the venerable Emacs text editor, I realized that a common action I often perform is copying the entire contents of the buffer, usually for pasting elsewhere.

In this post, I'll walk you through how I use an Org Babel block to generate a dynamic Org table based on Org headings.

This approach is handy for anyone who wishes to programmatically extract information from an Org file (such as TODO states, tags, and content) and automatically format it as a neatly structured Org table. You can then export this table to various formats — like HTML, Markdown, or LaTeX — with built-in Org mode support.

Using ArtRage to draw my interpretation of a Thing poster, my favourite horror film.

My entry for a DeviantArt contest, the BeckyKidus' Contest: Scary Posters to Draw in the Dark

A crucial aspect of maintaining organized and up-to-date notes is the use of Org Capture templates.

I have currently always hard-coded/set the current year in my org capture templates for use when exporting/constructing my web pages and as a tag for some filtering / web index generation. Of course the main disadvantage of this is that I have to remember to update the year each year, of which I often fail miserably. ☹️

I have enhanced selected-window-accent functionality with blending options to blend colourize the selected window (see below):

I am of course using org mode for organizing my tasks, notes and other paraphernalia.

In my previous post about creating simple functions to create a new directory and file in dired, I received an interesting comment suggesting another way to bypass the potential messiness of completion and pass through the literal text input.

Previously I wrote about the incompatibility of some Emacs themes with the tab-bar and my temporary fix:

Today I'll simply delve into two custom functions that I've had in my init file for quite some time, my/dired-create-directory and my/dired-create-empty-file

Just a quick one today. One of the great strengths of Emacs is its extensibility, I have mentioned before in adding the ability to disk report on the size of a directory in dired but I thought I would quickly revisit the topic, demonstrating the function I currently use.

As an avid ArtRage user for almost 10 years I have in the past delved into the subtle art of editing arscript files:

In this post, I will describe the small enhancements and tweaks I have applied to eshell to make it feel more like a typical linux terminal using the fish shell and especially the inline autosuggestion feature that fish has out-of-the-box.

Using tabs as part of my workflow has enabled a nice encapsulation and collection of files per tab that I can quickly switch to.

Here is the final version of my entry to the ImagineFX August competition!, I'm not quite sure what I am going to call him, probably Derek!

Here is the final version of my entry to the ImagineFX August competition!, I'm not quite sure what I am going to call him, probably Derek!

Here is an initial version of my entry to the ImagineFX August competition: