From my previous post regarding setting up sticky keys mainly for Control, Alt and Shift in Emacs to remove the dependence on key chording I just wanted to scratch another itch, and that was to provide a modifier LED indicator type experience on a laptop that you would commonly get on a full size keyboard.

I spend many hours living in emacs and a large proportion of this time is using a laptop. Recently I have been thinking about my hands and how to protect them from any future pain or RSI.

Simply a link to my emacs literate config file 😀

I primarily use Emacs on a laptop, and unfortunately, Emacs isn't inherently designed for ergonomic use. Coupled with the less-than-ideal typing experience of continuous laptop use, I'm considering adopting preemptive measures to protect my hands from potential strain injuries, including the infamous emacs pinky and RSI.

Now I have ditched save-desktop for recentf which gives me a faster startup time but still being able to quickly access my most common files (i.e. those I have most recently opened) I have realised that I would like to have quick access to other Emacs resources after a startup.

The selected-window-accent-mode is now present on MELPA and is my first Emacs package!

Now I am using the tab-bar workflow I noticed that winner-mode was not working per tab in that the winner undo would return to the previous state of another tab, pretty annoying! 😕

Periodically, I find myself in situations where I restart Emacs frequently, such as when tweaking my configuration or simply experimenting. During these phases, to achieve a swift start-up, I often resorted to clearing my ibuffer as I tended to have more of an automatic desktop-save type workflow for restoring Emacs sessions. However this would leave me with the task of manually reconstructing my previous session by reopening files.

For a while now I've been using an rsync based dired-copy replacement for large copy asynchronous operations within emacs. It is not uncommon for me to want to copy large files in emacs and rather than waiting for the operation to finish I leveraged async-shell-command to perform an rsync copy as thus:

I have read another book!

From my previous two posts regarding defining a Selected Window Accent some interesting posts from irreal arose, especially:

Given my previous post regarding accenting the current window:

Borrowing from the concept of a tiling window manager I thought that emacs could better indicate the currently selected window by a form of highlight/emphasis like the following:

I can't say that I'm completely happy with the way emacs marks some elements, namely :

Using Krita to create an advent calendar with a classic Disney theme.

Every now and then I find myself tweaking the look of emacs and have started to build up a list of my own common faces in custom-set-faces to suit my needs, for example here is my current setup:

I seemed to temporarily lose the rounded corners in SwayFX and I think the reason for this is that the gaps inner need to be a certain width, for example the following doesn't seem to work:

I've been on the lookout for an efficient way to swiftly scan through org headings exclusively for a specified input string, akin to the functionality of isearch. This would enable me to promptly navigate to a past blog post which is typically stored under an org heading.

Using ArtRage and Infinite Painter on various drawing tablets showing a video slideshow from 301-350

There are quite a few different ways to reduce power consumption on a laptop, most linux distros will be geared towards desktop, but I am always installing on a laptop, generally I was looking to use tlp but the options are quite bewildering and can be daunting so I was looking for something more lightweight and in fact garuda has a good starting point for this:

I was playing around with the look of emacs and thought it might be nice to have more control over the border between windows (I have now learnt that this is referred to as a window divider!)

Added the dadisms section (see main menu) taking all of dad's good 'ol sayings and putting them up on the web for all so see!!

I have been using ArtRage, Krita and Infinite Painter for many years now but I thought I would try that other well known digital art tool… emacs!

I have been delving into the nuts and bolts of the Sway window manager lately and especially its fork SwayFX which adds a little eye candy in the style of Hyprland.