Dgplug

Had an extremely busy day with studies today, so could not spend time learning much Emacs. Decided to do a little bit of plucking the low hanging fruit and customising Emacs a bit to my liking. I created an init.el file in the emacs.d folder in my home directory, to add all my custom stuff into. Adding Package Managers Yesterday, I had learnt, that I could install additional functionality by downloading extra Emacs packages from the GNU repo at ELPA. But since the FSF requires the authors to fork over their copyrights to them, (and most authors being justifiably, unwilling), most packages are found at third party package sites, like MELPA and the now discontinued Marmalade. ...

Slowly making my way through the Mastering Emacs book. Things I did / learnt today … Learnt that if I want to run Emacs all over the place (like I do), then the best thing to do is to have Emacs, running as a daemon in the background. So I did that via the handy systemd instructions, on this page. And that Emacs has a kitchen sink’s worth of commands. And that Emacs commands are like playing chords on the guitar or piano. You just hit a few of them in a sequence to get the desired sound (or action in this case) C-g, the Control and the G keys get me out of a jam, if I am stuck. Found Jess Hamrick’s really useful post, on moving about and buffers and frames and stuff. Got myself a basic emacs Anki deck. And I learnt how to move about. All in all, a pretty good day. ...

Life is really kicking my butt right now. And the 12th studies are not making it any easier. So am temporarily giving up on A Hundred Days of Code, again. Hopefully, I will have the time to give Python, in a month. In the meanwhile, with the limited time I do have, I’d like to learn me some Emacs. Will write about it everyday.

It’s an Audible Original. And it’s “free”, if you are an Audible member. A look into what Empire means today. It’s a series of engaging podcast episodes on what being a part of the British Empire meant/means for its subjects and its descendants, with stories from across the globe. My only quibble being they did not go deep enough. The people being interviewed are mostly, subject descendants of British origin (and not as I would expect, an actual survivor from the partition or someone here in India, or Somali coast or Sierra Leone.) ...

Lost a friend to the virus last night. And a shit-ton of personal issues have cropped up at the same time. Need to go handle and process all of this. Will be back, when I am back.

Just the two popular ones here … Dickens writes such fluid prose here, I would quote the whole book. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ...