Search for Something! Kill the Line! In Emacs

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

May 25, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Org Mode Clocking in and Out of Tasks on Task State Changes

I finally turned to the dark side and used Claude to help me do my work

May 23, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Org Mode Narrowing and Widening Buffers

Narrow to focus, widen to review and plan. tldr: “C-x n s” to narrow and “C-x n w” to widen

February 26, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Note to Self, Emacs Help Stuff

Various things, when rooting around for help in Emacs

February 15, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

I Found Rainbows in Emacs!

I must admit to stealing … quite a lot … from a bot at that! Zoetrope’s, “random color contrasts” gets colours from Adam Morse and John Otander’s Randoma11ly and posts them a few times a day. I’ve been writing down the ones I love and find interesting, in an Org note, in the hopes I’ll use them someday. (I know I’m just hoarding colours 😂. But hey, I used one1 out of the thirty-odd colours, I’ve jotted down so far) ...

January 20, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Updated to Emacs 29.2

Updated to Emacs 29.2, just now. Took me and my four core workhorse about fifteen minutes tops, from start to finish. Emacs 29.0 was the first version I compiled from source, because I wanted the latest release as soon as it was out and I no longer had the patience for the kindly distribution folk (or third party packagers) to give me a binary. The first time was a nightmare. I didn’t have various bits and bobs that were needed. Stuff that the guides say should work a certain way wouldn’t. But it did happen eventually and I learnt a lot along the way about what I wanted compiled in, in my Emacs. I also appreciated just how much easier it is now to compile stuff and recover from errors. I tried this last in the late 90s1 and it scared me off. ...

January 19, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza