Emacs

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. ...

Getting back to life slowly. Abandoning the idea of the daily posts. Too amorphous for me. Doing short 20 hour projects seems to work better for me. To that end, here are my goals for September 20h of emacs - goal - get familiar 20h of Dvorak - goal - get upto 35wpm walk daily - goal - 10000 steps or 90m daily More as I figure this out. Daily programming is dead! Long live working towards daily goals! ...