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I'd like to present to you my newly made absolute guide to Emacs video. It's around one and a half uh years long. — Emerald McS. et al., PhD; Emacs User @ University of Texas Instruments So… Emacs! This article is meant as a practical path towards starting with Emacs. It's mainly targeted towards people who already use neovim. I think this video should be kind of a mandatory watch for anyone who…
Recently, I have been using my BOOX tablet much more to take handwritten notes in all my classes. This has increased the wear on the nib, as I use it for roughly 1-3 hours a day, 5 days a week. I have already had the nib for a long time, since I got this device in December of 2024. The wear was so bad I couldn't even take the nib out anymore. It was also writing without me touching the screen,…
Introduction I have recently started tracking my time in org mode more. This helps me know whether or not I wasted a lot of time on the computer that day. I have a special heading for 'time I wasted loafing about' where I clock in when I want to watch YouTube, for example. For other time spent I make a quick note about what I plan to do. This also helps me stay on track. Purpose of the workflow…
Announcement Direct link: here A new page has appeared under my projects section that has my literate Emacs configuration. It's going to be a continuous work-in-progress, but I hope to document most of it before the end of my school break.
This post is related to previously discussed topic: Boox Notes, Linux and Emacs Purpose of Workflow Annotate the pages/sections of a pdf to look back on it later to build a better text note. Input: PDFs Output: structured, annotated notes in org mode Workflow I was getting ready to write a package to facilitate this workflow, but I found this to be much easier. Step 1: org-attach Org attach is…
Writing Instruments Pencils Since elementary school, I've been looking sought ways to make writing on paper more enjoyable. I would randomly find pencils around my house and test them to see which one I liked the most. I still remember my first mechanical pencil that my grandma gave me in 2nd grade. It was a dark green Pentel pencil with a twisting eraser. In high school I was getting more school…
Introduction and Background 📝 Please watch protesilaos's video about both packages before reading this Parts of this article will seem confusing. Especially if you don't watch the video about sequencing. That one is more important I think to understand the technicalities of what I'm trying to convey. I have been preparing for starting my University journey this fall and with that comes spring…
FAQ Where are the dots???? They are on my GitHub Why are windows floating in twm? I think it looks nice for screenshot, but normally the windows are not like that. 2025 Gruvbox dwm I have been using this setup since late October/early November I think. It's funny how the circle goes around and around. Open windows (left to right) Image one: org-mode document alongside pdf with zen browser opening…
Description From the GitHub README: Elfeed is an extensible web feed reader for Emacs, supporting both Atom and RSS. My elfeed configuration that is browsing emacs articles Installation/Setup Elfeed is available on melpa . ( use-package elfeed :ensure t :config ( global-set-key ( kbd 'C-c r' ) 'elfeed ) ( setq elfeed-search-filter '+unread' ) ) How I Like To Use It Elfeed-org I subscribe to too…
Introduction Tempel.el is a package written by Daniel Mendler, a developer of many projects (many of which are fantastic Emacs packages). It provides a way to define text snippets with lisp-like syntax. You can embed Emacs Lisp code into the snippets to obtain programmatically obtained efficiency. It's based off of the ancient tempo library from Emacs, but it's modernized and updated. I've never…
Introduction I recently got a BOOX Go 10.3 e-ink tablet this past Christmas. I use this device to take notes that require handwriting (Math/Physics), and annotating/reading a lot of notes/books/documents. 🚩 A note about the BOOX company 🚩 BOOX is a Chinese company that specializes in E-ink tablets that run Android. They have continued to violate the GPL license of Android by not releasing source…
TLDR: I had gave a talk for EmacsConf 2024 about student workflows. Links Talk on EmacsConf.org Official EmacsConf video Official EmacsConf Q/A Motivation for talk There is a lot of great content out there for all kinds of Emacs things, but it's all jumbled around. If you don't know what you want or where to look it's scary. When I was learning Emacs, I could have been spared from too much…
Hopefull you have read my previous article on the basics of git. This article will talk about how to use git on the command line. Hopefully this is not too scary, please email me if you have any questions. Commits Let's say you're working on the basic pushbot code. You want to add forward/backward movement first, then turning. # first, write your initial drive code # after testing that basic…
Basics of Git What is Git? Git is used to track different versions of files. It is useful for group projects, ensuring that everyone can work on it without overwriting each other. Think of it as the tracker of the multiverse versions of your files; it can manipulate the timelines . Why Learn it? It makes it a lot easier to keep track of changes between people. Easy to back up You can rollback…
Description From the official page: Emms is the Emacs Multimedia System. Emms displays and plays multimedia from within GNU/Emacs using a variety of external players and from different sources. … Emms can run as a minimalist player and controlled with a handful of M-x Emacs commands, or a fully-fledged, interactive media browser. Emms can display album art, play streaming audio, tag music files,…
Gallery You can view a gallery of my desktop screenshots here . Philosophy For Programs 1. Functionality I want my programs to be minimal, but not the point of being completely featureless. I'm can't use a TTY for browsing the modern web. I'm also don't need to use the behemoth that is the Gnome desktop environment. I use something in between these two. 2. Bloat I use many of its features, and it…