#+title: ffs code review and Emacs extensibility with Protesilaos
#+date: 2026-05-14 Thu 22:55:33 -0400
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In the recent weeks I've been engaging [[https://protesilaos.com/coach/][Prot as an Emacs coach]] to help
with doing review passes over my upcoming [[https://git.kelar.org/~bandali/ffs][~ffs~]] package as I work on
polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it for
inclusion in GNU ELPA.

*UPDATE 2026-05-15 08:50:10 -0400:* Prot also published an article
about our session on his website:
<https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-05-15-emacs-amin-bandali-ffs-display-buffer-org-capture/>

Today we had our third session where we started by reviewing and
talking about my recent changes to ~ffs~, then ventured to other
Emacs-related topics with the overarching theme of the flexibility
and extensibility of GNU Emacs, including ~display-buffer-alist~,
keyboard macros, defining a custom ~ox-bhtml~ Org export backend
derived from Org's ~ox-html~ for ultimate flexibility when exporting
my site's pages from Org to HTML, Org capture, plain text files and
Emacs's ~diary~ and how it compares to ~org-agenda~, and keeping a
journal with the help of Emacs.

Here is the video recording of our session, which I share with Prot's
permission:

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You can [[https://archive.org/details/ffs-emacs-ext-prot-20260514][view]] or [[https://archive.org/download/ffs-emacs-ext-prot-20260514/ffs-emacs-ext-prot-20260514.mp4][download the full-resolution video]] from the Internet
Archive.

Lastly, here is the snippet Prot shared for having Isearch treat space
as a wildcard, helpful for more easily matching multiple parts of a
line:

#+begin_src elisp
(setq search-whitespace-regexp ".*?")
(setq isearch-lax-whitespace t)
(setq isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace nil)
#+end_src

Take care, and so long for now.