Emacs is a powerful text editor with an embedded Lisp environment, which allows for great extensibility. Emacs is a lisp environment with many features that also make it a powerful text editor.
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change styling in org-mode code block HTML export?
When I export an org-mode file to HTML, my code blocks don't have curly quotes and don't convert --- to —.
I know this is by design but I want to change it.
I have (setq ...
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Emacs and Gnu Screen Causing Line Wrap Problems
I have gnuscreen on with multiple "tabs" open. Emacs is on tab 0.
When I tab to a different screen and return to Emacs, the lines do not wrap properly anymore. They blend into each other. If I have a ...
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How to bind super and arrow keys to windmove in Emacs?
I'm trying to bind Super and the arrow keys, (s-up, s-down, etc) to change windows in Emacs. Unfortunately I'm having trouble setting it correctly.
I am running Kubuntu 13.04 with Emacs 24.3.1.
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How to save shell history from emacs and use it in terminal?
I use emacs for almost everything, but when I run shell M-x shell and then exit from emacs, the history is not saved, I've tried (savehist-mode 1) for this purpose but it doesn't seem to work, is ...
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Emacs fullscreen on Mountain Lion without Toolbar
The newest version (24.3) of Emacs.app includes support for Mountain Lion's fullscreen. However, even after disabling the toolbar (tool-bar-mode 0), the space for the toolbar is not used by Emacs, it ...
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Why Emacs cursor movement key is choosen such a way?
My question is simple. As a newcomer I find it confusing to use emacs movement keys.
So I am curious to know why emacs have chosen its movement key such a way?
Up → C-p
Down → C-n
Left → C-f
Right → ...
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How to re-load buffers from previous Emacs session *after* you've launched Emacs (e.g. not using on-startup options with Emacs desktops)
In questions like this one about using the Emacs Desktop options to arrange for a saved session to be re-loaded upon startup, it is explained how to reload buffers automatically on startup.
But what ...
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How to disable EMACS - Prelude colors? (terminal)
I've used PRELUDE to work better in terminal, but I'd love to work with my default Terminal theme(colors).
Zenburn-theme comes default with Prelude but It just work great the first time i run emacs ...
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GTK+ 3 Menu configuration for Emacs
I don't like the GTK based emacs (Screenshot #1) and still prefer the tradition emacs (Screenshot #2), which I get from Ubuntu PPA.
The fundamental difference is that the tradition emacs looks ...
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how to define text “variables” in Emacs?
I use Emacs for writing, not for coding. Is there an easy way, in Emacs or Emacs org-mode, to define a text string as a variable so that I can use it repeatedly?
Example: I created a template ...
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Can emacs be used across multiple screens?
I would like to use emacs across multiple monitors: one monitor would have code the other would have the R session that will be processing the code submissions. I am in a Windows machine logging into ...
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running R through ESS (emacs) on remote host with LSF
The cluster I work on submits jobs (interactive and otherwise) to various nodes through LSF. When I run R, a job is submitted to the cluster (interactive) and I get the R console that is running on ...
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Use a modern locale, but retain asciibetical sorting?
I bought a new laptop (an Ideapad Yoga), and put Linux Mint on it. Everything seems to be working well, but Mint's default LOCALE settings for my language choice (en-CA... not sure why CA when I'm in ...
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Emacs: CUA mode interferes with vhdl-electric tab
In vhdl-mode, TAB is bound to vhdl-electric-tab. This function tries to indent code correctly.
When I hit TAB with code selected when cua-mode is enabled, the selected code is replaced with tab ...
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Changing shortcut keys in Microsoft lync
I'm trying to change the default shortcuts in lync. My problem is that I use emacs. A LOT. And so my fingers instinctively press Ctrl-B to go backwards. This turns on bold. For reasons that I haven't ...
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Shift+Insert clipboard only working one way between two Emacs instances
I have two Emacs instances running, one locally and the other as an X Window running on a server I am ssh-connected to. When I try to copy+paste text between one and the other, the instance running on ...
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how to just remap the ctrl and caps within emacs, and how to remap esc and caps only in vim
I use ubuntu12.04 and vim as develop tools. I am learn emacs and know a litter now.
it's seems every suggest to remap the ctrl and caps , but I still have to use vim and others.
so is there anyway to ...
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Select font (face) for AucTeX section styles
Is there a way to select the font (face) and size for the AucTeX section styles?
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emacs: “click” on “links” in command line emacs
In some emacs documentation there are underlined texts that resemble links. For instance, by M-x list-packages we get the following:
In some GUI version of Emacs like Emacs For Mac OS X (but not ...
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How do I specify the Emacs start up screen on a Windows7 computer with multiple screens?
I am running GNU Emacs 24.2.1 on a Windows7 computer with three screens. How can I tell emacs the screen I'd like it to start in? Dragging my Emacs window across screens is exhausting. ;)
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EMACS - SIGINT under Windows
Ctrl-c Ctrl-c is used in Emacs shells to kill the running process.
After an upgrade to Windows 7, this has stopped working for me. i.e. it doesn't kill the running process. Instead it just ...
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Any equivalent command to let emacs change the buffer layout like Vim?
In Vim, there are a bunch of shortcuts for window switch. For example, when there are 2 windows in one tab, split vertically, I can use CTRL-W J/CTRL-W K to make the 2 windows arranged horizontally.
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Advantages of moving to zsh? if using bash in emacs shell? [closed]
I've read lots about great things from zsh. The big hangup for me was that I occasionally use the bash shell within emacs. I realize that there's some tweaking to make this work, such as:
zsh ...
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How to turn off Emacs's auto line wrapping for the current session?
How to turn off Emacs's auto line wrapping for the current session? I normally need the automatic wrapping, but when editing a email draft, i don't need that. is there a way to turn it off for a ...
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linux: best emacs setup to develop in C++ [closed]
What is the best setup in Emacs to develop in C++?
I have read about
CPlusPlusMode
CppTemplate
CEDET
FlyMake
Flycheck
Some of which are already integrated into Emacs 23 or Emacs 24, and I would ...
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Emacs (display-buffer) in frames on current desktop
When using an emacs command that uses display-buffer (e.g. following an error from compile-mode, calling list-buffers, etc.), if the buffer is open in another frame, it doesn't open in a window in the ...
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how to upgrade system's emacs on Ubuntu 12.10
OS: Ubuntu 12.10 (GNU/Linux 3.8.4-x86_64-linode31 x86_64)
$ emacs --version
=> 23.4.1
$ which emacs
/usr/bin/emacs
How to upgrade the emacs of system to 24.3?
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how to pass commandline options to emacs p4 plugin
The Perforce commandline client provides powerful commandline parameters/options that we can use,
but when using the Emacs plugin that wraps it, how should I pass these options to the emacs-p4 plugin?
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Gnome sending keyboard shortcuts to an application
I would like to send key board shortcuts from my wm (gnome) to an application (specifically Emacs).
for example If I press Some-prefix-key C-x C-s then I would like C-x C-s to be passed to Emacs ...
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Changing the default latex generate command in AucTeX
I downloaded AucTeX off of M-x package-list-packages and I've enabled AucTeX in my .emacs with
(load "~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.86/tex-site.el" nil t t)
When I type C-c C-c I would like to by ...
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Emacs doesn't fully maximize in Linux Slackware
Emacs version is 24.2.1, OS: Linux Slackware 14.0. I am using fullscreen function to maximize it on startup. Clicking maximize button does the same.
But I mentioned, that it is not fully maximized. ...
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Wanderlust doesn't update new messages counter when using with Gmail account
I want to use Wanderlust IMAP client to read my email in Emacs.
However, when configured to use with Gmail account it doesn't update number of new messages correctly. Wanderlust's notification ...
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dpkg : dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
I have a problem with Emacs on my Linux Mint.
When I make an apt-get upgrade or apt-get -f install, I have this error message :
Paramétrage de emacsen-common (2.0.3) ...
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Prevent emacs shell-mode to apply string-face to output lines containing a colon?
Inside shell buffers, lines not starting with a space and containing a colon character have the following text properties:
face font-lock-string-face
Does someone knows if there is ...
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emacs gui from the terminal
I have in my ~/.bashrc an alias setup so emacs will open in the terminal. How can I open the gui without commenting out the alias, closing down the terminal, re-opening the terminal, and then doing ...
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Is there a way to control which window Emacs opens new buffers in?
I'm using sr-speedbar with emacs, and I often have the frame split into 2-3 different windows, and whenever I click on a file in sr-speedbar, it always opens the new buffer in the lowest window. I'm ...
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git emacsclient issues
I set my editor variable like so:
git config --global core.editor "`which emacsclient` -t -s"
and get this output whenever I want to edit the message during a commit
emacsclient: aliased to ...
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Is there anyway to open multiple Emacs?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, and it has 4 workspaces.
Since it's not possible (or is it?) to make Emacs occupying two workspaces so that I could modify multiple files together(more than 2), I would like to ...
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Emacs and Unix Screen
I'm in Screen and have one window set to emacs. When I leave that window and maneuver to a different one, say screen two or three, the text in the original emacs window gets discombobulated. The line ...
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Emacs: use hyperlinks to objects opening in other applications?
We have a CRM software which allows to store URLs as shortcuts to later access an object (customer, order, query, ...) again with one click.
I'm working with GNU Emacs 24.2.1.
From within MS ...
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Emacs: make longlines-mode default for the compilation buffer?
Is there a way to make longlines mode the default for just the *compilation* buffer?
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Showing type of newline character in Emacs
How can I have Emacs display the type of new character?
I am looking for something similar to what Notepadd does (see below). I read that Emacs comes with M-x whitespace-mode but this doesn't seem to ...
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Using Autohotkey for Emacs
I am using emacs in Cygwin and have used Autohotkey to re-map the lefthand 'Alt' key and the lefthand 'Windows' key to be (left)Ctrl and (left)Alt respectively.
This means that an emacs sequence like ...
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Is there emacs plugins to do Sublime-like completion and goto anything?
In Sublime Text 2, I can enter prnfunc[tab] and then it completes to 'PrintFunction'. If I have a project, I can press Cmd+P and enter srcpy/hello.py and then it navigates to ...
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How to make emacsclient uses differnt themes in terminal and X window?
Sometimes I use emacsclient -t -a '' in xterm, and sometimes I use emacsclient -c as a GUI application. What annoys me is that the font settings and color-theme are initialized when emacs server ...
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Advanced time tracking in Org-Mode
Are there any advanced time tracking mechanisms in Org-Mode available? I "clock in" and "clock out" my tasks but am wondering wether there is an advanced report (besides the clock table) available ...
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Can I customize the format of Emacs' buffers-menu?
The Emacs buffers menu shows two columns: One with the buffer name, and one with the filename, with full path. The paths in our projects can become very long, spanning more than one screen. So I would ...
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Is there an easy way to insert a timestamp in standard emacs (v21 or higher)?
I am writing a simple keyboard macro to insert a comment with my name and a short timestamp. Is there an easy way to get a timestamp? Ideally I would be able to define it in my macro so that it uses a ...
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How to configure Ctrl-Shift-Left/Right to select text in emacs?
The basic problem I have is that mark-mode works like a toggle button. Every time you call set-mark-command, "C-Space" you get in or get out of mark mode. I could bind any key combo to
(defun foo () ...
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How do I show the git status in the emacs bottom bar?
Is there a way to show the current branch, pluses, minuses, and authors in emacs status bar? Something like:
-UU-:**--F1 buildfile Top (84,16) (Ruby Paredit AC yas Fill) ---(git: master ...
