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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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1answer
43 views

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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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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1answer
50 views

emacs color are strange

I have a problem with emacs color, I change color for konsole, gnome-term and urxvt but, when I open a .c file, there are not the same colors that my terminal color sheme. I haven't an emacs theme. ...
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200 views

Best console based text editor not only for programmers [closed]

I need console based text editor for writing both source codes and human readable texts such as emails. I need it to be user friendly. It mean for me: You can use it the same way as the notepad or ...
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1answer
311 views

Home and End keys in Emacs don't work when run from Tmux

When I run Emacs from Tmux, the Home and End keys do not work (Home key runs the Search command as if C-s was pressed). The problem started when I added this in my ~/.bashrc file: TERM="xterm" export ...
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1answer
176 views

How do I “unbind” Ctrl+BackSpace in URxvt?

My URxvt is mapping the Ctrl+BackSpace key combination to Ctrl+H. This is extremely annoying when using GNU Emacs. How do I change that behavior?
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1answer
173 views

Tmux causes Emacs glitch

Recently I started using Tmux, but I noticed that it causes a strange Emacs glitch. When I open source code for elisp or haskell, the comments aren't highlighted. Only the comment sign is (; in case ...
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1answer
256 views

Open Emacs with --debug-init on OS X

I am trying to debug why my .emacs does not load. Error message. Invalid read syntax: # ... Start Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace. My question is: How do I ...
3
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1answer
660 views

How can I select text in the Mac OS X Terminal without a mouse (for copy and paste, emacs)

In the Terminal I can mark text with the mouse, copy it with cmd-c and paste it with cmd-v. This is all I need and it works great, even within emacs. Which is important for me, since I'm still not ...
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1answer
108 views

Combine compilation-mode and ansi-term-mode in Emacs?

In Emacs, I would like to be able to combine the features of ansi-term-mode and compilation-mode. I have a build system for compiling my source code which uses terminal commands for placing the ...
2
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1answer
741 views

How can I use Emacs in terminal mode and use Alt + ? shortcuts?

I want to use emacs in terminal mode, but in Ubuntu 11.10 the bash terminal already has many Alt started shortcuts, how can I handle with that ? Bye.
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1answer
495 views

How to make Emacs use a different color palette for ansi-term?

I'm using Emacs' ansi-term which supports colors, but the color palette is quite limited, and the strong colors are really hard to read with a dark background. Can I somehow make Emacs use a ...
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1answer
156 views

Terminal keystrokes confusion

#1 tmux ignores some keystrokes: Ctrl + Delete Ctrl + F* #2 Something similar happens in virtual consoles (even without tmux) with the difference that Ctrl + Delete and Delete behaves the same. ...
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2answers
160 views

Why can't I open the easter eggs like Tetris on Emacs?

I am in terminal on a Mac, and I type in emacs tetris. It comes up with a blank page and something at the bottom saying: Loading image...done, but that is it. I leave it for a little while but nothing ...
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1answer
119 views

Which emacs shortcuts are useful in bash? [closed]

Other than Ctrl+{k, u, a, e}, what other emacs shortcuts are worth remembering and useful in the Terminal?
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1answer
66 views

How can I achieve the opposite of kde-open?

Is there any way to achieve the opposite of what kde-open does in KDE? I mean, I want to be able to open files using emacs inside the terminal, instead of using the X version of emacs. I already run ...
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323 views

Enabling Italics, Underline on Emacs, Xterm and Putty

I'm using a Ubuntu (11.04 Server Edition) virtual machine as my development environment. It doesn't have a desktop environment since I don't think its necessary and I want to keep it lightweight. I'm ...
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2answers
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How to prevent the “Symbol's function definition is void: error” when running emacs in the console?

To disable the scrollbar in emacs I added (toggle-scroll-bar -1) to the my .emacs file and it works great when I run emacs outside of console mode. However when I run emacs in the terminal I get the ...
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1answer
181 views

How to disable ecb and cedet when running emacs in terminal?

I call emacs within the terminal to do quick editing of files, and would like to bypass the long load times.
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1answer
1k views

Mac Terminal Doesn't display Unicode UTF-8 Properly when ssh'ed into Linux and running Emacs

I am logged into a Mac, running Terminal, ssh'ed into a Linux system and running make in an emacs window. My error log looks like this: _raw.cpp:139: error: invalid conversion from âconst char*â to ...
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1answer
502 views

Mac terminal doesn't pass keys like C-/ to emacs

I'm running emacs inside Mac OS Terminal. Some key combinations are not working for emacs. I tried the M-x describle-key (C-h k) in emacs to see what emacs is receiving when I press some key, it ...
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760 views

emacs, colors in term-mode

I use Emacs and I run bash with M-x term command. There is a problem: colors in the *terminal* buffer aren't the same as in Gnome Terminal, and they are worse (do you need a screen shot?). How can I ...
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2answers
892 views

get ubuntu terminal to send an escape sequence (control+shift+up)

This problem starts when I use emacs ( with -nw option). Let me first explain it. I tried to define hotkey (for emacs) as following (global-set-key [(control shift up)] 'other-window) but it ...
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4answers
896 views

Emacs: What features or benefits are unique to either GUI or terminal interface?

Emacs can be launched in it's own GUI window or within a terminal (using the -nw flag). What features or work-flow benefits are only available in one mode or the other? I.e. If a user habitually uses ...
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671 views

any emacs like tool while working via SSH

I use emacs for coding and other stuffs. I have now a website which I have to do so many file editing work on ssh connection. It was difficult for me to learn vi or nano. I like to know if any tools ...
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2answers
653 views

What is the difference between typing `emacs-x` and `emacs`?

When in a Linux terminal, what is the difference between typing emacs-x and emacs?
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1answer
482 views

GNU/Linux: Open programm in Konsole / Term

How can you run an application directly inside a Konsole (KDE) or Terminal (GNOME)? I'm particularly interested in having a shortcut to Emacs: emacs -nw Being in KDE, that would open a Konsole and ...
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3answers
2k views

Using C-M-% to do a query-replace-regexp in Emacs running in Mac terminal

I am trying to do a regular expression search-and-replace in Emacs, running in the Terminal program on my MacBook Pro, which is running OS X 10.6.2. As far as I know, this can be done by pressing ...
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Why does M-RET become C-M-j

I suspect this is some sort of magic terminal definition thing but I've noticed some magic keys not working on terminals. When I type M-RET to create a new item in org mode I instead get a newline. ...