Questions tagged [emacs]
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How to switch between different windows in the same frame without using mouse?
How to switch between different windows in the same frame without using mouse?
When I press Cmd-Tab and switch from some other application to Emacs, how to go to one window and subsequently switch to ...
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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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Emacs c-mode can't recognize utf-8?
I need to read one C++ head file which has some Chinese and was encoded using utf-8.
Emacs should recognize this encoding, but it turns out:
Then, I changed it to text-mode, it works:
I also tested ...
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Emacs transparent background on gnome-shell?
I'm using emacs gui on gnome-shell(3.2). I just set transparent background as the guide shows. It actually works on xfce4 (with compositor turned on). But failed on my gnome-shell laptop.
So is there ...
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Emacs Making ~files
I was wondering if there is a way to make emacs stop making backups of files with the ~ at the end. (herpderp.html~) I am currently using windows xp 32 bit with emacs 23. Does anyone know how to make ...
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Paste format string or paste-with-replace
In Vim, can I supply a format string, yank it, and paste it with formatted values in a range?. An example in Python 2 would be:
for i in range(1, 3): print "This is line %d" % i
If this is not ...
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Emacs - Better completion mechanism for comint mode?
When I open a shell in Emacs and try to Tab-complete paths, this stupid window pops up:
Click <mouse-2> on a completion to select it.
In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near ...
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How to override ctl-tab keybinding in textmate.el minor mode
I'm playing around with textmate.el: https://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el. A little confusing at first if you've never tried textmate, but pretty cool!
I'd like to override a binding in the minor ...
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How to view a delimiter-separated-value file in Emacs with highlighting helpful for reading?
How to view a delimiter-separated-value file in Emacs with highlighting helpful for reading?
Ideally the delimiter character/string should be customizable.
If Emacs can't do, any other tool ...
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How to view Gmail using VM in Emacs via Imap?
I followed instructions at here and now I get the following error when I ran vm:
vm-imap-protocol-error: IMAP protocol error: "unexpected char (10)"
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
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How to efficiently type in a pair of XML tags in Emacs?
How to efficiently type in a pair of XML tags such as <tag></tag> in Emacs?
I am hoping some sort of auto-complete behavior.
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Can't find .emacs file on Windows XP
I have installed emacs, specifically GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 for Windows x86.
After installation, I can't find .emacs file. I have the .eamcs.d folder which contains other customization files that will be ...
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How can I disable prompt about trust when encrypting file with gpg in emacs
I want to use emacs to edit files encrypted with gnu privacy guard. Im using the gpg support built into emacs 23 which I think is easy pg assistant. I import keys created at the command line with M-x ...
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Hide initial buffer list in Emacs' iswitchb-mode
How can I configure iswitchb-mode so that it does not display the list of all (matching) buffers until I hit TAB for the first time?
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Emacs-like Meta (Option/Alt) key functionality in OS X Lion?
I'd like to have word-forward/backward functionality with M-f and M-b plus all the other convenient shortcuts. Is this possible?
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Emacs on "software hatelist". What does he mean with. "Lacks controlled cross-module code/data protection." [closed]
Simply curious. (I use Emacs for Scheme and nothing more).
Found this on a programmers "software hatelist"
Quote: Emacs. Lacks controlled cross-module code/data protection.
I don't understand what ...
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How to indent a block of text rightward by 2 whitespace characters in Emacs?
How to indent a block of text rightward by 2 whitespace characters in Emacs?
How to indent a block of text rightward by 4 whitespace characters in Emacs?
[EDIT] I need a method that doesn't ...
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Is there a way to let Emacs' regexp based commands such `query-replace-regexp` use Perl regexp?
Is there a way to let Emacs' regexp based commands such query-replace-regexp use Perl regexp?
I am hoping there is some reasonably simple way to achieve this, for example, by adding code in .emacs.
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How to display new line character (^J) in emacs replace query
Say I want to replace all the new lines in my emacs buffer with the character k (wait for the -1, read the rest! :) ). I know I can type M-x replace-string RET C-q C-j RET k.
It works fine.
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After Emacs copy, OS-X paste buffer gets CRs instead of LFs
When I do an Emacs-copy or -cut in a text file with unix line endings (0x0a), and then look at the pasteboard in Terminal, the newlines have been replaced with lone carriage-returns.
The file (...
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Ctrl+h causing backspace instead of help in emacs on cygwin
I want to access the help for a command by using ctrl+h in emacs, but it keeps deleting the previous character. I googled it, and apparently ctrl+h is backspace in a terminal. How do I remove this key ...
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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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How to type guillemets in Emacs?
How to type guillemets (book title mark in Chinese) in Emacs (efficiently)?
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What is the easiest way to reformat paragraphs to a certain width in emacs?
For Vim users: I'm looking for the equivalence of tw=80, gq
I have two paragraphs of a certain width, which I'd like to reformat to fit in the width of 80 characters. What is the easiest way to do ...
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Emacs two windows for one file, seamless scrolling?
Is it possible to open one file in two windows, that are next to each other (C-x 3) and the first window shows lines x .. y and the next window has lines y .. z and when you scroll one window the ...
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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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Key for controlling synergy on Mac
My mac has Control/Alt(Option)/Command, and with synergy, each key maps Control/LWindows/Meta(Alt). I want to change the mapping to Control/Meta(Alt)/LWindows.
Alt(Option) is key key name is written ...
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How to quickly access files in different folders in emacs?
Basically I have different type of files in different folders. org notes in E:\org-notes , certain php files in e:...\wamp\www\ and so on. And I want to quickly open files from these different ...
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How to write a fixed comment in an emacs buffer, respecting the mode?
I want to write a little function to enter a fixed comment string such as the following on a new line, respecting the mode, e.g. in elisp I would like it to write
;; this is a comment
on the next ...
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How do I map the Windows key to meta (for Emacs) in Putty?
How do I map the Windows key to meta (for Emacs) in Putty?
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emacs variable to "open with" in original frame
i have long used emacs, and have even long used emacs.app .
recently, i upgraded to 23.3, and i discovered that a couple of default behaviors changed. one in particular that annoys me now is that ...
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send emacs file buffers to/from browser with Gmail message?
I sometimes find myself writing a Gmail email on the browser and I want to switch to editing it into my open emacs session, then once I am done, flip back to Gmail on the browser text window. Is there ...
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set-input-method in emacs and colour highlighting
I am using set-input-method in emacs (with (set-input-method "portuguese-prefix") in my .emacs file). I write notes on Portuguese grammar in a file opened in the org-mode. The file has both English ...
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how to bind a key to more than one operation in emacs
I've been using emacs for years, but I'm relatively new to customizing lisp (beyond plugging in lines from other emacs scripts / package installation instructions). I programmed scheme before, so I'm ...
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Terminal keystrokes confusion
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tmux ignores some keystrokes:
Ctrl + Delete
Ctrl + F*
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Something similar happens in virtual consoles (even without tmux) with the difference that Ctrl + Delete and Delete behaves the same.
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Why would this work - making the OS pointing to Emacs GUI app instead of the default one?
I have emacs on OS X that comes pre-installed, and is found in /usr/bin/emacs. It does not allow me to run it as a bg process (using &) and does not present me with a nice GUI.
I therefore ...
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How do I get back emacs on Mac Lion?
I have Mac Lion, I was trying to install Emacs 23.3 using these instructions and others.
Emacs 23 didn't work, and I lost the one that was already there (emacs 2. something). Now, when I type: ...
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Pasting from OS X clipboard manager into emacs
I love emacs. I love having my clipboard history. I've used Jumpcut for a long time and recently purchased the powerpack for Alfred and tried its clipboard manager.
I have the same problem with both ...
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Getting Thunderbird External Editor working with Emacs
I am trying to get the External Editor extension for thunderbird to work, so that I can use Emacs to compose emails. I haven't had much luck in getting this to work. Can anyone describe the steps they ...
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How can I pass function keys in Gnome terminal to Emacs
I like to use Emacs in the terminal with out X(emacs -nw). But the problem is I can't use function keys(f1 ... f12) in gnome terminal. How can I pass them to Emacs in gnome-terminal?
If it's not ...
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How can I make Emacs visualize only indentation whitespace?
I've been looking at whitespace-mode, but I'm not sure it can do what I want here. Here is an example:
(defn foo []
..(let [x 1]
....(+ x 2)))
How can I do something like that in Emacs? In words, I'...
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Emacs: rename-save file?
Is it possible in Emacs to save a buffer to a different filename than the currently associated filename and to remove the file with the current filename?
For example, I'm editing file1.txt in a ...
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Emacs equivalent of this Vim command to run my tests?
I'm using Emacs at the moment and experimenting with it for my Rails development and there is one thing that I do quite regularly in Vim and I'd like to know if an equivalent exists in Emacs, or an ...
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Org-mode - TODO item shown ONLY in Agenda for day/week
is there any way in Org-mode to mark some TODOs in a way that they are shown only when their time comes and start showing only in agenda day/week until they are marked as done?
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.emacs file evaluation in a new frame
When I open a new frame in emacs, none of the settings in my .emacs file are evaluated unless I open the file and evaluate the buffer manually. Is there a secret that I am missing? Some bit of magic ...
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Org-mode lags in highlighting source
I'm using org-mode to maintain my programming notes. This means I have lots of source code blocks, as follows.
#+begin_src <language name>
<code>
#+end_src
One thing I've noticed is ...
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What difference will GTK3 support make for Emacs?
Emacs 24 is said to come with GTK3 support. What difference will this make (for the users)?
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Is there a way to print the definition of an existing function in Emacs?
I want to see the definition of an existing function in Emacs. Is this possible?
I've tried C-h d function-name RET, but it only returns the documentation string for the function, not the actual ...
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How to use dictem in emacs?
I have dictem from Lubuntu repositories installed, but I do not know how to run it. I would like to know the basic usage, how to add/remove dictionaries, how to look up web resources like Wiki, ...
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Kill all checked items from a .org file (emacs, org-mode)
Is there an easy way to kill all checked items in all checklists from a .org file? Similar to "clear completed tasks" in Google Tasks. Also it would be handy to know how to kill or archive all DONE ...