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.
17
votes
11answers
4k views
What features does Emacs have that Vim hasn't?
What features am I missing when I use Vim instead of Emacs?
11
votes
3answers
5k views
How can I run Mac OSX graphical Emacs in daemon mode?
Short form: I want to run the Mac OSX version of Emacs found on
http://emacsformacosx.com/ as a daemon, with graphical and text clients
connecting to it as-needed.
In detail, here is the workflow I ...
7
votes
3answers
1k views
I'm an Emacs user. How do I learn Vim?
Most of the time, I use Emacs. However, I've decided to try to learn Vim. I'm happy with Emacs, I just am trying to avoid having it turn into Maslow's Hammer. I've seen a few tutorials, but I have ...
4
votes
4answers
8k views
How can I apply a color-scheme (.el file) in emacs?
I have downloaded zenburn.el that is a color-scheme for Emacs, but I don´t know how I can apply it to emacs. I am a beginner in emacs.
How do I apply my .el file to emacs? Can I do some linking from ...
1
vote
1answer
245 views
how can I make emacs use other css for orgmode publish
When using orgmode in Emacs, when I publish to HTML it uses a default CSS which doesn't look very nice.
After publishing, I manually jank out the old CSS for a custom one.
Is there a way in Emacs to ...
6
votes
5answers
12k views
Where is .emacs file?
I downloaded emacs 23.1 from gnu's ftp. untarred it and built it after configuring.
I do not find .emacs file in my home directory or anywhere in my system ! Am i missing something ?
2
votes
1answer
535 views
Emacs doesn't load gui
whenever I run emacs or emacs23 on terminal I just get the following output:
** (emacs:2620): CRITICAL **: menu_proxy_module_load: assertion `dbusproxy != NULL' failed
And the gui doesn't load, ...
1
vote
3answers
735 views
sending mail using mutt + emacs
How to sent mail from emacs?
I found this
There are two ways to send the message. C-c C-s (mail-send) sends the message and marks the mail buffer unmodified, but leaves that buffer selected so ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
On OS X, how do I start Cocoa emacs *and* bring it to front?
I wrote a little zsh function to allow me to run emacs from the command-line:
function emacs() {
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $@ &
}
This works perfectly, but it seems to ...
15
votes
5answers
13k views
Can I create a link to a specific email message in Outlook?
I use Outlook as my email client at work, but I don't want to use it to manage my tasks and todos. (Instead I use plain text files and Emacs org-mode.) Since many todo items start out as mails in my ...
25
votes
11answers
17k views
Which version of EMACS makes the best use of the Mac GUI?
On Windows and Ubuntu I use GNU EMACS, but FSF doesn't provide binaries for the Mac
I have a decent version that came with Snow Leopard, but just running in the bash terminal. Is there a version ...
11
votes
2answers
8k views
Getting Gmail in Emacs?
I'm trying to learn Emacs, and I think that getting gmail right in it would be cool. I've tried a but of tutorials online, but I couldn't figure out what a lot of them were talking about. A lot of ...
5
votes
2answers
5k views
How to use emacs color-theme on Windows, and help with the .emacs/.emacs.d?
Help would be hugely appreciated :)
Here is what I have done:
Downloaded the latest release of GNU Emacs and installed it on Windows 7
Completed the tutorial
Set my home path as C:\Users\User, so I ...
5
votes
1answer
2k views
Changing emacs bindings on Mac OS X for command to be meta
I'm using GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29) of 2010-05-08 on black.local on OS X. I downloaded it from here: http://emacsformacosx.com/
My problem is that it doesn't ...
3
votes
1answer
595 views
Running Cygwin Inferior Shell in Emacs
I am running Cygwin as an Inferior Shell in Emacs. Here's the basic step I am following:
C-u M-x shell (rename the buffer to cygwin)
cd \cygwin
cygwin.bat
Here's what I see:
C:\cygwin>cygwin
...
1
vote
5answers
13k views
How to install Emacs (Text editor) on ubuntu Linux
I have tried to install emacs from source that I downloaded from the internet.
For that first I have chosen a path like:
/home/anand/emac/emac-23.1 (where emac-23.1 is the extracted file)
Then I ...
6
votes
1answer
218 views
How to exclude {{{ … }}} in flyspell-mode and flyspell-buffer?
I edit a lot of MoinMoinWiki pages in my emacs and love the flyspell-mode.
Preformatted stuff in {{{...}}} (in multiple lines) as well as "backtick text backtick" usually contains programming elements ...
5
votes
2answers
204 views
setting monospaced font on Emacs?
I used to use liberation mono font on emacs (on X11) on an Ubuntu system using the following command and it worked great:
(custom-set-faces
'(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :background ...
4
votes
2answers
207 views
Passing through certain M-<key> command to OS in Emacs
Is there a way to pass a certain M-key combination to the OS? I'm using OSX and I'd like to have the "Move focus to next window in application" key which I use to work also in Emacs, currently it just ...
4
votes
4answers
844 views
Save Emacs window size on Windows XP
Recently i bought laptop with Windows XP. I'd really like to start using emacs on it but there is one problem - when I start emacs it just do not fit vertically to my screen. So every time I launch ...
4
votes
4answers
952 views
Features of Emacs that are complementary to Vim?
I've been using Vim extensively for a while now, and I really enjoy working with it. However, I keep reading praises for Emacs. I've decided to take a look at Emacs to round out my knowledge of the ...
3
votes
2answers
261 views
How to define a shortcut (key combination) to insert “<tag></tag>” in Emacs?
I want to define a shortcut to enter XML tag pairs. Pressing key combination key1-key2 which should prompt for entering a tag name, .e.g. "foo", and automatically insert "<foo></foo>". ...
2
votes
1answer
639 views
Using emacs to control command-line processes
I have a large amount of command-line utilities that I use in day-to-day development (eg Maven, ant, Grizzly, mplayer, CASE tools, etc). I use Windows. Every time I want to kick off a new process, I ...
2
votes
1answer
216 views
Trouble understanding endianess
Let's say I open a tiff file in emacs and see the following in hexl-mode:
0x08000400
and I know the file is little endian. Does that mean the number is actually 262152 in decimal, or
0x00040008
...
1
vote
2answers
239 views
how to set a global org publish export setting in emacs
As a follow up to this question: superuser question 431356
How can I specify org mode publish setting globally? So not per project, but for any .org file I happen to publish?
so instead of:
(setq ...
1
vote
2answers
197 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
How to: Emacs and FTP?
Can someone advise me as to how to get FTP working in emacs? It doesn't have to be SFTP, etc, just plain old FTP. I've tried multiple times, and never could get it working. I think the closest I got ...
1
vote
3answers
3k views
where is the .emacs files in Snow Leopard?
where is the .emacs file in Snow Leopard? I need it to configure Emacs.
4
votes
1answer
395 views
How do I sort or move DONE items in org-mode?
I'm kind of new to org-mode in Emacs, and I'm investigating if it is suitable to replace Google Tasks for me. Google Tasks offers a "clear completed tasks" action, that removes all tasks that are ...
3
votes
3answers
642 views
I have started using emacs with -nw option - ctrl-home and ctrl-end don't work
In order to speed up my emacs work flow, I am trying out emacs -nw versus running in X-Windows mode.
Ctrl-HOME and Ctrl-END are not working at all, and have tried editing .keymap files and following ...
2
votes
3answers
350 views
Tutorial for those who know Vim but want to learn Emacs as well
I would like to find a resource listing all the Emacs equivalents (for performing various common tasks or using features in common to both editors) for the Vim commands/features that I know well.
2
votes
2answers
618 views
Emacs, AUC Tex and Tex Live problem on Mac OS
I have (apparently) correctly installed MacTex 2010 and I am able to use it from the terminal and with Texmate.
But when I try to compile a Latex file using emacs in the AUC Tex mode it have an ...
2
votes
1answer
264 views
Emacs and Windows manager keyboard shortcuts without Windows key
I found a classic M-Series keyboard and I want to use it. However, it does not have a Windows key (AKA Super key); only Shift, Ctrl and Alt. My keyboard shortcuts are cluttered as-is, since I try to ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
Aquamacs: How to Remap Capslock to Meta Key, at Application Level?
In aquamacs, how can I remap the capslock key to meta? I can remap command to control using:
(setq mac-command-modifier 'ctrl)
Is there a similar way to remap the capslock?
EDIT: I know that I can ...
1
vote
2answers
116 views
Emacs: how to reassign C-x 5 2 (switch frame) to C-` in the .emacs profile
To make emacs more osx-esque, I'd ike to reassign C-x 5 2 (switch frames) to C-` (I have command mapped to C-). What should I add to my .emacs profile to do this?
EDIT
Sorry - meant C-x 5 o (switch ...
1
vote
1answer
820 views
Solarized background colour off in emacs under tmux
Exhibit I: plain Emacs.
Exhibit II: Emacs under tmux.
The shades of colours are different, and importantly, the background colour differentiation is nil (e.g. look at the top menu). Anyone run ...
1
vote
2answers
623 views
How to restore Emacs' windows and buffers from the last session?
How to restore Emacs' windows and buffers from the last session?
The behavior I want is like in web browser that you can restore all the tabs from last session.
1
vote
1answer
365 views
How can I make Emacs TRAMP offer completions from my ~/.ssh/config?
When I want to access remote files over sftp in Emacs using TRAMP, I would like Emacs to offer me completions from the hostnames in my ssh config. How can I do this?
For example, if I have two hosts ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
Setting default working directory/drive in Emacs shell on Windows
how can I change a default working directory/drive for shell in Emacs (on Windows)?
Normally, shell starts in the same directory as the file in current buffer. However, when my current file is on D: ...
0
votes
2answers
484 views
How to define template for org-mode HTML export?
I am using org-mode to generate html pages from my notes. I used Publishing Org-mode files to HTML to setup blog system.
I have defined an export template. But to use it I have to add following line ...
0
votes
1answer
135 views
emacs/elisp setup files when loaded
I found that the elisp (emacs elisp) doesn't seem to read .bashrc, as the PATH variable is different from the one set in .bashrc, as I asked in here. I tried to load .bashrc using 'source .bashrc' in ...
