Questions tagged [emacs]
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Hunspell does not propose an obvious correct form of a misspelled word
For the misspelled word "perapring" hunspell does not propose the correct spelling "preparing" and only proposes the following words:
persevering
pertaining
innerspring
preferring
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CTL-Y no longer works
Suddenly the highlighting color, when copying changed from gray to yellow.
CTL-Y no longer works, When I try it I get:
Symbol's function definition is void: x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value.
My .emacs ...
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Does Ispell send any of the checked data to a server?
Does Ispell only use local dictionaries, or does it send any of the checked data to a server?
The best answer I can find is that it is up to the implementation, and the only open-source repository I ...
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Emacs org-mode export to LaTeX and PDF produces incorrect double quotes
I am currently finishing up the formatting of a book written in Emacs org-mode. I noticed that me using a specific kind of formatting for dialogue produces odd results when it comes to closing double ...
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Building emacs 29 on openSUSE: `configure` cannot find json library despite it being installed
Im currently trying to build emacs 29.0.90 from source. I've installed every version and permutation of json-devel, json-c, libjsoncpp, etc on the repositories, and even built, tested, and installed ...
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org mode: how to reset files VISIBILITY state to that defined in STARTUP
How to reset files VISIBILITY state to that defined in STARTUP, as if you closed and reopened file.
This would mean honouring each particular sections VISIBILITY property as well as that defined in ...
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How to access GNU-Emacs binaries located in HOME partition from everywhere?
I built GNU-Emacs from scratch and now I have working binaries of it in my home partition. So ~/somedir/emacs/src has all the binaries. If I issue the following:
PATH=$HOME/tmp/emacs/src:$PATH
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Emacs 28.1 Crash with Bus Error
Emacs 28.1
gcc/9.5.0_jit
By running gdb emacs core, got below backtrace at the end:
#54 0x00007f16b95b00c5 in F6a69742d6c6f636b2d66756e6374696f6e_jit_lock_function_0 () at /xxx/emacs/28.1/libexec/...
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When should TERM be set to alacritty-direct
I am using alacritty 0.11.0 (8dbaa0bb) on Arch.
the default TERM type is alacritty, which works well (truecolors etc) for everything except terminal emacs. In a terminal emacs does not show truecolors....
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Missing Emoji in Emacs and Firefox
I've had this issue on Mojave, and it remains now that I upgraded to Big Sur with a clean install. Can't find anything about it on Google.
All emoji are working just fine everywhere on my system, ...
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How can I run WSL2 in Windows Emacs? M-x shell RET wsl RET doesn't output anything
How can I run WSL2 in Emacs? M-x shell RET wsl RET doesn't output anything.
This happens on my Windows 11 machine.
Tried it on macOS, Emacs told my macOS machine that its terminal is too dumb for WSL.
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What is ctrl-; doing in Gnome Terminal and Emacs?
When I type ctrl-; in Gnome Terminal, it prints an underlined letter e. If I type a bunch of letters, they're also underlined. When I hit enter, the underline goes away, and the first e also goes away....
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deleted gpg key (secret and public) now I can't send emails in emacs mu4e
I lost a password of my key, so I deleted it now emacs complains when I send a mail via mu4e.
I deleted my entire ~/.gnupg directory
I regenerated the ~/.authinfo.gpg key via epa-encrypt-file
I ...
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can't run commands in bash invoked from emacs shell on windows
I invoked "shell" which correctly runs cmd.exe and runs correctly.
However, when I run bash from within that shell, every command gives an error
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.739] (c)...
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Emacs C-c C-, doesn't work in a "terminal"
I need to send my Emacs the keys Ctrl+C and Ctrl+, (C-c C-, in Emacs notation) via SSH shell or a terminal emulation (e.g. terminator).
But it seems that C-, doesn't work.
First I thought this is ...
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How to draw such a picture(in ascii character, -+>)? [duplicate]
Is it drawn by emacs? +----+ seems like lines of table generated by emacs.
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Emacs Org Mode Mobile (org-mobile-pull) issue
I'm trying to sync .org files on Mac and iPhone through IPhone app MobileOrg. Things working file until running the org-mobile-pull command to try to pull the files that were sent from iPhone to my ...
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Emacs on WLS Ubuntu in Moba XServer - no italics fonts
I have Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS installed in a WSL1 container on my Windows 10 laptop. I also have MobaXterm Pro v21.5, configured with a WSL session so I can run command lines in a terminal tab. I also ...
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Run X11 apps in Docker container using MacPorts' Xorg-Server on macOS host
I'd like to run the Emacs code editor in a Ubuntu Container I installed in Docker, and I'd like to run it in GUI mode.
I installed the xorg-server port using MacPorts, but it defaults to a Unix-domain ...
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How to step through a shell script line-by-line and send each line to the terminal?
I have an .sh file with shell commands, for example:
echo "What shall are we running?"
if [ "$0" == "-bash" ]; then
echo "I'm running a bash"
else
echo &...
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Treat terminal like an emacs buffer
I'm on Ubuntu and I use either GNOME Terminal or Terminator.
I'd like to be less reliant on the mouse/touchpad. Say that I have the output of ls in the terminal and I want to copy out part of the ...
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Cygwin ctrl-number not working (in cli emacs)
Cygwin ctrl-number is not working in cli emacs. I disabled the mintty options for keyboard shortcuts, so now ^- does work the same as ^u -1. Still, ctrl-number shortcuts do not work in emacs. ^4 ^x o ...
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Got daemonp error while installing doom
I am on Macos 10.14 and am trying to install Doom with Emacs.
I've downloaded emacs with brew install --cask emacs, and it is at version GNU Emacs 27.2.
I run the installation lines per doom's ...
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Finding emacs config file Ubuntu
I am attempting to locate my config file. Using my emacs editor, I can find .emacs using user-init-file which outputs ~\.emacs. However, trying to locate this file/folder in the terminal only returns ...
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Is anyone else experiencing keys (I am not touching) being sent to WSL 2 gui apps and how should I report it to Microsoft?
I am trying the Windows insider preview 10.0.21.390.1000 (co_release) with Ubuntu 18.0.4 (and Ubuntu 20.0.4) under WSL 2 to use Emacs in GUI mode without needing VcXsrv. With either version I ...
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emacs term send literal C-z to bash (background running process)
I recently switch from cli emacs to gui emacs (25). I regularly use a M-x term buffer to run cli tools. Upon switching, I found that pressing C-z now minimizes the emacs window (and laughed at the ...
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mv: cannot move, Permission denied in WSL
I'm getting mv: cannot move, Permission denied error, but before claiming this is a dupe, please see what I've tried first:
First of all, it has nothing to do with file or directory mode:
$ mv -f ....
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Emacs load file from command line
When I was on Ubuntu, I would open files with Emacs on the command line like this:
$ emacs -nw file.txt
or
$ emacs /etc/sysctl.conf
When I use Kali and type the above, no file is opened and I am ...
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how to use pre-defined variables or constants in (custom-theme-set-faces) in emacs
I'd like to use pre-defined variable or constant of string type in (custom-theme-set-faces), so it would go like
(setq Blue128 "#000080")
(custom-theme-set-faces
'thename
'(default ((t (
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Running emacs (gtk) through X410 from WSL Docker - program exits when idle
I've started trying to use Docker for my daily development environment to make it easy (in principle) to work from any arbitrary machine without a lot of setup fuss. My environment is based on Emacs+...
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How do I make Emacs honor (setq mouse-yank-at-point t) when using isearch?
When using Emacs in a terminal, if I start a search (C-s) and then middle-click paste something, it goes into the search no matter where I click. This is what I want to happen in the GUI.
This answer ...
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Adding Emacs-style trailing line comment in Visual Studio Code
I am trying to replicate a standard comment shortcut from Emacs in Visual Studio Code (MacOS).
In Emacs, the shortcut M-; adds a trailing line comment to the current line. I use this shortcut quite a ...
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How do you quickly renumber a numbered list in emacs after you re-order its elements?
Suppose you start with this list
1- tofu
2- vinegar
3- salt
4- ground beef
5- white sugar
And then you want white sugar to be number 3. You kill 5-White sugar, go right beneath 2-vinegar and yank it :...
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Emacs client - Keep frame until all buffers are closed
I'm using Emacs with the server in daemon mode.
When I go to the buffers menu, I can see all the buffers that the server has open. Is there a way to keep the Emacs client frame open until all the ...
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Setting up ESS (R)
I am a new emacs user. I am trying to set up my R-environment in spacemacs. I have added the ESS layer in my dotfile, but I cannot get the LSP to connect in order to get completion and etc when I am ...
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Does `yank` mean copying, pasting, or either in Emacs?
While yank means copying in Vim, I am a bit confused about Emacs. What does yank mean there exactly?
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How to configure Alpine to use an already running Emacs as an alternate editor?
I have activated in Alpine email client the following setting in order to use Emacs as an editor when composing emails:
[X] Enable Alternate Editor Implicitly
Editor = emacsclientw.exe -ca runemacs....
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Change the window-terminal to Emacs edit-mode
I plan to change the window-terminal to Emacs-Editing style with:
Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Emacs
but it failed to work when start new terminal instance or restart the machine.
As a solution, I ...
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Getting Emacs to work with GUI in WSL
I'm new here and I don't really get this stuff, so I'll try to provide all the relevant details but if something important is missing please tell me.
I have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) setup on ...
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Emacs ediff does not show inline word based differences
I am using emacs with ediff to compare two files. and my ediff view does not show inline differences. e.g., if lines from both files only have one word difference, ediff cannot highlight the word but ...
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Start Emacs from MobXterm
I was using Emacs for a while from Cygwin. I created a link shortcut on Desktop and started it from there.
Now I want to try Emacs from MobaXterm. I installed Emacs package but can't figure out how to ...
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Switching to TMB mode in AD Studio
I am trying to become familiar with TMB in AD Studio. I have been working through the user's guide AD Studio: Statistical modelling in ADMB and TMB Version 1.0 (2018-01-22) by Arni Magnusson. I can ...
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Some applications in full screen leave an invisible gap between top of window and the top border of the screen. (win 10, multiple monitors)
I notice this problem with emacs, notepad++, and WinRAR. When their window is maximized to full screen, there's actually an invisible gap between the top of the window to the top edge of the screen.
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How do I exit vim, that is within emacs term mode with evil?
I am trying to make transition from vim to emacs (specifically doom-emacs). I was using term mode and habitually used vim in an attempt to edit another file forgetting that I was inside emacs.
I ...
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Unable to run emacs
I have been running $ emacs &, however, I keep getting " Display localhost:0/0 unavailable, simulating -nw". Can anyone explain why this is happening?
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Starting emacs server from outside emacs
I am trying to start emacsserver from outside emacs (even having emacs not running at all to start with). I would like to start a search through my org files using emacs functions, but avoiding the ...
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access smb share via emacs tramp mode - repeatedly prompting for password
If I use smbclient from the command line on a unix host to access a windows server share (happens to be a windows server in an Active Directory domain), it works fine. I can access directories and ...
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spotlight launches new emacs instead of moving focus to a running emacs instance
Suppose I search for chrome in spotlight search, and select the top suggestion - Google Chrome, this causes mac os to move focus to a running instance of Google Chrome, if available. Likewise, when I ...
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emacs meta key doesn't respond after setting option key as meta on OSX
I recently installed macport emacs and spacemacs with brew. I configured the spacemacs to ivy mode. The problem is after setting the option key as Meta on terminal preference, the output of meta key ...
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An efficient way to start a graphical application with multiple monitors with WSL2 and VcXsrv on Windows
I am using WSL2 on Windows, at the moment mainly just to start my customized emacs. My workflow to get emacs started is a little bit cumbersome. After each boot, I have to start Xsrv application with ...
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