A text editor, usually characterized by its extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor."
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emacs session attach back
When I was at VIM age, I used to enjoy working with screen which gives me the flexibility to switch between mulitple windows. And later I switched to emacs but I lost one of my favorite feature: ...
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How to disable emacs here document completion
When editing a bash script file with emacs, and trying to enter <<<, at the second < emacs insert a template for a here document, like in the following example:
<<EOF
EOF
This is ...
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not able to install jabber with emacs
i downloaded emacs-jabber from git and it created a directory called emacs-jabber and it had files like jabber.el , configure.ac etc. installation guide told me to use
./configure and make and make ...
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Emacs on OpenBSD for DEC VAX?
I have managed to install OpenBSD 5.2 on my DEC VaxStation 4000 Model 90 but to my surprise have not found a binary for Emacs (any version) for the VAX architecture. As best as I can tell I do not see ...
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Kate vs VIM/Emacs regarding speed [closed]
I'm trying to learn C++ in school using a UNIX environment and our professor urges us to use VIM or Emacs because a GUI is disadvantageous for two reasons:
Moving your hands off the keyboard and ...
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untabify on save in Emacs 24 without make-local-hook
I'd like to untabify whenever I save a buffer. This worked fine until I upgraded to Emacs 24 which broke it, as there is no make-local-hook anymore. Have a look:
;;; untabify on C-x C-s (except for ...
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emacs shell mode (M-x shell)
When I am using the emacs M-x shell mode I see strange characters on my screen which I believe are related to my prompt (which includes an End-Of-Line) and the use of colors.
So, here's what I see on ...
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Symbolic link starting with .#
I have a symlink in one of my directories that has the following name:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 XXXX ZZZ 37 Jan 15 18:18 .#perl.org -> XXX@YYY.com.2980:1344441539
I am wondering what this symlink ...
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How to use Emacs to recognize and automatically open GPG encrypted file in ASCII armored format?
gpg -ca passwords.txt create encrypted ASCII file passwords.txt.asc. Emacs open the file as a normal text file:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux)
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Synonyms (from a thesaurus) in Emacs
I use Emacs 23 on Debian sid. I can check the spelling of a word in Emacs with M-$. How can I obtain synonyms (using a thesaurus?) for a word in Emacs?
None of the following were useful: one, two, ...
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Cannot set breakpoints on idlwave (emacs)
I am using idlwave on emacs. I can't set breakpoints, the message is
Wrong type argument: consp, nil.
I am using Emacs 23.1.1, idlwave v6.1_em22 and IDL 8.0.1
Does anybody have a clue?
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canlock-password - hashed password (?) mysteriously in .emacs
In my .emacs, this has appeared, for unknown reasons:
(custom-set-variables
; ...
'(canlock-password "fdd7041be5b...")
And so on, totalling 40 characters and digits.
C-h v offers this:
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vim vs. emacs… and no, this is not a flame war
How would you compare these editors? What are the pros and cons of each?
[note] This is not meant to be answered by those who "hate one and love another" or those who haven't used both.
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How to install emacs using YUM without X11 libraries?
I have installed a minimal installation of CentOS 6.3 inside a VirtualBox VM. Now, I would like to install Emacs for use from the command line only.
When I do a search for emacs using yum search ...
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How to create a function to fill the region to a certain width?
Sometimes I justify text in emacs using C-u 70 M-x fill-region.
I would like to have a function in my .emacs file that has a parameter so that I can use a shortcut to call the function instead of ...
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Configure the fields of the Rmail summary
How do I configure the fields of the Rmail summary?
The code is in rmailsum.el, but I just can't find the place!
For example, the first column in the Rmail summary seems to indicate... mail number? ...
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How can I get recentf-mode to work with emacs server/client?
I like using recentf mode in Emacs which produces a list of files I have recently opened. This list is persistent between sessions, so I can get to files I used a fairly long time ago.
However, I ...
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can color-theme bind to a buffer?
I want to use different color-theme for different file types. I tried to use add-hook to set the color-theme for the major-mode, but it only applies when the buffer is first load. If I switch to ...
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Creating Emacs TAGS file
I am working through the "Emacs Lisp Intro" book within Emacs 23.4.1 on Debian Wheezy (CrunchBang Waldorf).
Section 4.1 discusses the find-tags command and the TAGS file. Instructions are included to ...
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How can I have different Emacs sessions loaded on different Emacs windows while using Emacs on daemon mode?
I'm currently using Emacs on daemon mode. I save my sessions using the desktop package. I also combine that with this in order to have several named sessions saved. If I have several Emacs windows ...
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How to close gdb (or other frames) on emacs?
I'm learning about emacs (using version 2.3 on Ubuntu 10.10), and I'm having some trouble with the frames. When I run gdb, for example, I have to get my mouse and click "File->Close" to close the gdb ...
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Open application on custom desktop in xmonad
Suppose I call shell-command from emacs for example (shell-command "evince"). Is it possible to move the application (in the present example evince) started this way automatically to desktop 5 in ...
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emacs --daemon crashing after closing emacsclient -c
I start emacs daemon with the following commnad.
$ emacs --daemon
This seems to work.
After this I start emacs client as follows
$ emacsclient -c
Whenever I close the emacsclient, the server ...
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How do I configure Emacs to use 'ispell' on Mac OS X?
I'm using brew as my package manager for both Emacs and ispell. I have both installed. Doing a quick google, I was unable to figure out how to tell Emacs where ispell is and to load the appropriate ...
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emacs colors based on $TERM environment variable
I want to know if it is possible to make emacs, when running in a gnu screen or tmux session, use the same colors as when TERM=xterm. In a gnu screen or tmux session, TERM=screen and emacs uses a ...
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How to configure Emacs for literate programming?
I would like to use Emacs for literate programming.
I want my code to look like this .
<<class Hufftree definition>>=
template<typename DataType, typename Frequency> class ...
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Can emacs use gpg-agent in a terminal at all?
I understand that there are problems with getting pinentry-curses to work with emacs (see some of the comments on http://emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG), and so using emacs in a terminal isn't compatible ...
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Can Bash Emacs shortcuts be enabled over SSH?
I find Bash keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl-a (jump to start of line), Ctrl-k (cut text following caret), Ctrl-n/Ctrl-p (next/previous line in command history) immeasurably useful in day-to-day CLI ...
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Emacs function on set of files
Is there a way implemented in Emacs to apply a function on a set of files? (Or, if not, do you know of such an extension?)
For example, if you have a project in a directory (say, scripts to compile ...
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Emacs simple arithmetics in query replace
Is it possible to do the following in emacs:
Query replace all numbers in a region by the number +n, for example if you have:
12 and 7 are nice numbers
let n be 3, then it should transform to
15 ...
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Best emacs setup for developing pyqt4 applications [closed]
What's the best way to turn emacs into a good pyqt4 developing environment.
What modes and extensions are usefull for this task and how to enable it? For example is there a tab-completion feature for ...
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Emacs mode for man pages
I'm translating man pages, and have run in to a few problems with Emacs.
How do you specify language? (With man, it looks like this man -Lsv shutdown for the Swedish "sv" subdirectory, if ...
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GNU Screen and Emacs
I upgraded recently to OpenSuSE 12.1 from 11.3 and now when I open any files in emacs from inside a screen session, I get a blank buffer. Let's say I open it as:
emacs myFile.txt
it will open to an ...
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Emacs depends on perl
Why does emacs depend on Perl? I thought it is all based on C/Lisp?
Emacs Version 24.1.4.fc17
(Working on a fresh out of the box fedora17)
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Emacs move to next whitespace
In emacs there are the functions forward-word and backward-word. Are there also functions which move the point to the next/last whitespace?
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Undo everything in emacs
Is it possible to undo everything in an emacs buffer in just one step? I can do it step by step using C-x u but how can I do all steps just with one command?
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How do I remap Caps_lock to Ctrl from inside emacs?
I use emacs on several machines between work and home, and I'm naturally interested in remapping that Caps_Lock key to save my finger from agony. On some platforms it's a bit more difficult to do than ...
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Reattach to Emacs session
I was trying to save in Emacs and pushed something wrong and Emacs closed. Judging by
ps aux | grep emacs
the emacs process is still running with the file I need to save running. (Opening the file ...
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How to use the Meta/Alt Key with tput?
I want to redefine keybindings for the commandline of a lisp dialect. The commandline is actually modeled after Vi and implemented with tput/terminfo. I want an alternative version with Emacs ...
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Ido mode and recently opened files
I recently switched to ido-mode in emacs.
When I run C-x C-f (ido-find-file) pressing M-r to do a regex search in the recently used files doesn't work any more.
Is there a way to enable this regex ...
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Good GNU/Emacs tutorial
I'd like to learn emacs in depth. The problem is that they divide in 2 categories:
Basics (That C-x C-s saves files and C-x C-c exists emacs etc.)
Everything
I'm currently use 1%-10% of emacs ...
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How to jump on a position specified by line and column?
When opening a file one can use
$ emacs +2:9 practice.b
Which will open file ‘practice.b’ on line 2 and character 9 on that line. How do I jump like this in an already running Emacs? I know about ...
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Emacs M-x query-replace wrap around the document?
I use M-x query-replace on Emacs (M-%) quite often, and I like that I have the flexibility to choose between these options:
Spacebar Replace text and find the next occurrence
Del ...
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Is it possible to stop emacs from down translating my key chords?
emacs has the default behaviour of double-guessing which key-combo (chord) I've pressed. It automatically down-translates to a lesser chord when the key-combo I pressed is unassigned, eg. ...
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emacs dedicated completion window
To prevent confusion, I only run one "window" of emacs and so I use window in the emacs sense. I'm looking to get a window split which, let's say 70 in width, contains the completions buffer on the ...
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XEmacs: load all files in /home/barry/.emacs_barry
XEmacs creates an .emacs_barry file in my home directory that contain
my active buffers + point positions in those buffers(?). It looks like this:
"Norma Jean"
"/home/barry/plan1.txt" 4504398
nil
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How to replace current word under cursor in Emacs
How do I replace current word under cursor in Emacs?
I know that I can use query-replace or replace-string but every time I do so I have to type entire string to be replaced, this is just annoying.
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Set tab indent in Emacs
I have a very simple thing I want to do in Emacs. I want to set it so that when I press the TAB key, it inserts two spaces. Just this. It's all I ask. I have tried doing this for a couple of years ...
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Emacs auto encryption and gpg
Emacs encrypts/decrypts .gpg files automatically. But recently I have lost the ability to decrypt files encrypted by the Linux gpg tool and vice versa.
I use:
passphrase symmetric encryption
gnupg ...
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Getting emacs to convert latex on the fly?
What's really nice about posting in the math stackexchange, and other forums, is that you can view the latex symbols right below as you're typing your post. Is there a way to do this in emacs? That ...
