A text editor, usually characterized by its extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor."
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In Gnu Emacs how do I set up a global key to toggle the menu-bar?
Using Gnu Emacs 23.1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04...
I'm currently a total newb with emacs, and I've decided to go cold turkey with the Gnome menu bar. (but I do want it to be "available" for the teething ...
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emacs copy and paste
How can I copy from emacs and paste into another instance of emacs or else where?
If I do C-space, M-w, and then C-y, I can only paste in the open instance of Emacs. If I navigate to another Emacs ...
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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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Wiki for emacs users
I am looking for a new wiki software for a small private network. Since all users are very addicted to emacs, it would be nice to make everything "emacs compatible". What wiki software is most ...
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End of lines problem in emacs when editing markdown texts via It's All Text
I want to edit markdown source in emacs using the It's All Text plugin for firefox.
In markdown you have to add two spaces to the line-end to get a new line. Suppose there is such a newline in a ...
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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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Disabling caps lock by setxkbmap makes it Shift key in Emacs
I'm using GNU Emacs 23.2.1. within Xfce 4.8.0 (both coming from the Ubuntu Natty repository). I disable the CapsLock by running /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option "ctrl:nocaps" at the beginning of the Xfce ...
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Emacs: Deleting a line without sending it to the kill ring
I would like to use C-k to delete a line without sending it to the kill-ring.
I have the following on my .emacs file
(delete-selection-mode 1)
but this only seems to work for C-d (delete-char)
I ...
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Working with screen and emacs
I'm working with emacs (on the terminal) and I use screen to switch between terminals. The key combination Ctrl+A is grabbed by screen. Is there a way to change screen key binding?
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How to send the content of an emacs buffer to gcc without writing to disk?
It's common for me to run a throwaway piece of code I'm not particularly interested in saving on my disk, so I'm often working inside emacs in a buffer not attached to any file in my system.
When ...
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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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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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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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Some keys are invalid on emacs when using German keyboard
When I am using emacs 23.3 on KDE, I can not input ^, ´ and ~ from my German keyboard. If I press these keys, then emacs says that <dead-circumflex>, <dead-acute> and <dead-tilde> ...
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Is there a way to give emacs the KDE look and feel?
I'm using emacs for most of my work. I'm switching from gnome desktop to KDE (checking things out) and it bother me that emacs look soo diferent from the rest of the desktop. Is there a way to give ...
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org mode to dokuwiki converter
Is there an emacs org-mode to dokuwiki converter? Is there an dokuwiki to emacs org-mode converter?
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Emacs cperl mode - how to use tabs for indentation instead of spaces
Is there a way to make cperl mode in emacs use all tabs for indentation instead of spaces? I've tried setting indent-tabs-mode, and cperl-tab-always-indent. Here is my .emacs file:
(defalias ...
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Emacs soft line wrap at word boundary
How can I have emacs set to move the the last word at the 80 character mark?
What I mean is this:
Instead of
ran/
ge
I would like emacs to place the whole word range on the next line at the 80 ...
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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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emacs can't open display
Just recently this has started happening; I run: /usr/bin/emacsclient --alternate-editor="" --no-wait -c and get:
ERROR: Display :0.0 can't be opened
No other applications do this.
The output ...
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Timelineview of all agenda files
Is it possible to get a timeline view that combines the entries from all agenda files?
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Emacs complains: font 'serif 10' is not defined
I am running Linux Mint 12 and trying to start emacs but keep getting this error:
font 'serif 10' is not defined
It seems obvious to me that I don't have the correct font. However, I cannot for ...
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Configure Emacs to use Chrome as the web browser of choice?
Using Emacs on a Linux system I click:
Scala>Browser Scala API
which produces a terminal window with this message:
/usr/bin/xterm: Can't execvp lynx: No such file or directory
How do I inform ...
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Emacs ansi-term and term not working well when I ssh into a remote machine
I have the exact same Emacs configuration on a local and remote machine, and when I run M-x ansi-term or M-x term on each of them individually everything works great.
However, if I run any of these ...
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Ctrl-s hang terminal emulator?
I came across a sentence in vimdoc:
Note: CTRL-S does not work on all terminals and might block
further input, use CTRL-Q to get going again.
and this key indeed hangs my vim. I was ...
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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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Why does my Emacs toolbar look different over ssh w/ X forwarding on Cygwin vs CentOS?
I'm using Emacs 24.2.1 installed on a CentOS 5 server, which I ssh into with X forwarding (using -Y). I have both a Windows laptop with Cygwin/X installed, as well as a desktop running CentOS 6. When ...
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Scrolling on very long files (1M+ lines) on Emacs
I was wondering if besides the basic navigation commands:
C-p : Jump backwards one line.
C-n : Jump forward one line.
C-v : Jump forward one full screen.
M-v : Jump backwards one full screen.
M-a : ...
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What is .emacs? How do I edit it?
In this article, I don't understand step 7:
7. Add (load-library “init_python”) in your .emacs
How can I do this?
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emacs python2.7
I would like to have emacs work as a python ide for me. I can't seem to find how to compile from within emacs. I'm using python2.7 but when I do M-x python-mode it seems to compile using python2.7. Is ...
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Emacs Message: save sent mails
How do you make Emacs Message (C-x m) save outgoing mails?
Is there a standard way to do this?
You could C-x C-s but this is inefficient and easy to forget, besides, you can't be 100% it is the mail ...
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Use WINDOWS key instead of ALT key in xmonad
I use xmonad + emacs. Both use ALT key heavily. So there are conflicts sometimes.
My keyboard has WINDOWS key on it. I would like xmonad to use that key instead of ALT.
My current ...
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Why dialog doesn't support emacs shell on Debian?
Dialog is a utility that provides dialog boxes from shell scripts, you may have seen them in aptitude during upgrades. When i use Emacs shell (M-x shell) and type sudo aptitude safe-upgrade, i get the ...
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How to bind emacs abort to key
This is from a .el file loaded in my .emacs file. What do you think?
;;; Sun keyboard bindings
;; the below line does not work:
;; when <cancel> is pressed, the minibuffer echoes "Quit"
;; but ...
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Load my .profile for bash in Emacs terminal buffer? (multi-term mode)
I've got multi-term mode (derived from ansi-term) with bash started in Emacs 23.3, which is a terminal emulator running in Emacs.
However, I noticed that it did not load my user profile, including ...
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Building Emacs from trunk without admin access
I cloned the official trunk branch with:
bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
I then built autoconf, automake and texinfo. I also updated my PERL5LIB to make it include ...
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Emacs: query-replace, regular expression, reuse of search result
How do I combine something like query-replace with a regular expression search-and-replace that in part reuses the search result?
In my case, how to transform
The programmers are "sort of" ...
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How to ensure that a custom emacs macro operates on region?
Suppose I define a custom macro in emacs in my .emacs file. Is there a way to ensure that it works only on the region I marked in a buffer before executing my command, without going into details of ...
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Why does Emacs make it difficult for me to have two frames open the same buffer?
I have 2 frames. I switch the buffer in first frame to buffer A. When I try to switch the buffer in the second frame to buffer A, Emacs brings the first frame forward. What I want is to open buffer A ...
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Editing the *bookmark list* buffer on Emacs
On Emacs (using Bookmarks+), if I type C-x r l I can open the buffer *Bookmark List* and navigate through my bookmarks.
On this buffer, if I type Enter on a given bookmark, Emacs opens the bookmark, ...
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Is there a convenient general way to “grab” the echoed result of a command in Emacs (of M-: or M-!)?
Sometimes, I want to insert the result of an Emacs command (that has been echoed in the echo area) to another buffer or another running X program. So, I'd like to put it to the kill-ring. What would ...
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How can I suppress unneeded output from emacsclient?
I use emacs fairly regularly and am trying to configure my system to use emacsclient when possible. To do this I have done the following:
In .bashrc:
EDITOR='emacsclient -ca emacs'
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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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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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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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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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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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Make 'CTRL-/' behave the same in vtty and xterm
When I press Ctrl+/ in a graphical terminal (e.g. xterm) I get "undo". However, in a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1) I get "backspace".
In practice I run into this when I'm using emacs in a ...
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Can I set font face by file comments in Emacs?
I wonder if we can set the font in Emacs according to the comments in the file.
E.g.
-*- fond: "my-font"; -*-
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Problem with meta key on Emacs
I have a problem with meta key in Emacs. I trying to use M-> or M-< but in fedora meta key is left Alt that is key change layout (alt+shift) when i press M->(alt+shift+>). How people solve this ...
