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Emacs “jump to class definition” functionality?

I want to jump to a class file "A" from another file "B" which defines objects "A". In eclipse, it is done using F3. Is there a way to achieve this in emacs?
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zsh: Echoing every statement?

I have an odd problem with zsh when I switch between shells in a particular way: Option 1 (works well): I start a zsh shell. I switch to tcsh with /bin/tcsh, and I switch back to zsh with /bin/zsh ...
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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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How to get background color in Emacs?

In Emacs no window mode, the background is automatically the same as the terminal (gnome-terminal). When I look at (frame-parameters) I see that (background-color . "unspecified-bg"). Well, for me, ...
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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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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 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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Emacs: Switching automatically to char-mode when switching to an ansi-term window

Say I have multiple windows open in Emacs 24.1 and that one of those windows is an M-x ansi-term window with a shell. By default, when I switch to an ansi-term window, Emacs activates Term: line run, ...
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Control and up/down keys in terminal for use by emacs

Is it possible to use C-up and C-down when running emacs in the terminal window (when starting emacs from the command line with the -nw flag)? What should my terminal send when I press C-up and C-down ...
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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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emacs syntax highlighting fails on my SSH client

I need to connect to a remote server by SSH to edit some documents. When I work at home, I SSH to the remote server using SSH Secure Shell and open emacs, but it doesn't fully highlight documents as I ...
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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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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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why does my emacs whitespace mode add “” to my buffer?

I'm using Putty to ssh into a RedHat box, and I'm running GNU emacs inside the putty ssh window. When I turn on whitespace-mode using M-x whitespace mode, I notice I see a "Â" before each space or ...