Questions tagged [emacs]
A text editor, usually characterized by its extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." There is an Emacs-specific SE site for specialized questions.
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how can i reduce the byte of the code bellow from 146 to 144 need help please [closed]
How can i reduce the byte(memory) of the code:
#include<stdio.h>
/**
* main - Entry Point
* Return: Always 0 (success)
*/
int main(void)
{
printf("Size of a char: %d byte(s)\n&...
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Do shells have a command equivalent of the "|" pipe symbol? I need something like that in Emacs org-mode tables
I like to construct commands which use the | pipe symbol in org tables and | symbol messes them up. Do bash et al have a text command that is the equivalent of the symbol?
Are there alternative ways ...
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EasyPG always asks to pick a gpg key even though epa-file-encrypt-to is set
I want emacs to use one specific key for encryption files. So, when I make a *.org.gpg file and save it, easypg should automatically transparently take the key and encrypt a buffer.
Instead, it asks ...
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How can I edit a row in a 7GB csv file?
I have a .csv file which is 7+ GB and has 30M rows.
When I load the file into a database table in SQL Server, it reports the position of a row with some format problem, probably due to some fields ...
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Emacs dired list .(dot) ..(dotdot) first
In short, how do I implement the solution in following question in emacs for use in dired? I cannot comment there, so I started this question.
How can I make “ls” show dotfiles first while staying ...
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Terminal applications don't cover the entire terminal
I've been researching this for a couple hours so far and I can't seem to find a solution that works and isn't 10 years old so I figured I'd ask again.
I'm using awesome and Alacritty, and when I use, ...
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Systemd starts emacs daemon without XAUTHORITY environment variable after upgrading to Fedora 37
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I am running Emacs daemon as a user service using Systemd, following the documentation in EmacsWiki. I configured it while using Fedora-36, and everything was working as expected. Once I ...
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Trouble with starting emacs daemon using crontab's @reboot
I'm trying to configure my system to start emacs -daemon when I start the system. So, I've added following line to my crontab.
@reboot /usr/bin/emacs -daemon
And then when I start my system, It seems ...
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How to change title bar color of emacs in gnome desktop environment
I'm using Gentoo with gnome-42.3. I've set the theme to Adwaita-dark. All the windows turned dark except the emacs. Is there a way to set title-bar-color for a specific application?
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How to run any script after exec-dbus-launch in .xinitrc?
How can I have sh poll_monitor.sh & executed after exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session emacs in my .xinitrc
Apparently every line AFTER exec dbus-launch is ignored.
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Open tex file corresponding to an opened pdf file
Suppose I have opened a pdf file (say /path/to/my/file.pdf generated from LaTeX) in evince and want to open the corresponding LaTeX source file (/path/to/my/file.tex) in my emacs editor, I click on ...
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How to run GNU Emacs 28 in firejail with the firefox profile?
I'd like to be able to run GNU Emacs 28 from a Firefox running in firejail, but it gives the following error:
emacs: could not load dump file "/usr/libexec/emacs/28.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp&...
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Use package manager or pip (or some sort of env) with Doom Emacs?
I know that using virtual environments as much as possible is good practice, however I can't get Doom Emacs packages to work with an environment (Conda in particular). Now I need to install systemwide ...
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How to automate the process to open 3 shells and run 3 commands?
I set up something so that I'd open up 3 shells and run the programs one by one:
cd foo/bar
./foo.sh
cd foo/bar
node bar.js
cd foo/bar
ruby foobar.rb
However, since it is time consuming, so I wrote ...
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How to make emacs scale when changing text-scaling-factor on gnome?
When I switch screen I do gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor $size. All my programs are scaling correctly except for emacs (nothing change). I have to restart emacs each ...
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How do I open a file at specific line in a running emacs?
emacs can be run from the command line to open a file at line n with a +n command line argument like so :
$ emacs +n file
I'd like to do the same from a running emacs instance, either via find-file ...
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What is emacsen-common package?
I was trying to remove emacs and all packages related and almost removed emacsen-common.
The output to apt remove emacsen-common is:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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Emacs escaping getty
I create two virtual serials by
socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0 pty,raw,echo=0
in the specific case, I got /dev/pts/9 and /dev/pts/16
I then start screen on one side, in one X terminal, specifically gnome-...
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authinfo syntax -- how to include a command in my authinfo file?
The online manual states the following:
The format of an authinfo file is based on the .netrc file specification that is used for FTP login. In addition to the .netrc file standards, the authinfo ...
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emacs ./configure encounters missing function 'tputs' when cross-compiling for arm-linux-gnueabihf
I'm trying to cross compile Emacs for an armv7l system on my main rig through an Arch virtual-box, and so far I've had no issues until the ./configure stage. I've properly set up the build, host, and ...
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How to quit the `mg` editor?
I tried to use one of my Git aliases and accidentally opened the mg editor. I tried a lof of different keys and nothing seemed to close it. I eventually just used ctrlz to to send it to the background ...
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open emacs gui through xlaunch from wsl failed
I was able to open emacs with xlaunch, but somehow it stopped working. I am not familiar with xlaunch. How do I debug this problem?
Display 172.27.112.1:0 unavailable, simulating -nw
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emacs path replacement
I had a old version of emacs, I removed it and install a new one. For this new install I got a gz file, and compiled in my laptop. After a successful installation I got a small situation:
If I type: ...
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Update Emacs to the latest version on Linux Mint
I installed Linux Mint 20 on a new machine, and I have the default Emacs version:
➜ ~ sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep emacs
emacs install
emacs-bin-common ...
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Move to Midline in Terminal?
I frequently make spelling mistakes in the middle of my commands in my zsh iterm2 (on Macbook). For example, the word "origin" below
git push origi my-very-long-branch-name
My normal ...
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locate: regex repetition postfix operator doesn't work with --regextype emacs
I have some files whose the names are of the form krita-NN.kra where NN is a number having one to two digits. I wanted to locate them using Emacs regex. However, the repetition postfix operator (\{n, ...
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How can I change the line numbers column font scale in a specific buffer in emacs?
I am using (global-display-line-numbers-mode)
and the code suggested in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/593889/441805
adapts the line numbers column font scale accordingly to the buffer text font ...
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How do you read a .txt file with stdin .cc file and output it to your shell? pt.2 [duplicate]
//include file from a large library that gives us the ability to program in
//C++
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
//
int main()
{
File * fPointer;
//fpointer gives direction ...
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Vim-based alternative for Emacs tramp-mode
I'm currently using vim (actually neovim) as my IDE for writing and executing GNU R-code (using the Nvim-R-plugin, see also https://github.com/jalvesaq/Nvim-R, which serves as my REPL), which works ...
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Thin grey strip inside border when using WSL + GUI App + Vcxsrv
I've been using emacs inside WSL and vcxsrv to display the interface. One small issue I found with this approach is that there's a very thin grey area between the border and emacs's text area.
Please ...
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Make Emacs load .bashrc / .bash_profile when started by GUI
I wrote LD_LIBRARY_PATH both in .bashrc and .bash_profile.
However, if I started emacs in terminal using emacs, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is shown in getenv.
If I started it using GUI (installed from apt-get), ...
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How to make undo history interoperable between emacs and vim?
Is it possible to share undo history of a file between emacs and vim?
I think it can be very useful: for example if your emacs config is broken and you want to quick edit files with vim to repair it.
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Font issues with text editors on Arch Linux with i3
I've been using Arch for a while now, and had problems with fonts in the past, mainly with firefox and chrome, but I was able to manage those and they look pretty normal.
I've been an avid vim user ...
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VISUAL and EDITOR variables aren't defined
I'm using CentOs 6 and learning about command line editing modes. The VISUAL and EDITOR variables aren't defined in my system and printenv or env commands don't show them. My X terminal starts in ...
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ELisp function to org-todo current clocked task and keep current buffer still
Image that I have a clocked task and I want clock-out it and set the heading to done the same time.Most importantly,I don't want to change my focus on my current buffer,I tried to write a function
(...
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fasd -e emacs not working correctly (snap installation)
fasd is working fine when I use commands such as z (equivalent to fasd_cd -d).
However when I try to do something like fasd -e emacs .bashrc I get a funny error message:
/snap/fasd/2/usr/local/bin/...
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Emacs running in mintty via ssh and tmux reports <end> as <select>
Currently I need to code via ssh on a remote machine. I run this from a Cygwin mintty and use tmux to keep emacs running even when I disconnect. Everything is fine, tmux reports TERM=screen, however ...
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Issue with xorg-server on arch
After a arch linux upgrade, it seems that my x-server is really unstable... Launching emacs with exwm does not work anymore. I have installed gnome and it does work (sometimes, very unstable). I ...
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PYTHONPATH not being updated
Currently I use pyenv to have a particular python version installed. Then I use pipenv to create virtual environments for my various projects in python.
Currently I have a project structure similar ...
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Emacs via X: how to use better rendered true type fonts?
I have attached a screenshot of Emacs 24.5 running in X-Quartz in a Debian VM. Does anyone know how to configure Emacs to use the better rendered Andale font? For instance, with rendering like the ...
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Is there a Debian package for Emacs that contains the source (.el files) v. the compiled code (.elc)?
In my old versions of Ubuntu I would automatically get the dot-el files for emacs when I installed it. This was very useful because if I wanted a private version of a function (eg compile-without-...
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Emacs with 24bit terminal support on FreeBSD
I'm trying to enable 24bit support on the terminal (via SSH) on my FreeBSD 12 installation without success.
I tried to create a terminfo file with the contents:
xterm-24bit|xterm with 24-bit direct ...
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Error Installing Emacs25 Package on Ubuntu 16.04
I am trying to install Emacs25 package on Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Emacs 24 and Emacs-snapshot (currently Emacs 27.0.50).
I ran the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelleyk/emacs
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How can I bind multiple keys to a macro?
I want to be able to insert:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
#+END_SRC
By typing <sTab.
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How to have Emacs daemon persist on remote
My current work workflow includes using PuTTY to SSH into a Linux development box with many users. I use an Emacs daemon to avoid the long startup times when closing my Emacs sessions. However, the ...
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Where does audio output go in Emacs shell?
I open a shell in Emacs via M-x shell.
Then, the line echo -ne '\007' produces no output. However, when I run it in terminal via M-x term, it produces a sound. Is there a way to get shell to have the ...
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Changing default browser for emacs, Debian insists on using Firefox
In the emacs' .emacs:
'(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-default-browser))
I have restarted the system after setting Opera as default browser.
When I run:
update-alternatives --config ...
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Ubuntu Emacs 'Invalid read syntax: )' error
I'm trying to rebind the backspace key to actually do backwards delete instead of C-h ? in emacs on ubuntu.
In my .emacs.el init file i have (global-set-key [(control ?h)] 'delete-backward-char')
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CentOS7 emacs installation error: No X toolkit could be found
When running:
sudo ./configure
I got error:
checking for libXaw... configure: error: No X toolkit could be found.
If you are sure you want Emacs compiled without an X toolkit, pass
--with-x-...
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sudo emacs doesn't read my elpa packages
Here is my problem on a server running CentOS 7 with emacs 24.3.1.:
When I run sudo emacs <protected_file> on a file that I don't have write permissions, emacs doesn't read my .emacs file, nor ...
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