A text editor, usually characterized by its extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor."
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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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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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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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Emacs and Trac Integration
Is there a way to integrate Trac and Emacs?
e.g. edit Wiki pages in org mode, edit and manage tickets from within emacs?
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In Emacs, how do I inspect what has been modified in a buffer (before saving and overwriting the file)?
In Emacs, how do I inspect what has been modified in a buffer (before saving and overwriting the file)?
(In a sense, the requested action is an analog of git status and git add -i showing what has ...
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vim customized with emacs commands (edition mode only)
I was an emacs user, and I have to switch to vim. But I miss some basic emacs commands in vim edition mode:
C-A
C-E
C-K
C-Y
C-x C-s
... and some other
I know that I can press Escape and then press ...
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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 ...
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Anything , Ido and similar tools for Emacs: Overlap and differences
Reading about Anything and Ido for Emacs I noticed that they support similar features. The EmacsWiki provides great info about both, but I still can't tell what sets them apart.
What are the ...
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M-x ansi-term colors in Emacs 24.x
I have noticed that some colors in LS_COLORS don't work when running a shell inside M-x-ansi-term in Emacs.
For exmaple;
di 00 94
is supposed to turn on bold on light blue on directories on ...
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Installing slime and emacs
I'm trying to install SLIME on Fedora 17 so that I can do some lisp.
Here is what I downloaded:
http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/#downloading
The CVS Snapshot link.
I have a .emacs file:
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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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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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How to bind “Ctrl-Alt-b” to the prefix of tmux?
Tmux uses Ctrlb as its prefix, but Ctrlb conflict with Emacs.
I want to bind CtrlAltb to tmux's prefix. I guess it may be C-M-b but didn't work...
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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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How to modify write permission on current buffer in emacs?
Is it possible to change the write permissions on a file from inside emacs, without killing/re-opening the buffer?
Sometimes I forget to modify the permissions on a file before opening it. I can ...
