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: make portion of buffer readonly
I sometimes edit files in emacs where portions of the file are
documentation or something else that shouldn't be edited, and another
portions are "play areas" where I'm free to edit and create new ...
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Keyboard shortcut to switch files in one Emacs instance?
I've multiple files opened in an Emacs client. Right now, to toggle between files, I've to click on the file name at the bar below in the editor. Any keyboard shortcuts for switching between files?
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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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How to open all the files in a directory, using terminal, in emacs?
I've 4 java files in a directory, which I want to work with in emacs. How do I open them all together? Thanks
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Emacs : Ctrl+space (set mark) insert only a space in Konsole
I'm having a problem with emacs in Konsole : I can't set a mark to select text in emacs. Ctrl+space insert a space character instead of setting the mark.
On XTerm, i've almost the same behaviour. It ...
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ansi-term no longer works when emacs is run in daemon mode
I shell into a remote server to run emacs using ssh. Ever since I started running emacs as a daemon I've been having problems using ansi-term, shell, and eshell.
I can run commands in eshell fine, ...
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Count number of processes with ps -Af
I have to count the number of emacs processes on the machine I'm remote using, by using the command ps -Af. Where do I even start?
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Can I bridge “backwards” from an ssh connection to my local emacs-server?
I'd very much like to log in to a remote machine with ssh and via the $EDITOR environment variable (or something similar) be able to edit in my local Emacs. In this case, specifically for when I log ...
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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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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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latexmk with emacs only runs once instead of twice
I have latexmk setup to run through Auctex.
I hit crtl + c crtl + c and the option latexmk is present. When I run a file that has new bibliography items, it says after compiling that I need to run ...
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emacs elpa load packages
I am using emacs24, and I started using elpa to download the packages to ~/.emacs.d/elpa folder.
How can I load these packages?
For instance, I have tried (see below) for rainbow-delimiter but it ...
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Gnome Terminal---hide the tilde files produced by Emacs
Editing text file using Emacs will make Emacs make a companion file for its own purpose.
For example, after first editing a file called test.c, Emacs will leave a file called test.c~ in the same ...
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How to attach elisp function source code in Emacs?
I could use M-x find-function to find the source code of some elisp functions if the function is not written in C code.
But since I am using a Debian binary package of Emacs , some of the source ...
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how to setup AucTex with LuaTex in Emacs
How can I add to the list LuaTeX when I type Ctrlc Ctrlc?
I was able to add Latexmk to the list by adding
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda ()
(push
'("Latexmk" "latexmk -pdf %s" TeX-run-TeX ...
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Emacs on Minix 3?
Has anybody managed to install Emacs on Minix 3? Emacs was available on earlier versions of Minix. I am OK with an earlier version of Emacs if necessary. I don't find Zile, mg or Elle adequate and ...
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Effect if any of changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH environnment variable on emacs fonts?
The rendering of my emacs fonts changes if I define a specific list of directories under the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable just before I call emacs. I changed this because I wanted to use emacs ...
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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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Logging all input and output in zsh on demand
Is there any way to activate/deactivate the logging of all input and output on a zsh session?
I am using oh-my-zsh with a customized prompt with colors, etc. and I would like to preserve all of these ...
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emacs auto indentation
I have Auctex and auto indentation set in my ~/.emacs but it doesn't work correctly for \end{enumerate}.
If I had the following, (below is what would happen if I hit tab on the \end{enumerate}
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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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Why isn't Gnus scoring emails based on the To: or Cc: headers?
I use Gnus v5.13 in GNU Emacs 24.1.1 to read my email, and I'm having a trouble getting a simple score file to work. Essentially, I want any mail that's sent to (or copies) a particular email address ...
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emacs line wrapping and numbering
How can I tell emacs to wrap lines at the 80th character?
I am looking for a solution I can put in /.emacs.
I put this in /.emacs but it doesn't work.
;; ========== Enable Line Numbering ========== ...
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text color settings in emacs
I just switched to emacs from Vim today so I have no idea what I am doing. How do I change the syntax coloring in Emacs? Everything is green or light green.
As you can see, latex tex is dark green ...
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Emacs: Interface that mixes commands and arguments
I'm experiencing with ways to configure Emacs to enable me to type less, but achieving the same thing, by exploiting the fact that in programming, you do (type) more or less the same thing over and ...
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Emacs: mode-local macro with dashes and dots
In Emacs, how can I make a macro, that is local to the HTML mode, and uses dashes and dots? Take a look at the Elisp below:
(define-abbrev-table 'html-mode-abbrev-table
'(("..." "…") ...
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Get zsh to report directory to emacs
From the emacs manual
Unlike Shell mode, Term mode does not track the current directory by examining your input. But some shells can tell Term what the current directory is. This is done ...
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emacs fonts from ssh not as good as locally installed
How can I have the same emacs fonts and antialiasing configuration that I have in my local Ubuntu 12.04 also working when I open an emacs session via ssh to a CentOS 5 system?
EDIT: I didn't get an ...
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User installation emacs 23 on a centos 5 with system-wide installed emacs-21.4-20.el5?
I would like to install my own copy of emacs 23 on a Centos 5 Linux where I don't have admin rights. I would like to have my own modern copy of emacs on this Centos 5 system since I've got a problem ...
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Replacing Evernote with Emacs and markdown - .org file list
I have grown tired of using evernote with wine or with any of the linux clients. I decided to change to Emacs and write all my notes in markdown so I can easily publish them in HTML and sync them with ...
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emacs change point color to current foreground
I'm trying to customize my emacs so that the point color is the same as the foreground on of the character I'm standing on.
I have this now:
(defun fixpoint ()
"awesome stuff happening to point"
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Use tabs for indentation in Python mode
I am using Emacs for Python developement. My team is using Tab indentation, so I must do the same. The problem is that I can't figure out how to make python-mode use tabs instead of spaces. I want ...
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Emacs X toolkit support?
From what I understand, Emacs uses GTK as it's default X toolkit. Does Emacs support X toolkits other than GTK? For example, can I build Emacs to use Qt4 instead of GTK?
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problems using slime on emacs24
I install slime through ELPA. Here is what my .emacs file looks like:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl --noinform")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/slime/")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)
(setq ...
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emacs shell sync directory
I encounter this quite a lot. when I open a emacs shell and run M-x dirs it will complain to me that:couldn't cd or sometimes just hang emacs what is the solution for this ?
What shell are you ...
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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: mute messages (“echo area”)
I do lots of automatizing in Emacs, by stacking commands that I know from using manually. That is a method I recommend, because it doesn't take much effort: you use Emacs as you ordinarily would, and ...
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printing .cpp file from command line using emacs
The goal is to print a set of *.cpp files on a network printer, but... in a way that the (color) printer prints the files like they appear in the c++ editor including the colors and highlighting. And ...
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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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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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Why does emacs movemail take precedence over mailutils movemail?
I have installed mailutils from the Ubuntu 12.10 repo and specified the rmail-mailmove-program as either /usr/bin/movemail or /usr/bin/movemail.mailutils but in either case emacs reports
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Emacs create cursor
Is there a way to create an additional "dummy" cursor in Emacs (preferably multiple)? Ideally I'd like to be able to set its color separately from the original cursor and set its position. Then I'd ...
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Can I run emacs as server on Linux but attach from Windows?
I am able to run emacs as server daemon and attach back to it on Linux.
Is it possible to start emacs as daemon on Linux, but attach back to it from Windows with a different client?
Emacs or xemacs, ...
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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 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 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 -> [email protected]:1344441539
I am wondering what this symlink ...
