Questions tagged [characters]
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The number of characters in one line is very different from `window-width`
In my environment, I can only enter 130 single-byte characters in one line in the actual buffer while window-width is returning 160. Apparently window-width is returning columns, not characters. Is ...
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insert-char completion says no matches, but inserts character anyway?
I'm using C-x 8 RET to insert a Unicode character. I enter the hex value -- for example, 201c -- and the minibuffer says "no matches". But if I just hit enter, the expected left double quote ...
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Convert accented characters to non-accented counterparts (character folding)
Is there a way for lisp to convert a string with accented characters into a non-accented counterpart without mapping each and every character or is creating a manual map the only way to achieve this?
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Why are checkboxes not showing in customize UI?
Emacs installed from https://emacsformacosx.com/.
When visiting the customize UI, I see blank spaces where I should have checkboxes. Does anyone have suggestions for how to resolve, or provide more ...
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the Term “Hash Notation“ in the Elisp Manual
I'm reading GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, and I see the phrase "hash notation".
Two places in the document seem to have different interpretations, so I have 2 questions.
2.1 Printed ...
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How to prevent the character `^[(B` from being displayed on the compilation buffer
When I run the test feature of Rust in Emacs compilation mode, with ansi-color mode loaded, somehow the character ^[(B is always displayed like below:
It looks quite annoying.
Does anyone know how to ...
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How to implement character folding (stripping Arabic text from diacritics or tashkeel aka text normalization or cleansing) when doing search in Emacs?
This is a follow-up question on a previous one here looking for a solution to this very common task of searching for a string in a text irrespective of the vowel diacritics associated with. Arabic ...
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Programmatically invoking insert-char for compatibility with unicode insertion in Linux
I'm trying to enter unicode chars in emacs in the same manner I can anywhere else in linux, with the C-S-u string shortcut.
Unfortunately, the function I've written does not work.
(defun insert-char-c ...
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Way to keybind «» in Emacs
I would like to be able to keybind « and » to easy key bindings.
At the moment in Emacs the only way to write these latin quotation marks is this:
C-x 8 < and C-x 8 >
I tried the following, but ...
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read-char-by-name to start from Arrows or Dingbats
Using (read-char-by-name "utfname: ") how can I start from Arrows or Dingbats rather than painfully starting from "Null" "START OF HEADING", ...
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Interactive selection with hex codes
I want a function that can take a utf hexcode from the user, and use it to change the glasses-separator in glasses-mode. When I use completing-read using a list of hexcodes things for well and the ...
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How to count the number of characters in the marked (selected) region?
I know how to count the number of words.
How to count the number of characters in the marked (selected) region?
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How to get the value of an evaluated function and nothing else?
In emacs, when I evaluate an elisp function, I get the value plus other stuff.
For example, if I evaluate (+ 2 2), I get this:
4 (#04, #x4, ?\C-d)
How can I setup emacs to just return 4?
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how to turn off special character?
I am pretty new to emacs. does anyone how to turn off special character, such as 渘 ?
I tried to search online but no luck.
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Cannot input some characters using linux compose key in Emacs GUI
I'm trying to write some exotic characters, like ĵ, ĉ or ŭ. I am using a qwerty US keyboard layout on a GNU linux machine, and I set up my compose key with setxkbmap -layout us -option compose:ralt. ...
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Emacs shows white space and newline characters
What kind of feature is this and how to disable it?
I've used the wrong shortcut, but I don't remember what I pressed. When I kill the buffer and open the same file again I have those markers.
The ...
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read-char-from-minibuffer for optional argument
The following counts the number of opening (brcmk-beg) and closing (brcmk-end) braces. Having brcmk-end an optional argument, I would like to print
$begmk nil $count-begmk 0
when the user either ...
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Displaying character input with interactive declaration
I have the following code for reading two characters, using the interactive declaration. When I run the interactive function the input character is not being shown after the description string.
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Command that accepts a string and a selected region
Would like to have a function that selects a string (from a list or from a user-defined string, using the mini-buffer) and a selected region.
User would input (), [], {} specifying the opening and ...
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How can I insert a character by its hex code in the minibuffer?
I've seen it's possible to insert characters with their hex codes by using ctrl+x 8 RET but on regular buffers. I'd like to insert in the minibuffer itself.
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How to represent guillemets in `org-mode`: Unicode vs Org-mode entities)?
I was planning to write some narrative in Emacs, and after a bit of research it seems that the most complete solution may be org-mode. Now, I report direct speech using guillemets (« and »). The ...
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Fast character replacement table for strings?
Does Emacs have an API for creating a character translation table which can then be efficiently applied to strings?
A data structure for example that can be created using a set of source & ...
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How to print character code in UTF-8 (ie ASCII codes)
With
(let ((c (char-after (point))))
I get the code of the current character, and if I just do
(message "%X" c)
it prints the hexadecimal UTF-16 apparently. Is there a simple way to get ...
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Set a non-default font for latin characters
I want to display phonetic alphabet characters alongside general text in a somewhat coherent manner.
My default font is JetBrains Mono, so at the very least, the characters of the phonetic alphabet ...
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How to remove characters causing encoding error
When I visit any file under a certain file tree, emacs spits out this error:
These default coding systems were tried to encode text
in the buffer ‘ *temp file*’:
(utf-8 (7862 . 4194279) (14646 . ...
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isdigit in elisp
I wanted to check that char is a digit by comparing its code with codes of 0 and 9, presuming that the digits codes are contiguous in code table:
(let ((char ?\e))
(if (and (>= char ?\0) (<= ...
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Characters in unicode-smp charset have no glyphs in Emacs 27.1, debian buster, using MesloLGS NF font
I'm using Gnu Emacs 27.1 GTK on Debian 10 from buster-backports. I'm also using the MesloLGS NF font that ships with zsh powerlevel10k, and has a heck of a lot of unicode characters. Nonetheless, ...
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Zero width space shows as underscore
Typing a zero-width space in TERMINAL emacs shows an underscore-ish character. How to make it showing nothing?
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Adding unicode special characters
I wanted to add a latin capital O with circumflex [ô] to a file in emacs, but for some reason all my attempts lead to the character being replaced by a question mark ?. I tried :
M-x insert-char ...
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unescaped character literals detection error
When I reload my init file I get an error (or warning) saying
unescaped character literals `?(', `?)', `?[', `?]' detected!
What does this error (warning) mean and how can one fix it?
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How to prevent unwanted characters such as`[OB` and `^[OA` and hanging at bottom or top point on scrolling?
I am using emacs under iTerm2 on Mac. I am using mouse to scroll up and down. Please not that I haven't face with the issue when I remotely connected into a linux machine, which has exactly same emacs ...
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Recursion in char_charset?
I am looking at the C code for Emacs as of Emacs 26.1, file charset.c , defun char-charset (around line 2040), and file charset.h, macro CHAR_CHARSET (around line 380). I don't understand how in the ...
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Uppercase instead of lowercase Greek letter shown in Julia mode
I am writing Julia code in Emacs, which allows the use of unicode characters in the source code. However, some symbols come out looking weird. For example the Greek letter nu:
becomes:
Does anyone ...
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Display Δ in the *Shell Command Output* Buffer
I have a shell command I'm running from Emacs that has a Δ character in its output. How can I configure the *Shell Command Output* buffer to display UTF-8 by default?
edit: There could also be ...
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How to print escaped characters with princ
When Emacs shows an integer value in the minibuffer, or as an output to IELM, it shows three representations of it -- octal, hex and as character:
ELISP> 10
10 (#o12, #xa, ?\C-j)
This is really ...
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Hide non-breaking spaces in org-mode, but show them in code blocks
Default Emacs settings show non-breaking spaces as a kind of underscore. This is very useful because these otherwise invisible characters would break code execution in many programming languages, and ...
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How to replace a letter with its numerical alphabetic position?
I have this code:
\author[p]{...}
\author[bc]{...}
\author[p]{...}
\author[l,o]{...}
\author[t,q]{...}
\author[at]{...}
\author[z]{...}
\author[ak]{...}
\author[az]{...}
\author[ah,bq]{...}
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How to change comments characters in assembly mode
I am editing .s files whit an assembly-to-binary translator that does not accept ; as a comment delimiter but accept C like comments (namely // and /* ... */).
I tried to modify comment-start ...
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Unicode input from keyboard (QMK) to Emacs
I have setup my QMK-enabled keyboard to output Unicode characters. In short, that was adding UNICODE_ENABLE = yes line to the rules.mk file and adding the following two lines to the config.h file.
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Nonexistent newline on display after using outorg
I'm using outorg to convert an elisp file to an org file and then back to an elisp file via (outorg-convert-to-org) and (outorg-convert-back-to-code). When I do this conversion I notice that it looks ...
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How to replace first 100 digits with letters?
I want to replace the first 104 digits as it follows:
1 --> a
...
26 --> z
27 --> aa
...
52 --> az
53 --> ba
...
104 --> bz
I have tried as it follows:
(...
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Non-greedy regex not working
I can't seem to get the non-greedy regex to work.
Sample String:
ABCD，E《F》、《GH》、《XYIJ》、《KL》、《MN》。
Regex Code:
《.+?IJ》
Search Result:
Because .+? is a non-greedy input, I was expecting the ...
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forward-word and non-letter "words"
Using forward-word with this line:
foo *** *** bar,
I want to have the folowing behavior:
foo| ***| ***| bar|,
Not:
foo| *** *** bar|,
So, if between spaces there are only non-letter symbols, ...
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Number value echoed from evaluation [duplicate]
What does the (#o3, #x3, ?\C-c) output in the echo area (next to the 3) represent? Here I've simply evaluated
(+ 1 2)
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How do you type a space character in Spacemacs?
I was researching editors and I ended up stumbling upon Spacemacs and the fact that it uses the spacebar instead of traditional modifier keys. The documentation claims that this lowers the user's risk ...
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How to display unicode chars in ielm
I'm using emacs on MAC OSX
ELISP> (emacs-version)
"GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0, NS appkit-1671.60 Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G95))
of 2019-09-06"
ielm REPL echoes back ...
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How to understand paragraph-start variable regex
Problem
When i evaluate the paragraph-start variable in the major mode lisp-mode, it has the following value
"^L\\|[ ]*$"
In emacs the ^L is displayed in red color so I'm not sure if there is ...
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Set font family for comments
In coq mode I have ligatures being used: instead of "fun", it shows λ in the programming code. But in the comments lambda transformed into a character I can't even copy, so I'll attach a screenshot:
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set-register register-separator "\n\n")
Upon reading GNU Emacs Manual #rectangle register
When you are collecting text using append-to-register and prepend-to-register, you may want to separate individual collected pieces using a ...
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Symbol's value as variable is void: ‘yes-or-no-p
I have the following lines in my config file:
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
(setq confirm-kill-emacs ‘yes-or-no-p)
The latter line is what's throwing the error. I would like to be able to use 'y-or-...
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