Questions tagged [commands]
Commands are functions that can be invoked interactively either through `M-x` or by a key binding.
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Command abbreviation
After running M-x magit-status Emacs provided me this suggestion in the mini-buffer:
You can run the command ‘magit-status’ with M-x m-stat RET
Is this a built-in feature of emacs? If not, does ...
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How to find out what command I just accidentally ran with a keyboard shortcut?
Is there a place where emacs stores commands the user has recently executed, in particular via keyboard shortcuts, and if not, would it be possible to tell it to store them somewhere? I sometimes type ...
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deactivate active region after `eval-region`
I do the following to activate the region and evaluate it
M-x spc to begin mark
C-n
C-n
C-n
M-x eval-region
The region is still active (highlighted) after the eval-region is performed.
I would ...
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how does optional argument `ALLOW-EXTEND` in `mark-word` work?
I am switching from VIM to Emacs for just a couple weeks and trying to write some Elisp. Having difficulties to adapt, I am exploring different options to do marking and reached this function.
(defun ...
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Equivalent to the ViM :smile command
In ViM, there is a :smile command that displays lighthearted ASCII graphics of a figure that smiles.
Is there an equivalent command available in Emacs?
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C-g has stopped breaking out of commands like `C-x C-f` and `M-x` in graphical emacs-25
I have always used C-g (ie keyboard-quit) to break out of commands like M-x and C-x C-f.
At some point not too long ago this stopped working.
All that happens is that Quit flashes in the minibuffer ...
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Finding Numbers in Brackets and Summing Them
QUESTION:
How can I make an emacs command M-x sum-the-brackets that scans highlighted text for all occurrences of [ <number> u ] and [ <number>u ], and sums them?
EXAMPLE:
Selecting ...
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How to limit when yasnippet fires?
I found that yasnippet suggests using this code to limit it to only expand when the trigger text has just been typed:
(setq yas-expand-only-for-last-commands 'self-insert-command)
Unfortunately when ...
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What keystrokes brings up the prompt to issue Lisp commands?
I am editing a file and I want to set the tab width (more likely the indent width) to 2 and I have come across a command (setq tab-width 2) but when I use M-x (i.e. Alt-x) on my system and I enter (...
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Run command on custom key binding [duplicate]
I am trying to customize emacs/spacemacs to run a command after a key stroke, like running eslint --fix command on the buffer to fix errors.
I already tried
(defun fix-errors-with-eslint ()
(shell-...
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My emacs doesn't contain a function in the online emacs manual
Command comment-line is not recognized by my version of emacs. How can I install this function?
UPDATE: It may be relevant that my system shows at least two emacs, at /usr/local/bin/emacs; and at /...
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command works with M-x but gives “Wrong type argument: commandp” when calling through key binding [closed]
I wrote this command and key binding to use with cider for Clojure development:
(defun reload-and-eval-in-repl ()
"Set the ns of the repl to the one in the current buffer, then eval the region of ...
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Get output of external command in the buffer
How do I get the output of (shell-command "df") (or some other more complex command, that I don't want to retype often) in the current buffer?
I run it by typing C-c p after it, but then it opens ...
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Repeat n(th) last command in emacs?
I know that to repeat the last command, there is C-x z and then to keep using z to easily keep the last command in operation, but what can be done for the 2nd or 4th last command? Or is that ...
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Finding Like Variables or Functions
Is there a command that will jump cursor to other iteration of the variable or function name under the cursor?
I suppose it wouldn't matter if the text is specifically a variable or function, but ...
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Emacs equivalent of the following vim operation
In the answer to a question on Quora, Gilles Castel wrote an answer highlighting the power of vim.
The Question was:
How would you write a C program to print 1 to 100 without loop, recursion, or ...
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Refile and keep the original
How to refile while keeping a copy of the original object in org-mode? In other words refiling works as a cut&paste while I would like to have a copy&paste.
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Reuse other command's “interactive” form
Example, I want to define a package-open-homepage command, which reuses C-h P (describe-package)'s "interactive" form. I don't want to copy-and-paste because it is too long. The following
(eval
`(...
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How to see the name of the command every time I run it by a shortcut?
Whenever one runs a function/command for which there is already a shortcut, Emacs shows briefly a message in the echo area to recall that there is a shortcut associated with that command.
For example ...
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Prevent Spacemacs from creating double sr-speedbar
I'm trying to make Spacemacs and sr-speedbar work together smoothly.
Without using Spacemacs:
The command buffer is local to each buffer where it is called:
Left is sr-speedbar, right is the main ...
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How to force the user to comply with a command?
First, here is the full source code of my package.
Requirement
Currently I'm working on a package that provides a feature which upon the user invoking several times in a row certain command in a ...
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Is there Sublime Text - style command palette in Emacs?
There is such feature as Command Palette in Sublime text:
It provides searchable list of command with human-readable descriptions.
Is there anything similar to this in Emacs?
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Open File and Directory: What's the Emacs command?
I would like to set custom keyboard shortcuts for the Open File and Open Directory commands listed in the File menu. The only problem is that I don't know the corresponding Lisp commands. I've tried ...
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How to change keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut and paste and set keyboard shortcut for debugger (GDB)?
I would like to set the following keyboard shortcuts:
Copy (selected text): C-c
Cut (selected text): C-x
Paste from clipboard: C-v
Debugger (GDB): M-g
Now I realize that to do this I merely need the ...
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Error in using “helm-projectile-find-file”
This is my config in init.el:
(require 'helm-projectile)
(projectile-global-mode)
(setq projectile-completion-system 'helm)
(helm-projectile-on)
(setq projectile-indexing-method 'alien)
(setq ...
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Adding eldoc support to js2-mode
Since js2-mode does not have eldoc-mode support, I was wondering if I could get some similar functionality to js2-mode with the help of tern-mode.
tern-mode has a command tern-get-type which will ...
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Custom C-arrow cursor movement
I was not satisfied with the behavior of standard C-arrow and C-S-arrow, so I wrote this functions to replace standard ones.
(setq separators-regexp "[\-'\"();:,.\\/?!@#%&*+=]")
(defun forward-...
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Move to the beginning of a heading smartly in Org-mode
I just started with Org-mode today and noticed whenever I press C-a on a heading, the cursor is moved all the way to the beginning of the line instead of the first character in the heading.
Like so :-...
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How to make emacs automatically kill buffer after invoking delete-file command?
Whenever I delete a file that I no longer need in emacs using delete-file command, the buffer associated with the file is still open in emacs. Is there a way I can change this behaviour so that ...
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How to quickly create a new directory without using dired-mode?
Whenever I've to create a new directory in emacs, I enter dired mode, press "+" and enter the new directory name which creates the new directory.
Is there a way I can avoid using dired-mode and ...
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How to retain selection after command run (indent-code-rigidly)?
I found a neat code snippet for ~/.emacs configuration:
(global-set-key (kbd "C->")
(lambda (b e &optional n)
(interactive "r")
(...
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How to disable query to turn on disabled command?
I have this in my .emacs file to disable mouse right clicks:
(put 'mouse-save-then-kill 'disabled "mouse-save-then-kill disabled\n")
How can I now disable the query generated by emacs to turn this ...
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How to reuse last input in command with a prompt?
Some existing functions have ability to remember last input, which you can use in the next command call - for example, replace-string will suggest the last replacement by default, while isearch will ...
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How to repeat a command immediately after calling it?
I've just called an interactive function (i.e., a command). I want to call it again, with the same arguments. I know that I can call a keyboard macro again by using e right after running it the ...
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Getting the full list of colors available in Emacs
When I run list-colors-display I get the following:
which I think is a very small subset of colors that my Emacs supports, isn't it?
For example, I know Emacs supports other colors (gray20, blue15, ...
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How can I set a key binding to run two other key bindings?
Specifically, I want the binding 'C-x C-a' to do 'C-x C-s' then 'C-c C-a'. (Context: I'd like to save my TeX document, then have AUCTeX render it.) How can I do this? I don't want to map 'C-x C-a' to ...
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Run shell commands in emacs by something similar to M-x …?
I have a program which can run as a command in bash.
Can I run the program in emacs, in some way similar to run emacs' command (i.e.M-x , e.g. M-x occur), instead of first explicitly running a shell ...
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Exit minibuffer and execute a command afterwards?
I am trying to bind a key in minibuffer-local-map to a command which uses
abort-recursive-edit or exit-minibuffer and then proceeds executing more elisp code. So I want to exit the minibuffer and then ...
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eshell backtrace when trying to use character command
I have written a custom interactive command that takes a character as an argument. When I happen to use the key binding for that command while in a eshell buffer where a long-running command is ...
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Trace Evil-mode commands
At the moment, I only know one way to determine which Emacs functions are called by any given Evil command (e.g. a sequence of key bindings in the Normal state): read the Evil source code.
Is there a ...
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How can I change which shell script mode I'm in?
Occasionally, emacs opens a file in shell-script[fish] when I want it to open in shell-script[bash]. How can I manually change the subtype of shell-script mode that I'm in?
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How to see which functions are executed
When I do something inside Emacs, with the buffer *Messages* you get some idea what happened. But it's only if that function is echoing a message for the minibuffer. Then *Messages* keeps a record of ...
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man -K from emacs
There is M-x manual-entry that show concrete man page,
but what if I don't know which manual page exactly I need,
from shell I can run man -K apropos and see result,
is equivalent functional in emacs, ...
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Programatically get available movements evil emacs
Is there a way to programatically get the available movement commands for evil emacs?
Preferably also with the key they are currently bound to.
(There are a lot of commands for movement, but I do ...
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Is there a column equivalent of `C-l`?
The command C-l scrolls the current line to center, top, bottom. Is there an analogous command that scrolls the current column to center, left, and right?
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Can helm-apropos display the key bindings for commands the way helm-M-x does?
I'm a recent convert to helm. helm-M-x displays commands and includes key-bindings in parens after the command name. helm-apropos displays commands and other things. I'd like it to display the key ...
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Can a command determine the event sequence that invoked it?
I have a command that I would like to bind to multiple key sequences differing only in the final decimal digit (e.g. C-. 0, C-. 1, ..., C-. 9). The command needs to determine that final digit.
I ...
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Can emacs commands be called from a shell script?
I have a directory ~/foo that contains several org files. I'd like to use htmlize to convert each org file into an html file. Ideally this would be done with a shell script. Is there a way to make a ...
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How to push this command in to history?
I have this function in config
(defun launch-separate-emacs-under-x ()
(interactive)
(call-process "sh" nil nil nil "-c" "emacs &"))
(defun restart-emacs ()
(interactive)
(add-hook 'kill-...
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How can I speed up individual commands?
When I call commands such as helm-apropos and custom Org agendas there is often a noticeable delay between the key sequence and the results presented. How can I speed up these commands to respond ...
