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Splitting use-package declarations in literate config
Trying to clean up my configuration and make it more readable, but also
reduce load time from current time of about 13 seconds down to < 10.
Suppose I have a large use-package macro for a package ...
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How to detect when emacs is started with `--debug-init`?
I'd like to turn some things off normally and then re-enable them when emacs is started with --debug-init. For example, I get loads of warnings about the length of doc-strings in packages. I want to ...
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.emacs c-mode/indent settings being ignored
I've been using Emacs forever now but more recently all of my new Linux setups start out with broken c-mode settings that I can't figure out how to fix. Changes in .emacs seem to have no effect, as if ...
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How can i override the capture templates in a custom call of org-roam-node-find?
I am trying to streamline the process of creating a project node in org-roam. I've defined a custom wrapper function for org-roam-node-find with the following code:
(defun my/org-roam-filter-by-tag (...
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Spacemacs: User code does not load in dotspacemacs/user-init and dotspacemacs/user-config -- elfeed
I want to modify elfeed using this article: https://cundy.me/post/elfeed/
I cannot load the following code:
(defun concatenate-authors (authors-list)
"Given AUTHORS-LIST, list of plists; return ...
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How can I use variables in target file paths for org capture templates? [duplicate]
I use emacs on a few different machines which unfortunately don't have the same file structure, but I want to share my config among them as much as possible. All machines have a ".../org/" ...
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Define org-agenda-files relative to org-directory?
I'm trying to set up my config so that the org-agenda-files are defined in relation to the org-directory.
Right now, I use all of the files in my org-directory as agenda files. In my config is:
(setq ...
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Configuring Clojure Mode to use Parinfer layer in Spacemacs
I am an experienced Clojure developer making the transition to using Spacemacs. I would like to use parinfer in my setup to manipulate my Clojure code structure, but I am struggling to get the ...
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Give literate config access to Doom Emacs module docs
I am using Doom Emacs and within the default ~/.doom.d/init.el I can use M-x +lookup/documentation while my point is on a module name to go to that modules documentation. I may be misunderstanding, ...
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How do I make alerts persistent with alert-user-configuration?
I'm using the alert package, and I want alerts with the title "Agenda" to be persistent. It seems to me I should be able to do this:
(add-to-list 'alert-user-configuration
'(((:...
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Tangle Emacs Configuration Externally
I'd like to tangle the emacs configuration externally, instead of doing it from inside emacs.
It's really hard to debug if the tangle is done in init.el
How can I tangle the configuration org-file ...
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:config of use-package is not working for multiple cursors
I have noticed a weird behaviour with use-package for multiple-cursors when trying to customize insertion of numbers.
I am able to insert numbers on multiple cursors using C-c n using this code
;; ...
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How to get a minibufer on top of the screen with the visual auto-complete
On the screenshots of Doom Emacs themes (https://github.com/doomemacs/themes/tree/screenshots) I see the minibufer on the top of the screen with the visual autocomplete:
How to achieve this look and ...
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How do I add custom keybindings in spacemacs?
I want to bind Ctlr+s to "save current buffer" (currently SPC f s). How can I do this?
When I search online, I find many complicated explanations of how to do very specific things, like how ...
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Paste `shell-command-to-string` result after cursor position
I use shell-command-to-string to automate some common tasks. However, these strings must be pasted after the cursor. How can I configure shell-command-to-string to paste after the current cursor ...
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How to specify lsp configuration messages in emacs?
I'm trying to configure rust analyzer to expand proc macros. According to it's documentation I have to configure my editor (i.e. emacs) to send this JSON as a LSP message:
{
"cargo": {
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What to put into 'init.el' vs 'config.el' in Org-mode?
I'm using Org-mode to configure Emacs in a file 'config.el', which is really unstructured meanwhile. On the other hand, lots of configurations (for exemple the configs made with the menu) are in Emacs'...
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Projectile: How to include files of a sub directory into the project of of it's parent directory?
Given a project directory my-project which projectile correctly identifies because it is a git project.
Inside my-project there is a my-module directory. It is a git submodule and therefor projectile ...
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Emacs org mode WYSIWYG editing
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Is it possible to replicate the following rendering of org mode blocks like in LogSeq?
I have done some research but failed to find any kind of solution that would achieve it and I have a ...
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Setting latex compiler
I was happily running emacs with a locally installed texlive in ~/texlive/2021 on manjaro KDE. But I decided to switch to Gnome. So, installed necessary packages, removed the ones I did not need and ...
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How to correctly set the path?
I've been unable to run the elixir shell using alchemist-iex-run because the erlang executable erl is not found in my path. Here's the error:
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/elixir/1.12.1/bin/elixir: line 230: ...
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how to stop emacsclient on terminal insert `[I]` when I open a file?
I'm using emacs on MacOS (v11.4 Big Sur) installed from homebrew-emacs-plus and, every time I want to open a file for a quick edit on the terminal (on iTerm2) using emacsclient, a character gets ...
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use-package session example please
I want to setup session with use-package but I don't know elisp except copying from working code. Here is what I've copied:
;;;_* session
(use-package session
:if (not noninteractive)
:load-path &...
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Release terminal filestreams on start
I want emacs to release (instead of grabbing) the parent terminal when started through the command line. Better if it is possible to send error messages to some temporary file.
By that I mean ...
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Add custom agenda options instead of replacing the whole set
I use some custom agendas for work and some for personal stuff. At the moment I load a huge set of custom agendas in org-agenda-custom-commands containing all agendas for work and for personal stuff. ...
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Can't reproduce my (spacemacs) config
Two PCs, same version of manjaro on both, same emacs version, same spacemacs version/branch, same config file.
Problems with python mode and company:
On my second PC, autocomplete doesn't work ...
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Doom emacs config does not fully load at start up
I am on Doom emacs, and have placed various scripts in my config file. These are mainly new keybindings and options for packages, e.g.
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "s-;") 'org-agenda) ;
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How to change Emacs' word movement behaviour?
I want to do this on forward-word: (| shows the cursor position)
Normal Behaviour:
int main(int argc, char *args[])
{
int a = 45|;
printf|("%i", a);
}
What I want to do:
//forward-...
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Force magit to ask for confirmation before deleting a branch
I would like to have magit ask for confirmation when I've told it to delete a particular branch.
Currently it seems that magit considers the selection of a branch to delete to be the confirmation, as ...
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Git Repo for Doom Config With Different Platforms
I have emacs on two separate platforms, and I would like it to function in much the same way on both, but there is some platform-dependent configuration as well. I have created a git repository in my ....
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Change location for straight.el working directories?
I’d like to put my dotConfig files into DropBox, including my .emacs.d folder. I’d like to use these across computers and across OS’s. I’ve split out part of my init.el into per-computer files (...
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Adding Spacemacs documented layers fails
Adding layers existing in the layer section of the .spacemacs documentation results in failed test in the dot-test-results buffer generated after reloading the .spacemacs file (with SPC-f-e-R).
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How do I reload config in other instances of emacs?
Say, I changed ~/.emacs, but I have another instances of emacs running. I believe unless I do something, they might change the config (because they have a stale notion of its contents), which in turn ...
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Emacs config file when installed using snap
I installed Emacs 26 on Ubuntu using snap.
Where to find the Emacs configuration file in this context ?
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How to configure emacs to start in the middle of the screen, and not in the top left corner?
Currently have a GUI version of GNU Emacs v.26.3 (on MacOS Catalina, also have a similar version on Ubuntu 16.04), and because I'm just getting started with the editor, I have this question: how do I ...
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Org-mode export bullet as HTML into specific folder with extra exporting option
I would like to add a extra exporting option to my org-mode export dialog.
this option shall export the data as html to a specific folder.
I want to press C-c C-e to open my export dialog and then ...
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How to make emacs to launch sql modes runtime window always at the bottom?
When using M x sql-postgres to launch the SQL mode window, emacs (as of 25.x) seems to be making smart choices about where the SQL run-time window will show. That is, it splits the viewport and shows ...
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How can I save a personal bookmark file?
I work on doom-emacs and keep personal configuration in .doom.d, thus leave the gene config .emacs.d.
Today, I re-installed doom.emacs to .emacs.d, but find all my bookmarks disappeared when launch ...
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Activate personal configuration to the config with load-file and require
I created personal my-config in .doom.d and have 'my-org-agenda` etc within it.
#+BEGIN_SRC shell :results output
tree ~/.doom.d | head
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
/home/me/.doom.d
├── ...
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How to use an Easy PG encrypted custom-file?
So, inspired by this article. I decided to try adding the following to my init.el:
(setq custom-file (expand-file-name "secret.el" user-emacs-directory))
(load custom-file)
Where the file in ...
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Is it possible to change to Emacs input mode with Doom Emacs?
It's default input mode is vim. Didn't find the toggle option like Spacemacs with M-m t E.
https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
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How to include packages into my configuration?
a total newb when it comes to spacemacs. Firstly I just want to get spacemacs to work properly and I have the issues regarding the missing wrapping feature like in the following link (Make visual-line-...
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prog-mode-hook not recognizing .ex files in user-config
I'm trying to display prettify-symbols-mode to display for certain characters. I would like for this minor mode to be enabled across all programming languages - thus prog-mode. When I navigate to a ....
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How to change org-babel interpreter location
Say I have my ditaa interpreter pointed to at /home/user/.emacs.d/elpa/contrib/scripts/ditaa.jar, how would I set it so it points to a different location?
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Enhance python lsp-mode with elpy functions and keybindings
I've been using Elpy for a long time and have grown used to many of the default keybindings. I recently decided to give lsp-mode a go to see how it compares. I set it up following this blog and made ...
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It is possible to instrument a literate Org-mode configuration file with a backing Emacs Lisp file?
It is a common practice to write Emacs configuration files using literate-programming style in Org mode.
Unfortunately, while improving readability, this comes with significant programming ...
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make frames and open specific buffers in succession
im trying to launch emacs with specific named frames and want each frame to have a specific buffer opened in a specific frame (ie have the frame named FM opned a dired buffer at `~/~)
this is my ...
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Automatically download external packages
How can I configure my init.el download packages that are not in (M)Elpa and install them automatically (if not already installed)?
Something like doing it with wget or with git (as you do in vim) ...
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How to change setting for all modes except one?
How can I chance an Emacs config setting (let's say "highlighting of current line") that I set in .emacs as (global-hl-line-mode +1), to work for all modes except one.
For example, I want ...
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How to make the natural language for Emacs be English?
My computer's default language is Portuguese, and I don't want to change that. But, for some usages (especially programming) it's better to have English output, for example to copy/paste an error ...
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