Questions tagged [control-characters]
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How to bind C-i as different from TAB?
I want to make Control-i perform indent-region (basically since Xcode has built that muscle memory already).
I realise that Control-i and tab are indistinguishable in the Ascii sense, but they are in ...
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How to bind C-S-m and avoid S-RET?
I am trying to rebind kmacro-start-macro and kmacro-end-macro to C-m and C-S-m.
But I am having some issues because of C-m being equivalent to RET, the ASCII control character "carriage return&...
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When reloading an org mode file, why do I get a whole bunch of `^M` chars in my file?
I'm just learning emacs and I'm using spacemacs configuration. I created a .org file and everything looks normal when I save it, but when I reload it I get a whole bunch of ^M chars at the end of each ...
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clean weird characters from org source shell
When I run a shell command in Org I sometimes get back weird control characters:
#+begin_src sh :results output :session test
guix pull
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
:
: Updating channel 'guix' from Git ...
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What ASCII character is C-q C-E?
I did a spurious replacement across many files that shows in Emacs as '^E', equivalently the result of C-q C-E. What ASCII character does that correspond to, so I can undo the replacement?
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What are these characters?
I have been on the agenda of actually applying the formatting done by various programs within various types of Emacs major modes, e. g., the compilation major mode. I found this and added this to my ...
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How can I prevent Ctrl+n to write into buffer?
I am using my-run-latex () function (explained here: How can I run additonal linux commands after compiling a latex file) after each save, which I do very often.
I bound it to: (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-...
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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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