Questions tagged [customize]
Use this tag for questions about modifying a particular action or task within Emacs.
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Custom org-refile of a table entry similar to Capture
My question concerns the refiling of table entry. I keep my cheatsheets for different kind of things in a table format. Let's suppose, that each heading has exactly one table.
* My table 1
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How do I set evil mode to use the normal state by default in Customize mode?
When I open the Easy Customization in Emacs, I want to be in normal mode instead of emacs mode. Is that possible?
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Enabling minor modes via customize
I see that minor modes defined via define-minor-mode have a variable that has the same name as the function and the following documentation:
Setting this variable directly does not take effect; ...
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How to run a function when setting a 'defcustom' option?
Is it possible to run code when setting an option defined by defcustom?
For example, I would like (setq my-package-option t) to install a hook.
While defcustom has a :set keyword, it's documented ...
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init.el and trampling of custom-set-variables
My new init.el uses require to load various settings that I have organised into directories and files. This is an attempt to tame what was a very large and messy init.el and custom.el file. Also I ...
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Inverse Video Text Menu Bar with Prelude Emacs?
I am trying out Emacs Prelude for the first time and so far like it. It succeeds in "modernizing" Emacs without altering it's behavior drastically for established users of Emacs and Emacs keybindings.
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Indent multi-line text in customize interface?
The customize interface allows setting comments for variables, which is a great boon for documenting just why I have changed some value. However, a big problem for me is the lack of a proper multiline ...
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Auctex previews, change foreground color of text
I am using a dark theme and the latex previews from auctex are created with black text color. How can I change it?
What I can do is change the background color to white (in Preview Reference Face ...
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how to bind custom commands to keys in existing mode map?
I wrote some extra commands for Python mode: python-insert-quote and python-insert-double-quote. I want to have these commands be available in the minibuffer when python-mode is active. How can I add ...
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I can turn on minor modes like electric pair modes in my init, but they’re not having effect unless manually reactivated [duplicate]
So I can put a line like,
(setq-default global-linum-mode t)
or
(setq-default electric-par-mode t)
in my init file, and I can check with C-h v that the variables are in fact set to t (they are), but ...
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Should I be worried about the inability to undo a Custom Theme?
I am relatively new to emacs and am liking it... so much so that I'd like to customize the look and feel.
I'm aware the Custom Theme is the new way and is different from Color Theme.
The one thing ...
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Unrecognisable code set by Customize
I was looking through my .emacs.el file and saw that Customize has put the following in it:
'(org-mode-hook
(quote
(#[0 "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
[add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-...
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How to make markdown-live-priview-mode use pandoc?
I'm having a problem where in markdown-live-preview-mode tables are not correctly converted to HTML from markdown. I'm using markdown-mode. I've tried using pandoc to create the HTML and pandoc ...
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How can I make emacs respect “completion-ignored-extensions” when I hit TAB in the “Find File” buffer?
When I hit C-x C-f to open the "Find file" thing, I can hit TAB to open up a buffer called *Completions* that lists the possible filenames with the given prefix.
Sometimes I have a bunch of backup ...
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How to set value vc-git-grep-template within function
I have a working sexp for configuration vc-git-grep:
(setq vc-git-grep-template "git --no-pager grep -n -i -e <R> -- <F>")
Then in dired-mode I evaluate M-x vc-git-grep and everething ...
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Can a theme set faces normally provided by another package?
I want to produce a custom theme. I understand how to set built-in faces, like font-lock-nnn ones, modeline, etc.
I wonder if I can provide colors for faces that are defined by other packages, e.g. ...
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How to implement a nice read-only buffer with accordions and buttons/hyperlinks?
We would like to devise an Emacs front-end that queries a back-end (generating a list of items in JSON format or so, each with a title, long description, and an URL), and displays this list in a ...
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Storing and Loading Non-Static/Multiple Configs
I'm writing an emacs wrapper to a set of scripts that require a lot of config settings to run.
These can be variously environment variables, command line parameters and so forth. They should be user ...
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tramp-default-method has no effect
I have a config file to setup defaults for tramp. For the purposes of this example foo and bar are hosts defined in /etc/hosts.
(require 'tramp)
(setq tramp-default-method "ssh")
(add-to-list 'tramp-...
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How to set up personal information alist with defcustom
I would like to have a variable, say my-info that would have an alist attached to it. In normal programming it would look like this:
(setq my-info '((my-name . "Giuseppe Sextus-Packus") (my-email . "...
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LaTeX mode: How to select “pdflatex” instead of “latex” for a file automatically?
I have a LaTeX file using lots of PDF figures (mostly because converting figures to EPS is a waste of disk space), so it requires to use pdflatex.
I added there lines to the end of my main file:
%% ...
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Saving searches in Customize Group in Emacs
If I type M-x customize in Emacs I am taken to customize-group for the Emacs group. At the top of the screen is a search entry dialogue box where I would normally search for a given string. Is there a ...
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“void-variable” error when adding advice to `kill-ring-save`
I am trying to add an advice to kill-ring-save and kill-region, so that when I call them with no active regions, instead of throwing an error, the line the point is currently on would be marked ...
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Should I use “require” or “load” when writing my own configuration? [duplicate]
I am following this tutorial, and the author is doing something like this:
~/.emacs.d/init.el
;; add your modules path
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/custom/")
;; load your modules
(require '...
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How to use customize to turn on viper mode by default?
I see on the Viper page that the way to turn on viper mode by default is
(setq viper-mode t)
(require 'viper)
I've been trying to move over to using customize to do emacs configuration. Is there a ...
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Docking a matplotlib window-manager window to an Emacs window
Short version:
I want a way to "dock" a matplotlib window-manager window into an Emacs window (similar to the image below), while still keeping the functionality (e.g. zooming) offered by matplotlib.
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How best to define nullable integer customizable variables?
I would like to define a variable using defcustom so that it can be customized by users of an emacs package. The variable is an integer (let's call it spam-override), and its function is to override ...
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Customizing org-latex-title-command to edit title page
I would like to know how to go about editing and understanding org-latex-title-command. So far it is set to \maketitle but the documentation just has this:
The command used to insert the title ...
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How to add font styles to org-capture templates?
I want to change the color and font style in my template.
I use custom-set-variable and cannot set, for example, italic style
(custom-set-variables
'(org-capture-templates
(backquote
(("d"
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How to define a “composite type” with the “group” constructor?
I am trying to define a composite type using the "group" compositor (see Elisp Manual, section "Composite Types"). Previously, I managed to define a composite type with the "list" constructor.
The ...
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Change color of org-mode checkboxes
I'd like to change the color of unchecked checkboxes in org-mode. To be exact, I want them to be displayed in the color of TODO keywords.
So I've tried to tackle this using custom-set-faces and :...
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I'd like a global mode-line in my frame [duplicate]
A previous comment...
In the following I'm calling mode-line to the mode-line itself or any of its variations/replacements (e.g. powerline)
Statement of the problem
In the next picture, you can see ...
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How can I see multiple specific todo-states in a custom agenda view without abusing org-agenda-skip-function?
I am trying to build a 'cleanup' agenda view, with a section for all tasks which are done and a review section for tasks in the HOLD or WAITING states. HOLD and WAITING are states I've defined as ...
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macro takes multiple pairs of arguments
I found this snippet of code from oremacs
(defmacro csetq (variable value)
`(funcall (or (get ',variable 'custom-set) 'set-default) ',variable ,value))
I would like to expand this macro so that is ...
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Separate customizations according to modes
Using emacs 25.2.2 on Kubuntu 18.04.
I have customized several variables using M-x customize-variable. So, there is a large custom-set-variables section at the very beginning of my init.el. Moreover, ...
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How to create a defcustom variable that accepts only a vector of strings?
I am using repeat for now. But I don't know how to have the same for vector.
EDIT: I want INS and DEL options like in repeat.
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Customize eshell redirection to buffer
In eshell I can redirect the output of a command (foo) to a buffer (bar) by inputting:
foo > #<buffer bar>
I want to customize this syntax the following way:
foo > #bar
Is it possible ...
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How to set up Emacs to cycle through files
I'm in a situation where I would like to look through a lot of text files as they are being created.
I would like to configure Emacs to do the following:
Launch from a script with directory argument ...
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Disabling a minor mode in a specific buffer
Running spacemacs 0.200.13 on emacs 25.2.2 on Kubuntu 18.04.
I have globally enabled golden-ratio-mode (a minor mode). But I would like to disable it in a particular buffer, *Org Agenda* to be ...
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Custom theme based on major mode or file type
How can I customize emacs to use a different theme based on major mode or file-type? And, could it work to have different themes active in different windows?
My use case would be: have (1) one ...
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Set variable not been read from .emacs
I've set some variables (kept-new-versions, for one) to a higher number (10, it was 2) since I don't mind having a handful of backup files in my dir.
I did it using C-h v and customizing the variable....
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Change colours for character differences for diff-mode
I've changed my diff-mode colours according to this article, but the character-based differences are shown in the original(?) and very bright colours, making them quite unreadable.
How do I change ...
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How to customize emacs toolbar?
Let say I want to add a Toolbar icon to emacs which when clicked should "Select all" text in the current window. We know for selecting text we can use M-x mark-whole-buffer. How can I use this ...
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Find all customization type mismatches?
Occasionally, defcustoms change their :type and I fail to update my customizations. How can I get Emacs to list all the variables where customize things there's a type mismatch?
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ESS folding for R6 classes
What is the proper way to install, configure and activate folding of R script files?
I followed emacswiki.org/emacs/FoldingMode but it doesn't seems to work. I installed folding.el to .emacs/lisp/. ...
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How can I add functions to provide http links?
A recent feature request raised a new area of integration/customization for me. I've developed a package to browse GitHub content and we'd like to be able to store a link to the current 'thing' using ...
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How to edit the list of named/defined colors?
How can I change (insert,delete,rename,…) the list of named colors?
I tried to edit /usr/share/emacs/25.3/lisp/term/tty-colors.el.gz and byte-compile after change, but it had no effect.
Note: I do ...
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Remove unused modes
Is there a list with all the modes and packages that come with emacs? I actually want to remove some of the unused packages and modes in emacs.
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Confusing defcustom usage in info.el
I was trying to read the info.el code when I ran across this strange use of defcustom:
;; This is a defcustom largely so that we can get the benefit
;; of custom-initialize-delay. Perhaps it would ...
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How to hop the cursor over parenthesis, brackets, single-quotes, and double-quotes
One of the features I miss in Visual Studio is the ability to hop over closing parenthesis, brackets, single-quotes and double-quotes with tab
Does anyone know of a script to do such a thing?
Pseudo ...
