Questions tagged [error]
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cannot `lossage-size` a large number
emacs-28.2; win 11
$ emacs -Q
If I use most-positive-fixnum:
(lossage-size most-positive-fixnum)
Emacs will emit: Value must be >= 100 in the echo area.
If I use a modest number:
(lossage-size (/...
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Seq-Keep is void when installing magit through use-package
I've been attempting to use magit but it keeps throwing an error that seq-keep is void. I started up emacs only installing use-package and magit and the issue persists. However, when I installed magit ...
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Loading charset map: No such file or directory, JISX0208
Trying to save files I have suddenly started recieving the following error:
Loading charset map: No such file or directory, JISX0208
In *Messages* this is reported as:
find-coding-systems-region: ...
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How to load font for emacs on Arch Linux?
I want to use a custom font for emacs on arch linux.
Therefore, I installed the package ttc-iosevka.
Then I added the following line to my init.el:
(set-frame-font "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/iosevka-...
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Undefined-function error about function called by my function
I have recently moved to emacs as my mail client. I am using message-mode to write and send email through notmuch. Specifically, the major mode is called Message[Notmuch].
I would like to remap C-c C-...
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What am I supposed to do about the error “Invalid search bound (wrong side of point)” in my code calling re-search-forward?
I have several interactive functions that pretty straightforwardly do re-search-forward and replace-match in a loop. Once in a while, if I have a region selected and do the replacement in it, re-...
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Magit error: Wrong type argument: listp
I recently updated magit and since then I haven't been able to create commits with it.
When I try to create a commit in the magit-status interface, I get the error:
command-execute: Wrong type ...
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Get backtrace for timer error
For an error in a timer there is
Error running timer: (text-read-only "Attempt to change text outside editable field")
Sadly it does not give a hint which function in which buffer has the ...
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Can't access a global variable inside a function in elisp?
I am trying to make a simple function that toggles "lsp-ui-doc-show" and "lsp-ui-doc-hide", by calling the same function every time.
Thought it was simple enough to use a global ...
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nov-mode returns binary buffer and "File mode specification error: (error Invalid version syntax: ‘’ (must start with a number))"
When opening an epub file with Nov-mode I get a binary buffer in fundamental mode and an error message File mode specification error: (error Invalid version syntax: ‘’ (must start with a number)). ...
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Emacs PS printing problem
I'm running Emacs 29.2 on Mac OS 14.4 on an M1 Mini. I have a Brother HL-L8260CDW series printer.
Normal print commands (print-buffer, print-region) work fine.
What doesn't work are the ps-print... ...
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Symbol’s function definition is void: make-closure
I’m trying to split a number stated in scientific notation (6.371e6) and write it as float (6371000) (I’m doing this to learn.)
This is the code I have so far
A = (car (mapcar #'string-to-number (...
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How does one fix the Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading error?
What does this error mean:
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/Users/brandomiranda/.emacs’:
Wrong number of arguments: (3 . 4), 2
To ensure normal operation, you should ...
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Emacs 27: How to jump to backward found word when switched into reverse incremental search?
I am trying to apply following solution(How to jump to backward found word when switched into reverse incremental search?) into Emacs >27.1, (which works in emacs 26.3):
(define-advice isearch-...
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Emacs error cannot load file counsel
I'm getting this error whenever I try to open Emacs:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "counsel")
require(...
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mu4e multiple smtp accounts - What causes the error Unexpected ‘machine’ token at line XX
I'm working on Emacs 29.1 at MacOs BigSur
I have a mu4e smtp account setup in ~/.authinfo
machine server1 login mail_users password pass1 port 587
machine server1 login user_admin password pass2 port ...
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Initialization not liking whitespace mode after upgrading to 29.1?
I have the following configuration for whitespace mode in my .emacs file:
(require 'whitespace)
(setq whitespace-style '(trailing lines indentation space-before-tab space-after-tab)
whitespace-...
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helm-do-ag not working as expected to search with command-option
I want a function to search in filenames and retrieve those filenames containing the string I search for.
For some reason, this piece of code is not working for this purpose:
(defun helm-do-ag-...
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"Eager macro-expansion failure" message when starting Emacs 28.2 from the mac terminal
I have upgraded my emacs using brew install emacs-plus. Now when I run emacs & from the terminal, the following message appears.
Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-number-of-arguments (3 . 4) ...
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Error after upgrade
I upgraded doom yesterday. Unfortunately, since then I get the following error whenever I doom run :
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/Users/*****/.emacs.d/.local/etc/@/init....
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Symbol's function definition is void: package-install-selected-packages
In order to install and remove packages automatically (which is especially useful when using Emacs for the first time on a new computer), I have the following lines in my ~/.emacs:
;; Specify required ...
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"Invalid version list `(4 5 -4 414)'" when running `M-x package-list-packages`
When following a suggestion for solving another problem, I'm doing M-x package-list-packages. However, that gives me the error message Invalid version list `(4 5 -4 414)'. What does this mean, and ...
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require can't find file that do exist
I'm setting up Emacs on a work laptop with my old config file. And I have problem installing Copilot.
I cloned the repo in ~/projects/emacs-modes/copilot.el directory:
I've added:
(add-to-list 'load-...
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Why can't counsel-rg index an expression previously found?
I am using trying to use a command called counsel-rg. This is the associated describe-command:
counsel-rg is an autoloaded interactive compiled Lisp function in
‘counsel.el’.
(counsel-rg &...
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Use-package :bind-keymap with car as a form
As you can see below, trying to make a cons using a backquote and a colon to evaluate a form causes an error. Surely this is a tiny mistake, but Lisp is not my cup of tea.
Let's just jump to the code:
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when I open file in emacs I get lots of strange errors
My OS is ubuntu 22.04 LTS, emacs is in /usr/local/texlive/emacs-28.1, texline in /usr/local/texlive and auctex in .emacs.d/elpa. Whenever I open a file in the emacs-buffer, it shows -- in a buffer *...
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Printer set up. Wrong type argument: listp
I use Emacs 29.3 on an M1 Mac Mini with OS 14.4.1.
I'm trying to set up PS printing. I picked up the name of my printer from lpstat.
I copied the following code, verbatim, to my init.el from the ...
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use-package with builtin mode, such as display-time-mode
I'm trying to use the use-package method of organizing my Preferences.el file in Aquamacs. When I try to use use-package display-time-mode, I get the following error message.
Debugger entered--Lisp ...
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Translate use-package syntax
I am not sure how to translate this use-package :commands syntax into a regular elisp init.el file.
(use-package languagetool
:commands (languagetool-check
languagetool-clear-suggestions
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Unclear wrong argument
The following expression:
(car input-method-function)
Give the following message:
Wrong type argument: listp, list
Why? input-method-function is list.
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Packages - not all files loaded
I want to use the package gptel.el (but this is only an example, the error also occurs with a few other packages) after the installation via Melpa (incl. init.el: require ‘gptel) I try to execute e.g. ...
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"Error (frameset): Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil" How to debug it?
Such a message in the "Warnings" window. "Frameset" I think refers to the .emacs.desktop file. I got this message when Emacs in daemon mode restored the desktop. There is no such ...
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Hook resulting in a Wrong type argument error?
I am trying to do two things for Elfeed Summary:
Automatically update the feeds when starting Elfeed Summary.
Automatically hide the feeds without unread articles when starting Elfeed Summary.
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eldoc error: (void-function embark-eldoc-first-target)
Linux Mint 20.3
Emacs 27
For every command I get the next message in minibuffer:
eldoc error: (void-function embark-eldoc-first-target)
He my setting of embark package in init.el
(use-package embark
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Which-key like in doom emacs: Symbol's value as variable is void: some-map
I would like to integrate which-key like doom emacs with "space" in my configuration, but I get the error: Symbol's value as variable is void: some-map
;; shows shortcuts, when clicking C-x ...
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Error when using helm setup with use-package
My current helm configuration is
(use-package helm
:bind (("M-x" . helm-M-x)
("C-x b" . helm-mini)
("C-x C-f" . helm-find-files)
("C-x C-...
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How to enable terminal beeping?
xterm conviniently beeps on a failed unit test (pytest):
Beeping
(start-process "" nil "/usr/bin/xterm" "-e" "python3" "-B" "-m" "...
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Error /bin/bash: line 1: nil: command not found
I have the following code to auto format python code using autopep8:
(defcustom python-autopep8-path (executable-find "autopep8")
"autopep8 executable path."
:group 'python
:...
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New `wrong-number-of-arguments` error from `desktop-change-dir` and other commands
(This has started happening with other commands too, but I don't remember which.)
Previously when I ran M-x desktop-change-dir I would be prompted to enter a folder, whereupon Emacs would load the ....
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Invalid function in font-lock-fontify-keywords-region [duplicate]
Why do I get the error: font-lock-fontify-keywords-region: Invalid function: (concat "\\\\" (regexp-opt (quote ("cs" "hepth" "hepph" "heplat" "...
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Error (use-package): vterm/:catch: Searching for program: No such file or directory,
Here my init.el
(eval-when-compile
;; Following line is not needed if use-package.el is in ~/.emacs.d
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)...
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emacs fzf.el package gives error: 127 when I execute fzf-find-file-in-directory
I have fzf installed, a fuzzy search find utility, and I have the fzf.el emacs package installed so I can use fzf fuzzy search within emacs. I have the fzf executable on my exec-path, so emacs knows ...
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Function to process rows in table results in '(wrong-type-argument sequencep 1.0e+INF)' error
A function that copies the contents of a table column to the clipboard often results in the error (wrong-type-argument sequencep 1.0e+INF) and I think it is the result of some numeric sequences being ...
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Why is "display-buffer-reuse-window" producing an error?
Version: GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.43,
cairo version 1.18.0)
I have an emacs configuration file which has followed me around through numerous different versions. ...
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markdown mode gives error (invalid-read-syntax "?" 1176 26)
When calling markdown-mode I get this error (invalid-read-syntax "?" 1176 26). The backtrace is as follows:
read(#<buffer *load*>)
edebug--read(read #<buffer *load*>)
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Why do I get "not an image" when using gptel with Icicles?
I've had a problem with this "not an image" message popping up, but never a backtrace, until today, when I tried gptel. I just did M-x gptel.
Once I saw icicles was involved, I tried (icy-...
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Minimal org file yields [undefined citation] when exporting to LaTeX using biblatex
I have looked for similar questions, but none of the solutions have worked for me, and they seem to be slightly different in nature. I am just trying to get citations to work with biblatex-chicago, ...
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Accessing appointments in todo agenda
When I attempt to review an appointment the screen blinks but the appointment can't be seen and an error message only shows error and the outlook symbol.
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Calling a function from one emacsclient can't start Edebug from another emacsclient. Terminal is locked error
I use GNU Emacs 27.1 on Ubuntu 22.04.4, where I use i3 with several emacsclients opened in different terminals, while emacsdaemon is running in background.
After setting Edebug instrumentations into ...
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consult-ripgrep - Error running timer: (file-missing "Searching for program" "No such file or directory" "rg")
Emacs 29.3 GNU (Flatpak) - installed by Software Manager
Linux Mint 21.3
Install ripgrep:
apt install ripgrep
In init.el
(use-package rg
:ensure t
:ensure-system-package rg)
(use-package consult
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