Questions tagged [find-file]
is the most frequently used command for opening files in Emacs.
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Don't offer non-file-name as a file name in find-file
When opening a file with find-file, the default entry in the minibuffer is the current directory. If I press Down, I see the name of the current file (if the current buffer is visiting a file).
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Function to open all Org files in a folder recursively
I am looking for a way to open all Org (or Fountain) files in a folder using one function.
Essentially, I am seeking to open all available files of a certain type (.org or .fountain) within a folder ...
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Wrong default-directory when inside a tmux session
I'm trying to use tmux inside emacs for a long time.
I want to use it to attach to remote (long living) session.
Attaching to sessions works fine but I have some problems in my daily
workflow
because ...
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How to avoid a dialog box for input (e.g. “Open File” behavior)?
I generally like to use the emacs-gtk3 package for my editing since I find it has better compatibility with my clipboard and a couple packages I use..but I don't like opening files in the GUI version ...
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open files at last-edited position
What I want to achieve is this. I open a bunch of files, edit them and quit Emacs. then tomorrow I open one the files and I want Emacs to jump to the last edited position on that file.
How can I ...
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Emacs 26-1 Problems : find-file and neotree
The Problems:
I just did a full re-install to Fedora 29, which included the dnf install emacs
command. This installed emacs 26-1; formerly I was using emacs 25.2. Formerly,
my emacs initialization ...
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Wrong type argument: stringp, (“~/capture.org”)
I am setting up a few hydras, one of which should open a frequently accessed file. The following command works, if I bind a keyboard sequence to it:
(lambda () (interactive) (find-file "~/capture.org"...
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Disable ivy for find-file
Is it possible to disable ivy-mode for file prompts?
In a past I used find-file to copy current file name or path to file.
dired-do-rename also is broken by Ivy: no default completion for current ...
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Including standard boiler-plate on opening a new latex file [duplicate]
Most of my \LaTeX files have the same boiler plate code, so I would like Emacs to automatically insert this boiler-plate whenever I open a fresh, blank \LaTeX file.
In particular, I would like to ...
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Command to invoke menu-bar's open-file?
The traditional way of opening a file is via C-x C-f (find-file). I don't know since when this has been the case, but in Emacs 27.0.50 (Linux), using the menu bar's File -> Open File invokes the GTK ...
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Template for new file
When opening a new file of certain types, I would like some boilerplate to be inserted. That is, when opening a buffer for a file that does not yet exist, insert some predefined text, optionally with ...
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How to find a directory with given depth from current directory?
Is it possible from within Emacs to find directories with a given depth from the current directory from within Emacs and receive their respective location in form of a list?
I want it to work cross ...
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How do I open a file in spacemacs?
Say I have spacemacs open and now I want to launch some sort of file browser to open a file. How do I do it?
I have found SPC f f which sort of works but the navigation is quite cumbersome. There is ...
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How to edit and return value of string in Emacs Lisp?
Here is what I wish to achieve:
(defun rcd-edit-value (value)
(let ((file (make-temp-file "rcd-db-" nil ".txt" value)))
(find-file file)
(string-from-file)))
(defun string-from-...
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Set a global default directory
I want a "default directory" which is constant across all contexts
(buffers, packages, etc). That is, when working on multiple files,
opening a new terminal, doing anything which requires a starting
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How show recent files?
windows 10, emacs 26.1
Suppose I open 10 files. And then restart Emacs.
After restart I need to see what files (recent) I was open before. Is it possible to show some buffer that contain name of ...
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Icicle: After load icicles the ido mode is gone?
windows 10, emacs 26.1, icicles
Before Icicles when I type C-x C-f is show list of folders/files in ido mode. And it's very comfortable for me.
But after I install Icicles and turn on icy-mode the ...
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Find dirrectories paths from a list of names via tramp session
I have a remote host accessing via tramp there is a list of directori names I'd like to find on that host.
What I do now - connect to remote server and
while read -r name; do find / -type d -name "$...
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Open folder `/ssh:example.com` or file in it
You can open SSH resources in Emacs. Unfortunately, the pathspec used for SSH resources conflicts with possible paths in the virtual file system.
If I run
sudo mkdir "/ssh:example.com"
sudo touch "/...
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find-file for file path with space in windows
In Windows, both find-file and helm-find-file don't work if there's space in the file name. For example:
I move cursor to the anywhere in the string "c:/a/b.yaml", and then call find-file (C-x C-f), ...
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How to limit the up-directory search for file info
As Emacs opens a file it does all sorts of useful things including walking up the directory tree for more information (repos etc). I'm in a situation where I need to curtail that climb. Is there a ...
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Lock working directory
Normally, when working with Emacs on a project, I cd to ~/my/project (or a similar path) and expect to do all my find-file actions relative to this directory. It's my "root" of sorts.
However, if I ...
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Omit current and parent directories in Ivy find-file completion
I'm using Ivy in a fairly standard Spacemacs setup.
When I'm opening a file I'd like . and .. to be omitted from the list of completion candidates. In particular, I'd like to be able to tab through ...
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auto-insert mode switch to new file
I managed to insert a template to certain sripts with autocomplete.
Example:
(auto-insert-mode)
(setq auto-insert-query nil)
(setq auto-insert-alist
'(((ess-mode . "R script") nil
"# R ...
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When using C-x C-f turn off the suggestions
When i do C-x C-f to create a new file in the directory A, if emacs finds another file in another directory (say B) with exact same name, in the mini-buffer it changes the path to the other existing ...
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Combine find file at point and find file in project
I'm very new to customizing Emacs, and haven't written Elisp commands before. I'm struggling to find a command and key binding that combines find-file-at-point and find-file-in-project (or similar), ...
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How to get a string under quotes surrounding the cursor in elisp?
I am trying to write a function that opens a file under the cursor. I need to get the string between quotes that is surrounding the cursor in my elisp function so that I can use that string to call ...
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Quick jump to a specific line of a file
After opening a .txt file with Emacs, when the point is at the line
/folder/subfolder/file.xml:435
How can I fast jump to line 435 of the above mentioned file?
What I tried:
dired-at-point and ...
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can I have swiper and counsel as “add-ons” and not the default binding
I like the powers that counsel/ivy/swiper gives me, specially
for C-s and C-x C-f,
but since installing it, I've started missing the vanilla emacs C-s and C-x C-f.
It would be awesome if I can "call" ...
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Can I “find-file //hostname/dirname/filename”
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32); local host is MS Windows 7; remote machines are all running variants of MS Windows.
I would swear I've used this syntax (most recently less than a month ago) but ...
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Display path and filename in a minibuffer
Eval this code:
(defun xx-display-filename (filename)
""
(interactive "Ffilename: ")
(message (concat "Filename is: " filename)))
Let's assume that I am editing a ~/.emacs.d/personal/custom.el ...
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default directory is not working in Windows [duplicate]
I am trying to set the default directory to D:/ by
(setq default-directory "D:/")
but when I type c-x c-f, it is showing D:\software\emacs\bin, which is the installation directory.
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How to stop Emacs from interpreting a file name with `@` as an email address
If I try to open a file whose filename is ~/A/b/C@d.yaml, Emacs will interpret that I want to send an email to the address C@d.yaml, and in the minibuffer I have mailto:C@d.yaml.
What could I do so ...
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Troubleshooting: changing default folder in .emacs not working
I am trying to make emacs start on the folder where all my orgfiles are saved. I achieved this in my windows machine by changing the "Start In" field of the shortcut properties, as suggested in this ...
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How to show completions in minibuffer instead
Is there a simple way to make it so that the *Completions* buffer that pops up when, say, tab completing on a find-file doesn't create a new buffer but shows the possible completions in the minibuffer?...
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C-x C-f results in the error message: “Wrong type argument: commandp, counsel-find-file”
I opened Emacs, and executed C-x C-f. A beep sounded and the following message appeared in the status line:
Wrong type argument: commandp, counsel-find-file
All I wanted was to open an existing file....
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Aliases on minibuffer for quick switching of directories
I would like to know if there is an easy way for me to jump to specific folders when specifying paths in the minibuffer.
For example, when I do find-file and my current directory is in ~ and I want ...
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find-name-dired: find exited abnormally with code 2
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1
I try to find all el files in emacs folder and all subfolders:
M-x find-name-dired
/path/to/emacs-25.1
*.el
Result is error:
find . "(" -iname "*.el" ")" -exec ls -ld {} ";...
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Close found file but not emacs?
I'm using emacs in terminal mode. I open it up and then use c-x c-f to edit a file.
I'm using evil mode so I then use :x to save and exit. I end up leaving emacs all together. Is there something else ...
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How to find a file recusively in children directories?
How to find a file recursively in children? Like the opposite of locate-dominating-file (locate-dominating-file finds file recursively in its parent directory)?
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How can helm-find-files be adapted to include previously open files, projects etc?
After doing some more search concerning Does the recent files in emacs display files opened in previous sessions? I realize that C-x C-f is bound in my config to helm-find-files.
How can helm-find-...
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Problem with save-current-buffer and find-file
I have a list of files that I want to successively visit with find-file and then return to the first buffer. I thought that save-current-buffer would help me to achieve this. However, with the ...
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How to find file name a few levels down in directory?
I am new to emacs (using Spacemacs with Evil and Ivy).
This is how I open a file: SPC f f (counsel-find-file)
Find file:
I entered path of file. Ivy matches words one directory at a time. But ...
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Regex for any file not ends with
How to write a function for finding all files in a directory which not ending with pyc and pyo?
I've tried something like (find-lisp-find-files root "^(?!.*pyc$).*$") but it does not return any ...
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emacsclient --eval command to bring a background emacs window to front
Suppose I already opened a emacs but its in the background. So, is there an emacsclient eval option that I can type in the shell like:
emacsclient --eval "(bring-existing-emacs-window-to-front)"
To ...
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Interactive Function to Create a Buffer in a Default Folder with Autocompletion of the File Name with the Predefined Prefix
Could you please tell me how I can write a function
which creates and visits a buffer in a particular directory (a default directory name is hard coded, but it would be nice to have an opportunity to ...
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Why does opening a file take so long in python mode?
Opening a small python file, with <10 buffers open, takes a long time. Here's a gist of the profile of trying to open this file (giving up with C-g after 2 minutes).
Deactivating ido-mode tells ...
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How to check, if a file is already visited?
I have the following code, which opens a file, inserts some text, saves the file and closes it.
(defun batch (file)
(find-file file)
(end-of-buffer)
(insert "nix")
(save-buffer)
(kill-...
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Remapping find-file to helm-find-files
I have Helm installed and added this line to the end of the init file:
(define-key global-map [remap find-file] 'helm-find-files)
So, when I restart Emacs and try C-x C-f it executes helm-find-files....
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Force ffap to ignore '<' and '>' in file names
I am using find-file-at-point and it stubbornly selects incorrect file name string in NXML mode:
String where I have cursor on the file name:
<include>my-file.ext</include>
and when ...
