Questions tagged [inputs]
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Understanding of Emacs way of managing user input events
As an Emacs newbie (with two weeks of Emacs experience) I am in the process of understanding the way Emacs manages user input events.
My current understanding of how it works is that the way Emacs ...
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Read multiples arguments for interactive function without sequential read functions
I have an interactive function taking 2 arguments. I can read them with
(defun example-fct (arg1 arg2)
"This function take two arguments"
(interactive
(let ((arg1 (read-string "...
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How to provide keyboard input programmatically for org-export-dispatch UI in elisp?
The org-export-dispatch command in org-mode (C-c C-e) brings up an UI from which one can, e.g. select l and l to export the .org file to latex format.
My question is:
Can one use elisp to fix the ...
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Python shell warning about readline and completion?
*Warning*:
Warning (python): Your ‘python-shell-interpreter’ doesn’t seem to support readline, yet ‘python-shell-completion-native-enable’ was t and "python3" is not part of the ‘python-shell-...
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Impossible to answer y-or-n-p prompt in EXWM if X window is focussed
When a y-or-n-p question (e.g. The file you want to open is very large. Really want to open it?) pops up in the minibuffer while an EXWM buffer is focussed, I have no option to answer the question (...
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How to let make-process prompt user in echo area
This works:
(make-process :name "test"
:command (list "bash" "-c"
(concat "echo hello stdout!; "
"echo hello stderr! >&2; "
"exit 20"))
:buffer (generate-new-buffer "...
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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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Unable to use Microsoft Japanese IME in Emacs under Windows
For some reason I can't seem to use the Microsoft Japanese IME in Emacs, even though I can apparently use the Microsoft Chinese IME to input Chinese without problems. Even if I've switched to the ...
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Detect if mouse button is held down?
I have some code that runs in a hook that I want to change to only execute only if the left mouse button is not currently held down. I don't see any obvious functions or variables that let me directly ...
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How can I check if a user has pressed a button while a function is running?
I have a function that automatically runs after the user does some action. However, the function takes a long time to complete. This means Emacs becomes unresponsive for a short time after every input....
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How to uppercase all input in elisp?
I want to create a mode which in certain states converts all input to uppercase, regardless of the caps-lock status. But I'm at a loss as to how to go for this, and I'm not sure it could even be done. ...
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Unable to Send Commands to Omxplayer from Dired
When opening a video file with Omxplayer through dired using dired-do-shell-command, I am unable to send commands to the external program to, for example, pause the video. The file plays fine but all ...
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How to give all inputs of a multiple inputs command at one time
There are commands which take multiple inputs. My question is about the possibility of defining a new command which take all the inputs of another command at one time (separated by commas).
As an ...
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