Questions tagged [key-bindings]
Keyboard shortcuts, key chords, key sequences, hotkeys, or any association between key combinations and corresponding actions in Emacs.
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Keyboard shortcut for running shell commands
I want to trigger running makefile from inside emacs.
I followed this link and added to
(defun set-exec-path-from-shell-PATH ()
(let ((path-from-shell (replace-regexp-in-string
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Replicating Doom's Tab Key Behavior Using Evil in Org-Mode
When I'm editing an Org file using Doom Emacs in insert mode and my cursor is on the line of a heading, the Tab key seems to demote the heading while Shift-Tab seems to promote the heading. On the ...
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What exactly are keys like `<copy>`, `<paste>` etc (CUA not enabled)?
I see these keybindings sometimes in the help docs. E.g. from C-h f clipboard-kill-ring-save
It is bound to <copy>, <f16>
So, what might this be on my keyboard assuming I do not have CUA ...
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C-; shows a strange popup with letter 'e'
I don't know when this problem began, may be 1 or 2 months ago.
When I press "C-;", Emacs shows a popup with letter "e".
But this key binding is for "avy-goto-char-timer"...
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How can I temporarily disable all (other) key bindings?
How can I write a command, and bind it to a key, so that when invoked it disables all key bindings other than the current key, until that same key binding is pressed again?
The goal is to facilitate ...
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Blocked keys! How can I get emacs to see all keystrokes?
Windows 7 64-bit
emacs 27.1
Some keys of the form C-M-<char> evidently are not sent to Emacs.
How do I get them sent to Emacs?
Example:
Emacs does not respond C-M-s.
Also, does not show binding, ...
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Access key bindings for a major mode
Running Doom Emacs 3.0 on Emacs 28.
I have installed todotxt.el using:
(package! todotxt)
in packages.el.
When I Open my todo.txt file and M-x todotxt-mode, sPC h b m shows all the keybindings ...
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Can't reset Ctrl-; or Ctrl-. in emacs
I am using GUI emacs 28.1 on ubuntu 22.04. Emacs won't let me reset the key C-;
I want to use:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'evil-normal-state)
Resetting the key C-. won't work either. The ...
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Key Binding not Working
I have the following code as shown below for my .emacs file. For some reason the keybinding is not working nor are the extensions for deft I am pretty sure. Does anybody know why this is?
(require '...
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macOS 11.6.3: Emacs acts like control, meta keys are sticking; how to diagnose?
I'm a longtime GNU Emacs and macOS (and GNU Emacs on macOS) user, on a US Gov't owned MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) running macOS 11.6.3.
For the last few weeks, GUI versions of Emacs are acting as if ...
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How to go up one level in the menu-bar when using the keyboard to access menus
When I go many levels down into the menus in the menu bar, is there a way to go back up just one level? To illustrate:
Start Emacs
Press F10 to open the menu bar
Press Ctrlf to reach the "Edit&...
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How to define key-combinations involving multiple `C-u`s
I wanted to define a short key combination for preview all latex fragments in a org file. Per this answer:
To preview all latex fragments in the buffer pass C-u twice before
calling org-latex-preview....
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MacOS right option modifier setting does not work when using Emacs in the terminal
I have a macbook hooked up to an external monitor and use an external keyboard. I've already set it up in the MacOS terminal to use alt (option) keys as Meta in the options menu. So, I would like to ...
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What is the difference between `C-u C-c C-l` and `C-c C-l`?
C-c C-l points to org-insert-link. In the minibuffer I am ask for a link type, link url and description.
But C-u C-c C-l shows me dired-like folder structure in the minibuffer and I can navigate to an ...
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Disable mouse-3 (right click) from deleting/killing text
Is there an easy way to disable mouse-3 (right click) from killing selected regions? I didn't see anything in the customize options that looked like it would do it. Wouldn't mind disabling middle ...
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Windows Terminal (WSL2) and M-S, C-S in Org Mode
UPDATE: I just tested emacs -nw with the MSYS2 terminal (Windows) and with iTerm (macOS) and they all have the same problem.
emacs -nw on WSL2 with the Windows Terminal has many known issues with key-...
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Right Control key problem when using Emacs remotely - Emacs thinks it's `C-M-`
I'm doing some remote work using Azure & Bastion to access a customer site. The problem is that in this context, with Emacs, my right Ctrl key doesn't work normally.
What it's doing instead is ...
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Override minor mode map based on major mode
Emacs Prelude binds C-a to crux-move-beginning-of-line using the following in its prelude-mode minor mode map:
(define-key map (kbd "C-a") 'crux-move-beginning-of-line)
It works good for ...
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Change the "^" keybinding prefix
Some keybindings require you to type the ^ character (ie magit smerge) and for starters, on an UE AZERTY keyboard (which is a very bad layout design BTW) there are two of those, and they each input a ...
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How to exit minibuffer with one key?
How can I tell emacs that one key press of <f12> should terminate the minibuffer, like C-g does by default?
I tried in scratch buffer:
(global-set-key (kbd "<f12>") 'keyboard-...
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Why does a code block that contains only comments seem to change key bindings?
This is very odd.
I have my Emacs config in code blocks in an org-mode file that is called from my init file using (org-babel-load-file "~/.emacs.d/emacs-config.org").
I've tried to assign ...
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How to pass in a function for define-key's DEF
I'm using spacemacs and setting a binding with spacemacs/set-leader-keys. The documentation for this states that it uses define-key:
spacemacs/set-leader-keys is a Lisp function in ‘core-keybindings....
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shortcut to select data to the last row
I'm new to Emacs. First of all sorry if my English is weird because it is not my first language. I don't know much about the terminologies used in Emacs.
Currently, I'm just using Emacs for data ...
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Key binding to `C-<` and `C->` not working when creating minor mode
I wrote a couple of functions to automatically convert sequences like "<<" in «. (Yeah, I know that input methods can do the same, but I don't want the extra bindings: I'm planning to ...
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"General" leader key not working in some modes *Messages* on initial startup only
I use evil and have general bindings like so defined after evil is installed through use-package.
(use-package general
:straight t
:after evil
:config
(general-...
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How can I quit windows like *Help* and *Messages* without first selecting them?
I find myself running C-h k/f/v and after reading the popup that's in the other window, going to that window and closing it. Is there a way to streamline that process a bit more (maybe adding a hook ...
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How can I replicate Spacemacs's evil bindings on the helm-find-files / helm switch to buffer modes?
I'm moving away from Spacemacs to vanilla Emacs + Evil and I liked the C-hjkl shortcuts that were available while navigating helm buffers (C-h / C-l moved up/down directories in helm find files, C-j ...
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Evil-leader: Leader key working in special buffers like *Message*, *Backtrace*, etc
The leader key works most buffers and in other special buffers like Help but not in others. Is there a setting for having evil-leader work in all buffers? This is an example of my evil-leader ...
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Insert space before link with org-insert-link
In Doom Emacs and org-mode, I want to use org-insert-link pressing the minimum amount of keys.
So I want to combine two-four commands in one.
The default behaviour doesn't leave space before or after.
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Why does `C-h b` show `??` as the command name for my key binding?
I've just added a nice custom key binding:
;; Open files in dired mode using 'open'
(eval-after-load "dired"
'(progn
(define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "z")
(lambda () (...
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Doom Emacs Haskell helper type infer
I try my hand on Emacs and has a great time developing with Haskell. Below is a feature that is invaluable to me. After writing a function without the type, Doom Emacs automatically infer its type, ...
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How to unbind `C--` from being the shortcut for scaling font size (`text-scale-decrease`)
The org manual states:
To mark a task with a repeater as DONE, use {{{kbd(C-- 1 C-c C-t)}}},
i.e., ~org-todo~ with a numeric prefix argument of =-1=.
However, I can't manage to do this as my C-- is ...
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How can I change buffer local key binding C-h, C-x, M-x in term raw mode?
I'm running a specific console application in a term window (char/raw mode).
This application has no need for C-h, C-x, and M-x,
so they should just do what they always do in Emacs.
However, I don't ...
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Pass through commands into ansi-term
I'm running into this problem: I have a tmux session on a remote machine running in ansi-term. I want to be able to, for example, copy and paste stuff in this session, but C-SPC for example, is ...
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isend: Why additional C-RET required when sending code to ansi-term?
The following code (from here) allows to send lines of code to an open *ansi-term* buffer
via C-RET. It works well but the very first time I hit C-RET, the current
line is not sent (nothing happens). ...
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Remove all keybindings (apart from the evil ones)
I love many things about Emacs, but its movement system (and key bindings) isn't one of them. It's just not for me.
I would like to remove all Emacs key bindings, including ones by external modes, and ...
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M-h not working on Mac (minimizes window instead of org-mark-element)
Using Mac OS Big Sur, org-mode 9.2.6 with GNU Emacs 27.2. I am trying to mark the whole item under the point. But when I use the M-h keystroke, the Emacs windows disappears and I need to click its ...
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How to bind term-interrupt-subjob in term-raw-map with use-package?
I am trying to bind term-interrupt-subjob in term-raw-map like this,
(use-package term
:bind (:map term-raw-map
("C-c". term-interrupt-subjob)
("C-'". kill-buffer)))
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Key binding to run Clojure code in running cider REPL and specified namespace
I have cider working just fine in Emacs with my Clojure code. I am following a tutorial that uses Cursive as the IDE; in the tutorial they were able to define a key binding to a line of code in a ...
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Listing of all the key mappings with function names and key map names which are currently active?
Is there a way in emacs (I'm using version 27.2 currently) to get a listing of all the key mappings that are active in the current buffer as well as the name of the mapped function? I also want the ...
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some emacs bindings undefined on macOS
For instance, for s-! (M-! on my linux machine, running a single shell command) it says it is undefined,
although s-x (M-x) works just fine
(It seems like on mac it calls it s and not M?)
Help am new ...
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Spacemacs missing some keybindings
I just installed Spacemacs v.0.300.0 but the following Spacemacs keybindings from this link do not exist:
https://www.spacemacs.org/layers/+emacs/org/README.html#key-bindings
The Key Binding tables ...
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How to know whether a local keybinding map exists (for a given package) and its name
I was wondering if we can know whether a given package has a local map of keybindings. For example, I'd like to bind the function pdf-occur of the pdf-tools package by using the use-package macro. ...
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Binding several keys to one yasnippet
Suppose we have a snippet for sql mode:
# -*- mode: snippet -*-
# name: select *
# key: sel
# --
SELECT ${1:*} FROM $2;
Sometimes I forget to switch the keyboard layout and type Russian "ыуд&...
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Key binding in terminal emacs [duplicate]
I started to use Linux Mint. On the Terminal, I can use emacs -nw and emacs. I can't get the same key behavior about the following two configs. In particular, these settings work in emacs, but not in ...
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Some key bindings don't work on Ubuntu 20.04
Some of my many Emacs 27.5's customized key bindings do not work when I work with Ubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 1 with a US keyboard.
Most key bindings work, but some like super-o or ...
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How to map keybindings to find-file?
How I can map keybindings to find-file since there is no
find-file-mode-map or something like that?
I am using the vertico minimalistic vertical completion UI.
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How can I disable the Emacs NEWS shortcut?
While coding, I'll occasionally fat-finger a key combo and find myself dropped into the GNU Emacs NEWS buffer (M-x view-emacs-news or C-h n). This is never what I want, since it totally breaks my flow....
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Display define-key output in echo area
This is my function,
(define-key global-map
(kbd "µ")
(display-message-or-buffer (message "`%s'" (eval '(solar-sunrise-sunset-string (calendar-current-date))))))
But, when I ...
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How to define multiple key bindings more concisely?
I'm trying to write a helper macro to conveniently define keybindings in my configuration file.
The idea is to replace the following configuration entry:
(use-package org-roam
:config
(define-key ...
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