Questions tagged [linux]
for Emacs and GNU/Linux operating system-specific issues about compiling, installing, configuring, running, editing, and debugging.
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Newbie to emacs. need help
Are there any good resources that anyone can suggest. I rate myself 3 out of 10 when it comes to using editors like vim
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emacs: Work out which monitor is the primary one
Is there a way to programatically work out which display is considered the "primary" display for X within emacs?
I've managed to get a function working that determines if the machine has more than ...
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Does Emacs 26.3 require older version of ImageMagick?
I've just upograded Ubuntu 19.04, which installs imagemagick 7. When trying to start my Emacs install, I see the following error:
emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.3:...
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best way to access running org-mode clock from command line / python
I use py3status to output data from org-mode to the Sway status bar on my Debian laptop. I had a rather hacky script running fine on a previous version of emacs, parsing the output of something like ...
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C-/ results in backspace in the Linux console
I am using emacs on many machines, and always use C-/ for undo. However, I started working on a Raspberry Pi with Arch Linux recently, using a local text terminal - X is not installed. Here, C-/ has ...
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Can emacs on Mac using native window system connect to an emacs server on a Linux system
At this point I believe I am using the emacs version on my Mac that is built by Homebrew and the "stock" emacs on Ubuntu 18.04.
I set up emacs server on the Ubuntu host as it is described in Starting ...
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Access Serial Port on Remote System
Is there a nifty emacs command to access the serial port on a remote system?;)
I've seen socat, which creates a virtual serial port on the local system, but if emacs can do it directly, without that, ...
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Emacs stops displaying typing until focus moved out of and then back into editor window
I'm currently running RHEL 7.6 and whatever version of emacs comes with it (I don't have access to my system at the moment so can't provide the version number). Sometime in the last 2 weeks my sys ...
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macro execution with i-search fails under Linux and succeeds under windows?
Imagine you've got file with FirstName|LastName| like this :
John|toto|
Hanz|titi|
and want to put the first names at the end of the lines (just an stupid exemple). You may use Macro Recordind for ...
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How do I link an email from a webpage to mu4e?
So when I press a link in, for example firefox, it open Emacs mu4e "Compose email" with the receiver attached.
I’m on Linux.
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Labelling LaTeX sub-equations in org-mode
How to achieve subequation numbering a,b,etc like https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Advanced_Mathematics#Subordinate_equation_numbering in org-mode. I tried using the LaTeX snippet as it is and ...
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Problem saving (C-x C-s) files on a NFS drive with emacs 24/25
Starting with Emacs 24 (using various different versions of Ubuntu and Linux Mint), if I open a file on an NFS drive, modify it and attempt to save it C-x C-s, I get the message of: Saving <...
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Set a title to an Emacs instance running in a terminal
On Ubuntu, I usually open more than one Emacs instances in the same time (for frontend and back development). These instances always by default take the name "Terminal" as a title as shown on this ...
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xclip-mode returns “Unknown upattern” and does not work
The command M-x xclip-mode returns the following info in *Messages*:
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Unknown upattern `(quote pbpaste)'") [2 times]
Xclip mode enabled
I cannot yank text from ...
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Adjusting to screen resolution changes on GNU/Linux/ubuntu/gnome
I'm running emacs 26.1 on ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell laptop with a high-resolution display. It works very well in that configuration. It also works very well when the laptop is plugged into a lower-...
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Problem with file-exists-p function on Linux running as VirtualBox guest
Until this morning, my emacs setup (running on Arch Linux as a VirtualBox guest) was working absolutely fine. Then for no obvious reason I started experiencing the following issue:
If I opened an ...
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Dired: File open using external viewers, based on filetype, and without prompting
When I hit RETURN on a filename in Dired, I'd like Emacs to automatically do one of several things, depending on the file's type:
1 - If it's a text file, I'd like to open the file in a new buffer in ...
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Disable LINUX mode in Emacs
I am using Emacs 25.3 on Mac and when I try to open some linux kernel code, the behavior is different as below:
I cannot simply open a C file, but I am prompted for arch each time.
Occasionally, ...
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Setting up Emacs/AUCTeX viewer
I have installed AUCTeX, it compiled a test file OK, but I can't view the output.
I get " Cannot get Evince viewer ...". Xviewer, should be the analogue in my distro, I think (I have not way to check ...
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Dired: Open files by external application in Linux
I want to open several types of files in Dired by different external applications.
For example:
.doc files with LibreOffice
.pdf files with evince
.jpg files with pinta
etc...
How do i configure ...
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string-rectangle command pollutes kill-ring after upgrade to Emacs 25
In Emacs 24 I used to have a workflow for inserting a string into multiple lines at once:
Go to the desired position in the first line.
Press C-Space to place the mark.
Go to the last line (while ...
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emacs 25.3 not rendering correctly, especially after resize
The problem is when emacs starts, the right 1/4 of the window doesn't repaint and shows whatever window was behind it.
Also on resize, sometimes the font and the cursor get way too big and the ...
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Copy/paste between SSH terminal Emacs and macOS
Suppose you are working in macOS, and you decide to SSH into a Linux box and fire up terminal Emacs. How do you copy and paste between macOS and your SSH terminal-Emacs?
Copying and pasting between ...
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From Org code block on *nix run (Power-)Shell (scripts) on MS Windows via SSH
To better integrate my Windows DevOps into Emacs Org-mode, I'd like to use my local emacs as an IDE for a remote Powershell.
SSH was easily setup, from Linux shell ssh I can successfully login to a ...
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How can i make Emacs use the System input method and Language?
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I am using Emacs for general text typing and editing outside my Programming. This requires me to type in local languages of India ( specifically Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil ).
I am on ...
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(To file an emacs bug report) are there services out there that let's me ssh to a clean GNU Linux machine
I want to file a bug report about emacs.
From what I learnt, bug reports relating to GNU/Linux
are given precedence over more exotic OS's like MacOS.
I can spin up an ubuntu instance in 10 seconds ...
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xclip hangs shell-command
I like to use the xclip utility to capture the output of commands on the clipboard. However, when I try to use it with shell-command it seems to hang.
In a "normal" shell I can run a command such as ...
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How to set eshell's ls command to different program in different OS?
Since result of /usr/bin/ls is more neat compares with eshell/ls when filenames contain non-lattin Unicodes. I add an alias in ~/.emacs.d/eshell/alias, which makes eshell use /usr/bin/ls as default:
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What does emacs want for non-ASCII keys
Under Debian-Jessie, Emacs recognizes qualified special keys, e.g. C-<home>, in an X terminal (e.g. mate-terminal) but in TTY it does not.
I have corrected this by making a replacement keymap, ...
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can not access melpa packages- hung up at Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80
I am trying to access the melpa packages but when typing:
package-refresh-contents
emacs gets hung up at: "Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80"
I am completely new to emacs and fairly new to Linux and ...
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keybinding to switch to specific application
I'm running Emacs in a GUI, and I like having a keybinding that quickly switches me to a terminal. Yes, I know there's eshell, term, and shell in Emacs, but I still prefer a dedicated terminal ...
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How to build Emacs for an embedded ARM Linux system
I am trying to build Emacs for an embedded ARM Linux system. Unfortunately, it is proving to be more difficult than I anticipated. I have the device mounted at /mnt/my_device. Now I am not sure ...
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Emacs doesn't open a new frame
Emacs does not start in a new frame.
If I'm in a terminal running Bash and enter $>emacs the editor is opened inside this terminal, and produces exactly the same behavior as $>emacs -nw. I have ...
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how to debug who move cursor
I have very annoying problem, after I run M-x compile time to time
cursor jump from middle of buffer to the first line.
I want to find out culprit (I found mode who responsible for this,
but I want ...
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How to make GUI Emacs use all available space when running maximized on linux?
GUI Emacs running maximized on my Linux (centos7+kde) is not using all the available space leaving some space around the borders, specially at the top and the bottom.
Sample of GUI emacs running "...
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Second meta key
On my keyboard layout, pressing some key combinations (like M-c as C is where R is on the American keyboard layout) can be quite tricky.
This is why I want Alt Gr or the context menu key to be a meta ...
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Error (initialization): User … has no home directory
I just installed GNU Emacs 23.1.1 on a new machine and copied my ~/.emacs and ~/.emacs.d/ from another machine where I'm running emacs 25.1.1.
When I launch emacs it writes Error (initialization): ...
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How I can download the latest version of Emacs on Linux Mint 18.1?
Linux Mint 18.1 (64 bit).
I install Emacs by Software Manager.
It download Emacs version 24.5. But the latest version is 25.1.
How I can download the latest version?
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Flycheck c/c++-clang check linux kernel headers
Currently I am working with the linux kernel, but I am struggling trying to check my syntax using flycheck, I already added the path of the headers in the clang-path but it is not enough. Does any of ...
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On Linux why should one choose Lucid over Gtk gui for emacs?
I run Ubuntu 16.04. On searching Ubuntu Software app for Emacs I am presented with two guis, Lucid and Gtk.
Which one should I choose and why?
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flyspell & hunspell: 'flyspell-buffer' is not marking words … sometimes
I try to get flyspell working with hunspell on Linux with German de_DE_frami dictionary from LibreOffice Extensions. The setup works ... more or less. (English dictionarys work perfectly fine.)
But ...
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small font for programming wanted [closed]
I have a low-res screen (1366x768) and therefore are searching for a small font which is clearly readable.
Till now I used this font:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1
I had ...
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mode-line-inactive after system window loses focus
When a system/X11 window (frame) with Emacs loses focus, how can I make its mode line become mode-line-inactive? It stays active, keeping the standard mode-line look/face…
Shouldn’t it be the default?...
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Selecting correct font weight variant (Linux)
Here's a minimal example that does something on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) that doesn't seem right to me:
M-: (set-frame-font "Ubuntu")
M-x describe-font <RET>
The first couple of lines that Emacs ...
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redraw-display when focused
I am using Emacs 25 in SUSE linux and when I switch to a workspace where Emacs is the front window almost none of the text is visible. I have to call redraw-display in order to get it refresh the ...
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How to generate list of hex numbers?
I am using emacs with org mode.
Question 1:
I want to number a column in a table in hex.
E.g.
| 0x00 | xyz | .. |
| 0x01 | abc | .. |
I want to auto generate first column.
Any ideas how to do this ...
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Misc-Fixed fonts and font height
I use the Misc-Fixed fonts because I enjoy non-antialiased fonts. They are designed per height, and tolerate shrinking badly. For instance, in the following example, the default font is set to 9x15 ...
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What's the lighest version of emacs for Ostro x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu?
Using Ostro on #IntelMaker #Joule, I've downloaded the earliest version of emacs available from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/, and tried running configure, but it failed with a message that emacs ...
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how to disable automatic dos mode?
Many versions ago, if you opened a dos-line-end file on Linux you would see the extra ^M codes. Now it automatically recognizes the situation and puts "DOS" in the info bar and hides the extra ^Ms.
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How to use the same pdf-tools install on OSX and Linux simultaneously?
Q: how can I get pdf-tools to work simultaneously on OSX and Linux?
I keep my .emacs.d directory synced over Dropbox, and share it between machines running OSX and Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu). I got ...
