Questions tagged [motion]
is for moving the cursor around the buffer. Emacs provides key-bindings for alternative ways of moving the cursor interactively: by syntactical elements such as characters and words; by forward and backward searches; by arbitrary lines; by units such as sentences, paragraphs, and s-expressions; and by other methods unique to certain modes.
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Is there a way to move region with arrow keys or similar?
Say I have a function
int calc(int that, int this);
I want to mark int that and then move it right across words by hitting modifier arrow key (or similar) twice to get
int calc(int this, int that);
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How can I find corresponding balanced parentheses?
I have this LaTeX code:
\caption{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet: foo), bar), baz) and qux) consectetuer adipiscing elit.}
I want to put a marker immediately before the first { and one immediately after ...
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Fields: how to avoid field-end-position to overlap with next field?
I have a text in the beginning of buffer
901 fifth avenue
The word 901 is defined as field "house" and fifth (including space) as field "street". So the text with fields is
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Is (forward-char N)'s runtime complexity O(N)?
Internally, the text of a buffer is stored as a char array. The encoding used is based on UTF-8, which may use a variable number of bytes to represent different code points. Does the variable-length ...
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How to navigate horizontally in a Helm buffer?
When I use helm-occur it prints the path to the source file of the buffer, which is inconvenient on a small display.
How can I navigate horizontally?
How can I hide paths in a helm buffer?
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Is there a single keyboard shortcut for going to the end of the above line?
I want to go to the end of the above line. I can do this with two keyboard shortcuts, namely <up> followed by C-e. Can it be done in one in an out-of-the-box copy of Emacs? I could surely write ...
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decrease initial delay for line-up/line-down movement
so every time I press C-n or C-p for moving the point up and down and keep pressing n or p I move several lines. However, after the first line move, there is a delay before the point is moving down in ...
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Slowness opening and moving around within large files
I'm running spacemacs 0.200.13 on emacs 25.3.1 from a macOS 10.12 machine.
In some scenarios, things feel very sluggish. They get worse as a dozen buffers or so are opened during the day. From the ...
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How can I run (recenter) after (call-interactive ...) that jumps to a buffer?
I would like to jump to a buffer using rtags for eg.
Example snippet:
(defun generic-lookup () "Follow link/goto line."
(interactive)
(cond
((string= major-mode "c-mode")
(progn
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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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M-< and M-> not doing what it should on Windows
I recently installed emacs 25 on my Windows 7 machine. Things are doing okay in general, but when I want to reach the top of buffer (M-<) or bottom of buffer (M->) it simply inserts the "<" or ">...
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possible to make it so that left-word and right-word include spaces?
Is it possible to adjust the behavior of the commands 'left-word' and 'right-word' (which I have bound to m-left and m-right) so that when I invoke, say, 'right-word' and the point jumps to the end of ...
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moving cursor forward-sexp goes one char further in evil mode
When I want to highlight the following region
(a ( b ( c ) ) ) )
I get
(a ( b ( c ) ) ) )
I mark the beginning and do forward-sexp (or sp-forward-sexp, which results in the same outcome)
In, insert ...
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How quick jump to specific lines in differents buffers?
Linux Mint 21
Emacs 27.1
Suppose I open 3 different text files. As result open 3 differents buffers.
E.g.
text_1.txt
text_2.txt
text_3.txt
Is it possible to jump using keybinding to the next lines?
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Evil cursor moves one position right after exiting append mode, how to let it stay?
Similarly to the question Cursor moves one position left after exiting insert mode? I would like to know the similar thing, but now for the append command. I want the cursor to stay when exiting both ...
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What alternative exist to write specialized forward-sexp-function?
I'd like to write code that allows forward-sexp and backward-sexp commands to navigate across balanced keyword-based expressions, such as make files that use the if / fi keywords.
It's possible to ...
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How to make backward-kill-word and kill-word stop after it kills a newline character?
kill-word and backward-kill-word deletes too much text:
foo(bar)
<point>
Now if I press C-<backspace>:
foo(<point>
What I want is:
foo(bar)<point>
after pressing C-<...
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Copy/Paste&Cut with Spacemacs on Terminal
I'm new with emacs, and I'm a developer that uses IDE to develop, and I want to learn emacs.
I choose Spacemacs as customization because I think has a good keybinding for me, but now I miss a feature ...
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Problem with org-agenda view when going forward 1 week
I have my org-agenda to start on a Sunday. Hence I have this code in my .emacs file:
(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 0)
org-agenda opens with the cursor on the current day of the week.
If I press &...
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Spacemacs kept repositioning the cursor when there's unmatched parenthesis
I'm new to Emacs, and there's one thing I don't understand. Suppose there's a file called test.el, which have the following contents:
(setq
Yes, the parenthesis is not closed, because I haven't ...
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Enable Evil jump to work across all panes instead of only active pane
Is there a way to enable evil-jump-forward and evil-jump-backward to use the jump list of all panes instead of only the active pane?
In the gif below, here's what happens:
Start on left pane at ...
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