Questions tagged [registers]
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How can I search through registers via counsel?
I need something like helm-register which lists all the registers and it can be searched through.
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Preserving Layout Using emacsclient
If I spawn Emacs in --daemon mode, I can then use emacsclient to connect to the daemon from within a terminal window. If this then dies, I can reconnect my terminal and my Emacs session is still ...
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Is there any way to reliably tell when a keyboard macro definition fails than `defining-keyboard-macro`?
I coded up a function designed to manage my keyboard macros with one hotkey; it takes a numeric prefix argument and defines a macro if the argument is non-nil. It stops defining the macro and saves it ...
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What's the most efficient, idiomatic way to paste-and-replace in Emacs?
I often do something like this:
Copy some stuff
Go to where I need to paste it
Paste it (C-y)
Kill the rest of the line (C-k)
Select what I just pasted, and copy it again
Repeat steps 2-5
The whole "...
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How to prompt user for register name?
I'd like to prompt the user for a register name. Is there an easy way to do this? Apparently, this functionality isn't built into interactive (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/...
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Storing previous cursor positions
I would like the ability to go back and forth through a series of stored recent cursor positions, say up to 100 of them. Specifically, a position should be recorded when I click somewhere, or when I ...
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How to refer to Emacs registers by name?
Emacs registers are useful but I find remembering the contents of them difficult. Figuring out which register I stored that particular macro in is a pain.
Is there a package that allows registers to ...
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function to put current buffer in temporary register
I want to access any current file quickly. Therefore I want to build a function that put a file the register.
I've started with this function:
(defun tmp-register ()
""" put the current buffer in ...
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How can I apply a frame register (saved via desktop.el) to the current frame instead of opening a new frame?
I am using desktop.el and I saved a few frame configurations in my registers. But when I jump to a saved register (C-x r j), Emacs opens a new frame instead of applying that setting to the current ...
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Evil: Is there a default register that does not get overwritten by later yanks to explicit registers?
I often use registers in evil, but I have a common use case that I cannot seem to resolve. I would like to have all copied text stored somewhere that does not get overwritten when I explicitly make ...
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How to switch back and forth between two locations in a buffer
Sometimes I find myself frequently alternating between two functions that I am editing in conjunction with each other. In these situations, it is tedious and painful to keep on doing a C-s <...
