Questions tagged [text-editing]
Questions about editing or manipulating text inside of Emacs.
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Insert aligned multi-line text in current buffer regardless of position?
I'm creating a function to easily insert ditaa boxes while drafting reports in org-mode. I have the meat of the function accomplished, but not sure how to implement it so that boxes can be inserted ...
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need help with very complex find and replace
I have a very complex (at least to my mind) text replacement task. ideally this would be a function or macro I could run over every org header in a buffer.
I want to
1. move over any TODO state to a ...
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How to remove all console.logs() from the buffer and also how to comment all console.logs from the buffer?
When I do a regex-replace and replace with the empty string, the console.logs() are removed but the empty lines still remain. How would I remove these empty lines?
Furthermore, how would I replace all ...
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how to convert 4 lines block text to 1 line space interrupted
I have a text file (name, surname, phone number)
than I would import in excel and the play with column (name, surname...)
The file was previously a docx file.
I've converted it on as a text file.
But ...
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Insert White-space to Right to Even Out Region
Lets say I have the following block of text:
----
##
----
##
----
There is no white space after the # character. Is there some command to insert white space to the right of lines to even them with ...
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How to sort comma separated (or otherwise) text?
Suppose I have the following text:
int z;
int a;
int c;
int g;
or the following text:
z, a, c, g
How can I sort them to:
int a;
int c;
int g;
int z;
and
a, c, g, z
respectively?
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`Alt-f` or `Alt-b` then `d` deletes the forward word rather than putting character 'd' in front of the word. Why does emacs behave in this way?
I was doing some editing in Emacs. I was using Alt-f and Alt-b to traverse by word. I wanted to add the character d in front of a word. So I pressed Alt-b to get to the front of the word and then ...
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How to replace the buffer without slowing down the undo system?
Say I have a command that operates on the entire buffer.
The simple solution is to:
Run the command taking the entire buffer as input.
Store the output.
Clear the current buffer.
Insert the new ...
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Prepend to block of text, but ignore blank lines
How to add the string 'export ' to the beginning of each line of this text,
with emacs:
RBENV_VERSION="2.n.0"
AUTHORIZE_NET_API_LOGIN_ID=example
AUTHORIZE_NET_TRANSACTION_KEY=example
# Google ...
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Electric pair delete with text between?
Suppose I have the piece of text (hello world). How can electric pair be made to work such that deleting the opening parenthesis automatically deletes the closing parenthesis? Some examples (the ...
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How to transpose words, keeping the cursor at the same relative location to the word it moves?
When transposing words, the cursor moves to the end of the word, how can the cursor be kept at the same location relative to the word?
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How to transpose words backwards?
Transpose words (M-t) always swaps the word with the next.
How can this be performed with the previous word?
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Temporarily restrict editing to whitespace only
Sometimes I make whitespace cleanups to source code. I'd like to be certain that I do not accidentally introduce real code changes (let us assume that the programming language is one where removing ...
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Why multiple-cursor ask me on every line? How avoid this?
emacs 26.1, multiple-cursor https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el
Here my custom Elisp function that add some number(by default 1) to number.
(defun increment-number-at-point(number)
(...
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Punctuation abbrevs for writing prose, and automatic full stops at the end of line?
I'm a beginner Emacs user, and English isn't my first language so please bear with me.
I use Emacs for writing prose, and I need help with punctuation.
To put it short, I want to turn this:
--hello ...
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Why does emacs not apply some config settings when editing tex files?
I'm facing a rather peculiar situation where my emacs settings seem to be lost every time that I open a .tex file. That's doesn't happen when I'm editing .el or .py files. Heres some examples with ...
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Replace placeholder by incremental value [duplicate]
Windows 10
Emacs 26.1
I has the next text
[
{
"id": N,
"name": "Agent#N",
"address": "N Tabernacle St, London EC2A 4DD, UK"
},
{
"id": N,
"name": "Agent#N",
"address": "...
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Edit a portion of YAML file (a multi-line string) with a different mode
I'm constantly editing a big yaml file with many multi-line strings, which are BASH scripts.
In org-mode I would use something like:
#+begin_src sh
echo "cool"
#+end_src
And then just to C-c ' (org-...
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Is it possible to shuffle paragraphs?
I'd like to be able to quickly "shuffle" the order in which all paragraphs in a region occur. Can this be easily accomplished in emacs?
For example, consider the following region.
Hello world.
This ...
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fixed file size mode
Is there an emacs mode/package/whatever where a specific file size (and/or number of lines) is enforced in a visual way?
Something like this:
1st line
2nd line
where adding some text to the 2nd ...
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smartparens how to stop behaviour of inserting backslash \ before I type a single quote '
I'm in C major mode, editing source files. Whenever I want to type a single quote ' smartparens automatically gives me the following: \'|\' , where | is the cursor position.
What I want exactly is ...
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Dual-language text mode using the original interpretation of tabs
Does there exist an Emacs mode that replaces the contemporary interpretation of tabs (move to 8, 16, 24, .. or a multiple of some constant) with their original typewriter interpretation (set stops at ...
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How remove lines which are not equal in two buffers?
Consider the following buffers
buffer_1:
11111111
22222222
33333333
44444444
buffer_2:
55555555
66666666
22222222
44444444
I need to remove all lines which are not equal in buffer_1 and buffer_2.
...
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How to blockquote text in one go
With this text:
Play with it a few times you will see my point. The
command you need is:
$ echo hello
How do I make it into:
> Play with it a few times you will see my point. The
> command ...
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Can someone recommend a good text editor for Emacs? [closed]
I'm looking for a good way to edit text within Emacs. Can someone give some good recommendations for text-editors for Emacs.
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1answer
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How do I delete all blank lines in a buffer? [duplicate]
Emacs 26.1
In buffer
1
2
3
4
I use command "delete-blank-lines". But it NOT delete ALL BLANK LINES. It's delete ONLY ONE BLANK LINE.
Why?
I need to delete ALL BLANK LINES.
The result must be ...
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Stop automatic removal of space before point when inserting `.` (dot)
The following gif shows the behaviour quite nicely:
Whenever I type a space followed by a dot (.) in any mode derived from text-mode, emacs will replace the space with the dot. I could not want this ...
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2answers
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How keep only duplicate lines?
Emacs 26.1. Windows 10
In buffer I has text like this:
3333333
1111111
$PAC_LTC
1337_BTC
1337_LTC
404_BTC
42_BTC
222222
42_LTC
808_ETH
8BIT_BTC
...
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Why after save *Occur* buffer I can't edit editable file? [duplicate]
Emacs 26.1, Windows 10 (64 bit)
I open file trace.log. User occur to find text. Save occur buffer to file NXS_ETH.txt. Do some manipulations. See screenshots. But I can't edit EDITABLE file.
Here ...
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What is the difference between refill-mode and auto-fill-mode in emacs?
I swear I tried to read documentations, but in practice, I could not tell the difference. I feel they are doing the same thing. I can turn both modes on, but I am not sure in what circumstance I need ...
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2answers
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Result of math. operation - replace math. formula
If I want to do some math. operation I do next:
(* 5 3)
C-x C-e (eval-last-sexp)
Here result:
As you can see the result is in the minibuffer.
Nice.
But I need result to REPLACE math. formula.
I ...
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Compose characters
I have some copied text from a pdf which renders like this with my current font:
I know I could use a different font that handles Unicode characters better, but I would rather find a function to ...
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How to swap strings in all lines?
Emacs 26.1
I have this text:
"ADA-SGD"
"ADT-SGD"
"ADX-SGD"
"AID-SGD"
"AMP-SGD"
"ANT-SGD"
"ARDR-SGD"
"ARK-SGD"
I want to swap text in all these lines. The result must be like this:
"SGD-ADA"
"SGD-...
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Why I can't delete first line after save *occur* buffer to separate file? [duplicate]
Windows 10, Emacs 26.1
I have file - file_first.txt:
I want to find all line content word hello. So I use occur for this
Nice.
Now I want to save result to SEPARATE file: file_second.txt
To do ...
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Next word prediction
Autocomplete and company completes the word . But is there any package which helps predict the next word expected in the sentence.
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How to combine change `key: foo`, `key: bar`, `key: baz` to `key: foo bar baz`?
To clarify this is what I'd like to do:
Text Before:
key: foo
key: bar
key: baz
Text After:
key: foo bar baz
Wondering if anyone has a good technique for this type of operation (simpler the ...
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Align elements of a matrix to the right
I have a matrix in C++
Matrix<double> A = {
{31, -13, 0, 0, 0, -10, 0, 0, 0},
{-13, 35, -9, 0, -11, 0, 0, 0, 0},
{0, -9, 31, -10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
{0, 0, -10, 79, -30, 0, 0, 0, -...
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1answer
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Turn array from one-line into element-per-line
Say I have PHP array like this: $arr = ['one', 'two', 'three']; and I want to convert it to
$arr = [
'one',
'two',
'three'
];
real quick.
Is there any ready to use soluions?
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how to convert camel case to snake case with vanilla emacs
When editing for example a ruby file,
can't emacs toggle CamelCase to snake_case out of the box?
Example ruby file
def SecDecGov
puts "abort"
end
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In-sync editing the same file in two frames
For a lecture, I'll have a setup with two frames (one on my notebooks's screen, the other on the projector) showing the same file. When editing the file in the "master" frame I need the "slave" frame ...
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Quoting selected text using email conventions?
Is there any existing elisp function which will quote any selected text using email quoting conventions?
For example, suppose the following text appears in a buffer ...
This is some text that
I want ...
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Edit simultaneously many buffers and save all of them after edit
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Helm
I open 3 different files:
I need:
Edit simultaneously all buffers. Add text "customer/" to the node "bodyFileName"in all buffers.
After edit save all buffers,
Here ...
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1answer
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How to trim text on each line, starting with the first space
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1
Suppose I has text:
Advertisment d184f52a-14d7-dddddddddd
ZAnelik 1c970d12-6c67-44e1-cccccccccccc
Avers b0f0dd6b-a43f-4e40-b0ebbbbbbbbb
BAVERS_MIGOM_OLD ...
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1answer
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How remove all rows contain specific text?
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1
Suppose I has the next text
111111111111111111
hello
22222222
aaaahello
3333333333333333333333333333333
aabbbbbbbbhellocccccdddddddd
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
cccccccccccccccc
...
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How to use an ispell dictionary in company mode?
I am writing in LaTeX at the moment and I want to use company-mode for word completion. I found this solution: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/18522.
I was thinking about using the ispell ...
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reshape one column text of n rows into into m columns of n/m rows
I have tried the following function
(defun test3 (size column cnt)
(interactive "p")
(if (eq cnt 0)
(progn
(setq start (point))
(forward-line (- (/ size column) 1))
...
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2answers
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Writing a small elisp function
Could someone here write a small Elisp function for me?
What I would like Emacs to do is the following: I have a region like this:
[0.04579] [0.06569] [0.09507]
[0.12696] [0.27929] [0....
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Printing/exporting to PDF from text-mode
I have been googling and searching for the answer to this question for a while but cannot find a definitive solution. In fact I am more confused than ever. I have no doubt that I am not the first ...
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ryo-modal defining keybind jump a word and insert character
I'm using the ryo-modal package that enables you to define your own keys in modal editing. I'm trying to makemf move the cursor to the end of the word, insert a whitespace and then exit the modal mode....
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Can I “insert” a backspace character into a buffer?
I'm trying to tail the output from a command into a buffer, and I just learned that the command occasionally uses long strings of ^H to backspace over previous lines.
Like, the command stdout will ...
