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How to add the string 'export ' to the beginning of each line of this text, with emacs: RBENV_VERSION="2.4.0" CARE_MANAGER_EMAIL=support@example.com AUTHORIZE_NET_API_LOGIN_ID=example ...

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 ...

I am getting the following error while startup Failed to verify signature dash-2.12.0.tar.sig: No public key for 066DAFCB81E42C40 created at 2019-09-21T23:24:49+0530 using RSA Command output: gpg: ...

Could you let me know where the default colors in f90-mode are defined and how to change them?

Emacs 26.2 M-C-L is bound to switch-to-next-buffer. I have many files open but it's simply flopping between two. On my old XEmacs the same key cycled through all of them (and S-M-C-L did so ...

The default behaviour of C-c ) is to insert \ref and prefix it with~. I don't need the tilde after \S (i.e. I need the output to look like \S\ref{label}, rather than \S~\ref{label}). Is there a short ...

I've been playing with flyspell lately and with my recently established setup for spell-check, I wanted to enable it for all modes. I found that flyspell-mode and flyspell-prog-mode are best for text-...

I have a custom layout, which I can open with SPC l o f. Is there a way to start Emacs with a flag that would automatically load it at startup? I tried this way: emacs --eval '(persp-switch "Asd")' ...

I amended .emacs as shown below. Then M-x load-file ~/.emacs. What I want to do in test.org is add MEntal tags to each of the two entries, for example Read and Reminder, respectively. Using the column ...

I am using orgmode and Babel to run Python source code blocks. I noticed that if I define a function that returns a value, and if this function has a for loop inside it, then evaluating it with Babel ...

I installed captain-mode, and it worked as expected in org/text modes, but not so quite in programming modes' comment lines. The problem is it can auto-capitalize the first word from the second ...

I am using message-send-and-exit (with mu4e) to send an email with an attachment. I would like to rename the file so that in the email it appears with a different name than my local file. According ...

I need your help cause I couldn't figure it out. My ideal linum format has 5 digits at least. I'd really like to scale the linum font size down with respect to the text, say by 1/3. This is great ...

I want to change emacs default calendar week number so that it starts at a manually preset date. Normally the year is broken into 52 weeks and week 1 is the one that contains the 1st of January. I'd ...

I've set up MPD, and it's definitely running and indexing everything correctly. I followed the instructions here to set up EMMS to work with MPD, and after running M-x emms-cache-set-from-mpd-all, it ...

I'm launching Emacs using runemacs on Windows 7, from the emacs directory (C:\emacs-26.1-x86_64\bin), using runemacs --debug-init. I get the following error text: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-...

When typing docstring in python-mode, I always have issue with indentation. If I am at this point (| is the cursor): def fn(): """ Args:|""" If I press Enter, the cursor will move right below ...

I'm using CIDER for Clojure programming. I've been playing around with the CIDER debugger lately. I wanted to use the conditional breakpoint facility with some simple recursive function, such as ...

lsp-mode complies to PEP8 style guide I guess, but how can I disable certain warnings, e.g. about missing docstrings etc.?

In my LaTeX code I want to replace these strings: \left.\left.\left. \left.\left. \left. with: \left.\left.\left. \mycommand{3} \left.\left. \mycommand{2} \left. \mycommand{1} where the argument ...

I use Emacs in a terminal to read email using mu4e, mbsync. I have PassCmd "gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d ~/.authinfo.gpg | awk '/machine imap.gmail.com login rudolf.sykora@gmail.com/ {...

In org mode when I hover over a link, I get a tooltip that shows the target of the link. But I'd like to see the target when I just move point onto a link, either as a tooltip or in the echo area. For ...

I'm writing an emacs package for Pipenv and the spike solution uses sync shell calls, which is not desirable for general usage. I'm now changing calls to be async (make-process) and for output to go ...

whitespace-mode will show the whitespace all the time in entire buffer, Is there the way to show whitespaces only when the region is selected. which is pretty cool to have, does there mode exist for ...

When getting an Elisp error and trying to debug the problem, the backtrace buffer is quite hard to read with its long lines. Is there a way to get a pretty-printed backtrace buffer?

Connecting to a remote machine with tramp that may have VC (subversion) related files, I tend to see a large number of repeated messages in the *Messages* buffer. For example: Type "q" in help ...

;; Specify the startup banner. Default value is `official', it displays ;; the official spacemacs logo. An integer value is the index of text ;; banner, `random' chooses a random text banner in `core/...

I have a scimax based configuration and my source block fontification is broken. I suspect it has to do with the release of Org-mode 9.3 which I am currently using. Scimax uses and automatically ...

Update: It worked properly somehow after disabling and enabling nyan-mode. BUT there is no evidence indicating any relationship between them. Because I can't reproduce this problem after it was ...

When moving to use-package, I'd to replace (require 'markdown-mode) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode)) with (use-package markdown-mode :mode "\\.md\\'" :config ... ) ...

Fairly new to emacs, seemed super awesome for writing a lot of different styles. Got it working just find on my desktop using the new bash terminal - 14.04 - on my desktop. Did the exact same setup ...

In org-mode, if I do something like this: #+begin_src org ## What does this PR do? - Updates the Dockerfile to make the `dev` service connect to a shared network at startup - Registers the `...

org-habit keeps track of my habits, e.g. taking a piece of melatonin pill every day before bed. Sometimes I go to sleep after midnight. I don't want the habit to count as failed in this case. I want ...

I have emacs 25.2.2 and installed through M-x list-packages AUCTeX 12.1.1. Opening any LaTeX file gives the native latex mode, so it seems through C-h m: LaTeX/P mode defined in ‘tex-mode.el’: :...

I have the following in my .emacs: (use-package flymake :init (remove-hook 'flymake-diagnostic-functions 'flymake-proc-legacy-flymake) (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook #'flymake-mode) (add-hook '...

(current as of org 8.2.10) I have a thing (shameless plug) that outputs a simple snippet of org-headings in a single file that look like this: * little boys - snakes - snails - puppy dog tails ...

I recently upgraded from Windows Emacs 19.x to Windows 26.3.1 and have a problem. in the old version 19 if I did a search forward for a space, (C-s) it skipped forward to the FIRST space character ...

I have several agenda commands set up, one of which gives me a block agenda, others give me specific searches. Since many of my TODOs are hanging around inside of projects, where I only archive the ...

Since the first option is the right one when fixing a common misspelling. Is there a way to make ispell-word correct the spelling of a word to the first suggestion instead of prompting from a list of ...

I want to use two frames. One on virtual desktop #1 and the other one on #2. I (have to) work on Windows so I would like to see a frame number in the frame title, since Windows lacks a permanently ...

Suppose I want the face helm-match to have an unset foreground. Unfortunately, helm-match inherits from match so, if I try to unset the foreground normally: (set-face-foreground 'helm-match nil) The ...

I have an org file that looks something like this: * Tasks ** TODO A test task * 2019 ** 2019-12 December *** 2019-12-10 Tuesday **** Day planning ***** Tasks for today [0/1] ****** TODO Another ...

When I search through project via semantic-complete-jump and tag is not unique (its defined in multiple places), I must hit <tab> to iterate through all possible places. Problem is, I horribly ...

I'm on nixos and due to stack's integration with Nix/Nixos the following command is very slow: time stack ghc ghc: no input files Usage: For basic information, try the `--help' option. stack ghc 1....

If I open file at home directory there will be a warning: (emacs:49027): GLib-WARNING **: 10:34:31.190: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was ...

When building Emacs, I use ./configure --enable-checking='glyphs' so that I can take advantage of some of the built-in tools such as M-x trace-redisplay. The redisplay debugging messages can be seen ...

I often find myself doing this: Selecting a region of text in an org file. Calling org-md-export-as-markdown. Selecting the converted text in the temporary buffer (can't just do mark-whole-buffer ...

As expected, the following dialog box expires after five seconds under Linux: (progn (setq last-nonmenu-event nil) (y-or-n-p-with-timeout "Proceed? " 5 nil)) However, it lasts forever under ...

I am connecting regularly to servers via tramp. Sometimes everything works fine but often times my messages buffer gets spammed full of Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done Tramp: ...

emacs-jupyter supports pdb by displaying the pdb prompt in a minibuffer. I have a feeling that I should be able to connect to it with realgud:pdb, similarly to how I can realgud:track-mode-enable in ...