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I am using the org mode agenda and my issue is that recurrent scheduled items appear as late everyday. For example an event that happens every Tuesday will also appear every Wednesday as 1 day late, ...

i know i can change what info to display in modeline in mode-line-format variable. But how to display mode-line-position for one mode, but not display it for another?

For example, you helm-grep-do-git-grep with foo Helm will give you list of matching lines. Let's assume there are 100 matching lines in 12 files. I want to do helm-grep-do-git-grep with bar on those ...

In macOS in emacs -nw mode, when you paste in some text from another application emacs sometimes misses parts or stops halfway. Often I see a tilde as the last character entered, when there wasnt even ...

Wanting to stay simple as possible I refrain from using Helm or Ivy etc. and use IDO. Ido-switch-buffer is supposed to allow me to access recently opened buffers quite efficiently with the help of ...

I have written the following lisp code to search for a regex pattern and append new line to it: (defun readmode () (interactive) (goto-char 1) (while (search-forward-regex "\(</[a-z]+>\)" ...

Let's say I make this code with bad formatting: is there an emacs command that can automatically fix indentation? I know this question has been asked a few times before, but all the answers I've seen ...

I'm using Emacs 26.1 on MacOS. Instead of copying the entire buffer I get a warning: Saved text until "text where is stopped saving with whitespace seemingly to the end of the buffer " I'm ...

I'm currently running a new install of exwm on a french laptop. Writing in french means I need to input accents. Those letters I can input using dead keys without any problem but I cannot use the ...

I use about 15 orgmode agenda files, and a number of them I use passively only. Examples are my wife's agenda converted from Google calendar, a work agenda from Outlook and a list of git commits (...

I'm trying to change the cursor type in Emacs. Here are the steps I'm following, C-h v cursor-type check the value of cursor type. It is set to t. start emacs with emacs -nw -Q and type (setq cursor-...

When using xref with Fortran I noticed that indexing by etags is highly incomplete; Almost exclusively subroutines (and maybe functions) are index, but modules, types, constants and global variables ...

I try to configure lsp-mode and company-lsp with python-language-server for python autocompletion, but when I choose completion candidate it completes with function arguments. How can I prevent this ...

I'm a novice in Lisp, so I feel like I'm missing something very basic here. My intention was to create a function/shortcut to remove all whitespace and newline chars from the selected text and copy ...

revert-buffer is often slower than closing an opening the same file. I've noticed - for example, I can undo to the state of the file before reverting. While this might be useful in some cases, I ...

Say I have a table in an Org document looking like this: (Source) +----------+-----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ | Date | Day | Pages | ...

I understand that I should be able to use X11 to show graphs from a remote R when I use a local emacs to connect to the remote machine with tramp. I have tried a few different things but can not get ...

In markdown-mode the cursor goes to the beginning of a line whenever I type any of (),[]{};:, this happens in both GUI and command-line emacs, this only happens in markdown-mode. How do I stop this ...

I am missing (or not aware) of a feature in ESS to run some R code on selected text. When editing a script, like df1 <- data.frame(a=1:100,b=rnorm(100)) I often want to see head(df1) in my ...

With quoted-insert (C-q) I can enter ‘Option-something’ extended characters, but Emacs apparently understands them as ISO 8859-1. Meanwhile, MacOS has its own layout for these characters (changed with ...

On a hires screen I find it really hard to see on which image the cursor currently is, because the rectangle around the image is very thin. Is it possible to increase the line width of that rectangle? ...

I read the docs (at bottom) but can't figure this out. I just started using "abbrev.el", and find that pressing space, tab, C-x ', C-x a ', C-x a e can cause the expansion to happen. what if I find ...

I am thinking of switching from tmux + terminal emacs (emacs -nw) to just pure emacs. The only thing that is holding me back is tmux offer switching between sessions without switching the terminal ...

When using ediff, I often get conflicts like this: <<<<<<< variant A added_function_1 () { ======= added_function_2 () { >>>>>>> variant B <<<<&...

I have recently set-up my personal mail(gmail) for use through emacs, notmuch and gmailieer. For sending mails, I am relying on the inbuilt smtp mail package and the Message mode. Earlier, when ...

I am having some trouble understanding how shell-command-on-region works. Sometimes the region is passed to command, sometimes not, as far as I can tell. Suppose I have an emacs buffer with "word" in ...

Exactly as title says, I attempt to open c/c++ files in any way, or event just enter c-mode/c++-mode in any buffer and my emacs freezes. I have basically no configuration that should affect it, my ...

When I do pulse-momentary-highlight-region, the highlight stays till I press any key. (I'm on macOS emacs -nw.) How can I make the pulse to go away after a short while?

I have two shortcuts defined like this ;; eval in shell (global-set-key (kbd "C-c x s") 'eir-eval-in-shell) ;; eval in ruby (global-set-key (kbd "C-c x r") 'eir-eval-in-ruby) which-key helps me ...

I have the symptoms described here Input and Output does not show up in python mode, except this happens with python3 as interpreter as well as ipython, and I've tried the suggestions there for fixing ...

I want to enable writeroom-mode whenever I startup org-mode because I don't really ever want writeroom-mode to be disabled if I'm using org-mode.

I want to programmatically check whether the current buffer is in org mode. I know that major modes should usually define the variable <modename>-mode, i.e., org-mode should be a defined ...

I haven't used emacs before, but would like to learn how to use it properly for Python development. From the past IDEs I have used I enjoyed the feature to obtain information on possible objects ...

Windows 10, Emacs 26.1, Dired+ (download from here https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/dired%2b.el) Open some directory: Here result: Why some text is strikethrough?

Apologies if my question is silly, it's my first day using abbrev expand. I have an abbrev set up like this "bm" 3 "bookmarks-acd1fe" When I press bm tab, I end up with bookmarks-...

I want to quickly embed images in an org document and am trying to use org-download to help me. However, due to a silly bug in Firefox, images are saved as .bmp files. The result is that org-...

I'm a very new Mac user and not really an Emacs user. I just use emacs to run PVS Specification and Verification System, by typing the pvs command in the terminal to start the software. Aquamacs was ...

I'm not sure, I think I recall prepping python wit some feature and trying to remove it then trying to remove Python itself somehow using the emacs editor? Oh heck, not long ago I never heard of an (...

One of my org capture templates (in my init.el) looks like the following: ("n" "Note" plain (file "/path/to/file.org") "* %^{Title} %U \n%? \n" :prepend t) I'd like ...

i'm trying to have the key TAB to: Indent my code (like in any other text editor) Trigger Yasnippet I have theses lines in my config: (global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'yas-expand) (global-set-key (kbd "...

This is (yet) another question related to electric-indent-mode and Python, but since I couldn't find what I address here in the other ones, here we go. I find the behavior of electric-indent-mode ...

I just tried to install ascii-art-to-unicode from the gnu repository (http://elpa.gnu.org/) via list-packages. I get the following error: package--check-signature: Failed to verify signature ...

What is the historical context of these two terms? Why are they distinct? And why are they needed? What pragmatic utility is there in knowing how these two terms differ? In terms of Emacs/Emacs Lisp, ...

I've been using org babel to execute ruby code, works well but wrapping blocks with begin_src/end_src is cumbersome no live output - i have to wait till the whole process finishes to see output ...

I got a problem for an advice-add inside Dired's copy function (dired-do-copy). My object is it to filter all marked files/directories in Dired, which should be copied to an other location within ...

I want to export an org tree to latex, but whenever I have a command that nests curly brackets, org export will automatically prepend all brackets with a backslash. For example, the tree: Exports to ...

I'm using vue-mode, based on mmm-mode with Emacs 27 nightly from 10/10/2019. Since that Emacs update, I don't get any indentation support in the script section of a Vue file. Try this file with emacs -...

Every time I export using the dispatcher, the pdf that is produced is letter size. My system and printer are A4. How do I change the paper size for pdf (and text) exports in emacs?

I am trying to go deeper with org mode to the literate coding stuff itself rather than merely for markup. I am writing a document where I'm solving some coding challenge, and part way through ...

I have a problem where I want to structure my document visually with a heading but do not want it to actually execute a \section{Fake Heading} for the latex export. I imagine this would be ...