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I am trying to use Emacs 25.1.1 (graphical version, Windows 10) as both the primary editor and the editor for git operations. In my workflow, I invoke git through M-x shell-command. I tried the ...

Sometimes I run into a problem with Emacs that goes away if invoke Emacs with the --no-init-flag. In other word, I can deduce that the problem in question is caused by code somewhere in my .emacs file....

In markdown I can do following: code-sample inside a quote. Example: > `code_sample` output, which has white font color: How can I do similar behavior in org-mode, where keeping the code-sample's ...

I am following System Crafters series on Emacs from Scratch on YouTube. With my configuration as I have set it up, Ivy doesn't appear in nice left-justified easy-to-read columns. I am trying to figure ...

I'd like to autoformat my python code from the buffer that contains it with a key. I was looking at this tutorial. One can autoformat the code from the terminal with the command: autopep8 --in-place --...

I use hs-minor-mode currently. When point is on class Foo... a M-x hs-hide-level will fold all methods of that class. This is exactly the state I need for all *.py files when I open them. Is it ...

I defined a custom face (defface my-face '((t . (:background "green"))) "text") that I want to use for font-lock syntax highlighting. (defvar my-font-lock-keywords `( ("^\...

Using the org export > latex > pdf workflow, I am wondering if it is possible to include a table of contents or outline embedded in the pdf, without necessarily printing it in the file itself? ...

I have just installed Emacs 27.9 on a new Mac running Monterey 12.0.1 (using https://emacsformacosx.com) I then installed org-ref by putting the following lines in my .emacs: (add-to-list 'load-path &...

If I set alternate_editor to an empty string, emacsclient runs "emacs --daemon" and then tries to reconnect. However, I want to run it a specific emacs executable that is not in my path. If ...

When I open a link in Emacs Orgmode to a *.txt or *.org file, the files are opened in a new Emacs buffer. However, I have a self-created set of plain-text *.jot files. If I open an otherwise ...

So I have a long papers.bib bibtex file that I edit with emacs (spacemacs bibtex layer), but the syntax highlighting only ever goes about halfway down. Here it is at about line 790: Other times this ...

If I am on top of a URL and pressed cmd+ret (cmd+m), it opens the link on my default browser. I just want to have default behavior of cmd+m, which is new-line. Is it possible to prevent this while ...

I have a function that gets called when idle, but I would like it to run only when a frame has input focus. My current work around is to use focus-in-hook and focus-out-hook to change the behavior ...

In org-mode documents, I very often add drawer properties to hyperlinks. To illustrate, here is an example with various data attached to a GitHub repository link: * https://github.com/caddyserver/...

I know that M-RET creates a \item in emacs (latex mode) even if there is no \begin{itemize} \end{itemize} around. In the case we are not within such environment I am wondering if it is possible to ...

If I installed the correct mode and create a block like this. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE k8s ... #+END_EXAMPLE I got correct syntax highlighting in the example block, but no syntax formatting. If I enter edit ...

I'm new to emacs and AUCTeX and I'm having a problem with document preview (C-c C-p C-d). My LaTeX file is the following \documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{report} \usepackage{cite} \begin{document} \...

My intention is to write Arabic document using org-mode. Please consider the following MWE, given that my configuration in init.el has below code to enable writing of Arabic script from right to left (...

When I open the Easy Customization in Emacs, I want to be in normal mode instead of emacs mode. Is that possible?

I'm using outorg to convert an elisp file to an org file and then back to an elisp file via (outorg-convert-to-org) and (outorg-convert-back-to-code). When I do this conversion I notice that it looks ...

I recently added a config entry to my ./doom.d/config.el to enable Firefox as a default browser for opening links. Below is the entry I added based on this post. ;; Set specific browser to open links ...

I have this text 1 A 2 B 3 C I want to remove the first column to make it A B C Ok so I need to make a rectangle. Reading about rectangles I see "To specify a rectangle for a command to work on,...

The accepted answer to this question says: When the function is invoked, it can test the current mode and do something appropriate. For example, for some modes, or all modes except some modes, it can ...

I want to use a macro to define variables. However, evaluating the macro does not define these vars. I seem to be missing something, but I can't find it. Here's the code: (defmacro delve--build-cmp (...

I've recently switched to doom emacs, and for the most part it's working great. However, when I'm looking at a folder in dired-mode, if I copy a file using C the file is copied but *Messages* contains ...

I want to find the max element in a list of numbers. (setq l (list 1 2 3 4 5)) What is an easy way to call the max function on l? So far I have this but this seems convoluted: (eval `(max ,@l)) It ...

Executing the following code should create, for each top level tree in your file ~/tmp/file.org, an other file in ~/tmp named after the tree heading and containing its content. Problem: it does not ...

I've perused a few of the org-mode html-export keybinding shortcuts, i.e., ways to just have one key do, e.g., the entire long-winded C-c C-e h o. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be one fell ...

When I load my custom major mode, Emacs reports an error in the minibuffer about unescaped character literals, but it doesn't say where. I cannot even copy the error message here, since it disappears ...

reftex-citep does not suggest any possible completions, even though the variable reftex-default-bibliography is set to the correct bibtex file. What else do I need to do to get reftex to detect the ...

I am using [[LINK][DESCRIPTION]] format to define hyperlinks in org-mode. Org recognizes plain URIs, possibly wrapped within angle brackets, and activate them as clickable links. The general link ...

I have GNU Emacs 27.2 on MacOS 11.6. I have MacTex 2021 installed. I have a simple Latex equation in between $ and $. When I do C-C C-X C-L (Latex preview) I get this message: Creating LaTeX preview.....

Let's say I have the following contact in my org-contacts org file : * John Doe :PROPERTIES: :EMAIL: john.doe@gmail.com :PHONE: +44 20 7630 2400 :COMPANY: Ubuntu :NOTE: :END: How ...

I'm loading a deftheme theme using (load-theme). I'm very happy with it most cases, but in yaml-mode I'd like to change attributes for font-lock-variable-name-face. How can I make the theme use ...

I am just starting to explore the LSP configuration options. But i am facing very annoying problem with lsp-ui-sideline. I like the options that it provides but hate that it shows up right next to my ...

I would like to left-align equations in Auctex's preview's generated by preview-latex. I imagine that this would involve putting fleqn in the documentclass options in whatever latex file things are ...

My elpy package tells me that it can not find the command "flake8" on a Windows 10 machine. Ok, it make a bit sense to me. By default there is no flake8 on Windows 10 installed. I was not ...

I have several [[elisp:org-todo-list][todo list]] links in my Org documents. When I use C-c C-o (org-open-at-point), Org mode asks me whether I really want to open that link. While this is good ...

When doing an org-roam-node-find, using Ivy as my completion system, I get in the minibuffer the name of the nodes, and on the far right the filetags for those nodes. But for some of them the tags get ...

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-<...

I have a Dockerfile with several errors or warnings, but emacs doesn't display any of them. This worked a good while (two years? maybe...) ago. flycheck-mode is active. I see the errors when I run ...

I find the instruction from enter link description here as given below \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{glossaries} \makeglossaries \newglossaryentry{latex} { ...

I have been using rtags as my primary C++ mode, but I found that it's performance is not satisfying for large code bases e.g. Linux kernel. It takes more than 5 seconds to find definitions. This it ...

Question How do I immediately save the .org buffer created by org-archive-location? Context and what I've tried so far Current .emacs settings: FILE: .emacs (setq org-archive-location (concat "~/...

I'm pretty new to emacs and giving it a shot because it seems to be much better integrated with the OCaml tool chain than any other editor. Since OCaml uses a lot of symbols, I want to enable ligature ...

Trying to set preferred columns in ORG column mode. this works perfectly if I put it on head of the file: #+COLUMNS: %45ITEM %TAGS %PRIORITY %TODO %CLOSED %SCHEDULED But I avoid to repeat it for ...

I set up the Org mode consistency graph of habits following the manual. Each habit is, e.g.: ** TODO some habit SCHEDULED: <2019-12-22 Sun 07:20 ++1d> :PROPERTIES: :STYLE: habit :LAST_REPEAT: [...

I'd like to set allowed property values at the top of an org-mode cheatsheet i'm working on. Only two allowed values so far for the CATEGORY property. I'm getting the same "Allowed values for ...

Is it possible to exclude the tilde ~ from being interpreted as emphasis-marker in Org-Mode in general? Meaning not being escaped but being normal interpreted as simple Text? Emphasis-and-Monospace, ...