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I'm writing a paper where TODO entries are mixed in along with the headings of the paper. I can look at all my TODO entries with C-c / t (or C-c / T for specific keywords). Is there a way to show all ...

In ESS mode, I sometimes send some code to the process buffer and want to cancel it using C-c C-c. Can I do this without actually switching to the process window from the script window?

I have buffer called *mydashboard* which is simply an org file. I want to set the left margin of this buffer to 20 chars. I am planning to use this as my dashboard where I can pin my links to other ...

I have just started using emacs and I wanted to setup RTags. Looking at the Usage section int the github repo here, I added the following line to my config (rtags-enable-standard-keybindings c-mode-...

When I hit C-x C-f to open the "Find file" thing, I can hit TAB to open up a buffer called *Completions* that lists the possible filenames with the given prefix. Sometimes I have a bunch of backup ...

I'm trying to set up mu4e with mbsync and two gmail accounts. The structure of my Maildir is as follows: ~/.mail |--> school_address |--> INBOX |--> Sent |--> Drafts |--> ...

I want to do something similar to hl-line-mode but not sure if it has been implemented already and how it can be implemented. The goal would be to set two color schemes for the #+begin and #+end ...

I found a vivid chalk color scheme here that I want to use with Aquamacs. After poking around, I discovered that Aquamacs stores its custom color schemes here: /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/...

We can export a tree (C-c C-e) to a specific folder and with a specific filename by using the drawer option: :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: /path/to/folder/filename Question: Is it possible to export the file ...

I'm using Emacs and I'm trying to set it up to get IDE features for mainstream programming languages. I mainly need some "project management features" (browse the files or a project, access to ...

So I can't get Auto-Complete to work for JavaScript. I've tried a variety of solutions but nothing seems to be working. Here is the relevant code snippet: ;; ;;adds js2-mode for javascript ...

Upon opening mu4e, I expect the *mu4e-main* buffer to appear in the list generated by M-x ibuffer. However, even after typing / /, i.e., M-x ibuffer-filter-disable, the *mu4e-main* buffer is not in ...

I have been using Emacs for one week, so all of it is really new for me. I saw that there are two types of commands in order to navigate in emacs : - Some "tabs" on the top - Commands like shortcuts ...

I am trying to include a ledger data file from an org-babel block. I am using Windows10 and the SciMax emacs distribution. #+begin_src ledger :cmdline bal :results output :exports results !include d:/...

I'm attempting to run the profile-dotemacs.el script from the command line using Powershell on Windows. Here's what I'm trying to run emacs -Q -l C:\users\tom\Downloads\profile-dotemacs.el --eval "(...

Just upgraded to Sierra, and if I try to copy or paste text, nothing goes through. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any way to debug the prolem? Apparently Sierra also broke copy/paste in ...

I'm trying to use the emacs Ebrowse tool. The issue I'm having is a great majority of the C++ files, from my BROWSE file, are showing up as (unknown) file type, resulting in me being unable to open ...

I want to show @ symbols (meaning dereference) in red in clojure-mode. How do I do that?

I have a working sexp for configuration vc-git-grep: (setq vc-git-grep-template "git --no-pager grep -n -i -e <R> -- <F>") Then in dired-mode I evaluate M-x vc-git-grep and everething ...

I generated a macro as a help for generating indices for words I have marked before. Now this macro looks as follows (fset 'index "\367\\index{\C-y") What does \367stand for and where can I look ...

I'm using spacemacs devel. I've added following private layer using M-x configuration-layer/create-layer (setq irony-packages '( company-irony company-irony-c-headers ...

How can I include a package that is available locally on my system that depends on the string library s with spacemacs? I have an company internal package that adds functionality to magit available ...

I am totally new to Emacs (I just began some days ago) and my purpose is to use it for Latex. I tried to install package auto-complete-auctex doing this : 1) I copy file auto-complete-auctex.el to ...

In an org-mode file: #+BEGIN_SRC haskell let x = "test" putStrLn x #+END_SRC yields: executing Haskell code block... if: ‘org-babel-script-escape’ expects a string

Test case: a.org * This is a big section I have some content here ** And a second level section And more content here *** And a third level section And more content here b.org ** I ...

For example, if I have too many registers and would like to get rid of some of them, is there a way to do that? I realize that quitting the emacs session will clear all registers, but is there a way ...

I work on a laptop most of the time and it happens somewhat often that while inserting some text (in evil mode) I will accidentally hit the touchpad with my thumb, changing the cursor position and ...

I make substantial use of prettify-symbols in my programming buffers. A snippet of some of my python symbols: (add-hook 'python-mode-hook (lambda () (mapc (lambda (pair) (push pair ...

I've set up excorporate mode so that I can use emacs to read my outlook calendar. However I am annoyed by having to input a username/password every time I open emacs. I tried a .netrc: machine ...

I want my neotree window not to extend all the way to the bottom as shown here. How is that possible? If I try to split it I get an error saying the side window can't be split.

I would like to programmatically call an ivy or counsel function and then immediately execute ivy-occur to get the ivy-occur buffer. Example: Instead of doing M-x counsel-describe-function and C-c C-...

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....

I've setup lsp-mode and clangd, and put the compile-commands.json in the projects root. I can tell compile-commands.json because my cflags are included in the Updating file output of *clangd::stderr* ...

So basically, for reasons unknown we don't use regular LaTeX style quotes at my company, instead just using regular double quotes. However, tex-mode in emacs automatically substitutes the " key for ``'...

The manual says: C-x C-w (org-agenda-write) Write the agenda view to a file. [...] only the body of original headlines are exported, not subtrees or inherited tags. How to export ...

Here is my zsh code function eweb() { emacsclient -t --eval "(eww-open-file \"$1\")" "(save-buffer \"$2\")" } There are two parameters, the first is the local webpage filename, for example, ./1....

certainly something I misunderstand, but I cannot find an answer. When I search in an org-mode file (with C-s) and find a result in a headline, if I press TAB to expand the headline where I found ...

Currently using Emacs on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). I have this alias for emacsclient executable: alias e='emacsclient -n' Which I run very often when I am on the terminal (I use ConEmu or ...

I am currently using Aquamacs 3.4, Emacs 25.3.50.1, and Org mode 9.2.5 and I typically have my frame split vertically into 2 windows. Each window carries 2+ different buffers whose names are in the ...

SCHEDULED or DEADLINE TODO items with active timestamps correctly appear in my Agenda View (day/week/fortnight) under Org 9.0.4. After making a timestamp inactive, such entries do not appear in the ...

In org-mode I usually create several notes with timestamps under a headline, for example: * idea [2018-09-26 Wed 09:39] \\ General description of idea. ** idea development [2018-09-26 Wed 09:...

Is there an option to exclude certain directories from a mu4e search without stating this explicitly in the search string? For example, could I have date:today exclude /archive so long as the ...

In my .emacs file I have bound the tab-key to a function called smart-tab. (global-set-key [(tab)] 'smart-tab) (defun smart-tab () "This smart tab is minibuffer compliant: it acts as usual in ...

How do I get mu4e to handle xdg-open mailto:foo@bar? I couldn't even find a function taking an address as an argument that will open a composition buffer.

How can I have org #+INCLUDE: ignore configurations from the included files? I'm thinking of cases where I don't want Latex Classes to be messed up. For example, if I have two org files book.org and ...

I have a key sequence for M-<SPC>: (global-set-key (kbd "M-<SPC> a") 'foobar) I would like to increase the timeout between keystrokes M and <SPC> for building M-<SPC>. How ...

When using magit on a local file, I stage my changes and I then press c and c again to commit. I get a new window showing the diff and a window for the commit message. I write my commit message press ...

I have a Symfony project (PHP language). Usually, I ignore folder vendor because it is kind of a library folder, and will be pulled by composer install. The problem is: sometimes, I want to search for ...

Recently my Emacs/Python setup stopped working as it had done previously without any problem. I have the following defining where my virtual environments are in my init files... (setq venv-location (...

I'm new with Emacs and come from Joe. There I started editing mail from the command line by joe -rmargin 60 because I don't want to generally set the right margin to 60. I can't find a similar ...