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Say I want to create and edit a new R file using emacs/ESS. I type emacs myfile.R at my shell prompt and an empty file opens. Hurray! I start typing my code: library(da at which point I am interrupted ...

When in the "calendar", typing "d", which runs (diary-view-entries), gives me an error Symbols-function-definition is void: "appt-make-list". It shows the (one) entry for ...

I am writing a report in latex, many of which contain code blocks which will be rendered with asymptote. Since all the scripts will be tangled into the same subdirectory asyscripts, I don't want to ...

Hej guys, I get an error when searching through my mails with helm-mu. Messages gives Invalid face reference: helm-grep-finish [96 times] error in process filter: helm-mu-candidate-parser: End of ...

There are buffers that prevent you from being able to execute interactive commands (by overriding the default M-x binding). For example, *ansi-term* buffer would do this. (I know you can do C-cM-x to ...

Explaining the problem more in-depth than the titular definition: Often I merge branches into master and want to prune based on that. M-p works fantastic for removing the remote branches (eg origin/...

I have two links in my org buffer: [file://tmp/foo.pdf] [file://tmp/bar.pdf] Hitting enter on [file://tmp/foo.pdf] opens the pdf in the same frame (using pdf-tools / ..Running /usr/bin/xdg-open..). I ...

Unfortunately, I'm stuck on Windows. I have a network folder under this PC. Is there a way to navigate into it with dired without mounting it as another drive?

I'm getting the "no more undo" message all too often, even I made changes that should be there in the history. This is seriously breaking my workflow. This is my .emacs https://github.com/skrat/dots/...

I try to read email and mail list with Gnus on different computer. I am able to sync the configure files through Dropbox and it works fine. But I don't know how to sync the read history. I am always ...

I'm having an issue when using (org-global-cycle) from a subheading followed by (org-cycle). For example in the following org file: * Level 1 Heading 1 ** Level 2 Heading 1 ** Level 2 Heading 2 *** ...

What would prevent org-anniversary entries from appearing in the Agenda? Entries such as: %%(org-anniversary 2015 01 01) New Year's Day fail to show in the Agenda. I have toggled org-agenda-include-...

I have an org file which looks like this: * Chores #:PROPERTIES: #:VISIBILTY: showall #:END: # STARTUP: showeverything # no + so this does nothing right now ** NEXT Brush Teeth in Day SCHEDULED: &...

I modified org-show-context-detail to minimal. Which for org-match-sparse-tree means 'show current headline, and entry below if needed' (if needed means the entry will only be shown if point is within ...

I tried out this section of code from this repo #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \usepackage{svg} ... #+PROPERTY: header-args :eval never-export :file-ext svg ... #+NAME: sequence12422 #+BEGIN_SRC plantuml :...

I want to implement a certain time-management system in emacs/org-mode. For each project, I intend to have one .org file which includes all associated to-dos. I already created those. Now, I would ...

I am using emacs27 with macOS, installed with brew cask install emacs command. After updated my emacs version from 26 to 27, company-mode stop working when I edit my rust code with rust-analyzer back ...

the image is self explanatory, I recently switched to doom emacs and I'm still learning. How can I fix this problem? I tried to switch off anything related to checkers in the init.el file but it doesn'...

I like to keep my configuration as self-contained as possible, and I'm wondering whether there's a way to manage eshell aliases in my .emacs file. Is it possible to set up aliases with a function call ...

I am using Spacemacs. So I have a Neotree pan that I open with Spc-f-t and that works fine. Then I can navigate down the tree to open a file with l and that will move the cursor from the Neotree pane ...

I have tried using Time-stamp: <>, but it only worked once, in one file??? My .emacs file is: (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you ...

So I am trying to create a Data Science workflow using org-mode source-blocks. Basically, I need to emulate the jupyter notebook functionality where you create a plot and it shows the figure. Now, ...

I'm using Classic Console font in buffers. Unfortunately for some reason letter spacing is terrible in Emacs while being correct in Konsole and other programs. Text in Emacs: Text in Konsole (using ...

I am trying to write a custom org-capture template, but I get an error if I try to use the %\N functionality to insert the N-th prompt. The relevant excerpt of my org-capture-templates variable is (&...

I'm getting mixed results with xref-js2 and want to confirm if what I'm seeing is expected or not. I'm using Emacs 27, and I have the following config: (require 'ripgrep) (require 'js2-mode) (add-to-...

Is there an easy way to time how long it takes to execute source code blocks in org-mode (maybe with header arguments or similar), if so, how? Or do I have to implement it in the code itself? I'm ...

Something I like in Emacs is positioning the cursor after the closing brace/paren highlights the opening brace/paren. Even better, like in Emacs-Lisp mode, the opening ( line is displayed in the ...

I've been using Python command 'conda' in the terminal on my Mac. But when I run a command like 'conda activate ...' in Emacs's shell (M-x shell), it gives me this objection: CommandNotFoundError: ...

I want to export an Org file into PDF, with any depth titles showed in TOC; however, cannot works. Even though adding \setcounter{tocdepth}{5}, TOC still only contains the title of 3rd depth (\...

I have a function (defun bad-fn () (interactive) (split-window-right) (windmove-right) ) If I go to a frame with just one window visiting EXWM buffer A (and buffer B is next), and call split-...

Before I installed org-roam I saw a screenshot or a video somewhere in which the tags of an org-roam note looked like links. I was under the impression that org-roam allows you to see all notes of a ...

My javascript mode indents with a mix of tabs and spaces. I'm ok with the mix if spaces are used for cosmetic alignment, but this is just wrong: First level of indentation is spaces, second is tab, ...

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 ...

While there are org-templates creating entire bullet points with content, what I am looking for is a simple user query (similar to read-string) where the user can use a pre-defined list of words/...

Is there a way to get emacs with 256 colors in FbTerm? I've seen some old posts on the topic but I haven't seen any confirmation that it will work. EDIT: If I start FbTerm with this command: ...

In a ruby/rails project, the "standard" way to run "the test suite" is rake # alias for rake test Some projects will mention (when there's a deviation)how to run tests in their README. How do you ...

The context I'm storing all my custom defined yasnippet snippets in an Org file (see below) $ cat ~/.emacs.d/snippets/snippets.org #+PROPERTY: header-args:yasnippet :mkdirp yes #+begin_src yasnippet :...

I would like to write a function that would prompt the user to select a directory, using an UI like that presented by counsel-find-file. The starting directory should be an arbitrary directory passed ...

It's been really frustrating trying to get spacemacs to work so far. I've grown to really love it - coming from vim - for its capabilities in manipulating and navigating text, but it's just been so ...

Update, Emacs 28 supports f-stings Python 3.6 supports F strings, eg: So: print(f'Test {} me!'.format(2 + 2)) Can be written as: print(f'Test {2 + 2} me!') Which print's Test 4 me, Is there a way ...

I use the same .custom file on different machines syncronised via a git repo. I just noticed that suddenly the .custom file from one machine uses the (quote syntax while in the past the ' syntax was ...

When I archive a repeated task (let's say, a learning project of 15 minutes every Wednesday day for 2 month), the task gets archived in a date tree all under the day it was closed (cancelled) as a ...

I want to open a new file in a different directory than the current one. Pressing C-x C-f -> I could enter a file name. But I don't. Pressing RET The directory listing (mode (dired by name)) comes ...

No matter in which mode I am currently in, is there a general way / key combination to open the help file related to the currently active mode?

I find the default prefix for smerge-mode C-c^ and I have following setup: (setq smerge-command-prefix "\C-cv") (setq smerge-command-prefix "\C-c\C-v") Also C-c ^ runs the command ...

Context I'm using org-babel-tangle to generate my configuration from an Org file config.org. Recently, I did some clean-up by dispatching config.org to multiple Org files config/*.org; replace the ...

I have a bookmark in one of my org files (set using the usual emacs bookmarks), but I'm finding that when I try to jump to the bookmark (with the usual C-x r b, which invokes bookmark-jump), it doesn'...

I've been playing around with Emacs for the first time this week, and I've been having some issues with the color scheme. This post was prompted by getting some weird when using helm. I've also ...

Adding layers existing in the layer section of the .spacemacs documentation results in failed test in the dot-test-results buffer generated after reloading the .spacemacs file (with SPC-f-e-R). ...

I'm trying a new (to me) remote desktop tool AnyDesk (v.5.5.4). I'm attaching to Ubuntu18 system at work from a Ubuntu19 system at home. When I resize an emacs frame with the mouse, the menu bar, ...