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I am experimenting with Bookmark+ and would like to be able to navigate to a bookmark using a similar workflow to that which I currently use to navigate bookmarks. For example, previously in order to ...

I have a shell command I'm running from Emacs that has a Δ character in its output. How can I configure the *Shell Command Output* buffer to display UTF-8 by default? edit: There could also be ...

When Emacs shows an integer value in the minibuffer, or as an output to IELM, it shows three representations of it -- octal, hex and as character: ELISP> 10 10 (#o12, #xa, ?\C-j) This is really ...

I use inferior shells (initiated with M-x shell) extensively. If the current buffer is one such inferior shell, and within this shell I invoke the pushd command (with or without an argument), a space-...

Suppose I have the following line double dx = r1 < 1 ? sqrt(r1) - 1 : 1 - sqrt(2 - r1); I press enter and tab at the colon causing Emacs to align like this: double dx = r1 < 1 ? sqrt(r1) - 1 ...

My Emacs's python-indent-offset is fixed at 2, even though I have the below code in my init.el to set it to 4. I used C-h v to describe the variable, it says its value is 2 and default is 4. I removed ...

I need to check numbers in a buffer each on a line against an external paper sheet To make this easier I would like to make the window very narrow to see only one (or max. two) lines. However shrink-...

I have a system that I am not allowed permissions to install software but need to copy text from the remote server to the host computer's system clipboard. Because I can't install xclip or xsel and I ...

I recently switched to evil mode and cannot figure out how to archive all marked entries at once. The way I did it earlier, when I was in a list seeing the candidate entries for archiving I pressed * ...

It used to work in DuckDuckGo with the following code in my dot-emacs: (require 'w3m-search) (setq w3m-search-default-engine "DuckDuck Go") (add-to-list 'w3m-search-engine-alist '("...

My config file has the following funkiness: I have the line (setq org-agenda-files '("~/org/tktodos.org" )) followed by the line (org-agenda nil "a"). When my org file loads, I can ...

Using spacemacs with the ocaml layer and I get the following error when I edit a source file: Error from syntax checker ocaml-merlin: Searching for program: No such file or directory, alias: Expected ...

I was using following answer: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/57535/18414 to set markdown on the .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG file. (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/\\.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG\\'...

I'm just starting with Emacs and Org-roam and I'm using the standard Gnu-Emacs. When I open my files (.org) through the OPEN button in the graphical interface, all the backlinks apear in the org-roam ...

I don't know the proper explaination for this so I could not find the answer. I have tried to integrate electric-pair and smart-quotes. It works pretty nice but in some cases it does not do the things ...

I know about kill-matching-buffers but that searches buffer names, I want instead to search buffer modes. For example, I might want to kill all buffers that have "notmuch-" or "[Notmuch]...

I'm watching doom emacs multi cursor tutorial on youtube. According to tutor, when the press R (i.e., Shift - r) after selecting the word M-d it should select all the occurrences of the selection. But ...

I use Emacs and mu4e for email. I set up multiple accounts as in the manual. I also included this snippet from here to send deleted messages to a folder instead of deleting them permanently: (add-to-...

I don't like the swiper behavior when interactively defining a macro, it is slow and seems to cause other problems. How can I revert bound keys to isearch-forward and isearch-backward when defining ...

Sometimes just pressing keys until one does what I want works, but this feels rather unelegant. Is there an easier way of finding out what keys do what?

I found this link About fractional verticle scrolling for emacs. However there was not any explanation about how to configure this for scrolling of normal files. How do I configure a fractional scroll ...

I am trying to configure safe-local-variable-values in my init.el so that all string values for projectile-project-name in any .dir-locals.el file are considered safe. (custom-set-variables '(safe-...

I'm using Spacemacs, and my org-mode file contains an org-babel block of Makefile code, which I want to "tangle" so it becomes part of the source code while remaining in sync with the ...

In the minibuffer for Icicles when I press C-p or C-n the minibuffer says beginning of the buffer, end of the buffer respectively. Instead want to move around the found candidate using C-p and C-n ...

I have the following in my config: ;; set a non programming font for text (when (member "Lucida Sans Unicode" (font-family-list)) (set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :font "...

My e-mail client is mu4e. I can easily create links to org-mode files via org-mu4e-store-and-capture, as described here https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Org_002dmode-links.html, for instance. ...

emacsWiki/IbufferMode Hide certain buffers Here’s how to hide all buffers starting with an asterisk. (add-to-list 'ibuffer-never-show-regexps "^\\*") But when I added into my init file I ...

On icy-mode is enabled, I keep getting following error while I am typing, which makes it very difficult to type: Cannot decrease the defualt face height more than it already. Example case: M-x => ...

When running emacs as emacs -nw -q and opening an org-file, insertion of headings goes as follows (X represents the cursor): * Heading 1 * Heading 2 X When running org-meta-return here, the next ...

I have currently a very simple custom agenda view, which displays a daily view, important tasks (those tasks with priority A), and pending tasks (those tasks whose todo keyword is WAITING). I would ...

I use Emacs and mu4e to send mail. I have a mail server with Amazon WorkMail and I set up the information at ~/.authinfo.gpg. Two domains are in the same region and have the same SMTP server with ...

I use Emacs and mu4e for email. I successfully set up Amazon WorkMail IMAP with Emacs and mu4e as a second account. My first account works with TLS: (setq ; ... smtpmail-smtp-server &...

I have C comments like this: /****************************************************************************** * Includes * ***********...

I have a buffer (belonging to ein mode that got into a bad state) that throws an elisp error every time I try to kill it (using ibuffer, M-x kill-this-buffer, etc.) Backtrace suggests that the buffer ...

For example in gdb mode, there is a buffer named *input/output of <program name>*, that I want to clear each time I press C-c l.

I want to capture a journal entry several times a day. Here was my initial solution: (setq org-capture-templates '(("w" "Weekly" item (file+olp+...

I found in elfeed-db.el code: (defcustom elfeed-db-directory "~/.elfeed" "Directory where elfeed will store its database." :group 'elfeed :type 'directory) but I don't know ...

When I start Emacs on OSX (installed via "brew cask install emacs"), I see the "U" for UTF-8 encoding in the mode line for a fraction of a second, then it changes automatically to ...

I want to set keybinding for C-c C-n rather than C-c n. Is it possible? (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-s") 'func) ;; Works (global-set-key (kbd "C-c n") 'func) ;; Works (global-set-...

Here is an example of a copy of the output of the magit log output with -s with the actual names omitted. (The ESC character precedes each of the [31 and [32 sequences in the following example in the ...

If I have the following org file: #+TITLE: Foo & Bar This is all about foo and bar. * Foo ... * Bar ... when I org-publish to html, I'll get something like the following in the content ...

I'm a bit new to emacs and I'm trying to play with the idea of publishing some notes in org-mode as a blog. I've been reading the manual and writing the publish.el file. I understand I need to set the ...

Every time I search for something with swiper, it switches input method to the default one. Is there a way to preserve selected input method for swiper-isearch?

#!/usr/bin/clisp (write-line "Hello World") If I put this in a script it prints Hello World as expected. What I'm wondering is there a way to use emacs-nox instead of clisp in the shebang ...

I just deleted magit, but it doesn't reappear in the list as available. I typed g and r, restarted emacs, to no effect. It's not hidden. I use C-s to search for it in the buffer. Supposedly its ...

I have to deal with long integers frequently, typically 9+ digits, and all of the digits matter (so scientific notation doesn't help me. Is there a minor mode that helps make it easier to visually ...

Ie, suppose I press M-x org-agenda and ivy says there's 131 matches, of which I recognize maybe 10. It'd be useful to say, after a .2 second delay, display a tooltip for the function at point. Is ...

Recently I found my emacs, which I run as a daemon, in a blocked state. It would not react to any command. Not C-g, not cursor movements, nothing that I could think of. Then I realized, that I had ...

I had a task in my org file for which I wanted to keep track of the number of times a task is marked as DONE when it's recurring. I am logging my change to the drawer and thus it should be possible to ...

I am following answer for Using Emacs to recursively find and replace in text files not already open My setup: (defun my-find-files () (interactive) (find-dired "~/folder" "-name \\*...