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This is a newbie question. I'd like to have a red cursor with a width of 4. This code doesn't work: (setf cursor-type '(bar . 4)) (set-cursor-color "#FF0000") how can i correct this to ...

Suppose I have installed company-0.9.13, which other packages depend on (mostly third-party company completion backends). I unwisely edited company-mode's source code directly in the ~/.emacs.d/elpa/...

In org mode, I can customize the display of times like this: (setq org-display-custom-times t) (setq org-time-stamp-custom-formats '("<%Y-%m-%d %a>" . "<%Y-%m-%d %a %I:%M %p>...

Packages on my system are installed to ~/.config/emacs/elpa,although I assume it's possible to configure where packages are located. How can I programmatically find the file-path for a package name (...

Is it possible to show the emails of one person in mu4e-conversation view indented by a defined amount of whitespace/tabs to get a view similar to what you know from some messenger apps like whatsapp:

Consider an email like: Dear Ben, [Body] Best regards John If I read email in mu4e conversation mode I find the address (e.g. "Dear Ben," and the greetings "Best regards..." ...

For example, imagine I have two windows and three buffers. Both windows are displaying buffer 1 and I do the following, in window 1, switch to buffer 2; in window 2, switch to buffer 3, then to ...

This is just a general question in relation to emacs and it's specific use for ORG mode. I have always been miserable at planning and organization in daily life (keeping TODO list, general time ...

One of the nice things that MacOS allows one to do is to have applications with their own custom URL schemes. So, for example, the system automation tool hammerspoon defines its own url scheme to run ...

When using org-add-note (C-c C-z) in Org, I'm unable to automatically remove whitespace that is inserted when finalizing the note and the text is filed into the LOGBOOK drawer. global-whitespace-...

I'm trying to use Emacs to visualise very large UML diagrams created by PlantUML [1]. In PNG form these diagrams have over 20000x1300 - in fact, the reason why I moved from PNG to SVG for their ...

I am writing some lisp code and I would like it not to mess with the global variables in the system. I am therefore being very careful to only use variables within the scope of the let special form. ...

Escape is too far away on modern keyboards and Tab could be easily typed as Ctrl+i in terminal applications. So I found it convenient to replace them in my alacritty terminal key bindings. I am used ...

I don't understand how pull request are working. I want to merge a rcp in el-get so I made a pull request https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/pull/2825 but, until now, the code I unchanged. Is there ...

I am using following code from the elpy’s readthedocs. (defun elpy-goto-definition-or-rgrep () "Go to the definition of the symbol at point, if found. Otherwise, run `elpy-rgrep-symbol'." ...

I am working with python using Emacs 26.3. My goal is to jump to definition of the function and jump back, for that I am using https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump, which runs elpy-goto-definition ...

In my blockquotes in org-mode, the fontification does not pick up on italics. I have looked at this question and answer that says it was fixed several years ago, but my issue persists. I have tried ...

This is a function definition from expand-region.el, which does not accept new Issues. It looks at (), but not at [] or {}. How to change it to include other pairs too? (defun er/mark-method-call () ...

I would like to be able to go from this: <label for="exampleInputEmail1" class="form-label">Phone number</label> <input type="text" class="form-...

I have been experimenting with various completion frameworks in Emacs. I am currently using consult together with icomplete. I like the way things are working for me but I would like to disable ...

C-x C-b is normally bound to the list-buffers command. The resulting buffer has various columns, which are CRM, Buffer, Size, Mode, and File. When I can click on the Buffer column-header, it will ...

I use delete-by-moving-to-trash to move deleted files and folders into trash instead of deleting them. However, if the file or folder with the same name is already in Trash I get an error file already ...

I use org, smartparens and use-package altogether. Sometimes I need to delete a heading and its subheadings. Without smartparens package I use the C-k key and it allows me to delete the heading itself ...

I have migrated to emacs-Doom and wish to keep the emacs vanilla key-bindings. I also use emacs exclusively for org-mode I have amended the init.el file to remove the evil and removed any attributes ...

I use org-mode for my shopping lists and I would like to be able to remove all checked items in one action. i.e. [X] cotton buds [ ] cordial [X] milk [X] sugar In the list above remove all the lines ...

I am slowly getting used to emacs and have tinkered with my init.el in my ~.emacs.d/ directory. I now have the doom distribution of emacs and have it installed in a new ~.emacs2.d/ directory as .emacs....

I am trying to create an Emacs script that indents HTML files from the command line. This is what I have so far: #!/usr/bin/env -S emacs --script (require 'web-mode) (indent-region (point-min) (point-...

My goal is to color specific keywords as function definition such as log in Python-mode to a spefic color or color of functions. Example, pattern for log("...."): coloring only log. from ...

The docstring for quote says, Quoting should be reserved for constants that will never be modified by side-effects, unless you like self-modifying code. Are there cases in which it is the best ...

My setup: Emacs 27.1 under Ubuntu 20.04 from Kevin Kelley's PPA, and configured to use ligatures with the JetBrains Mono fonts, as described here. I experiencing Bug#45038 27.1; blank display, or ...

I have this kbd in my init.el (global-set-key (kbd "C-l") 'comint-clear-buffer) When I use Emacs-ess mode fro programming in R, I use this kbd to clear the R output buffer, this is usually ...

If one sets org-src-fontify-natively to t org source blocks are fontified according to the associated major-mode. That is fine. But, is it possible to emphasize text snippets within the source blocks, ...

The following screenshot shows Emacs 26.3 (GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.14) of 2020-03-26, modified by Debian) editing a Markdown file: Note that on some lines of ...

I am using doom emacs. But I want traditional emacs key binding. I've heard several people that emacs key binding becomes way of life and if somebody takes my key binding away, I cant express myself. ...

I have a large set of my own tags that I've added to org-tag-alist that I use liberally to tag headings throughout my org files. I would like to search throughout my org directory (recursively) on a ...

I have a bunch of recipes under different headline, and each have an ingredient list specified as a table. I would like to access that table as an list in a src block using the headline id, same as if ...

Many of my python files have an import section that looks like this: from datetime import datetime, timedelta from typing import Callable import numpy as np import pandas as pd I'd like to sort ...

One can type normal Roman numerals by using C-x 8 RET. For example, to type Ⅲ one use C-x 8 RET 2162 RET. Furthermore, one can type superscript numbers, English letters and Greek ones by using the TeX ...

I want to write a macro that makes a diffpdf before and after some changes in my LaTeX file (that would be compiled twice by pdflatex). I tried: (defmacro with-diffpdf-after-changes (&rest body) ...

In org-mode I use headings with different font sizes decreasing with the # in org-level-#. In the following Examples, the font size is in brackets and size 5 > size 4 etc. Example: * Heading lvl 1 ...

Following this response: Org-Mode - How do I create a new file with org-capture https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11902620/org-mode-how-do-i-create-a-new-file-with-org-capture? I am trying to make ...

Let's say my capture template is bound to 't': (defun my/captureTemplate () (interactive) (org-capture "r") This won't work as it will show me the whole list of potential templates to ...

Summary. Is there a way to get fully functional REPLs on Windows running in Emacs. I want to avoid the maintenance burden associated with comint. Long version. In many cases I dislike how the built-...

I'm facing a major issue with Tramp and Emacs 27.1 on a Mac (10.15.7), which makes it almost impossible to work on remote files ... As soon as I start to type a SSH or SCP based URL in the mini buffer ...

I have a lisp function which performs a transformation on a buffer. It's usually quick, but sometimes it's very slow when the buffer is big. I can see it's working, because it prints out its progress ...

How do I string together functions and actions in a key binding. Say I want to make a binding that does comment-dwim and then appends "TODO: " to achieve /* TODO: */ in C. (global-set-key (...

Context. I frequently use org-mode timers The org-mode clock (which just displays the clock in the org-mode mode-line) A custom "target time" clock, which shows a point in time (either a ...

I have this (setq org-agenda-files (directory-files-recursively "~/Dropbox/org/journal/" "\\.org$")) but I don't know where to place it in order to make sure that on the event of ...

Say that I have rect1 one and I'll multiply it 3 times by yanking. let rect1 = Rectangle { width: 10, height: 40, } let rect1 = Rectangle { width: 10, height: 40, } ...

Based on specific mode, by using a keybinding I want to add a TODO string that is preceded by an unique comment character. For example, (org-mode is exception since ** does not stands for comment and ...