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Using Gnus + Gmail with Oauth2
I'm looking to use gmail with gnus, however my work has disabled app passwords, so the only way to connect to gmail is through oauth2 which is how I've done it with for example aerc mail.
I'm trying ...
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How to tell tramp to not ask me about autosave on local directory?
Sometimes, when I edit a file with tramp, it asks me:
"Autosave file on local temporary directory, do you want to continue?(yes or no)"
I want to continue in any case. How can I disable this ...
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How do I interpolate elisp variables in org-mode option headers?
I want to achieve something like this:
#+latex_header: \input{${PUT_SOME_ELISP_VALUE_HERE}night_beamer_common1.tex}
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Third-party function overrides my customized variable and my mode hook
In the spacemace python layer, the following function overrides my customizations for the variable company-minimum-prefix-length
python layer
(defun python/post-init-company ()
;; backend specific
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Make "M-x repeat" Ignore Movement Commands
Is there a standard way to make M-x repeat ignore movement commands or does it require custom elisp?
I read a [Mastering Emacs blog post about repeating commands][1] and immediately started using &...
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Strange behaviour involving `display` property
I noticed a rather peculiar behavior when using the display property (using emacs 28.2). I tried to boil things down to a minimal example: The code
(defun finsert ()
(insert (propertize ".&...
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set the correct major mode for script files based on interpreter
I want to make a function that will set the correct major mode based on the interpreter used for a script.
I don't want to include extensions in my scripts (because that can be annoying if making cli ...
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List Adaptive Fill Keeps Growing for Lists in Olivetti Mode
I'm having trouble with my org lists. They seem to have an ever increasing amount of adaptive-fill as I nest them deeper and deeper.
A picture of the problem is below. These are all single lines in ...
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Enable citation in doom emacs org-mode
I am unable to make citations work in my doom emacs installation, from the manual it is not clear which changes I need to add to the config.
What I want:
#+bibliography: notebook.bib
This is text with ...
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In Org mode, what is the priority order for a file's initial visibility?
Three things control an Org mode file's Initial Visibility: a heading's VISIBILITY property, the file's #+STARTUP: line, and the org-startup-folded variable.
In terms of priority, I've always assumed ...
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Warning: Lisp directory '~/.emacs.d/site-lisp': No such file or directory
I set the environment variable EMACSLOADPATH to change Emacs load-path this way:
mkdir ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/
export EMACSLOADPATH="$(
emacs \
-Q --batch \
--eval '(princ user-emacs-...
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Splitting use-package declarations in literate config
Trying to clean up my configuration and make it more readable, but also
reduce load time from current time of about 13 seconds down to < 10.
Suppose I have a large use-package macro for a package ...
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Question on modifying Helm's search (helm-ag or similar tools)
I'd like to do the following when I search
- find symbol in a project
- add restrictions (options)
- to narrow to files that matches a pattern (--include)
- to narrow to files that doesn't ...
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How to Stop Mouse Click in Echo Area from Opening Message Buffer?
Clicking the echo area causes Emacs to switch to the *Messages* buffer.
I hate this behavior, because the only time I click the echo area is on accident, whereupon it wastes time and breaks train of ...
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let* equivalent for interactive
I'd like to call a series of completing-read prompts via interactive, where every prompt after the first takes the previous result as its only argument.
(defun make-prompt ()
(completing-read "...
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keybinding which will respect minor mode override
I am trying evil mode and want to keep emacs's C-k when in insert mode.
C-k is kill-line
but when smartparens-mode is on, it's
sp-kill-hybrid-sexp
So I can't just bind C-k to kill-line in evil-insert-...
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evil, end of line in elisp mode, is hard to execute eval-last-sexp
(setq a "3")
If I want to evaluate the line, I'd go to the end of line and do (eval-last-sexp)
But in evil mode, the last sexp is "3" not the expression.
I can go to the next line ...
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Push to GitHub via Magit retrieves error: "error in process sentinel: Symbol’s function definition is void: compat-assoc" but works. How to fix it?
I am using Magit in my Emacs. This is my config file.
I have been using this package for a long time without issues. Recently, some weird error messages started to appear. After pressing to push a ...
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replace nth-match of a regexp in a string
I'm looking for a function that can replace the nth-match in a string.
Here's an example. 2 is the index of the nth-match, [0-9]+ is the regular expression to search. foo is the replacement and "...
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perl-mode brace indentation
How can I get perl-mode to indent:
func({
foo => 'bar',
});
as
func({
foo => 'bar',
});
without switching to cperl-mode?
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language specific tree-sitter major mode wont show up
I'm using GNU Emacs 29.1 and have installed the tree-sitter haskell grammar: libtree-sitter-haskell.so via treesit-install-language-grammar but somehow haskell-ts-mode wont show up as a major mode ...
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make smartparens not to override python bindings
with smartparens turned on, C-M-a becomes sp-backward-down-sexp
I think python-mode's beginning-of-defun is more useful.
How I can setup so that
python-mode's keybinding is not overriden by ...
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why does emacs open an empty buffer named "BLANK" on startup?
When I start emacs, it opens an empty buffer named BLANK. I have no idea where this comes from and would like to not have it there, since there's nothing in it and it clutters up the buffer list.
I do ...
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Creating custom minor mode with keybindings
I've written my first custom elisp function for dealing with the output from grep.
(defun open-at-grep ()
(interactive)
(let ((thisline (buffer-substring-no-properties (line-beginning-position) (...
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Flyspell and/or ispell + hunspell: Quirk for contraction words (shouldn't, isn't etc. getting flagged)
When setting up my spell-checking with flyspell and hunspell, contractions such as shouldn't and isn't are getting flagged:
I believe it's not (entirely) the dictionary's issue (en_GB) as when I type ...
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remove (sub)item from menu-bar
Any way to remove an item from menu bar quickly/easily?
For example, I want to remove About GNU:
It's a little annoying to dive into the value of keymap.
Moreover, you need to know the keymap name ...
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How to make `electric-pair-mode` always generate matching delimiters &parens in html/sgml/mhtml modes?
When I type a single {, it will auto insert right }
But when I type a { again, it won't auto insert right }
How can I set up electric-pair-mode so that it always generates matching delimiters and ...
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consult.el: annotation of abbrev symbols in completion buffer not working as expected
I have created a bunch of abbreviations for long account names in beancount-mode. The abbrevs are pretty volatile in my short term memory, so I thought of using consult--read to help display the ...
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smartparens, remove wrapping parens and contents
How can I go from
((equal arg '(4))
(setq current-prefix-arg nil)
(spacemacs/helm-files-smart-do-search)
)
to here
(setq current-prefix-arg nil)
(spacemacs/...
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smartparens, how to copy unbalanced () code blocks?
(defun ek/search-set-directory ()
....
)
Suppose I copy the first line which is not balanced,
then smartparen won't allow me to add ).
I can add it by using C-q )
Wonder if there's a better ...
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How to get `comint` modes work with long lines?
When I paste a long (not that long) line in inferior-python-mode, the buffer sucks. For example,
"[{\"inputs\":[{\"internalType\":\"contract I_StarkwareContract\",\&...
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prevent emacs deleting ")"
I don't want to turn off entire smartparens or similar mode
((([cursor]))
When I type ) at cursor location I expect it to be
((()))
but it becomes
((())
How to find out which mode is causing it?
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Exporting disjoint parts of Org document with marks
I am interested in exporting disjoint sections of my Org document via setting marks, as I find them most convenient. I am aware of the :export and :noexport tags, but seeing as how I have to ...
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Auto completion popup opens with zero character match in Inferior Python mode (comint repl)
When I enter an IPython repl via python-start-or-switch-repl, I get annoying auto completion behavior where the completions popup opens with zero characters entered. If I type one character and erase ...
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How to turn on `read-only-mode` when running a command in `comint` buffers and turn off it when the command is finished?
I'd like to prevent all user inputs when a command is running in comint-like buffers (created by shell, run-python etc.) by enabling read-only-mode when I hit enter to run the command and disabling it ...
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How does startup.el work (on Debian 12)
I'm using the emacs/stable,stable,now 1:28.2+1-15 Debian package with Doom and am trying to change startup behavior. I made backups of startup.el.gz and startup.elc located at /usr/share/emacs/28.2/...
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Error in converting org file to md file: Unknown "nil" back-end: Aborting export
I'm trying to export simple org file to md format using command below:
emacs --batch myLanes.org --eval "(progn (require 'org) (org-export-as 'md))" > myLanes.md
I'm getting the error:
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Is there a way to display echo area message over mode line?
Currently it looks like
But this is a bit annoying - as the echo messages changes between single line and multi-lines, the mode-line is moving up and down.
I know I can truncate the message to make ...
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How do you sort tokens within a line
Sorting lines in Emacs is fairly straightforward with sort-lines.
However, how do I sort within a line? For example: John Ringo Paul George -> George John Paul Ringo
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How To Tangle Org Src Code Block Under Conditions
I'm using .org files to keep track of my system configuration across different machines and I want certain code blocks to be tangled only if certain conditions are met.
Let's say I have something like ...
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Displaying a rendered content of .org file into the terminal
I got a zsh script which do some work for me. Somewhere in the body of that script I'd like to have nicely rendered .org file displayed, and my zsh script to continue further. In sudo code something ...
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Tide mode: how do I get it to stop running tide-format-before-save?
I'm at my utter wit's end with this hell-plugin lmao. I've tried (remove-hook 'before-save-hook 'tide-format-before-save t), and it doesn't work. How do I remove tide-format-before-save from the ...
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Configuring dedicated directory for lock files and auto save files on MS-Windows
How do I configure a dedicated location for lock files and auto-save files that works on MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, and macOS? I'm using GNU Emacs 28.2
The following works on GNU/Linux but not on MS-...
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flycheck thinks functions defined in a macro are not defined
i use a define-request macro to make it easier to define lots of requests to a REST API. each one returns a defun, the request function.
flycheck is unable to discover the existence of these functions....
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New Frame function fails to size the new frame correctly and prints a Gtk-CRITICAL message. Is this the return of an old bug?
I am using Emacs 29.1. After upgrading Linux to Ubuntu 23.04 the emacs create new frame function (C-x 5 2) seems broken.
What happens: when I create a new frame, it shows up so tiny (15x7) that the ...
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function needed to replace short, static list of keywords
In my workflow I copy emails into an orgmode file. I'd like to have head of the email formatted. In english emails (just as an explanation) I'd like to have *To:* instead of To:, because orgmode then ...
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Find out what created the window?
dap mode keeps creating unwanted window, I'd like to prevent it but can't find a way
I can think of setting a breakpoint on window-creation.
But there seems to be a lot of those split window functions....
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How can I prevent projectiles from being removed?
Sometimes a network mount point is temporarily unavailable. If I use projectile during these times, projectiles gets removed.
How can I prevent that?;)
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Where to find all elisp functions?
I’m working on this tutorial and it uses functions such as,
search-forward, goto-char, save-excursion etc.
Is there a place where all functions are listed?
If I search for search-forward I find this ...
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Problem with UTF-8 characters in magit buffers
I have my Emacs working in a manjaro (based on arch linux) and the languaage set catalan.
It is working well, but I had a problem with dired buffers showing weird symbols and solved adding this ...
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