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Is it possible to feed data from an org table into calc as a matrix, and then get it out again as a vector to fill in a column? For example, if I have: | | Fund A | Fund B | Fund C | ...

Good day, I wanted to use the helm-org-in-buffer-headings function. Yet for some reason helm-org layer is missing. If I install it manually via package list packages it gets deleted with the next ...

I can write a short keybinding to do this but does org mode have a good way to the following: org-insert-heading-respect-content or org-insert-todo-heading-respect-content followed by: org-do-...

On Linux, I am able to move the cursor to start of buffer/end of buffer using using C-Home/C-End respectively: C-End Move cursor to the end of the buffer. Note the key is 'End' key on the ...

Starting from the existing customization associated with key j, is there a way to view and modify the target file? In other words, by default, captured notes would go to */journal/inbox.org, ...

Below is my .eslintrc.json and I see the same option when I do eslint --print-config app.js But emacs adding semicolon on save even though I have "semi": 0 { "parserOptions": { "ecmaVersion": ...

am relatively new user of emacs - and having a recurring problem that I'm sure has an easy solution, but I can't figure it out at all. Issue is: I use M-x package-install to install say org-ref. ...

I need to configure the behavior of elpy when editing a python src block in org-src-mode. Usually such configuration code should be added to org-src-mode-hook. In my code I need to check some header ...

The examples do not show use of this feature. And it is not clear from the documentation how to create edge labels. The following is a simple graph drawn using Graphviz, where labelling edges is ...

I want some stuff to be visible in the editor, but not in the export (C-c C-e). Some stuff includes headlines. I tried this: #+EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ~/Documents/Outbox/hide #+OPTIONS: ^:nil #+STARTUP: ...

Since I have to export some CJK characters in LaTeX, I have the following two lines in an .org file : #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[BoldFont,SlantFont]{xeCJK} #+LATEX_HEADER: \setCJKmainfont{HanaMinA} ...

In this folder ~/.emacs.d/el-get/transient (master) there are following files for transient ./ ../ .git/ .github/ .gitignore default.mk docs/ LICENSE lisp/ Makefile README.md then run runemacs --...

I am new to (Spac)Emacs with Evil, and I did quite some searching to find an answer to this question, so I hope this is a 'legitimate' question here. Is there a default single command to write a ...

Orgmode's org-habits appear broken following the upgrade of emacs from version 25 to 26 and orgmode from 8.2 to 9.1 along the way. Specifically, all of my habits don't show as habits in the org-...

Using ESS with emacs I have automatic filename completion. So, when I am withing "./" and hit TAB, it shows me a list of files and directories within that directory. However, after installing eglot ...

I'd like to generate a set of tags and then view them in Treemacs, ideally whenever I open a file that I can generate tags for. The docs for Treemacs' tag view say: Treemacs is able to display ...

Is it possible to select a range of code and open it in GitHub using Magit? I use the browse-at-remote package for this, but I wonder if this could be done from Magit. I'd like to navigate both from ...

I am using use-package in my .emacs and it is great. However occasionally I want to use a 3-rd party code which is not in [M]ELPA. Of course, I can download it but then I will need to maintain a copy ...

When going to M-x ido-find-file then going to sudo /sudo::/ I can browse files as root but if I enter // or ~ it escapes TRAMP. How do I prevent it?

How do I read the entire contents of stdin into an Emacs buffer in #! /usr/bin/env emacs --script mode? Stdin may not be a regular file.

Question: The code is below, the contents of the list myList were copied in the debugger. (let* ((myList '(("Concept Index" ("Файл" "/home/alamd/example/funEl/expirement/...

When transposing words, the cursor moves to the end of the word, how can the cursor be kept at the same location relative to the word?

In f90-mode, is it possible to make continuation lines indent to the opening parenthesis instead of by a fixed amount of columns, without having to rewrite f90-indent-line? For conformance with a ...

Messages that appear in the minibuffer disappear too quickly for me to read them. I would like them to last a few more seconds before disappearing. (I know I can press C-h e to see them again.) I ...

I'm a Magit rookie and finding it is not behaving as expected. I have multiple unstaged changes in a repository (see "Git Status" below). However, Magit is not showing them (see "Magit" below) when I ...

I am trying to get this Matlab language server to work with lsp-mode. Following the instructions in lsp-mode's github page, I inserted the following in my init.el: (use-package lsp-mode :ensure t ...

In Dired, I'm able to drill down folders with the key i, but how can I unfold a folder that was once opened, that is, go to its parent folder?

I have multiple scheduled tasks/events in different files properly labeled and I can't find a way to have the weekly schedule agenda view to filter by these labels. It just shows all the labels per ...

Transpose words (M-t) always swaps the word with the next. How can this be performed with the previous word?

* TODO fix this bug asap :PROPERTIES: :UPDATE: writing test cases almost there! :LASTUPDATED: 2019-11-25 :DEADLINE: 2019-11-30 :END: * TODO update that documentation :PROPERTIES: :UPDATE: updating my ...

When writing my own interactive function, whats the best way to report that nothing happened. (if line-is-empty (message "Found empty line, nothing to do!") (do-stuff)) Or is it better to use ...

So, I’m trying to add Customize support to packages that use a lot of plists, and where the value of pretty much any option can be either a single item or a list. I could have every single plist ...

Following an article called Emacs, fonts and fontsets I was revising my font setup. I ended with the following code: (defun font-exists-p (font) "Comprueba si una tipografía existe. Sacado de https:...

I really like how I can interactively load packages and experiment at will in Common Lisp, and would like to get a similar workflow in Haskell. I've settled on Cabal (v3.0.0.0 - new command set by ...

I'm new to using Emacs in Ubuntu server terminal as opposed to GUI and noticed some of the standard org mode key binding (like M-DOWN or M-UP to move list items or subtrees up or down) don't work. Is ...

After starting Emacs with the following init.el file, key-chord-mode is turned on. ;; Speed up startup (setq gc-cons-threshold 402653184 gc-cons-percentage 0.6) (add-hook 'after-init-hook ...

Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere; I'm very new to emacs so I'm unaware of many of the basics. I've been trying to use helm-projectile to switch between projects and go to files. I'd like ...

I've been playing around with ranger in emacs and I'm really liking it for browsing new codebases. I would like to get syntax highlighting working, as it does when using ranger in a terminal. I'm not ...

I've remapped C-x C-f to projectile-find-file since I mostly open files corresponding to the project I'm in. However when I need to create a new file, I fill in the name and projectile doens't find ...

When Emacs saves a file (save-buffer, write-file etc.), does it overwrite files directly or does it create a temporary file first? More specifically, if I edit /path-to/file.txt, will Emacs directly ...

When I set org-startup-indented to be t, I see the following error on opening any .org file and the error refused to go away i.e. it reappears instantly after pressing q. Debugger entered--Lisp error:...

My init file contains the following (custom-set-variables '(org-directory "~/Dropbox/org") '(org-agenda-files (list (concat org-directory "/mylife.org") (concat org-directory "/inbox.org")))) ...

This is start from: * Up ** Foo - x Notice that the plain list under Foo is indented. This is what I want next: * Up ** Foo - x ** Bar But from - x, I don't know how to "escape" the plain ...

I've had an annoying moment with emacs (GUI). I'm a newbie and now I'm trying to use emacs for writing, so I need spell checking. Well, the consensus is flyspell. In order to load flyspell when ...

Launch Emacs using runemacs --debug-init and the following error occurred. any idea on how to locate the file/script of the error or how to fix it? Thanks in advance. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (...

I am trying to make a keymap to apply to a buffer region where the map is a composed keymap of several modes. Then, in that map, I want to define C-c C-c to run the command org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c. This is ...

closed that, re-incarnated here: When starting emacs from the shell command line, if you pass the "dot", it opened emacs with a 'dired' of the current directory. But can I do this? emacs '*scratch*'...

On my mac (OSX) I have many org-mode files with filenames ending in “.org”. Whenever I do a search with Spotlight that should show one of these org files as best result I experience the following ...

Start Emacs from gitbash (MINGW64) Snippet below is loaded automatically: ; add el-get to the load path, and install it if it doesn't exist (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get") (...

What am I trying to achieve I want to use emacsclient (not emacs) as my default text editor on Debian Buster. What have I tried so far Alternatives: > sudo update-alternatives --config editor` ...