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I noticed today that when I yank a string containing regexp metacharacters into an active regexp isearch, the metacharacters all get escaped. For example, if I've killed the text foo* and yank that ...

The command xref-find-definitions is no longer working for me in Python buffers (with elpy-mode enabled. Its companions, such as xref-find-references, are also not working in Python buffers. ...

M-x ispell works fine for English. However, when I try to change the dictionary, I run into difficulties. I did M-x ispell-change-dictionary and selected one of the options (francais) from the list ...

I'm using ivy-use-virtual-buffers to see both currently and recently visited buffers in Swiper's ivy-switch-buffer and it worked great until last month when I opened distant files via ssh/Tramp. Ever ...

Tramp works fine when I try to edit with sudo or ssh, but when I try to edit with doas it will hang (while also maxing out my cpu). Here is some tramp output: backtrace() tramp-signal-hook-...

I am using Emacs 26.1 on a Windows machine that I connect to via Citrix Viewer running on MacOS 11.1. I'm using left-option as my meta key. When using org-mode, the meta key is behaving inconsistently....

For instance: When I am in C-c C-e (export), by pressing # you get extra options. How to know this? Another example: When in a helm session, by pressing C-c C-f, you activate helm-follow-mode. But ...

I have tried to export to Latex an Orgmode document that has some unicode characters not recognized (emojis). When compiling I get the error ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode character 🔥 (U+1F525) (...

So, here is my init.el: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/use-package") (require 'use-package) (with-eval-after-load 'info (info-initialize) (add-to-list 'Info-directory-...

After installing a fresh install of emacs on a coworkers machine, I got elpy setup with all the correct packages according to elpy-config but elpy-goto-definition always returns 'No definition found'. ...

As if there was any need to make it clear, I am quite a noob when it comes to spacemacs. I am running into the following issue: I am trying to follow some tutorials online. In various of them, SPC i s ...

I try to view image under a point in external viewer by w3m-view-image, but when I call it I get in the *Messages*: zsh:1: no matches found: accept_media=*/* How can I make it working? I use: macOS ...

I am trying to modify the string that is to yanked My goal is to modify certains paths before yanking, in order to transform them in relative to path actual buffer file. Following this post, I tried ...

I get the error: run-hooks: Autoloading file /home/xxxx/.emacs.d/elpa/evil-collection-20210203.811/modes/unimpaired/evil-collection-unimpaired.elc failed to define function evil at startup. Here is ...

I have the following Org files: main.org #+TITLE: Main Document - Draft #+SETUPFILE: ../themes/main-theme/main-theme.setup * Test 1 main-theme.setup (CSS already loads correctly for HTML exports). # ...

I have this weird error I don't understand : #+begin_src plantuml :file img/example-uml.png @startuml class Example { - value : Integer - other : Double + up() + down() } @enduml #+end_src This fails ...

I need to define a function that toggles between value of display-line-numbers but can't figure out what's the correct lisp syntax to do so. Here's what I want to do: Check if value of display-line-...

Xcode: 12.4.0.0.1.1610135815 CommandLineTools: 12.4.0.0.1.1610135815 I've exported CC=clang, but I can't get the emacs-26 branch to compile on my Big Sur Intel machine. See gist here .autogen.sh and ...

For example, I use M-s as isearch-forward: (global-set-key (kbd "M-s") 'isearch-forward) When I try to install isearch+ with use-package: (use-package isearch+ :straight t) I get the ...

My Emacs used to have the ability to display the help buffer of each function everytime I was scrolling through M-x function candidates. How to enable it again? Thanks!

The mode-line-format can be a list of strings, but it can also include un-evaluated blocks, e.g: (setq mode-line-format (list "Hello" '(:eval (my-function-call)) "There&...

I would like to define my own hook, where the result of each caller is collected (when the hook is run). Is there a way to do this? Currently I pass in a function to the hook, that function can be run ...

I recently installed the latest version of emacs and Rust-analyzer, and downloaded the lsp-mode package as well, but when I activate the rust-analyzer with the "lsp" command it simply ...

The buffer contains a mixture of text that is read-only (with 'read-only text properties) and read-write (i.e., no 'read-only text properties). I want to [up/down]case-region as to the read-write ...

I have a really useful regex for extracting DCOs: (defvar my-dco-tag-re (rx (: bol (zero-or-more (in blank)) ; fresh line (any "RSTA") (one-or-more (in alpha &...

I am working on my personal emacs config and I wanted to keep .emacs.d/ uncluttered. So I created a temp folder inside .emacs.d/ that includes a backup directory. This part works fine. Also sending ...

I am kind of new to Emacs, in the sense that I never used for serious development. I was trying to build a configuration in order to start a larger C++ project, and there is one point in particular ...

There are multiple elpy keybindings that I am not using. Is there any way to unbind them? Possible bindings that I want to disable C-c C-t, C-c C-p. I have tried following answer Globally override key ...

How to navigate in same level list, with sub list in between? - one (cursor at the beginning) - two - three - four (move to this list) Tried C-up and M-a, but they go through each sub level, ...

I am trying to commit in my Emacs folde, and I get this message below: "precomposed unicode is not supported". I have run on my Terminal "git config core.precomposeunicode false" ...

I've seen both used to quote symbols and list. What's the difference between them? When should I use one or the other?

When I open a man page (e.g. M-x man cat) I would like to automatically move my cursor onto the man page. I already know how to achieve this behavior for *Help* and *Apropos*, and I want to get the ...

If I get the function definition with (setq wrapped-copy (symbol-function 'fn)) how can I make a copy such that I can redefine the same function with a wrapped version? like (fset 'fn #'(lambda () (...

How can I insert the current time (format hh:mm) in org-mode without a date, i.e. just the time?

I know I must be missing something simple, but I've recently upgraded my Linux OS to Mate 20.04. As a result, my version of emacs is Emacs 26.3. I'm now running into incompatibility issues with MELPA ...

Is there a way to expand a macro using a list of arguments? I tried using apply but then I get an error that the "function" my/x-becomes-nil is invalid. (defmacro my/x-becomes-nil (variable ...

When using M-x magit-checkout, I can only select a branch. Is it possible to visit a commit (the stage at the commit) using Magit? Thanks!

I am using Magit and was wondering how to revert to a specific commit that contained a specific expression. First I need to find the expression across all commits content. How to do this? In command ...

Why do I get the error: font-lock-fontify-keywords-region: Invalid function: (concat "\\\\" (regexp-opt (quote ("cs" "hepth" "hepph" "heplat" "...

I am an emacs newbie running emacs doom on Linux. I am learning how to use traditional emacs in my free time and have an emacs config file that I want to test out. I launch my traditional emacs by ...

Using Magit Forge, I'd like to organize a list of open issues by assignee. Ideally I'd like to display them in groups by assignee, but I'd settle for a single list if the assignee were added to the ...

I use below code to calculate the difference between two columns from remote tables but the output is all zero! #+name: tbl1 | x | | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | #+name: tbl2 | y | | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | #+name: ...

If you read the documentation for lsp-mode-lsp-json here, this is the section that deals with setting schemas: Available configurations lsp-json-schemas Default: nil Associate schemas to JSON files ...

I wanted to add a latin capital O with circumflex [ô] to a file in emacs, but for some reason all my attempts lead to the character being replaced by a question mark ?. I tried : M-x insert-char ...

There is an operation in my setup which makes emacs unresponsive with high CPU. I checked the emacs process with process monitor, but it does not wait for an other process, so I guess it must be ...

I want all sequences like C-c C-p to be translated to C-c p and even C-x C-k C-e should become C-x k e. This is easily done with e.g. (define-key input-decode-map (kbd "C-p") (kbd "p&...

I want to focus the *Warnings* buffer whenever there is new warning. I tried this: (add-hook 'special-mode-hook (lambda () (when (string= (buffer-name (current-buffer)) ...

I try to create FTP connection via Tramp, but the output I get on AngeFTP is: ftp> open android.local ftp: Can't connect to `192.168.0.21:21': Connection refused ftp: Can't connect to `android....

Since back-ticks are often used for literals, is there a way I can highlight these in code comments? So this: # This is a comment, this is a literal: `4 + 4`. # let's make things interesting (`...

I would like to have the ability to change the flags passed to grep once counsel-rg has been stated. For example, sometimes I start counsel-rg and type in a string that needs a lot of escaping. In ...