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Q: in there a function that can find a file or open a URL as needed? I have a string that can be either a) a local filename, or b) a URL. Is there an existing function that I can call on the string ...

I would like to put my enumerated items in a framebox with rounded corners. I can do it with LaTex. But I would like to do it in emacs org document. How can I do it ?

I've spent a full working day trying to somehow resolve this, no luck, so I'm turning to this place hoping for help. Recently I started experiencing freeze of something like up to 10 seconds when ...

windows 10, emacs 26.1 When I use I-search, then Emacs ignore case sensitive. but I need case sensitive I-search

I have such a diary structure *** 2019-07-28 Monday **** Tasks *** 2019-07-29 Tuesday **** Tasks Desire to capture todos under the Tasks of latest day (setq org-capture-templates '(("t" "Todo [...

I install org-mode using use-package via the orgmode.org elpa archive. In the past month I've received Symbol’s function definition is void messages such as: org-capture-select-template: Symbol’s ...

I want to activate tide-mode when using Javascript soruce code blocks, following this it works well with indium: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-js.html But I want to use ...

How do we customize bibtex-completion-fallback-options in init.el? The following code gave rise to the error below: (add-to-list 'bibtex-completion-fallback-options `("NTU Library 台大圖書館 ...

GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21) PHP-Mode: https://github.com/emacs-php/php-mode, Version: 1.21.1 I customized c-basic-offset to 2. When I open a php-File, php-mode is ...

How to configure company mode to do a simple completion using words from the current buffer? (all open buffers would be handy too) More sophisticated completion is fine, but it may show too many ...

I use use-package and pulled in the treemacs package with the default settings. Then I byte-compiled my .emacsfile. But I still get a warning saying: the following functions might not be defined at ...

This is closely related to a previous question I asked here: SMIE Basic Identation and Block Example However, it is sufficiently different (and already big enough) that I might as well ask it as a ...

I'd like to rebind C-c to eshell-interrupt-process, so I don't need to press C-c C-c. I tried the naive (local-set-key (kbd "C-c") 'something) And similar commands but when I press C-c emacs waits ...

It would be nice to show the info, warnings and errors from a regular compilation-mode buffer inline in the source code. I checked to see if flycheck supports this but it appears no. Writing a custom ...

The purpose of digit-argument and how to use them is described in Emacs manual. Also read a question that asks how to disable them. Even though have not disabled them, I have changed M-1, M-2, M-3 '...

The Emacs diary is configured in ~/diary as the default. I want separate the configuration and my personal notes. How could redirect the system's diary to other directory?

I am contemplating setting up org-ref to use within org mode for drafting scientific texts. However, as I go through various blogs etc. on the subject, it seems that org-ref is tailored for the ...

When string formatting is supported, it's sometimes possible pass in a string which could contain a percentage symbol which would then be interpreted. For example, this frame-title-format has a bug ...

I'm trying to filter an org mode heading by tag in a dynamic block, but the match syntax is not quite working out. Example: #+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %TAGS * Something ...

Apparently anaconda-mode provides eldoc support on remote files, but it kinda breaks TRAMP if the remote file name contains an ssh alias (TRAMP will keep reconnecting over and over). It is ...

I have a function for generating a new text file. The file is named automatically from date and time, following this format: yyyy-mm-dd--hh-mm-ss.txt. However, I also need my function to insert the ...

Upon striking C-x s (save-some-buffers) or C-x C-c, it report errorsin mini-buffer Making resize-mini-windows buffer-local while locally let-bound. Search the above errors but return no helpful ...

I'm running Emacs 26.1 without any "strange" configuration: a bare bone Ubuntu 19.04 emacs package with few packages installed from elpa or melpa. I have the following issue: when pressing space bar ...

I have been working with Aquamacs and I would like to take Spacemacs out for a spin. I cloned .spacemacs and created an empty spacemacs file to store my configs later: git clone https://github.com/...

I have no problems starting Emacs from a terminal, while if I start it from the desktop (I have a desktop file containing emacsclient -ca '') Emacs starts with a putt-ugly font (see below a screenshot)...

I've tried for a while to create a simple major mode that uses SMIE to perform navigation and indentation, but it seems like even the simple examples that I've found seems to break quite easily. The ...

Upon runing the following codes with ob-ipython #+begin_src ipython :session alinbx :results output num_friends = [100, 49, 41, 40, 25, # ... and lots more ] print('...

Recently my Emacs/Python setup stopped working as it had done previously without any problem. I have the following defining where my virtual environments are in my init files... (setq venv-location (...

OS Debian GNU/Linux 7 emacs-24.3 I want to save the content of the clipboard or the last item of the kill-ring (depending whats newer) as a string so that I can do stuff with it in a eLisp function. ...

Lets suppose I would like to edit my text and to add comments to the column in the text. This is my text: something-text1 foobar1 something-text1 something-text2 foobar2 something-text2 --- ...

After org-clock-out the current todos, I have to manually change its status from todo to done. How could automate the process. If a clocking task was clocked-out, it's status would be changed to ...

I am managing my bibliography with John Kitchin's org-ref package. I want to create an @film entry type with a few custom fields. So in my init.el file, I have: ;; Create fields for Film type (add-to-...

Often when fixing a bug or implementing a new feature in a code repository, I start off with an investigatory step. For example, I would have a lead, a word such as "Article" and I would start by ...

Using R double colon operator messes up the indentation in ess/emacs. For example, df <- map( xyz, something ) vs. df <- purrr::map( xyz, something) ...

I use emacs on a lot of different types of machines during the day, so I'm toying with writing some elisp scripts to avoid managing 4 scripting environments. Specifically, I'm writing an elisp ...

Is there a way to move the cursor to the place of the last change when working with multiple buffers? For working with a single buffer, the command goto-last-change can do the job. My question is for ...

Emacs 27.0.50. Windows 10. This function works finely when the line is commented: (defun Pfedj/write-async-file () (interactive) (async-start (lambda () (setq path "~/org/file....

In notmuch, I get a threaded view whenever I see mybsearch results. How do I get a non-threaded view? That is, all messages are listed chronologically, instead of a message being inlcuded way later ...

windows 10, emacs 26.1, dired+ here myfolder in dired mode sort by name (by default): Now I want to sort by date (inverse mode). I press s and here result: why file new.txt is above two dots? The ...

So I have modified syntax table for moving with C-<left>. (defvar my-wacky-syntax-table (let ((table (make-syntax-table))) (modify-syntax-entry ?\( "w" table) (modify-...

I have created a very simple org mode capture template to collect my random thoughts throughout the day. When in Emacs, I hit f6 and voila: capture template. However, in order to log the capture while ...

I am currently maintaining a fork of a major mode and I usually get by through reusing snippets other people have written that provides indention for similar languages. However, this does lead to a ...

I used to have a literate configuration file structured as follows: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle "/tmp/out.el" :noweb yes ;; requirements <<require>> ;; other <<execute>> ...

I can enter rectangle mark mode with C-x SPC, and then do C-p or C-n to set mark to the line above or below. How do I vertically mark multiple lines in one go without having to do C-p or C-n multiple ...

I have a org file as follows: #+NAME: ls:tpolicy-dr #+CAPTION: xxxxx #+ATTR_LATEX: :placement [ht!] :options framesep=3mm,xleftmargin=21pt,tabsize=4 #+BEGIN_SRC json [{ "Authority":"ABC", ...

Upon reading epub on emacs, I tried https://github.com/wasamasa/nov.el. Installed and configured step by step as its instructions. When C-x C-f to open an epub, it is displayed as M Filemode ...

Every time, I save files, it prompts that save files ..? (y, n !) There are few cases that saving files are mistake operations. How could disable the confirmation prompts?

In a terminal, we can use C-r to search a command from bash_history, but it is far less powerful than the Emacs package like helm-swoop or ivy-swipe. How can I use a shortcut in terminal (e.g., C-r) ...

When I select with a mouse a block of text in Firefox or VIM for example, copy it and then try to paste in Emacs, it gets pasted, but unaligned, meaning that beginning of the lines shift away to the ...

I find that in term-char-mode with bash, C-r doesn't activate the shell's reverse-i-search function. How can I do that? PS. Apologies: I was using multi-term mode and had somehow convinced myself ...