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In Emacs f90 mode, there are two useful functions f90-beginning-of-block and f90-end-of-block, (bound to keys C-M-p and C-M-n,repsectively), which I often use to jump between beginning and end of code ...

I have hundreds Org files under a directory hierarchy and would want to export only those recently modified in HTML to speed up the process. I have the following project alist that I feed up to org-...

In org-mode and in the defunct orgstruct++-mode, one can cycle through enumeration schemes via Shift-Right-Arrow. For instance, from 1. toto 2. titi to A) toto B) titi This does not seem ...

I use Pop OS 20.04 on my desktop. When I start Emacs on login, I run the command (server-start). So when I open a file using the command emacsclient <filename> it opens it in the currently ...

Is it correct that the following little error novel indicates I am missing ~/.emacs.d/index.sqlite? How do I regenerate ~/.emacs.d/index.sqlite? Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function -compose) (...

The org-roam docs say: Links to headlines can be inserted by navigating to the desired headline and calling org-store-link. This will create an ID for the headline if it does not already exist, and ...

In org, whenever I create a new tree and make a new line, the editor automatically indents only this first line (different behavior of older versions). I'd like the editor to behave so that it does ...

I use describe-function command with SPC h f to get help on emacs functions. But I want to get documentation on Doom's own functions such as map!. describe-function doesn't list this function. How can ...

I would like all org-roam buffers to automatically go into a persp-mode.el perspective. org-roam-mode is a global minor mode, so I can't use that as a way to detect whether a new buffer is for org-...

https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf On page 36 Paul introduces the following function: (defun flatten (x) (labels ((rec (x acc) (cond ((null x) acc) ...

I am trying to select each content-heading extracted with org-noter and then remove all erroneous newlines. This is my function. (defun sanitize-noter-import () "Sanitizes org-noter imports. ...

After a recent update to my Spacemacs install, I noticed that C-g i.e. keyboard-quit closes *compilation* buffers that result from an M-x recompile. How can I prevent this behavior? I don't want C-g ...

Slime defines two commands: slime-call-defun and slime-eval-last-expression-in-repl which take the function name of where point is (or whatever) and copy it over to the REPL prompt and position point ...

Following the advice of Mastering Emacs I'm trying to use the project.el package. My problem is that C-x p isn't bound to the prefix keymap and I can't figure out how to bind it correctly. I'm pretty ...

I am trying to create a bash alias to open emacs with a calendar from terminal. To do so I am using calfw with use-package like so: (use-package calfw :ensure ;TODO: :config (require 'calfw) (...

Is there a way to make my document title dynamic, for instance like this : #+Title: Annual report for year src_emacs-lisp{(- (string-to-number (format-time-string "%Y")) 1)} Should render ...

I have need to export org-mode files to html for a wiki like system. I am making use of org-protocol so that I can act on links in html files with emacsclient, usually to open an org buffer at point ...

I have Emacs display the full path of the file in my window title: (setq-default frame-title-format '("%f [%m] - Emacs")) And in my mode-line: (setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification ...

I am trying to write a small function where I extract two sub-strings from a cite-key, e.g. cite:rammstein2017paris. (defun citekey-get-author-and-year () "Get the _author_ and _YEAR_ ...

I want a helper command for refactoring code in Go language. I have not found ready for use function for this task in go-mode and lsp. It should declare variable from the word under the point and ...

I want to know how to make lsp-mode ignore a node_modules folder (along with say, folder asdf and temp). This is what I have: (setq lsp-file-watch-ignored (rx (or "node_modules" "asdf&...

When I search with grep, I get the results like: -- mode: grep; default-directory: "~/code/" -- Grep started at Wed Feb 24 12:40:28 find . -type d ... that is followed by multiple lines ...

I want to be able to bind ⌥← to move the cursor to the previous word, ⌥→ to the next word, ⌥↓ to scroll down a page etc. in Emacs on Mac OS, as in native text editing controls, but also still be able ...

I use org-mode to write an executable paper, combining text and code. I make use of abbrev-mode to insert text more efficiently (e.g. type 'bc' to insert 'because') and to correct spelling errors. Is ...

I've written a function that recenters the point each time it makes a long jump and I added it to the hook window-scroll-functions. The length of the jump is determined by comparing the return value ...

I've tried sshand scp for tramp's method (both work for tramp), yet image-dired thumbnail creation fails Thumb could not be created for /scp:raspi:/media/pi/91D4-7E58//IMG_1.JPG: exited abnormally ...

I enjoy using org-babel for testing/exploring API HTTP endpoints. #+BEGIN_SRC http :var access-token=select-access-token-from-sql :pretty GET http://localhost:3000/api/items/71 Authorization: Bearer ${...

In MWE.org, the source blocks list-files, summarize-files-1, and summarize-files-2 are defined to summarize files. The list-files source block gives the filenames. The summarize-files-1 and the ...

Suppose I have a code base with many instances of string "console.log(" for example. I want to replace each one with one of the following six lines: logger(FATAL, logger(ERROR, logger(...

Hi I'm working on some assembly language files. Here is a relevant snippet // Wait for line $ff and prepare next frame loop2: lda #$ff // <- Inside the ...

On loading a f90 file, emacs changes to F90 mode, which changes some emacs behaviours. When I press <tab> emacs inserts two spaces at the left margin. Now when I use the backspace key it deletes ...

In emacs M-x command-name can be used to invoke a command. However in Mac M1, for some reason, this is not working. Basically, I am trying option + x or M-x. Any idea about this?

I messed up my emacs and having trouble run emacs --daemon properly. I am using GNU Emacs 26.3. M-x returns Error reading from stdin. I have following lines on .zshrc: export ALTERNATE_EDITOR="&...

Use Magit to view the log with show diffs (-p). Inspect 4 commit old commit. Navigate to a few lines I've since deleted, but want back my project. I can mark the lines but cannot copy them, which ...

My employer has a pretty paranoid screen locking policy on Windows machines. There's no way to override the time settings for the lock. My colleagues an I have been experimenting with various homebrew ...

https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf On page 36 Paul writes the following: The conditions above do not guarantee the perfect locality you get with purely functional code, though they do ...

If use iTerm on macOS, we can set env values in its terminal. It also set path such as /usr/local/bin/ in ~/.bashrc. But in emacs' terminal as eshell, run kubectl shown kubectl: No such file or ...

Where are org-mode issues tracked? What I mean, why I ask: I'm having a problem with arbitrary text immediately preceding inline markup, which is the best way I can find to express the general problem ...

By pressing o you can open the outline for the pdf document. Is there any way you can also add new sections with the corresponding pages to this outline?

I am working on tex files with LaTeX-mode. If possible, I want to use auto-fill-mode in some conditions. I was wondering is it possible to disable it in between some patterns like: \begin{figure}[ht]...

When I create appointments in Emacs diary via the calendar, I have to save changes to the diary file before being able to exit the calendar. I have tried to set up Emacs to automatically save the ...

I use MacTerm 4.0 on OS X 10.7.5 and I use the vt220 option base emulator. When I open emacs -nw on it, when I press C-x C-c (to quit Emacs) it says C-x C-g is undefined When I type C-x C-s (to save ...

Sometimes I wish to persist the value of some variable when I quit emacs. For example, I would like to do this for compile-command. Now, I guess I could find the hook that is run when Emacs quits (...

I am using QWERTZ with Czech layout and to write certain characters like { and } I have to press down option, however in my emacs (using the emacsformacosx version) the option key is bound to the Meta ...

With the following build script on Big Sur + homebrew, I get horribly long compile times when using make bootstrap as opposed to simply make on gccemacs. I've read the Makefile in the src directory - ...

I am trying to write two functions to do these: Function 1: When the point is on a link (in an Org file), generate a PDF from that link (I am thinkng of using wkhtmltopdf. Side question: does ...

I was wondering if I can use both isync and Lieer (gmailieer) at the same time to pull email from multiple Gmail and multiple non-Gmail accounts (each account being in a separate subdirectory in my ...

I have tested sending an email to multiple recipients with Notmuch through msmtp and it works. I can also copy all recipients of email to kill-ring (via notmuch-show-stash-to), no problem. However, ...

I would like some help in configuring ryo-modal, via use-package, to run a command from the evil-ex-commands alist, using ("ll" (cdr (assoc "wq" evil-ex-commands))); however, I'm ...

I'm writing a programming tutorial. In between the prose I have diff code blocks that show exactly what changes are done to the code on each step. To make sure the diffs are correct I'd like to be ...