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Every semester I teach the same course and for every semester there are several TODOs that are always the same relative to the starting date (i.e. the first day of class). How can I take the previous ...

Using spacemacs I would like to be able to display an org mode document such that: all headings are visible all drawers are open and their contents visible all other body text is invisible It would ...

I am using ranger within spacemacs. One useful feature an explorer in windows (directory opus) I used has, is that by pressing keys it automatically starts to filter files with names corresponding to ...

Warning: I’m a macOS user using spacemacs rather than plain GNU emacs ;-) I would like to use projectile, which itself heavily use the « super » key. Unfortunately, when I want to use s-p, it trigger ...

While I could parse the elisp myself, is there a way to extract symbols from an elisp buffer? That is, variable names, macros & functions - not part of strings.

I found EasyMenu and and I tried the example: (easy-menu-define my-menu global-map "My own menu" '("My Stuff" ["One entry" my-function t] ("Sub Menu" ["My subentry" my-obscure-function ...

I currently have (variable-pitch-mode +1) set on a hook when I start org-mode. I have customized my org-mode faces such that faces like org-link inherit from my variable-pitch face. This looks great ...

I don't fully understand what is happening but I would like it to stop - I am using org-mode and ESS, and when I am in an R src block, things like hitting tab to auto-indent a line of code cause point ...

With condition-case, is there a way to handle multiple kinds of errors? Currently I have user-error and error both being handled. Is there a way to de-duplicate these checks to handle any kind of ...

I am trying to debug an application on a remote environment. Ofcourse running Tramp over gdb works as in https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Remote-processes.html, but you miss ...

I love the bookmarks features of Emacs. I have managed my bookmarks kind of hierarchic. But that leads to longer bookmarks, which now don't fit into the column any more. Is there a way, to enlarge ...

I have some experience in Emacs-LISP. Today I spent 6 hours writing LISP code that I guess-timate would have taken 1h30 to write in Python because my workflow to develop and debug is very clunky. In ...

The code from here accesses groups of a regular expression match in a buffer in interactive mode: (let ((re (concat "\\([ \t]*" org-clock-string " *\\)" "\\([[<][^]>]+[]&...

In the Emacs *scratch* buffer, I get different results when I use the same regular expression as a variable compared to a literal: (setq splitter-string "9:20") "9:20" (string-match "[0-9]?[0-9]:[0-...

I am refactoring some code and adding doc-tests as suggested here. The previous iteration passed the tests. Now running ERT in batch mode with eemacs -batch -l ert -l org-clock-split.el -f ert-run-...

Every time I have a second line in a commit message, magit prompts/warns me when commiting... Is there a way I can turn this off warning? I've found the following in the docs https://magit.vc/manual/...

This is related to this Emacs.SE question. I use the code from the answer: (setq LaTeX-begin-regexp "\\(?:begin\\|if@\\)\\b") (setq LaTeX-end-regexp "\\(?:end\\|else\\|fi\\)\\b") (defun LaTeX-indent-...

The bongo music player has been the coolest find yet in my on going discovery of the many capabilities of Emacs. My only problem is that it can't seem to 1. open or 2. play any of my .flac files. I ...

Is it possible to prevent auto-fill-mode from automatically indenting new lines according to the previous? I would like new lines to begin at column 0 regardless of the previous line's indentation.

In the dash library I noticed the use of make-symbol to avoid symbol conflicts during macro expansion. (defmacro --filter (form list) "Anaphoric form of `-filter'. See also: `--remove'." (declare ...

With the CIDER inspector I'm able to view the contents of an atom. I can do C-u C-u C-c M-i and input the atom with an @ prefix and the value displays correctly. Now, if I keep the inspector window ...

Overview I working on an OS project. It only uses header-files provided by the project code-base. The CMake meta-build, and ninja build system seems to be unrecognized by compilation and code-...

While there are packages that format on save, I'd like to be able to run a custom command that auto-formats a file on save. Upon saving it runs an external process that: Takes the buffer as stdin. ...

This may sound odd, but when I type C-h i m Emacs Lisp Intro -- it's not there. I'm on Ubuntu 19.10 with Emacs 26.3. I tried apt-get install emacs-lisp-intro as the EmacsWiki said, but there's no such ...

Up until this afternoon, I was able to run org-open-at-point on something like [[file:/Users/apc/Desktop/test%20paper.pdf]] and open the file named "test paper.pdf" in my Desktop. But I'm no longer ...

I have this setup to enable viewing the correct branch name when switching or creating new branches in the mode-line: (setq auto-revert-check-vc-info t) However, I started seeing some error ...

When using indent-region, emacs will indent code and leave bank spaces untouched. It seems to me that the majority prefer to delete whitespace. However I prefer white space indented with the code. An ...

I have the following in my config: (defun export-agenda () "custom export of agenda for mobile use" (eval '(org-batch-store-agenda-views ;; w/o diary org-agenda-include-diary ...

I'm trying to edit a keyboard macro using kmacro-step-edit-macro. The macro starts by isearching for a word. C-s ;; isearch-forward binary_function ;; self-insert-command * 15 RET ...

Could you let me know where the default colors in f90-mode are defined and how to change them?

Say I have a command that operates on the entire buffer. The simple solution is to: Run the command taking the entire buffer as input. Store the output. Clear the current buffer. Insert the new ...

I've been playing with flyspell lately and with my recently established setup for spell-check, I wanted to enable it for all modes. I found that flyspell-mode and flyspell-prog-mode are best for text-...

How to add the string 'export ' to the beginning of each line of this text, with emacs: RBENV_VERSION="2.n.0" AUTHORIZE_NET_API_LOGIN_ID=example AUTHORIZE_NET_TRANSACTION_KEY=example # Google ...

I want to change emacs default calendar week number so that it starts at a manually preset date. Normally the year is broken into 52 weeks and week 1 is the one that contains the 1st of January. I'd ...

I installed captain-mode, and it worked as expected in org/text modes, but not so quite in programming modes' comment lines. The problem is it can auto-capitalize the first word from the second ...

I'm using CIDER for Clojure programming. I've been playing around with the CIDER debugger lately. I wanted to use the conditional breakpoint facility with some simple recursive function, such as ...

In org mode when I hover over a link, I get a tooltip that shows the target of the link. But I'd like to see the target when I just move point onto a link, either as a tooltip or in the echo area. For ...

In my LaTeX code I want to replace these strings: \left.\left.\left. \left.\left. \left. with: \left.\left.\left. \mycommand{3} \left.\left. \mycommand{2} \left. \mycommand{1} where the argument ...

The default behaviour of C-c ) is to insert \ref and prefix it with~. I don't need the tilde after \S (i.e. I need the output to look like \S\ref{label}, rather than \S~\ref{label}). Is there a short ...

I have a scimax based configuration and my source block fontification is broken. I suspect it has to do with the release of Org-mode 9.3 which I am currently using. Thats why I am trying to roll-back ...

I use Emacs in a terminal to read email using mu4e, mbsync. I have PassCmd "gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d ~/.authinfo.gpg | awk '/machine imap.gmail.com login rudolf.sykora@gmail.com/ {...

When typing docstring in python-mode, I always have issue with indentation. If I am at this point (| is the cursor): def fn(): """ Args:|""" If I press Enter, the cursor will move right below ...

When getting an Elisp error and trying to debug the problem, the backtrace buffer is quite hard to read with its long lines. Is there a way to get a pretty-printed backtrace buffer?

When moving to use-package, I'd to replace (require 'markdown-mode) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode)) with (use-package markdown-mode :mode "\\.md\\'" :config ... ) ...

I am getting the following error while startup Failed to verify signature dash-2.12.0.tar.sig: No public key for 066DAFCB81E42C40 created at 2019-09-21T23:24:49+0530 using RSA Command output: gpg: ...

Emacs 26.2 M-C-L is bound to switch-to-next-buffer. I have many files open but it's simply flopping between two. On my old XEmacs the same key cycled through all of them (and S-M-C-L did so ...

I have the following in my .emacs: (use-package flymake :init (remove-hook 'flymake-diagnostic-functions 'flymake-proc-legacy-flymake) (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook #'flymake-mode) (add-hook '...

whitespace-mode will show the whitespace all the time in entire buffer, Is there the way to show whitespaces only when the region is selected. which is pretty cool to have, does there mode exist for ...

Since the first option is the right one when fixing a common misspelling. Is there a way to make ispell-word correct the spelling of a word to the first suggestion instead of prompting from a list of ...

I have an org file that looks something like this: * Tasks ** TODO A test task * 2019 ** 2019-12 December *** 2019-12-10 Tuesday **** Day planning ***** Tasks for today [0/1] ****** TODO Another ...