All Questions

I want to enable writeroom-mode whenever I startup org-mode because I don't really ever want writeroom-mode to be disabled if I'm using org-mode.

I've installed the company package in order to get an auto-completion functionality. It works well in my ESS environment, but no in latex. In fact, no completions are showed in latex buffers when I ...

Step 1: Press M-x Step 2: type switch-to-buffer , Press RET Step 3: Press TAB I need a keybinding to complete these three steps at once. Step 2 can be replaced with "type imenu , Press RET" , ...

I use mu4e for email. I can attach a file to a new message with drag-and-drop or with dired (as in these directions from the manual). I would like to code the same behavior as Mail: in the Finder, I ...

I'm on MS Windows, if that makes a difference. My desired behavior: There is only one frame visible at any time. Visiting a file should use an existing window in that frame. (This is the default ...

This is my config for org-babel: (use-package org :mode (("\\.org$" . org-mode)) :ensure org-plus-contrib :config (org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages ...

I started using Emacs a few days ago and facing the problem. I use "M+ 1mn" for programming so I set this for Emacs. But It looks thicker than usual.(in Geany, VSCode, Xfce Terminal ...) How do I fix ...

I am trying to get started with elpy but any python file I open elpy will complain and say eldoc error: (error Elpy necessitates the ’virtualenv’ python package, please install it with ‘pip ...

Objective: In daily agenda, when at office, do not show tasks that can only do at home. That is filter tasks with "@office" tag in daily agenda. Solution 1: Automatically removing context based tasks ...

Here's what I'm trying to make happen: on startup, I want emacs to split vertically into two windows displaying two different files, with my to-do list on the left side of the screen and my notes on ...

In coq mode I have ligatures being used: instead of "fun", it shows λ in the programming code. But in the comments lambda transformed into a character I can't even copy, so I'll attach a screenshot: ...

I setup the waka time to monitor my usage successfully. However, the mode line only shows "waka" and nothing on the amount of time I spent using Emacs. To get the statistics, I have to login to Waka ...

In my Spacemacs, I enabled the spell-checking layer which enables ispell. I noticed that my Tramp connection is very slow, and after debugging, I found that one of the causes is ispell: 02:07:20....

This is what I have: (add-hook 'magit-status-mode-hook (lambda () (local-set-key (kbd "<C-return>") 'magit-diff-visit-file-other-window))) Opening a magit-status buffer fails with "C- ...

Inspired by this answer, I have written the following function to perform a query-replace inside a math environment, but it does not work. Edit. If you execute the function, the query-search tries to ...

I want to get all the full path by a folder name called autoload, in my config i had split it like this file structure. ├── init.el ├── packs │ ├── +completion │ │ ├── ivy │ │ │ ├── ...

I want to do some refactoring. For that purpose I want to list all keywords grouped and sorted by their frequency of appearance. That could help me get ideas, which repetitive code I could start ...

is there a way to sort only on second level headlines in org mode? i am outlining a novel with top level headline being the chapter number and the second level headline being the timeline of the ...

I'd like to achieve the following intelligent scaling of inline images: If image-actual-width > 800: scale it down to 800 Else: display image without any further scaling Doing (setq org-image-...

In Aquamacs, I frequently find myself being yanked out of my focus, concretely and figuratively, if I try to view a buffer which is already displayed in a different frame, often on another desktop. ...

I just need a function that will say if a heading is collapsed or not. Need it to ensure an open heading, because org-cycle, well, cycles and it appears there are no good alternatives (e.g. org-show-...

Is there any package that covers indentation with space like visual studio? like, if(a==b) ==> if(a<space>==<space>b) for(int i=0;i<N;i++) ==> for(int i<space>=<space&...

Just recently I switched to emacs. More and more, emacs become my one-stop concerning all activities dealing with text reading/editing. Now I am at the point where I also want to integrate my email ...

When I open a new buffer with a .el extension, I get the following error message from flycheck: Suspicious state from syntax checker emacs-lisp: Flycheck checker emacs-lisp returned non-zero exit code ...

When I checkout an existing remote branch, the current buffer remains on the old branch. However if I open a new file, that new file is on the checked-out branch. My current workflow is this: ...

I use mu4e. I would like to add a hook called with a new message, such as adding a certain value in CC or in Reply-to. I found no guidance online and no functions starting with mu4e and ending with ...

After upgrading emacs from 24.4 to 26.3 on Windows, everything works fine except for one thing: the list-packages window has become horribly slow. Like, the cursor moves one second after the keystroke....

Is it possible for org-mode agenda view to display a customized label for the week, in addition to the week number included by default? For example, the agenda for the current week shows: Week-agenda ...

I guess this is best explained by screenshots. I have one entry like this: then I run M-x org-agenda RET a RET and I get something like this: Problem is, I do not want this timestamp to show up in ...

I would like to use org-capture to quickly store appointments in a journal file, and add a timestamp so that the appointment appears in my agenda. I'm using the following template: ;; excerpted from ...

The Problem Performance issues when point is inside/on a symbol go-eldoc/gocode has info for. Based on my interaction with emacs I would guess that the problem has something to do with gocode being ...

The code constantly prints server-process: nil instead of the server process name: -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- (let* ((port 1234) (server-process 'something)) (setq server-process (...

Is there a way to dynamically hide lines that are indented more than the current line? For example, if I am looking at this file { "a": 1 "b": { "c": { "d": 2 } } } and I am on ...

I'm learning how to use use-package, and I've some troubles to make it work with the Auctex packages (all the other packages are fine). I made my own function configure-viewer that basically adds a ...

When I use emacs in Jupyter hub terminal to edit a file, emacs seems to always insert an extra sequence of characters: 0;276;0c before the actual content. Also, after exiting emacs, the terminal ...

I have a JSON file with an object containing a long String with linebreaks \n like so: { ... "subtitle": "**Thesis:** 1-Loop Anomalous Dimensions of 4-Quark Operators\n\n Specializing in ...

I have a folder structure like this,i want get a list that all folder names in pack folder. Then traverse the list and load them ├── pack │   ├── completion │   │   ├── company │   │   │   └── pack-...

Windows 10, Emacs 26.1 | | Start date | End date | Task | State | Duration (hours) | |---+------------------+------------------+----------+-----------+------------------| | # |...

I want to run some function f after adding a hook to a mode and after running f remove the hook that I added, returning the result of f if there is one. Here is a non-working version that I hope ...

I try to use org-mode for scheduling weekly tasks in my university. Say I have this timetable: * Mon: ** Subject A: *** Ex. 50 *** Prepare presentation ** Subject B: **...

I want to record some typing on a screen video using emacs and I'm wondering if there is something available in emacs to mimic human typing. I imagine I feed it a line(region) of text and it is ...

I'm currently running this version of Emacs: GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.7) of 2019-04-11, modified by Debian I'm attempting to use use-package to configure the ...

I'm trying to leverage the power of org capture templates. There are a few tasks I know I will be scheduling on particular dates of the month. Setting their schedule and deadline in the capture ...

I'm trying to get company mode to automatically trigger the pop-up with a list of possible completion. Unless I'm doing this wrong this is not the default behaviour? Current I have to run M-x company-...

I have the following source block of Scheme code: #+BEGIN_SRC scheme :results value verbatim append (define shift (lambda (list-with-sublists) (cond [(pair? (car list-with-sublists)) ...

When I start Emacs I get the error message Error (use-package): Cannot load counsel But when I open init.el in a buffer and run eval-buffer everything works fine. What I'm doing wrong? My Emacs ...

In emacs-26.1, I am enabling the Japanese input method as follows ... (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters 1) (set-language-environment "Japanese") (set-input-method "japanese") (setq coding-system-...

I want to build a helm-source from a large hash-table, is there a smarter/faster way to to this, than the way described below? (setq tab #s(hash-table size 16 test equal ...

If I use isearch to search for the word "accommodating" in my document, I have to type acc before the cursor jumps to the word. When I press enter the cursor is on the the second "c" as in ...

For instance, I have the following habit "sleep before 23h" ** TODO sleep before 23h SCHEDULED: <2019-09-07 sam. 23:00 +1d> :PROPERTIES: :STYLE: habit ...