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I have two tables #+NAME: tasks | name | spent | |--------+--------| | task 1 | | | task 2 | | | task 3 | | | task 4 | | | task 5 | | #+NAME: works | date ...

I want to extend a standard Emacs function (package--save-selected-packages), but to cover my tracks I want to save the old defintion under a new name and then redintion teh standard function. I tried ...

I have a keyboard with dedicated keys for XF86Cut, XF86Copy, XF86Paste. I want to bind these to Emacs commands. The goal is get the usual behavior for cut-and-paste between Emacs, my terminal, and my ...

On Emacs 26.3, Ubuntu 20.04, when I run emacs -Q followed by (package-refresh-contents) I get Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443 So the package refresh just hangs. I tried to switch from https to ...

I'm having a hard time getting unicode to properly displayed in GUI. I'm trying to type poker cards unicode inside emacs GUI, 🂩 for instance. I would like to use font "Ubuntu Mono", NOT ...

When I press "gd" to go to the definition of a class in C ++, emacs splits the screen and shows me two definition options that I need to click on with one of them. I'm used to coc.nvim where ...

When I open an R file in ESS-mode, I'd like emacs to setup my panes in a certain format. To this end, I've added the following to my init.el. (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook (lambda() (...

I am trying to write a function which will perform a bookmark-jump but then reset the the bookmark line to the top of the screen. So far I have: (defun foo () (interactive) (bookmark-jump) ...

The context Lately, I've been writing the configurations of all the programs I use in Org Mode because of some features that improves the readibility of such files. The code block below shows a part ...

I'd like to use emacs as a replacement for my current IDE when using R. I like to divide my workspace into three panes: Text editor R console zsh Previously, I had used tmux to achieve this by ...

For many files I have file-local variables which asked me once if they were safe and I could add them permanently to my "trusted" list, never to be asked again. However, I get asked every ...

I have defined a key-binding for M-TAB , as follows: (global-set-key (kbd "M-TAB") 'suspend-frame) This works fine but once in a while it prints ;9~. I am not sure the main cause of this. ...

I see I can view the github pull requests assigned to me with forge-list-requested-reviews. Is there a way to see the status of each review? For example I've approved some of the pull requests that ...

In a buffer in Emacs, a line is the text you get from the first character after you press "Enter" to the last character before the next "Enter". And so, this is the line numbers ...

Say I want to create and edit a new R file using emacs/ESS. I type emacs myfile.R at my shell prompt and an empty file opens. Hurray! I start typing my code: library(da at which point I am interrupted ...

When in the "calendar", typing "d", which runs (diary-view-entries), gives me an error Symbols-function-definition is void: "appt-make-list". It shows the (one) entry for ...

There are buffers that prevent you from being able to execute interactive commands (by overriding the default M-x binding). For example, *ansi-term* buffer would do this. (I know you can do C-cM-x to ...

I have two links in my org buffer: [file://tmp/foo.pdf] [file://tmp/bar.pdf] Hitting enter on [file://tmp/foo.pdf] opens the pdf in the same frame (using pdf-tools / ..Running /usr/bin/xdg-open..). I ...

I modified org-show-context-detail to minimal. Which for org-match-sparse-tree means 'show current headline, and entry below if needed' (if needed means the entry will only be shown if point is within ...

I want to implement a certain time-management system in emacs/org-mode. For each project, I intend to have one .org file which includes all associated to-dos. I already created those. Now, I would ...

I am using emacs27 with macOS, installed with brew cask install emacs command. After updated my emacs version from 26 to 27, company-mode stop working when I edit my rust code with rust-analyzer back ...

I am writing a report in latex, many of which contain code blocks which will be rendered with asymptote. Since all the scripts will be tangled into the same subdirectory asyscripts, I don't want to ...

I'm getting mixed results with xref-js2 and want to confirm if what I'm seeing is expected or not. I'm using Emacs 27, and I have the following config: (require 'ripgrep) (require 'js2-mode) (add-to-...

My javascript mode indents with a mix of tabs and spaces. I'm ok with the mix if spaces are used for cosmetic alignment, but this is just wrong: First level of indentation is spaces, second is tab, ...

Something I like in Emacs is positioning the cursor after the closing brace/paren highlights the opening brace/paren. Even better, like in Emacs-Lisp mode, the opening ( line is displayed in the ...

I have an org file which looks like this: * Chores #:PROPERTIES: #:VISIBILTY: showall #:END: # STARTUP: showeverything # no + so this does nothing right now ** NEXT Brush Teeth in Day SCHEDULED: &...

I would like to write a function that would prompt the user to select a directory, using an UI like that presented by counsel-find-file. The starting directory should be an arbitrary directory passed ...

Unfortunately, I'm stuck on Windows. I have a network folder under this PC. Is there a way to navigate into it with dired without mounting it as another drive?

I am trying to write a custom org-capture template, but I get an error if I try to use the %\N functionality to insert the N-th prompt. The relevant excerpt of my org-capture-templates variable is (&...

Often I am involved with transforming text with one system of word separation (e.g., camelcase) into another system (e.g., hyphen separation, space separation, underscore separation. For example, if I ...

I've been playing around with Emacs for the first time this week, and I've been having some issues with the color scheme. This post was prompted by getting some weird when using helm. I've also ...

My elpy package tells me that it can not find the command "flake8" on a Windows 10 machine. Ok, it make a bit sense to me. By default there is no flake8 on Windows 10 installed. I was not ...

No matter in which mode I am currently in, is there a general way / key combination to open the help file related to the currently active mode?

I want to open a new file in a different directory than the current one. Pressing C-x C-f -> I could enter a file name. But I don't. Pressing RET The directory listing (mode (dired by name)) comes ...

I use Emacs for programming and also read mail in Gnus. My problem is that I'm typing fast, switching buffers and Windows etc, and too often accidentally hit some key that is bound to some command ...

I find the default prefix for smerge-mode C-c^ and I have following setup: (setq smerge-command-prefix "\C-cv") (setq smerge-command-prefix "\C-c\C-v") Also C-c ^ runs the command ...

When I archive a repeated task (let's say, a learning project of 15 minutes every Wednesday day for 2 month), the task gets archived in a date tree all under the day it was closed (cancelled) as a ...

When using dired and I see a .tar.xz file I can visit this file in other window (<mouse-1>) and the file is a browsable tar archive. How do I get .tbz2 files to behave in the same way? I am ...

I use the same .custom file on different machines syncronised via a git repo. I just noticed that suddenly the .custom file from one machine uses the (quote syntax while in the past the ' syntax was ...

While there are org-templates creating entire bullet points with content, what I am looking for is a simple user query (similar to read-string) where the user can use a pre-defined list of words/...

I am trying desperately to import: from src.test2 import test but it does not work, though i have a /src/test2/test.py file. I have tried so much (adding extra paths, adding pythonpath, adding init.py ...

Emacs-27.1 ships with a new tab-bar-mode minor mode. This puts a tab bar at the top of each Emacs frame. Each tab in the tab bar can display multiple windows. Is there any way to invoke Emacs from the ...

I'm looking for the built-in command, probably a minor mode, that got my text unstuck from the left border of the window and showed more or less horizontally centered. The command doesn't modify the ...

In this mode some latex content is visually replaced with something that looks similar to the final output, like making a superscript show up as superscript in the source. It's doing this with \par, ...

I have macOS Catalina. I just installed emacs 27. version but it's only in the terminal not in a different display of its own (i think that is called GUI). Please suggest for GUI.

Due to severe limitations at work I'm forced to run TTY Emacs on a remote Unix server via SSH (launched from Git Bash console under Windows 10... don't ask...). I got my dev environment mostly in ...

As the title says, I have an orgmode file I have been using with ess and exporting to TeX which has been going very well. However, I need to now export to html for reasons out of my control, and was ...

Reading the section regular expressions in EmacsWiki appears this: You can use a tool to construct regexps. For example, you can use ‘rx’ like this: (rx (or (and "\*" (*? anything) "*/&...

Via M-x list-packages I can view a list of installable and installed packages. Great! But how can I filter this list by a portion of the package name? PS: I know about package-menu-filter, but for me ...

If I have a list of file locations in elisp, how would I create an xref window, showing these locations?