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List isn't considered a list within macro
(setq x 1)
(defmacro dowhile (body condition)
(cl-flet ((seq_eval (mylist) (cl-dolist (elt mylist result) (setq result (eval elt)))))
(seq_eval body)
(while condition (seq_eval body))))
(...
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Calling a function interactively without adding it to the command history
In some cases, I often run the same command, say my-common-fun, which I call subsequently with M-x M-p RET, and occasionally run another command, such as my-occasional-fun. I want to call the latter ...
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Lowering org-pomodoro sound volume
The default "bell.wav" sound file included in the org-pomodoro package that plays when an interval is concluded is much louder than other sounds on my computer. I'm trying to figure out how ...
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treemacs error window keeps growing in size
I recently started using lsp-treemacs and I mostly like it. It would be nice if it auto-jumped to the file for the current buffer, but I can work around that.
However, the biggest complaint that I ...
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Why does customize buffer display "[ State ]: UNKNOWN, you should not see this"?
In a package of my own, namely skel-el, I define a user option skel-el-line1 (well, ok, I'm the only one user) which can be a string, a variable (containing some string) or a function (whithout ...
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How to implement a looped/repeated command until pressing exit
I have a question how to implement looped commands, which should repeat arbitrary many times until pressing exit (esc).
Let's say I want to define a function executing
avy-kill-whole-line or avy-kill-...
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Avy copy/delete partial sentence of a certain line
I have a question how to implement a command specific to avy.
A template of a command which I would like to generalize is
avy-kill-ring-save-whole-line.
I want to be able to copy/delete from char to ...
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Why does the execution of latex/hide-show-all with hooks not work?
I'm using AUCTeX, CDlatex and latex-extra to write LaTeX-files. When I access a file I'd want the contents of its sections to be hidden by default using the latex-extra1 command latex/hide-show-all, ...
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Can I add options to dired-rsync?
I recently installed dired-rsync which is exciting, but I immediately could not figure out how to add options when using it, like -a or -u, etc. Is it possible to use such options and if so, how?
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List out emojis
I am looking for a way to list out a complete "dictionary" of all the Emojis and their codes as shown here
I want the text in the boxes to be searchable as they are in this overview
This ...
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How to print and read a list to(from) a file?
I'd like to save a (extremely minimal) database made of a lisp list and then read it back.
The list will look like something as follows:
(:foo "bar" :baz "foobar" :foobaz "baz&...
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Get current theme's default cursor color after it's changed
How to get the current theme's default cursor color after it's modified by "set-cursor-color" of other functions that I defined?
I thought I was able to get the default color value by ...
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Load-file can't find a function in a loaded file
I'm using load-file to load a fork of the f.el library in a script, but a function / alias in the fork, f-presence / f-present?, isn't being recognized.
This is how I'm loading the file, and the usual ...
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Tangling fails when using #+PROPERTY instead of manually adding header arguments when using org source blocks
The following code doesn't work, yet adding :tangle tangleobject.org manually to each source block provides us with the expected tangle result. Any clue why?
#+PROPERTY: header-args :tangle ...
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How to bind the Super key in Emacs (non Windows)
Running
xev | awk -F'[ )]+' '/^KeyPress/ { a[NR+2] } NR in a { printf "%-3s %s\n", $5, $8 }'
results in
133 Super_L
when pressing my Windows key (there is only one). How do I make use of ...
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What steps should I take to troubleshoot use-package not loading packages
I'm using emacs 29.1 on Windows.
I have extracted the emacs folder to a corporate OneDrive.
I have a home folder set up with emacs-29.1\share\emacs\site-lisp\site-start.el
with (setenv "HOME"...
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How can I bind a prefix key to escape term-line-mode?
I've figured out how to get out of char mode, but not the other way around;)
#+begin_src elisp
(with-eval-after-load 'term
;Terminal Orientation
;(define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-M-e o l"...
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How do I --debug-init on Android?
I'm starting Emacs like this:
adb shell am start -n org.gnu.emacs/org.gnu.emacs.EmacsActivity
, but run into some problems that I need to debug.
If I try to pass "--debug-init"
adb shell am ...
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Return a list of functions with a given property or creating a group of functions
I am a copy editor and I make an intensive use of custom "predicates" when I perform replacements in LaTeX code.
I use, among others, this technique:
;; predicate
(defun omit-comments (beg ...
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How to build Emacs29 with tree-sitter without sudo
Here are the commands I'm running
First I install tree-sitter
make PREFIX=${HOME}/.tree-sitter
make PREFIX=${HOME}/.tree-sitter install
This populates ~/.tree-sitter directory
├── include
│ └── ...
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How to stop ispell-message in notmuch-message-mode from checking quotes and citations?
Per the documentation (`ispell-message) should ignore text from quoted mails.
For example:
"My interlocuter" [email protected] writes:
mispeled
But for some reason my emacs asks me to ...
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How can I make occur work only on visible text (e.g. org outline)?
Is there a way to do an M-x occur on only visible text, similar to how you can make isearch skip folded content with setq-local search-invisible nil? That way we could occur on for example headings of ...
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Any free form input methods for any calendars in Emacs?
Is there anything like the Quick Add Google Calendar feature from here, for Emacs-based or other free calendars?
Basically, I would like a small program to parse unstructured English, like this:
14 ...
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How to disable Helm's yes/no/save dialog
I'm using Helm, but want to use the original Emacs dialog instead of Helm's version when closing an unsaved file. Turns out I prefer using the Emacs' simple y-or-n-p dialog.
How do I disable Helm in ...
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A script to export org with highlighted code block
I've written the script to export all of my ORG files into HTML files. It takes the files from the folder "content" and saves the results to "public".
(setq user-emacs-directory &...
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Prevent ox-koma-letter.el from creating .tex files?
When running org-koma-letter-export-to-pdf on an .org file to create a .pdf file ox-koma-letter.el also creates a .tex file. Does anyone know if there is any way to prevent it (or just clean it up ...
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Running emacs in batch mode from command line doesn't work
Does anyone know if ox-koma-export.el can be invoked from command line:
emacs --batch -e '(org-koma-letter-export-to-pdf)' letter.org
Should emacs in general be universally reproducible from command ...
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`term` often gets filled with random character codes, any suggestion on how to fix it?
I'm running doom emacs, and here's an example of a command I ran and the resulting output. For some reason, term gets filled with these random character codes. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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How to use a dynamic block (column view) as input to a babel function?
I am trying to use the table of an org-mode columnview dynamic block as input to a org-mode babel function. It works fine with static tables, but with the dynamic table, I get a "Reference not ...
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Warning: void-function org-link-set-parameter [duplicate]
Anyone know why I might be getting the following warning on running emacs? I'm running org-mode 9.7 with the latest doom emacs.
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/home/seba/....
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remove overlay "if any character within the overlay is changed"
I have this example function:
(defun enumerate-foo ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(let ((counter 0))
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (search-forward-regexp "\\<foo\\>&...
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detangle preserve noweb
I've recently gotten into literate Programming with org-mode.
I'd like to be able to write all my functions across multiple Code Blocks, tangle them into a files but also test them from inside the org ...
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Unicode displayed incorrectly
I recently discovered set-input-method TeX and really like it! But I noticed that certain characters are displayed incorrectly. For example, ₘ is displayed as a superscript ⊕ to me:
To reproduce:
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How to set org mode to edit file when click on html file link?
The default action when click on a html file link will open it in browser.
How to config the action of click to distinct web links and disk file link, so the web link starts with http or https will be ...
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Execute Code with Env Var Set Temporarily
Here's a piece of C++ code (its content is not important) written in an Org file:
#+BEGIN_SRC C++
#include <omp.h>
#include <iostream>
int main() {
#pragma omp parallel
std::...
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how to export a table of contents for tagged lines only
Let's say my document has this motif:
* Heading 1 :sometag:
** Heading 1.1
*** Heading 1.1.1 :target:
* Heading 2 :target:
** Heading 2.1 :sometag:
When exporting (say, ...
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org-mode custom agenda view with multiple lines per item?
Is it possible to create an agenda view that displays a few lines for each item? I want to get items tagged :project:, by running a search like you do with org-tags-view (the tag and maybe some other ...
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client always pops up a msgbox before connecting
My Emacs server uses a non-localhost IP address to listen for potential TCP connections.
Each time I run emacsclientw.exe, the message box
will pop up.
Is there any way to avoid it?
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How to bind Windows key in Emacs on FreeBSD
How do I bind the Windows key to a function in Emacs 29.1 on FreeBSD
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pass arguments in call-process as key/value
I try to run a command which takes some arguments and requires to pass some attributes to the API.
I understand that call-process takes args as strings but any invocation complains about
wrong-type-...
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Tramp (from straight) fails in emacs 29
After switching to fc39, emacs fails to load tramp via my use-package statement:
(straight-use-package 'use-package)
(setq straight-use-package-by-default t)
...
(use-package tramp)
The error is as ...
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Set default face (font) with use-package ':custom-face'
What do I need to tell 'use-package' so that it will set the default font for all frames on Emacs startup?
With 'use-package' now installed as part of Emacs, I want to specify faces with its :custom-...
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Store and recover expansion state within org mode
I realize that this question has been asked before, many times, (How to save expansion state of org-file?, as well as org-mode: go back from sparse tree to previous visibility), but, it does seem to ...
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emacs on wsl2 creating directories with bad/unusable permissions
Running emacs (29.1.90) in WSL2 on Windows 11. (Also tried 30.0.50, same results)
Got everything working smoothly but when emacs creates directories they are being created with the wrong permissions. ...
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How can I start Emacs from the command line on Android?
The reason I want this, is that I need to run with --debug-init
First, I find the package name
$adb shell pm list packages |grep -i emac
package:org.gnu.emacs
Then I try to start it
$ adb shell am ...
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How to search regex in a url-retrieve buffer?
I'm trying to implement a login system with emacs lisp, the login system has a hidden input field that's initially empty and is filled by a piece of javascript code when submitting.
I'm currently ...
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Evil mode "o" auto indent in text mode - how to turn it off?
When I press o in evil mode (which moves the cursor to the line under, and goes into insert mode), the cursor is indented by two spaces.
When I press o, the cursor goes
here
This happens in text ...
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update org-mode inline image after image file modified
I have a image displayed as inline image in org-mode. I would expect after the image file modified by others, emacs detect such modify and refresh the buffer to show the updated image.
How can I make ...
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Turn off the large parentheses
I ultimately got annoyed of Calc's new displaying of parentheses
Here it's vaguely tolerable (you may however notice the presence of artifacts), but for complicated expressions the various graphical ...
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Faster way to go from directory bookmark to file heading?
I currently have a dired bookmark set to a directory. So in order to access a particular heading, the sequence is as follows:
Bookmarks keybind, type initial letters of directory bookmark.
(Dired ...
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