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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 circled through all of them (and S-M-C-L did backwards)....

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 ...

I want to use two frames. One on virtual desktop #1 and the other one on #2. I (have to) work on Windows so I would like to see a frame number in the frame title, since Windows lacks a permanently ...

If I open file at home directory there will be a warning: (emacs:49027): GLib-WARNING **: 10:34:31.190: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was ...

In org-mode, if I do something like this: #+begin_src org ## What does this PR do? - Updates the Dockerfile to make the `dev` service connect to a shared network at startup - Registers the `...

Connecting to a remote machine with tramp that may have VC (subversion) related files, I tend to see a large number of repeated messages in the *Messages* buffer. For example: Type "q" in help ...

I often find myself doing this: Selecting a region of text in an org file. Calling org-md-export-as-markdown. Selecting the converted text in the temporary buffer (can't just do mark-whole-buffer ...

As expected, the following dialog box expires after five seconds under Linux: (progn (setq last-nonmenu-event nil) (y-or-n-p-with-timeout "Proceed? " 5 nil)) However, it lasts forever under ...

I have several agenda commands set up, one of which gives me a block agenda, others give me specific searches. Since many of my TODOs are hanging around inside of projects, where I only archive the ...

I would like to use agenda to generate a list of currently active projects. An active project (for me) is an entry tagged with wip and is not a TODO entry. I would like the list to have only the top-...

Is there any way to enable clockreport-mode in a TODO-agenda view? I mainly use this view because I don't really set dates for my tasks so the agenda-view is not really helpful for me (I'm using ...

If I do M-x org-capture, then delete the timestamp next to 'entered on', say 2019-12-09, then replace it with an abitrary one using C-c C !, say 2019-11-29, then C-c C-c to save, here's what happens: ...

I've been reading this and this, trying to figure out how to have an org-mode in-buffer settings template such as this: # # -*- mode: org -*- # # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #+TITLE: $1 #+AUTHOR: `(user-...

I amended .emacs as shown below. Then M-x load-file ~/.emacs. What I want to do in test.org is add MEntal tags to each of the two entries, for example Read and Reminder, respectively. Using the column ...

Reminder: one enters the week-agenda view by typing C-c a a. Only serendipitously did I find out that ! toggles "deadline inclusion". How would I find the description of similar key bindings from ...

emacs-jupyter supports pdb by displaying the pdb prompt in a minibuffer. I have a feeling that I should be able to connect to it with realgud:pdb, similarly to how I can realgud:track-mode-enable in ...

I've been trying to make yasnippet work with my Emacs on Mac OS 10.15 and Windows 10 but have failed till now. Along with a few other routes that I took, below is one of them: Install the package ...

Emacs 26.1, Windows 10 (64 bit) M-x eshell Here result: But it's read only. But I need to type text in any place in any place in eshell. Also I want to move cursor in any place in eshell buffer. ...

The HTML export of an org file transforms the links to "to equivalent HTML links in the output" How can I suppress this? I want to keep the same link names. Example: If we have this org file. ** ...

Is there some package or builtin emacs feature which evaluates an algebraic formula in place? E.g. I type in the scratch buffer: (3 + 4) * 5 and when I invoke some command on this line then I ...

I'm trying to run a simple HelloWorld from Emacs using dap-mode commands dap-debug and dap-java-debug but prompted the error saying lsp-request: No delegateCommandHandler for vscode.java....

To display a text "tiếng Việt" (which means Vietnamese), I tried this: (set-fontset-font t '(#x1e00 . #x1eff) "Consolas") but it did not work. describe-char shows: "ế" ⇒ 1ebf "ệ" ⇒ 1ec7, so they ...

This is pretty simple but it's thwarting me: this is how a switch statement indents in js2-mode switch(letterGrade){ case "A+": value = 100 ; break; case "A": value = 97 ; break; ...

How would I go about getting the key binding for a function in elisp? I'd like to know which key is used to quit. e.g. keyboard-quit. I tried using the function used by help functionality but it's ...

I'm trying to write a function that takes a string and returns non-nil if it's the word do not followed by the character :. Something like this: (string-match (rx "do[^:]") input) but I get the ...

When trying to clock in a task in org mode I am getting this error: Troubleshooting so far: tried erasing .elc files from elpa org directory and re-loading. Tried updating org mode. Update failed (...

Currently, ruby-mode in Emacs 27 indents the following snippets like this: expect(foo).to match( bar ) expect(foo).to \ match(bar) Is there a way to ...

Looking into undo, there are variables: undo-limit, undo-strong-limit, undo-outer-limit. While I can blindly set these to a big number and hope for the best.Whats a good rule of thumb for setting ...

In the org manual, one of the classes of options for the :results header argument is "format". The default seems to be a #+RESULTS block followed by the results prepended by a colon, for example, #+...

I wrote some LISP code that was wrong because I was trying to pop a cons twice: (let ((pair '("a" . "b"))) (let* ((a (pop pair)) (b (pop pair))) b)) Evaluating this in the *scratch* ...

When I start bongo from GNOME using the leuven theme (load-theme 'leuven), I can see the icons quite clearly: From the Window manager I instead see: What is GNOME doing to let me see these icons? ...

In general, Icicles sorts things in alphabetical order. However, something I can’t find has made it so filenames are sorted in descending alphabetical order (z, y, x … b, a). I can use C-M-, to ...

I've been experiencing a weird problem. Ever since updating to catalina my emacs crashes at random intervals. It seems that there is no rule (or I cannot see it) to when it happens. The frequency is ...

When viewing alltodo's (M-x org-agenda RET t), is it possible to see and edit Scheduled/Due dates? I understand that the list of TODOs can be very long and therefore seeing timestamps could clutter ...

Imagine I want to create a list with 10 items, i. e. 1. 2. 3. ... 10. In Vim I can use the command :for i in range(1,10) | put =i.'. ' | endfor for this. How can I do the same thing in Emacs? ...

I'm working on a mac (Catalina 10.15.1) and I've recently switched from Aquamacs to GNU Emacs (updated to 26.3 build 1). In Aquamacs, I had no issues accessing https sites, though I'm unable to do ...

At home, I use Emacs on a large monitor, and I often switch between it and the browser. Sometimes, when I come back to Emacs, I lose between 1 and 5 seconds finding where current point (the cursor) is....

In Vim I could retrieve past commands by typing :<first-letter-of-command>↑ . If my Vim command history is:- colorscheme + source % shell set spell colorscheme? bp term Typing :s↑ directly ...

Here is a simple file: #+TAGS: math(m) music(u) * Gödel :math: * Bach :music: * Gauss :math: * Beethoven :music: * Mozart :music: Then I tried M-x org-tags-view Match: +math I expected that Gödel ...

Nowadays I often insert @Online entries into my bibliography files. Unfortunately, the RefTeX doesn't have the Online-Entry bound to any key by default. I tried to add something like ;; I often use ...

When using (i)ESS, I would like to function/variable/argument/filename completion on demand using the minibuffer, without triggering the company pseudotooltip front end. I have tried the following: (...

Suppose I have the piece of text (hello world). How can electric pair be made to work such that deleting the opening parenthesis automatically deletes the closing parenthesis? Some examples (the ...

Gents, I used several IDEs for Python. I like Spyder, but I have have been a pretty obsessive Emacs user for a LONG time. I install ELPY. It works very well for my needs. However, I cannot get ...

When I open the Linux Kernel code, my default indentation conflicts with the desired formatting of the Kernel. I use Emacs Prelude, so I added the settings from this link to my c-mode-common-hook. I ...

I am using spacemacs. I want to achieve similar thing to the one in question browse through bookmarks in dired. I would like to be able to quickly choose an alternative destination from within the ...