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In my quest to find ways of making emacs more snappy, I installed lsp-mode. The main language I work with is R, and indeed using lsp-mode in .R files is much quicker than the ess built-in completion. ...

I attempt to use GNU Stow to manage the Emacs-28.0.90 installed from source right now. At first I'm planning to set the Stow Directory as /usr/local/stow, the Stow Package Directory as /usr/local/stow/...

In org-mode comments next to a table is same color as the table itself. Would it be possible to change the comments' color if they are next to a table? For | Timestamp | Money | |--------------+----...

Linux Mint 20.2 Emacs 27.2 In current folder and many subfolders I has many files with tne next content: private static Logger logger = Logger .getLogger(JdbcDefaultAccountStatusDao.class); Here ...

I installed the org-roam-ui package from emacs package-install but after trying adding these lines of code: Doom Add the following to your package.el Org-roam-ui tries to keep up with the latest ...

When I work on web files I usually use web-mode for javascript, php and css files, the problem I have is that yasnippet uses the current mode to find what snippets to load for that buffer ( as stated ...

I have a number of org files I want to export to rich text. I have used in them the following numbering scheme 1. Point 1. 2. Point 2. 3. Point 3. together with ordinary org-headings like: * ** *** ...

Error "End of file while parsing JSON" while trying to make request to monero-daemon-rpc. (require 'json-rpc) (setf monerod (json-rpc-connect "localhost" 18081)) (json-rpc ...

I would like to bind the dedicated function keys (F1 through F10) using the standard modifier key, e.g. (define-key my-keymap (kbd "<S-F2>") #'my-function). However, this and similar ...

I am using mu4e and pdf-tools. Whenever I go to open an attached pdf (e.g., with gnus-article-press-button) the attachment pops open in a new frame. How can I control where it pops up? Looking at that ...

When I export my .org file to HTML the images assume their default value even with the restriction of the variable '(org-image-actual-width 700). The restriction works inside Emacs and if I add the ...

When composing a GNU's message, the cited text gets highlighted with different faces depending on the level. This doesn't seem to work in notmuch out-of-the-box. How do I configure this correctly? It ...

I'd like to remove :foreground color specificity from link face so that it displays in the same color as the surrounding face. For example, in the below image, "link" should be brown and &...

(NB: In this post, I will use expressions like "a buffer's underlying file" to mean, in the Emacs' documentation's terminology, "the file a buffer is visiting", i.e. the value of (...

I want to build a regex to match a group of characters which belong either to word (\sw) or to symbol (\s_) syntax groups. Is it possible to use syntax classes in the character alternative group regex ...

I use this code (found here) to highlight a single line in black: (defun find-overlays-specifying (prop pos) (let ((overlays (overlays-at pos)) found) (while overlays (let ((...

When I call gtags-find-tag-dwim, matches item will be highlighted for about one second. Like this: Please note that ggtags-highlight-tag has absolutely nothing to do with this highlight, I believe ...

like this: The mode line color of the current buffer is darker, I hope the color will not change.

I successfully use org LaTeX-preview to have my formulas displayed as images in my org-mode documents. There is one problem I am facing, though: I need the LaTeX math font to be upright instead of ...

I am trying to enable electric-indent-mode for all modes except fundamental-mode, where it is just annoying. In my init file, I have the following: (electric-indent-mode +1) (add-hook 'after-change-...

I've been using hide-ifdef-mode with c-mode buffers for a while, but it is quite tedious to have to manually run hide-ifdefs (C-c @ h) every time a block of code containing preprocessors changes. Is ...

Even when I start Emacs without any initialization file, it is still aware of version control. (For example, if I visit a git-controlled file, the modeline will say something like "Git:some-...

If I'm in a project and actively on a file in a subdirectory. Using counsel-file-jump doesn't let me search from root. Also typing ../ doesn't work either. Any ideas how to get it to use the ...

When I call gtags-find-tag-dwim, matches item will be highlighted for about one second. When I call xref-pop-marker-stack, matches item will be highlighted for about 0.2 second. like this: －－－－－－－－－－－...

I am having some difficulty getting flyspell/aspell to run on emacs 27.2, MacOS 12.01. I think I need to install or enable a dictionary, but no ideas on how to do this. If I type 'M-x flyspell-mode' I ...

I use gnus configured to read mails from the davmail IMAP server. This one is used to read mails from outlook and translate them according to the IMAP protocol. When I start gnus, I configured emacs ...

Emacs 26.3, Ubuntu Linux. In c sharp mode when a function is not inside class, the brackets are not indented: public static void Main(string[] args) { System.Console.WriteLine("Hello"); }...

Summary of the problem Hey guys, I am currently keeping track of the stocks I buy and sell in org mode using tables. I have N different tables in a given file, each table representing a transaction. ...

Two Debian systems with different history of apt-based and local software installations. On one system, cmake-mode works, on the other not, though file /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode.el ...

I'm reading the beginning of the Emacs manual on inserting text. It says you can run C-x 8 [ to insert a left single curly quote. That works. In my init.el I have this: (define-key global-map [(...

I'm running into an awkward bug with lsp-mode + clangd for batch editing files. When a source file is loaded, the symbols it points to aren't immediately available (using xref-find-definitions for ...

When one uses the ess ( emacs speaks statistics ) package written for R, C-c c, runs the whole buffer in the R interpreter in the other window. But, C-c C-n just runs one line which is sometimes ...

Suppose I have this indentation: with {:ok, _} <- Foo.bar(x, %{ baz: "foo" }),~ true <- 1 < 2 do # [...] end and ~ marks where's my cursor. If I then ...

Linux Mint 20.2 Emacs 27.1 Task: I has folder with MyProject with 5 subfolders. Total count of files in all this folders are about 500 files. I need I all files that content import org.apache.log4j....

I just got cloned a piece of software and the download folder looks like this: What I am to do next to compile this piece of software? Thanks!

The frame title I can see in an emacs window on my computer running Windows 11 is "emacs@NEYMAN", where "Neyman" is the computer name. Is it possible to make the frame title more ...

I'm using a script to translate my calendars from ics to an org file, so that scheduled events appear in my agenda. An entry in the org file has the following format, with CALENDAR being an agenda ...

I am using Common Lisp, SBCL, Emacs, and Slime. Often, an error will happen while programming. When an error occurs, Slime opens a Debugger buffer. Sometimes, I would like to save this debugger buffer ...

I would like to be able to read a jupyter notebook without actually having a jupyter kernel, in Emacs. For instance, having a file example.ipynb, I would like to be able to open that file with Emacs, ...

At work we're running an old version (7.8.1) of org-mode. In trying to upgrade things to version 9 (specifically 9.1.1), lots of things are breaking. One particular problem is that our site init ...

If I understand correctly M-x revert-buffer reverts to the last auto saved buffer, as explained here. I just lost a big file (it was garbled for some reason). I opened the auto back up file but it was ...

with emacs -Q, I can use whitespace-mode : But in diff-mode this is what I get: you can see the tabs/space/newlines aren't shown (highlighted). How can I make diff-mode highlight whitespace chars?

For Ediff's wide display feature I like to use my own ediff-make-wide-display function. Ediff has a variable for this: ediff-make-wide-display-function. However when I write: (defun my-ediff-make-wide-...

I use a two-screen setup, and I like to have a frame with dired on one screen and another frame on the second screen. When I want to work on a specific file, I usually copy the file path from dired ...

I have the following code to auto format python code using autopep8: (defcustom python-autopep8-path (executable-find "autopep8") "autopep8 executable path." :group 'python :...

Emacs org-babel is an excellent notebook tool for exploratory and interactive statistics in ESS. Now, I need to run very heavy scripts in R and the entire interface of emacs hungs for the duration of ...

In java-mode, I find the IntelliJ style comment block /** ... */ cannot be recognized correctly. And I have checked that the value of comment-start-skip variable (inherit from c-mode) is set as "\...

This answer how to map C-c ! to create a new python shell for the current buffer. The main code is this: (defun my-python-start-or-switch-repl (&optional msg) "Start and/or switch to the ...

How do I enable seamless scrolling for company-mode suggestions? To wit, I'd like to return to the top suggestion if I scroll down from the last, and go the the bottom if I scroll up from the first. I'...

I'm running emacs 26.3. I want to run a hook every time I switch to a buffer. However, I have not been able to find any kind of "buffer switch hook". If I want to always run a function when ...