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I have a command that semi-automates the insertion of numbered chapter headings in an org-mode file. (defun reset-counter () (interactive) (setq n 1)) (defun insert-numbered-chapter-headings () ...

I am converting from vim (beginner user) to emacs because of org-mode. I tried emacs for a couple of days. Even with evil-mode, I found myself having to use CTRL too many times. Three days ago, I ...

Yes, I know this question has been asked before and solved for Windows users but the solution does not work for me under MacOS 10.13.6 and Emacs 26.1 I have a file on my desktop named "Test with ...

The way I have things configured, some Emacs modes end up adding a lot of entries to the menu-bar. As a result, the Emacs frame increases in width. This results in various annoyances. For now, I've ...

I am using org-mode to manage my tasks and the logbook functionality to log my hours as I work on tasks. At the end of the month, I compile the time I spent using clocktables. When I deem a task as "...

In ESS mode, I sometimes send some code to the process buffer and want to cancel it using C-c C-c. Can I do this without actually switching to the process window from the script window?

I'm trying to set up mu4e with mbsync and two gmail accounts. The structure of my Maildir is as follows: ~/.mail |--> school_address |--> INBOX |--> Sent |--> Drafts |--> ...

I want to do something similar to hl-line-mode but not sure if it has been implemented already and how it can be implemented. The goal would be to set two color schemes for the #+begin and #+end ...

We can export a tree (C-c C-e) to a specific folder and with a specific filename by using the drawer option: :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: /path/to/folder/filename Question: Is it possible to export the file ...

I'm using Emacs and I'm trying to set it up to get IDE features for mainstream programming languages. I mainly need some "project management features" (browse the files or a project, access to ...

When I hit C-x C-f to open the "Find file" thing, I can hit TAB to open up a buffer called *Completions* that lists the possible filenames with the given prefix. Sometimes I have a bunch of backup ...

Upon opening mu4e, I expect the *mu4e-main* buffer to appear in the list generated by M-x ibuffer. However, even after typing / /, i.e., M-x ibuffer-filter-disable, the *mu4e-main* buffer is not in ...

I'm attempting to run the profile-dotemacs.el script from the command line using Powershell on Windows. Here's what I'm trying to run emacs -Q -l C:\users\tom\Downloads\profile-dotemacs.el --eval "(...

I'm trying to use the emacs Ebrowse tool. The issue I'm having is a great majority of the C++ files, from my BROWSE file, are showing up as (unknown) file type, resulting in me being unable to open ...

I want to show @ symbols (meaning dereference) in red in clojure-mode. How do I do that?

I have a working sexp for configuration vc-git-grep: (setq vc-git-grep-template "git --no-pager grep -n -i -e <R> -- <F>") Then in dired-mode I evaluate M-x vc-git-grep and everething ...

I have just started using emacs and I wanted to setup RTags. Looking at the Usage section int the github repo here, I added the following line to my config (rtags-enable-standard-keybindings c-mode-...

I have buffer called *mydashboard* which is simply an org file. I want to set the left margin of this buffer to 20 chars. I am planning to use this as my dashboard where I can pin my links to other ...

For example, if I have too many registers and would like to get rid of some of them, is there a way to do that? I realize that quitting the emacs session will clear all registers, but is there a way ...

I've setup lsp-mode and clangd, and put the compile-commands.json in the projects root. I can tell compile-commands.json because my cflags are included in the Updating file output of *clangd::stderr* ...

I generated a macro as a help for generating indices for words I have marked before. Now this macro looks as follows (fset 'index "\367\\index{\C-y") What does \367stand for and where can I look ...

Is there an option to exclude certain directories from a mu4e search without stating this explicitly in the search string? For example, could I have date:today exclude /archive so long as the ...

How do I get mu4e to handle xdg-open mailto:foo@bar? I couldn't even find a function taking an address as an argument that will open a composition buffer.

I would like to programmatically call an ivy or counsel function and then immediately execute ivy-occur to get the ivy-occur buffer. Example: Instead of doing M-x counsel-describe-function and C-c C-...

In my .emacs file I have bound the tab-key to a function called smart-tab. (global-set-key [(tab)] 'smart-tab) (defun smart-tab () "This smart tab is minibuffer compliant: it acts as usual in ...

I have a key sequence for M-<SPC>: (global-set-key (kbd "M-<SPC> a") 'foobar) I would like to increase the timeout between keystrokes M and <SPC> for building M-<SPC>. How ...

I have been using Emacs for one week, so all of it is really new for me. I saw that there are two types of commands in order to navigate in emacs : - Some "tabs" on the top - Commands like shortcuts ...

I have a Symfony project (PHP language). Usually, I ignore folder vendor because it is kind of a library folder, and will be pulled by composer install. The problem is: sometimes, I want to search for ...

certainly something I misunderstand, but I cannot find an answer. When I search in an org-mode file (with C-s) and find a result in a headline, if I press TAB to expand the headline where I found ...

I am using (global-display-line-numbers-mode 1) in my init.el file and everything is working as expected. The only problem is that I find the gutter width to be too wide and would prefer it to match ...

I am encountering an issue since I switched to dev-branch: when I run the TeX-view command with only one active buffer (my .tex file), instead of opening a new side-window and displaying the PDF there,...

I wish to run shell code in org sh code block as below: #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output dir c:\ #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : c:\>More? The output is not as expected! BTW, I have add below line in my ....

I am running Emacs 26.1 on Ubuntu 16.4. I am writing Javascript using js2-mode. When the linter underlines a line of code, I want to know what error or warning it has detected. For example, in this ...

I have this LaTeX code: Lorem $math$ ipsum $math$dolor sit consecteruer adipscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. $math$Ut $math$ enim ad minim veniam$math$, ...

I'd like to have small tables being shown side by side instead of one under the other, when I export to PDF. Is there an easy way to do that ? Like a break between tables ?

I'm new at customizing Emacs, and I need guidance and help on a little something I'm trying to achieve. The plan is to have the possibility to enter in a custom "writting mode" from any org file. If I ...

I want to iterate over a list with both the index and the value in the loop. Currently, the code looks like this: (let ((my-list '(a b c))) (cl-loop for index below (length my-list) for ...

I have this file: #include <string> using namespace std; string remove(string s) { return s; } int main() { string s1 = "aaaa"; string s2 = remove(s1); return 0; } g++9 ...

Test case: a.org * This is a big section I have some content here ** And a second level section And more content here *** And a third level section And more content here b.org ** I ...

I'm trying to modify my .emacs to create my own classes, I tried this article and using org-latex rather than ox. I also tried this different approach. I tried enclosing the above classes with ...

I'm trying to write a different shell command line interface where the input line stays at the top. Output of previous commands should stack below: > INPUT LINE LAST OUTPUT (of command 1) ...

On a recent pull of both rtags and spacemacs, but I can't seem to get rtags to work well. There is no keybindings for jumping/searching to/for symbols and the definitions either. I've seen a couple ...

The face org-block-begin-line allows to customize the first line of the following block #+BEGIN_SRC lang :var arg1=1 arg2=2 ... #+END_SRC However, I would like to customize the faces within the line,...

How can I disable counsel-find-file during dired-do-copy and copy-file.

So basically, for reasons unknown we don't use regular LaTeX style quotes at my company, instead just using regular double quotes. However, tex-mode in emacs automatically substitutes the " key for ``'...

I'm trying to "quickly" export my notes ans tasks from org-mode to a html-page with org-publish-projects. I had a working setup some years ago and I'm trying to reactivate it, but doing the export ...

Here is some asynchronous code in a cl-loop: ;;; foo.el --- -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- (let ((my-list '(a b c))) (cl-loop for index below (length my-list) ...

So I've been searching around for this particular problem and apparently I found no solutions. There are posts on reddit about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3scsak/...

Sometimes Emacs stops responding to keyboard input. It responds to mouse input though. If I do killall -s SIGUSR2 emacs, the debugger shows this (but remains unresponsive to keyboard): Debugger ...

I have not been able to find a solution to this frustrating problem. Here is the situation and my questions are at the end: Given code that looks similar to this: $this->hello()->wootFluent()-&...