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I've tried the following 2 paths: 1) Loaded globally, disabled per project Enabling my minor mode in my init.el file (eval-after-load 'js2-mode '(progn (add-hook 'js2-mode-hook #'add-node-...

In shell-mode; alias keyword is not recognized as font-lock-builtin-face type and remain as white color (with the current theme I am using it should be in different color) => Is it possible to add ...

Consider the following latex document. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} Consider the following picture. \[ \begin{tikzpicture} \node (X) {X}; % this X should be ...

I have set the following things in my .el file (not init.el): (setq desktop-dirname "~/.emacs.d/desktop/" desktop-base-file-name "emacs.desktop" desktop-base-lock-...

The setup: I have a docker container connected with a mounted volume containing an org file. The docker container has both texlive and emacs (configured exactly the way it is on my host) installed. I ...

I am experiencing some Emacs Tramp connection problems and want to ask for help. However in my case Emacs hangs completely because of Tramp and there is no way I can access Tramp debug files. (it is ...

I'm using a modeline at the top, and have defined the default-modeline as a dash-modeline. (see Nano-Emacs) But as this modeline still kinda of beta, sometimes is good to have the old mode-line to ...

I have installed emacs 2-3 years ago. The version I'm using now is 25.2.1. I want to update it to the latest version, which is 27.1. I uninstalled it and then installed again to no avail, it is the ...

I'd like to paste images from the system clipboard into an Org file. Emacs should write the clipboard content to a suitable file (likely an attachment) and insert a suitable link (see https://orgmode....

Emacs has opened a py file as a shell script. What went wrong and how to change?

In order to compile my lua code i use this config (defun lua-main-compile () "use lua to compile my lua code" (interactive) (compile "lua main.lua")) In my lua code when i type x =...

the org manual says "To preserve the line breaks, indentation and blank lines in a region, but otherwise use normal formatting" you can use #+begin_verse #+end_verse block. if i run emacs -Q,...

I want to delete a remote branch. How can I do git push origin --delete my-branch in magit, to delete a remote branch?

When running list-packages in emacs on an up-to-date Debian Buster (10.6) I get the following error: error in process sentinel: Error retrieving: https://stable.melpa.org/packages/archive-contents &...

I'm trying to use racket-mode for programming Racket. One of the racket-mode commands is bound to C-c C-. (control c, control period). However, whenever I try to press C-c C-., it appears to get ...

I am using emacs 27.1-4.1 with Spacemacs v.o.200.13 Ivy and vims. I am relatively new to emacs and am expanding into bibtex with ivy-bibtex. in my .spacemacs file is: (autoload 'ivy-bibtex "ivy-...

My org file structure is this: * Heading 1 :PROPERTIES: :EVENT_CREATED: [2016-11-28] :END: * Heading 2 :PROPERTIES: :EVENT_CREATED: [2016-10-27] :END: * Heading 3 :PROPERTIES: :EVENT_CREATED: [2019-02-...

On my IBuffer I always see a *.py file that is actually empty. Is it possible to prevent this file to be hidden in the Ibuffer or basically remove it. [ Default ] *.py 0 ...

I use Emacs 27.1 (9.0) and mu4e 1.4.13 with multiple email accounts, and those email accounts have one main username and multiple aliases. Recently I started getting this error when replying to an ...

I would like to be able to leave the insert state (I think that's what it's called in emacs?) using the Ctrl+c combination I know from vim. I'm using doom-emacs in case that's important, and I'm ...

I noticed that when org-exporting to and odt file, the SCHEDULED timestamps are changed to DEADLINE instead. A minimum working org file: #+TITLE: Test file #+OPTIONS: p:t * Section 1 ** TODO Section ...

Pressing C-c C-l (for a simple "Hello, world!" script) in interactive-haskell-mode gives me the error message Format specifier doesn't match argument type whereas I would have expected the ...

I have auto-fill mode enabled for text files, and when I edit text I often have to run fill-region within the selected area to make it look nice again. Is there a way to automate this, or to make ...

I try to configure org mode in the way that it doesn't indent second blank line after last item of the list. Is there a way to achieve this? Example: - All of the words in Lorem Ipsum have flirted ...

xref-find-references finds all references to the searched symbols. In many cases I find the results to be heavily cluttered with mentions of the symbol only in a comment. Is there any way to tell xref-...

My goal is to define a const variable within a non-trivial macro that can be navigated to after calling describe-variable. The design goal of my macro works just fine if I define it like so: (...

For my Org buffer, I configured #+STARTUP: lognoteclock-out for adding notes to my logbook entries when clocking out, which basically works fine. However, when the clock is stopped due to the item ...

I have an org-capture that writes a timestamp (setq org-capture-templates `(("a" "Agenda" entry (file+olp+datetree "agenda.org" "Calendar Agenda") ,(...

I've recently started using the BookmarkPlus package and I've been loving it. However there is one thing that I can't seem to figure out. I want, from my big list of bookmarks, to create a set of ...

When saving changes using customize Emacs serializes lists space separated. This makes for example the package-selected-packages variable extremely long and hard to scan over. Is it possible to make ...

The function read-number truncates floating point zeros; e.g., (read-number "PROMPT: ") RET 100.00 => 100.0 I am seeking a similar alternative to read-number that will not truncate; e.g.,...

Here I have a random (invalid, but shows the important syntax highlighting) asm file as in Vim: Emacs seems to be highlighing incorrectly (? there are many flavours of asm but I've never seen ...

Recently I "fixed" issue with locking when I access LXSS backed P9 network FS mounted in Cygwin by: (setq create-lockfiles nil) I read (info "(emacs.info) Interlocking") but still ...

I'm vim user and I've just started using emacs with evil. But one thing I'm finding really hard to understand is when do we use <C-x>, <M-x> etc. I want to understand when to use Control ...

In general when I run M-x and do control-p or control-n or (M-p) (M-n) I can move around the previous inputs that I provided in the past. Is it possible to achieve it in counsel-git-grep ? I am using ...

For some special tex with typos, mode-line always shows [Compiling] even if we correct all typos. To reproduce First compile the following correct tex by C-c C-a \documentclass{article} \usepackage{...

After updating packages from MELPA, I'm getting the message: Warning (emacs): dnd-unescape-uri is undefined. Some things may not work. It is a separate buffer. Not in the messages buffer. I can just ...

I have an Org mode file with the following source block in it: #+begin_src sh :exports both echo "first line" echo "second line" #+end_src #+RESULTS: | first | line | | second | ...

Is anyone successfully running a windowed emacs, (not terminal emacs), on one of the new Mac M1s? Does this port work? https://emacsformacosx.com Is there another?

Emacs scrolling is lagging for me on Linux but not on macOS. I'm using Ubuntu 20 and also tried Solus but behavior is the same. Faster system helps but not enough. What so special about emacs build on ...

I keep having following warning message, even I have the recent version of python-mypy not sure why this warning message is generated; is there any way to fix this: Suspicious state from syntax ...

I often open up interactive python sessions particular to the project that I'm working on, and will use M-x rename-buffer to title them *Python[Project1]*, Python[Project2]`, etc. I would like to ...

How do I turn a long one-line list, such as test_list = ['a0000000', 'b1111111', 'c2222222', 'd3333333', 'e4444444', 'f5555555', 'g6666666'] into a one element per line list: test_list = ['a0000000', ...

For some reason I cannot set english, only british as the input method. I am writing a function to switch language from spanish-postfix to english, but english is not working, only british. I have ...

In this example, I would like to open the doc directory, not the uganda.xt file. Is there a chord or other shortcut to do this efficiently?

I am typing a journal entry in org-mode as so: I worked on my English paper today, and made lots of progress. + We used Emacs for our project + Some other people used vi, but I think Emacs Org mode ...

How can I achieve this by adding something to ~/.emacs This is my .emacs OS: Ubuntu20.04LTS (WSL) Emacs: 26.3 XeLaTeX: 6.3.2

I use emacs for most python programming, but really miss the inline plot feature combined with printed output in Spyder. See picture. I've been experimenting with various interpreter settings but ...

I'm probably missing something simple here but... I've got a list of alists parsed from JSON using json-parse-string. The list of alists is like the following (details omitted for brevity): ( ((id . 1)...

I want to save a block of text in a variable and then do a replacement using that variable in the replacement part. For instance, suppose to do the following replacement: block_of_text ---> \...