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I noticed that clean-aindent-mode is messing up the indentation as I am writing python files. Hence, I wanted to disable this mode, at least when using python mode. I can manually disable this mode, ...

In Org-mode, I wonder if the background color of the source code block can be changed only from the indentation of #+BEGIN_SRC? Here is the current background in my Org-mode: Is it possible to change ...

Apologies if this has been asked multiple times already, haven't found a useful answer. I am trying to use Emacs as an external editor on two separate applications in windows 10, one is a notes app (...

When trying to post to GMANE, I get an error message: 441 You need a valid email address to post: Invalid response from SMTP server mail.inka.de: 550-Verification failed for auth@gmane-mx.org Couldn’...

I use mu4e for email with multiple accounts. I have multiple accounts in mu4e and followed the manual with a function my-mu4e-set-account and a hook to it: (add-hook 'mu4e-compose-pre-hook 'my-mu4e-...

I'm using emacs 26.2 installed through msys2. Recently starting subprocesses from emacs has stopped working for me. Specifically M-x shell and shell-command-to-string. I get the feeling this is due to ...

I have a .txt file which is an org file but not with the .org file extension. I want to export the file to html on the command line, but it does not work if the file extension is .txt, only if the ...

I recently ran into this error from flycheck: Warning (flycheck): Syntax checker csharp-omnisharp-codecheck reported too many errors (482) and is disabled. I saw this: Warning (flycheck): Syntax ...

Here's a simple example from the manual: ;; Here the symbol ‘abracadabra’ ;; is the symbol whose value is examined. (let ((abracadabra 'foo)) (symbol-value 'abracadabra)) ⇒ foo Why does this ...

How do I resolve keybinding conflict? Or if it's possible to have precedence of keybindings for the same key for different functions? I have the following snippet definition, in org-mode: #+name:${2:...

I would like to exclude some headings from numbering in org-num-mode. Is there a way to achieve this?

The functions I have found for splitting windows are (split-window-right) and (split-window-below). When these are evaluated the cursor ends up in the right window in the case of (split-window-right)...

I'm working on a script that can compile multiple directories and then provide the first error to a file. Currently, I am tackling the issue of running make in multiple directories portion. I am ...

I wrote LD_LIBRARY_PATH both in .bashrc and .bash_profile. However, if I started emacs in terminal using emacs, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is shown in getenv. If I started it using GUI, there is no such variable....

Does anyone know of a quick method to get hexadecimal line numbers in emacs? I am using linum for line numbers. I suppose I could hack it, but just thought to ask first.

I have the following in my .emacs file. (require 'astyle) (add-hook 'c-mode-hook (lambda () (setq astyle-on-save-mode t))) (add-hook 'c++-mode-hook (lambda () (setq astyle-on-save-mode t))) For files ...

I am using Doom Emacs. I like having indentation for most of my org files, but I have one folder where I want to have org files without indenting, to use for writing documents. I have already tested ...

I am getting following warning message for the following code: F821 undefined name 'variable'. // variable becomes color red. #!/usr/bin/env python3 def doo(): print(variable) # <= F821 ...

If I'm writing a comment ;; this is a comment ;; this is its second line And I hit enter, I get a new line like this: ;; this is a comment ;; this is its second line Instead of getting a new line ...

I am writing Julia code in Emacs, which allows the use of unicode characters in the source code. However, some symbols come out looking weird. For example the Greek letter nu: becomes: Does anyone ...

I am getting an elisp error that fails at lisp/progmodes/compile.el within compilation-next-error function that reads "Not in a compilation buffer". The elisp function I am writing attempts ...

I'm using <space> to scroll down in a pdf document that does not fit completely in a frame. However, this disrupts the reading flow as I need to find again the correct line that is now ...

As the title. I have come so close but can't get past this last hurdle. The below returns all time today that has been spent on headings where the tag is 'billable'. However it fails when there are ...

How I find a declaration of a cpp class or struct by GNU global for now. search a class name with Emacs gtags plugin such as ggtags or counsel-ggtags) the constructor or destructor of the class is ...

I'd like to be able to search Emacs's Mac menu bar entries using the keyboard, as you normally do in most other Mac applications using s-? (this answer suggest that it should be possible?). I've ...

It seems that Emacs tries to autodetect the type of file and changes some of its behaviors accordingly. I don't want any of this behavior. I just want Emacs to treat every file as if it were some ...

Is there a way to automatically add imports to python code within emacs? def f(x: str) -> List[str]: I want to be able to have my guess over "List" press a key binding and magically add ...

The default agenda-list-view separates the todo items of the current week by days and sort them by time within each day if there are timestamps. Instead, I want to combine all the todo items without ...

I need to disable the Centaur-Tabs in the Choices buffer of ispell/flyspell. In Centaur Tab's site it says to add a hook, so I tried this: (add-hook 'ispell-choices-buffer 'centaur-tabs-local-mode) ...

Does forge support updating the branch of a PR? Suppose that I checked out a PR branch with b y, and afterwards there were additional commits into this PR. It seems that I cannot pull these new ...

I have been using M-x compile for ages. Lately (our sysadmin has updated many things) it hangs after giving this message: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN). Pressing return ...

I often collect several meetings under one heading in my org files, e.g.: * Interdisciplinary studies ** Paracelsus reading group *** Meeting <2020-01-07> ... *** Meeting <2020-01-14> ...

I am trying to create a weekly agenda that I can print out and use without having to be at the computer To best explain my problem I will use some screenshots This is the normal org file that I will ...

I'm writing a document with some long strings on it, then I export the org file to pdf with the classic C-c C-e l p . Then when I check the document, the long string are out of the page. How can I fix ...

In this case, I'm most interested in Rust's documentation, which lives at doc.rust-lang.org/std. eww is incompatible with JS, so the documentation doesn't play nice, thus my general current soln is to ...

When visiting a folder with emacsclient, for example through emacsclient ., using dired, opening a folder using a will cause emacsclient to terminate. I believe this is because a, bound to dired-find-...

I want to compile the gccemacs branch of Emacs. When I run ./configure, the configure script errors with: cd emacs git checkout feature/native-comp ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-nativecomp ...

Does there exist any package to color words based on grammatical class? (Noun, verb, adjective... etc). Something like rainbow-mode for grammar instead of colors.

tempo-define-template allows defining a custom template, and one can use it with <key + TAB; however, this works only in the beginning of the line, it there a way to do that in middle of a sentence?...

I am working on improving the org babel racket mode and am running into issues with inserting longer vars Whether I do (format "%S" '((2 0 0 4 2 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 7))) or (with-...

I am trying to hide the mouse pointer via: (setq x-pointer-shape x-pointer-invisible) (setq x-sensitive-text-pointer-shape x-pointer-invisible) (setq void-text-area-pointer 'text) (set-mouse-color (...

Since some time Emacs started to show each package that comes from "MELPA" repository as "new". It happens after each restart of Emacs. When I refresh package list in the same ...

The org-mode documentation has following to say about the colors in the habits graph: Blue: If the task was not to be done yet on that day. Green: If the task could have been done on that day. Yellow:...

I dont get the difference between the actual property, enabling the respective funtionality and the tag on the right upper side? *** Number 5 :B_example: :...

My presentation has like 30 slides, nothing fancy, mostly a couple of bullet points on each frame and in total like 10 small images. Still the export to beamer, i.e. a pdf takes like 10 seconds and ...

I am documenting my work using org mode and babel. I am exporting it to a LaTeX based pdf document by using the header: #+TITLE: Document Title #+AUTHOR: Author #+EMAIL: author@somewhere.com #+...

I am trying to plot simple examples in org-mode by using gnuplot. But it keeps telling me "Searching for program: No such file or directory, aspell". I installed gnuplot both to on emacs and ...

Assume that I have two functions, say function1 and function2. I would like to execute function2 only if there is some error during the execution of function1. So far, I have tried the below code (...

I would like any checked checkboxes under a TODO heading to be unchecked when I mark it as DONE, if the heading is a habit and/or reoccurring. The usecase is to have a list of checkboxes under a ...

It seems that there is a conflict between the ox-odt (from Emacs 26.3, Ubuntu 20.04) with the ox-ipynb when exporting an org file. I am not sure if I configured it right. But after I install ox-ipynb (...