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Ivy disable completion for a command in minibuffer
I think what you're looking for is C-M-j (ivy-immediate-done) in the mini buffer. This function is described as follows in the Ivy manual:
Exits with the current input instead of the current ...
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Recursively list all files and sub-directories
directory-files-recursively
(I think this was added in Emacs 25)
here's the link to the manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Contents-of-Directories.html
Return all ...
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Spacemacs: kill buffer and kill window in one command?
spacemacs binding for kill-buffer-and-window:
Cx,4,0
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how to ignore current selection from ivy when my typed text matches one
C-M-j (ivy-immediate-done) - exit with the current action, calling it on the current input instead of the current candidate. This is useful especially when creating new files or directories - often ...
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How to prevent creating files starting with .# (lock files)?
How I can prevent generating the lock file .#rest.api.rc?
Set the user option create-lockfiles to nil, but note that this can stop Emacs from being able to detect simultaneous edits to the same file.
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Recursively list all files and sub-directories
Assuming you use ivy you can use this function
(defun fhd/counsel-everything ()
"list everything recursively"
(interactive)
(let* ((cands (split-string
(...
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Spacemacs: kill buffer and kill window in one command?
Spacemacs has recently added two shortcuts for kill-buffer-and-window: SPC b x and SPC w x.
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Spacemacs: kill buffer and kill window in one command?
Use kill-buffer-and-window to close a buffer and its window. But this will keep emacs running. If you also want to kill emacs (the equivalent of :q) then try evil-quit-all if you're using evil, and ...
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Display recursive folder sizes in-line in dired?
Indeed, Alex is right.
If your Emacs version is >=24.4, then you can
try `dired-du' library. It's available from the ELPA repository.
Once you've installed this lib:
If your current buffer is in ...
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Comparing two text files on a Windows system
If you have git for windows installed, then it is enough to add
C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\
to your PATH, because it already ships with a diff executable and installs it in that folder.
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What's the equivalent of `helm-find` in ivy/counsel? I want to find files **recursively**
The counsel equivalent of helm-find is counsel-file-jump.
See also counsel-dired-jump and John Kitchin's answer for suggestions on writing a custom function.
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Ivy disable completion for a command in minibuffer
There are multiple approaches to file navigation that apply here.
Just to rephrase your statement:
switch from ~/code/study to ~/other/code/study
Easiest and most consistent: use ~ to switch to ~/...
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Why does calling expand-file-name indirectly produce a different result?
In short: dynamic binding.
It is maybe a little unfortunate that default-directory was used as the argument to expand-file-name.
Note the docstring:
(expand-file-name NAME &optional DEFAULT-...
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Dired: How to find all files under a directory that match a glob pattern (wildcards)?
Use command find-name-dired.
M-x find-name-dired RET my-directory RET *.txt
That opens Dired to a listing of all files matching glob pattern *.txt in and under directory my-directory. The usual ...
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How do I reload a file in a buffer?
For spacemacs users: SPC b R (spacemacs/safe-revert-buffer).
For skipping confirmation, other answers already cover that, though I agree with others that it's probably not a good idea to bind that to ...
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Edit file with super-user rights
If you use Helm. You don't need any external package / additional config. it works out of the box.
Inside helm-find-files you can invoke find file as root which bound to C-c r. This works for files ...
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Single function to return file contents as a string
There is not. You can report-emacs-bug and suggest that one be included.
One reason I can think of for not including such a function is that there are different reasonable ways to handle errors. E.g. ...
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Get file name relative to projectile root
I think the reason your code is not working as hoped for is because you are using the buffer-local variable projectile-project-root instead of the eponymous function.
C-hvprojectile-project-rootRET ...
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Open directory containing file during counsel-file-jump
You can create a new Ivy action that opens the directory of a file name selection. It can be done with:
(defun my/ivy-open-dir-action (x)
(interactive)
(dired (or (file-name-directory x)
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Why Emacs (dired+) asks me twice to delete file?
So when you open a file it creates a 'buffer' with the file's contents. The first yes moves the physical file to the trash. But the 'buffer' is still loaded in Emacs. If you say no to the second ...
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How do I search and replace over a set of files?
Using rgrep and wgrep:
M-xrgrep.
Enter the regex to search for.
Enter the glob pattern matching which files to search in.
Select the base directory to search in.
Results will be shown in a grep ...
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Edit file with super-user rights
If you use the ivy package, and have configured counsel-find-file to replace find-file, then one of the "ivy actions" pre-configured for you already is to edit the file as root. The default hydra ...
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Recursively list all files and sub-directories
This answer assumes that you want to display a listing of the file and dir names, instead of obtaining a Lisp list of them.
Use standard Emacs commands find-dired , find-name-dired, or find-grep-...
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Get filename from dired using elisp
I imagine the function dired-get-filename is what you're looking for?
Or perhaps dired-get-file-for-visit would be more useful (being a wrapper which handles some common errors).
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How can I open an org file at a specific header postion via a command line?
Perhaps something along the following lines:
emacs -Q --eval='(progn (find-file "/path/to/file") (goto-char (org-find-exact-headline-in-buffer "org-headline")))'
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How do I reload a file in a buffer?
Magit manages file reversions for you automatically, thus solving your core problem. You also benefit from its other features.
Here are the docs for tweaking the settings you're interested in:
If you ...
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Human readable directory tree with org-attach
Define ATTACH_DIR Property Under Each Heading to Set an Human Readable Directory Path for Attachments
Place cursor, a.k.a point, on heading.
For this example, choose This headline
* This headline
**...
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tagging files for filtering
If you use library Bookmark+ then yes, you can do this easily. Tagging files using Bookmark+ means creating autofile bookmarks for the files and then adding tags for those bookmarks.
You can think ...
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What are the '.#' links for?
Symbolic links of the form “.#*” are not auto-save files, their purpose is to prevent the simultaneous editing of the same file. See Interlocking and File Locks in the Emacs Manual.
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