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so-long not detecting a long line in compilation output
See the final paragraph of the Introduction in the documentation:
Note also that the mitigations are automatically triggered when visiting a
file. The library does not automatically detect if long ...
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so-long not detecting a long line in compilation output
You quoted all of the code that you added to your init file, so of course the code was never evaluated.
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Advantages of setting variables with setq instead of custom.el?
Emacs 29 introduced a macro, setopt, for setting options outside of the customization interface. Like Drew explained, setq doesn't work right for options that use :set: for example try (setq show-...
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What is the init.el in doom emacs?
The location of your current init file is stored in the variable user-init-file. You can see what its value is by invoking M-x describe-variable (I'm not a Doom Emacs user, but I think the keybinding ...
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"Error (frameset): Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil" How to debug it?
I found the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18612742/emacs-desktop-save-mode-error#comment47963002_26546872
(setq desktop-restore-forces-onscreen nil)
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Search path for lisp files
The answer depends on your build of Emacs. You can get this information by starting Emacs using the initialisation file you mentioned, and invoking C-h v load-path RET. The help window will display ...
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How to start emacs with a custom user-emacs-directory
In Emacs 29+, set the user-emacs-directory with the flag --init-directory.
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Emacs Won't Load My ~/.config/emacs/init.el... Unless I Do This
See the Emacs manual, node Action Arguments.
That tells you how to use command-line option -l to load a library:
-l FILE’
--load=FILE
Load a Lisp library named FILE with the function load. If FILE
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Emacs Won't Load My ~/.config/emacs/init.el... Unless I Do This
Well, obviously if you specify just the filename init.el then Emacs can only look in the current directory for the file. If you want it to load the file from a specific directory, simply specify the ...
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