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How do I set up font fallback in a robust way?
TL;DR: What's a simple way to reliably say: use Consolas as the default font, FreeMono for the characters unsupported by Consolas, and Symbola for characters unsupported by both?
Since my main ...
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Is there a plugin that does color HTML matching tags like rainbow delimiters?
I would like some plugin which colors html tags with a corresponding color based on which tag they match. For example
<div> <p></p></div>
<div> and </div> would ...
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orgmode line wrap except table
In orgmode, how can I get below line wrap behavior:
for text (other than table), I wish line wrapped.
for table, I do not wish it's wrapped.
I can add below line in init.el
(global-visual-line-mode ...
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Edebug orgmode source code blocks with input variables
What is the standard method to debug emacs-lisp orgmode source code blocks with input variables as header arguments?
I found the hacky solution to insert the following snipped in front of a source ...
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Use helm-company as default for company autocompletion?
I want helm-company as the default selection method for company. Helm-company is meant to be invoked manually after company completion started. But I would really like to invoke helm automatically on ...
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How to immediately resize the minibuffer window?
Suppose that I have this function, that inserts some stuff into the minibuffer:
(defun foobar ()
(interactive)
(minibuffer-with-setup-hook
(lambda ()
(let ((resize-mini-windows t))
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How to make Geiser send the output to REPL buffer instead of echo area?
I am running Emacs25 with Geiser (latest version from MELPA, 20180128.1821) and Guile (version 2.2, Debian package). So far it works fine, but when I evaluate a sexp, it will print the result to Emacs'...
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Cycle through multiple cursors to enter different text at each point?
When multiple cursors has marked multiple points in a buffer you can use C-v (mc/cycle-forward) to cycle through and look through all cursors while typing for all cursors. I'm wondering how to enter ...
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How to investigate "color bleeding"?
I frequently have color-bleed issues in emacs, most often with AUCTeX: all of a sudden and for no apparent reason, the line I'm writing will be fontified as math.
First things first: no, I do not ...
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Custom indentation for specific lines?
I currently try to figure out, how I can handle some lines specifically without messing up the indentation of the rest of the buffer. Consider the following function MyFunc as an example:
void MyFunc(...
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Significance arithmetic in calc
I would like to perform significance arithmetic in calc-mode. For example, I want 5000 to have one significant figure, and 5.0e3 to have two significant figures. Calculations should preserve ...
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How to better align tags in Org Mode using variable-width font
I prefer using variable-width fonts in Emacs whenever I can. That said, Org Mode tags are horribly aligned when headings use variable-width fonts, even if the tags themselves use fixed-width fonts. Is ...
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indent cl-loop to respect `if else` statements
I have a hard time writing and reading cl-loops with they way they're indented by default as I can't easily tell what the control flow is:
(cl-loop for x below 10
if (cl-oddp x)
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Display all local variables within a edebug session
When using edebug one can get a local variable by command describe-variable (C-h v), but are there any ways to display all local variables?
For example in Python you can call locals() in a pdb ...
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Issue with nnmaildir in gnus
I've been trying to get nnmaildir to work along with mbsync (which syncs IMAP and Maildir mailboxes) and I just cannot get it to work with gnus.
With the following select method:
(nnmaildir "calgary"...
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