You need to customize save-interprogram-paste-before-kill to t. This will push your clipboard onto the killring in case you kill something in emacs before pasting the clipboard. A related ...

One advantage of using setq instead of customize is readability. One is free to annotate each customization to one's liking which IMO improves readability. One can also group related customizations ...

You should customize helm-buffer-max-length to an appropriate number. Default I believe is 20. If set to nil, helm will use the longest buffer name. You can access the customization setup by M-x ...

For closure, here is an answer that expands upon my comment. I define a minor mode with the required keybinding and toggle it in the required buffer using file local variables. (define-minor-mode ...

Just type latex instead of pdflatex at the C-c C-c prompt. TeX-PDF-mode sets the TeX-engine to pdflatex automatically. The command you are entering at the prompt is only representative of what you ...

Use emacs --daemon=your-server-name -l "custom-init-file" to start a new server and emacsclient -nw -s your-server-name to connect to it from the terminal itself. The section on Using Emacs as a ...

EDIT: I just found the wonderful M-x info-apropos which searches full text over all info documents and returns the relevant nodes. Seems this gem is relatively unknown. If you use helm package from ...

SHORT SOLUTION If you do not mind an additional TAB keystroke, definining your snippet as below should work. [[${1:`(dan-xclipboard-link-p)`}][$0]] The embedded lisp returns the url from the ...

Probably not what you asked for but assuming you have ssh setup with X-forwarding, you could start emacsclient on the server and forward it to remote DISPLAY. (Disclaimer: code typed directly into ...

Spin off of the original answer to the linked question. Grammar Check: I am not aware of any dedicated grammar parsers for emacs yet. I will mention writegood-mode available in MELPA which highlights ...

For general purpose spell-checking, there are quite a few popular alternatives ispell and friends: Built into emacs & typically called with ispell-buffer. Checks spelling only on demand. ...

You need to configure the 600-pound gorilla that is display-buffer-alist which determines how display-buffer chooses where to display a buffer. It makes display-buffer-reuse-frames obsolete in newer ...

You can replace the command list-buffers which is run with C-x C-b to a function that does what you want. In this case buffer-menu-other-window opens the buffers list in another window with focus. ...

On systems that provide GNU find utility, you can use helm-find (by default bound to C-x c /) to get the desired behavior. Starting helm-find with a prefix argument C-u C-x c / prompts for the ...

The compilation you refer to is usually called byte-compilation of emacs lisp. It generates a different and faster representation of functions for the emacs interpreter. Unlike compilation of C code ...

The relevant setting is helm-buffers-truncate-lines which truncates lines when non-nil. You can use M-x customize-variable helm-buffers-truncate-lines to toggle it.

It is not a bug. helm.el does not provide any major mode for helm buffers. So they are infact in fundamental-mode. However it does set the variable mode-name to Helm which is what you are seeing in ...

smartparens has a superset of the functionality provided by autopair. Apart from providing pair insertion (which is what autopair does) , it supports manipulating what it calls "hybrid sexps" or sexps ...

The error you get is because point is in the minibuffer waiting for completion when you call with-current-buffer. Fortunately, helm provides helm-window to select the completion window. The following ...

When I copy the text from the source to the emacs buffer ... What you copy depends upon the application you are copying from. Some applications release UTF-8 encoded strings while others use ...

1) How shall I avoid creating a text file with mixed encodings when copying its different parts from different sources into an editor such as emacs? Irrespective of the source, you can always set the ...

I have the following things in my .hgignore emacs server file recentf file: File paths on one machine do not make sense on another elpa/melpa directory: Use init file to automatically install ...

Since this is being caused by changing the default font/size during init, one can avoid this problem by setting the font via X resources Add to (creating if necessary) the file ~/.Xresources in the ...

Automatically starting a server if one is not already started I highly recommend setting an environment variable for ALTERNATE_EDITOR to runemacs.exe. This way you can always call emacsclient even if ...

info-lookup-symbol bound by default to C-h S can search info indices to find the relevant node for symbol corresponding to point.

Since any tool will have to read mode-line-format, you cannot do better than examining it. The manual has an extensive section describing the format here including all the % constructs. Note that ...

Unless some thing has changed with newer versions of MatLab, short answer is you cannot (MaTLaB 2011b here). Eric Ludlam, maintainer of matlab-emacs, does say so here in the matlab-emacs mailing list. ...

Auctex 11.86 has known issues with Ghostscript ver >=9.0. Either downgrading ghostscript or updating Auctex will fix the issue.

The lossage help buffer is not associated with a file on disk. Hence auto revert mode does not work. A pseudo realtime alternative can be using (open-dribble-file "FILE") which writes all keystrokes ...

You might want to try WhizzyTeX mode that tries to compile latex code on the fly. It comprises of a minor mode for emacs along with a bash script which provides a preview in a separate dvi window. ...