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How do I prevent extremely long lines making Emacs slow?

line-break performance

Jan 31 at 13:50 David Chandler 111

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How do I measure performance of elisp code?

performance benchmarking

Feb 18 '18 at 11:50 Iskander Sharipov 63

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What's the difference between the different vim implementations?

vim-emulation

Aug 28 '16 at 9:00 wasamasa 19.8k

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How do I force re-evaluation of a defvar?

interactive-development

May 29 '17 at 8:15 lawlist 16.3k

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Are there color pickers for Emacs?

colors

Apr 29 at 20:26 phils 37.8k

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What's the correct replacement for flet on new emacsen?

cl-lib

Nov 13 '14 at 9:46 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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How do I create a dynamic regexp with rx?

regular-expressions rx

Jun 20 '16 at 9:01 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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Is there a command `describe-command', similar to command `describe-function'?

help ido

Sep 4 '19 at 9:40 sam boosalis 127

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How do I specify a custom face with font-lock-defaults?

font-lock syntax-highlighting

May 2 '17 at 12:46 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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What's the relationship between ~foo~ and =foo= in org-mode?

org-mode

Apr 27 '16 at 15:28 Andrew Swann 3,067

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For what languages is `syntax-ppss` appropriate?

syntax-highlighting parsing syntax

Mar 11 '16 at 22:50 Kaushal Modi 22.7k

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How do I inherit from prog-mode, whilst still supporting older emacsen?

major-mode prog-mode version-compatibilty

Mar 28 '19 at 21:10 sanityinc 2,671

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How can I automatically insert a prototype in foo.h from foo.c?

c

Feb 27 '16 at 17:12 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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Why don't major modes just inspect the faces?

major-mode syntax-highlighting

Nov 8 '14 at 16:00 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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Are there any pre-existing benchmark suites for Emacs itself?

performance benchmarking

Oct 12 '14 at 3:11 Community♦ 1

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What is a string fence or comment fence?

syntax-highlighting syntax-table

Jun 23 '15 at 22:26 Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' 17.4k

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Is it possible to start company completion without a prefix?

completion company-mode css

Dec 28 '18 at 9:32 Alexander Shukaev 985

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How do I create a simple syntax table for a major mode?

elisp major-mode syntax-highlighting

May 2 '17 at 12:45 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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Is there a command for tidying trailing parentheses?

smartparens paredit

Apr 11 '16 at 8:23 abo-abo 13k

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How can I build/package Emacs so that the C source files are installed to a standard find-function-C-source-directory?

c site-lisp

Dec 30 '16 at 5:50 Community♦ 1

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What's the difference between words and symbols?

elisp major-mode syntax

May 20 '15 at 5:14 Community♦ 1

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Why does calling expand-file-name indirectly produce a different result?

files dynamic-scoping

Sep 18 '17 at 22:43 phils 37.8k

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When does Emacs treat keymaps as functions?

key-bindings keymap prefix-keys

Nov 10 '16 at 17:02 Drew 60.9k

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How do I create a button in Emacs?

help buttons

Aug 20 '16 at 7:17 Tephra 736

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Why does inserting a newline break highlighting with syntax-propertize-function?

font-lock syntax-highlighting

Jun 23 '15 at 21:58 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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How do I insert inline code with square brackets in org-mode?

org-mode

Sep 5 '17 at 16:31 deprecated 2,645

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How do I ignore comments with scan-sexps?

sexp

May 2 '17 at 12:46 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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How can I detect if an elisp script is piped?

shell script

Nov 17 '16 at 8:06 xuchunyang 12.8k

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How can I make Emacs warn about calls to my pure functions?

byte-compilation warning

Nov 8 '16 at 15:10 Wilfred Hughes 6,352

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Is there any difference between \` and backquote?

eval backquote

Aug 8 '16 at 13:34 theldoria 1,645

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50 Questions

How do I prevent extremely long lines making Emacs slow?

How do I measure performance of elisp code?

What's the difference between the different vim implementations?

How do I force re-evaluation of a defvar?

Are there color pickers for Emacs?

What's the correct replacement for flet on new emacsen?

How do I create a dynamic regexp with rx?

Is there a command `describe-command', similar to command `describe-function'?

How do I specify a custom face with font-lock-defaults?

What's the relationship between ~foo~ and =foo= in org-mode?

For what languages is `syntax-ppss` appropriate?

How do I inherit from prog-mode, whilst still supporting older emacsen?

How can I automatically insert a prototype in foo.h from foo.c?

Why don't major modes just inspect the faces?

Are there any pre-existing benchmark suites for Emacs itself?

What is a string fence or comment fence?

Is it possible to start company completion without a prefix?

How do I create a simple syntax table for a major mode?

Is there a command for tidying trailing parentheses?

How can I build/package Emacs so that the C source files are installed to a standard find-function-C-source-directory?

What's the difference between words and symbols?

Why does calling expand-file-name indirectly produce a different result?

When does Emacs treat keymaps as functions?

How do I create a button in Emacs?

Why does inserting a newline break highlighting with syntax-propertize-function?

How do I insert inline code with square brackets in org-mode?

How do I ignore comments with scan-sexps?

How can I detect if an elisp script is piped?

How can I make Emacs warn about calls to my pure functions?

Is there any difference between \` and backquote?