dot-emacs Questions

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I would like the Org-mode agenda to automatically show what I have to do today when I open Emacs. The org-agenda command is interactive, so it doesn't seem to work well for this purpose. Is there ...
Musty asked 6/1, 2010 at 2:4

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In Vim the * key in normal mode searches for the word under the cursor. In GNU Emacs the closest native equivalent would be: C-s C-w But that isn't quite the same. It opens up the incremental se...
Wilhelm asked 26/2, 2009 at 8:49

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I'm using Emacs as an editor. I want to set the tab size to four spaces. In my .emacs file I have the following: (setq default-tab-width 4) I've also tried: (set-default tab-width 4) Either w...
Isabel asked 25/3, 2010 at 16:9

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I find the default size of the Emacs frame a little too small. From reading around I know that I can set the height and width quite easily with something like the following: ;;; 140 x 60 window siz...
Inefficacy asked 28/6, 2013 at 10:50

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When switching files using the minibuffer (C-x C-f), I often use M-Backspace to delete words in the path. Emacs automatically places what I delete into the kill ring. This can be annoying, as somet...
Pointless asked 26/5, 2011 at 4:47

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I have a question regarding how to "gracefully exit SLIME", when I quit Emacs. Here is the relevant portion of my config file: ;; SLIME configuration (setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/local/bin/s...
Nieberg asked 25/2, 2010 at 20:57

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EDIT: I understand there is keyboard-quit (which is normally bound to C-g); but I'm more interested to know about how one deals with editing functions that come with Emacs (like in this case). I ru...
Roe asked 17/2, 2009 at 15:15

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Sometimes I launch emacs from the command line with 2 files, as follows: emacs foo.txt bar.txt This opens the emacs window, split vertically: foo.txt ------- bar.txt How can I edit my .emacs ...
Xylol asked 14/7, 2011 at 17:35

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I have decided to check out Emacs, and I liked it very much. Now, I'm using the Emacs Starter Kit, which sort of provides better defaults and some nice customizations to default install of Emacs. ...
Regulus asked 1/8, 2009 at 18:34

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I am using prelude as a base Emacs configuration. I have installed lots of packages from the package manager, and I want to use my settings on another machine. I don't want to carry the installed...
Overrefinement asked 13/12, 2012 at 19:18

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When I use grep-find it opens another window (area in the frame) with a list of results that I can select. When I select one it opens the target file in a different window than grep-find is in. H...
Thrush asked 19/2, 2010 at 19:50

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I have a non-emacs global search and replace function that causes my disk files to become more up-to-date than my emacs buffers (en masse). Is there any way to tell emacs to refresh all the buffers...
Tempo asked 26/9, 2009 at 6:25

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In SQL mode, we could select the product type such posgres, mysql, oracle etc, and the default one is ANSI, how to set the default type as postgresql after startup emacs? What needs to be put in .e...
Ebarta asked 30/12, 2014 at 11:10

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I am currently using GNU Emacs 23.0.93.1 in Windows Vista SP1. In my .emacs file I make a call to (server-start) and that is causing an error with the message The directory ~/.emacs.d/server is uns...
Mien asked 20/5, 2009 at 1:35

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I keep auto-fill-mode enabled by default for all LaTeX files. This is usually nice, but occasionally one latex file contains mostly tables and I would like to disable auto-fill-mode whenever I edi...
Eddings asked 12/7, 2011 at 18:43

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I found this question somewhat on the topic, but is there a way [in emacs] to set a minor mode (or a list thereof) based on extension? For example, it's pretty easy to find out that major modes can...
Spang asked 19/12, 2012 at 4:57

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I have this set in my init.el (desktop-save-mode 1) This works great, only I was wondering: how can I change it to save the .emacs.desktop files into ~/.emacs.d instead of ~/ how can I stop it...
Aronow asked 18/12, 2010 at 8:51

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In the PEP 8 style guide for python, it is recommended that inline comments are separated by the rest of the line by two spaces. However, the default in Emacs is that running comment-dwim or indent...
Redolent asked 17/2, 2013 at 20:50

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My emacs configuration takes a very long time to load. How can I easily find the offending parts and optimize them?
Dissemble asked 23/4, 2011 at 4:7

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I recently began running emacs in daemon mode on startup. Connecting via GUI client (Emacs.app) appears to load customizations correctly. However, connecting via emacsclient in Terminal does not. ...
Dessert asked 30/3, 2014 at 1:52

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this is in my .emacs can I mess with it or not? (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init f...
Celsacelsius asked 19/2, 2011 at 16:46

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I'm wondering if there's a way to save window configurations across emacs sessions. I know desktop-save is fantastic for preserving buffers and whatnot and the emacs manual demonstrates storing a w...
Swarth asked 24/12, 2008 at 22:58

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My .emacs contains (setenv "PATH" (concat ".:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin" (getenv "PATH"))) (setq exec-path (append exec-path '(".:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin"))) (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/loca...
Freed asked 22/12, 2011 at 16:35

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Here is a screenshot of what is going wrong: As you can see, the whitespace characters are getting in the way of auto-complete's pop-up text and making things look really terrible. When really...
Shogunate asked 19/10, 2012 at 0:40

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I've been looking into adopting Carbon Emacs for use on my Mac, and the only stumbling block I've run into is the annoying scroll beep when you try to scroll past the end of the document. I've look...
Amadoamador asked 27/11, 2008 at 18:38

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