I am trying to have verilog mode indent everything using 2 spaces except decls and always. This is what I added to my .emacs: ;; `define are not indented (setq verilog-indent-level-directive 0) ;...

I just started using emacs24 (the one that comes with Ubuntu) in order to use deft mode to mimic the behavior of notational velocity on the Mac. My ~/.emacs-d/init.el looks like this: (add-to-list...

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...

I am running Emacs 24.3.1 on Mac OS 10.9, compiled on my machine from source through MacPorts. (For good measure I also tried a 24.3 binary from emacsformacosx.com.) I can use the -r switch from th...

I am new to emacs & trying to use it for python programming. I have installed elpy & everything is working fine except one thing - I am getting lot of warnings, errors like E401, E402, E501...

I am using emacs 24 on fedora 17. I installed markdown-mode, but whenever I try to export a file by typing C-c C-c m or C-c C-c p in emacs, I got this error: /bin/bash: markdown: command not fou...

I have read this and this question. In both they say Emacs can deal with authentication, but it does not work for me. The question is: What is wrong? The Emacs version is 24.0.97-1, and it is runni...

I have successfully installed hy-mode from https://github.com/hylang/hy-mode. I now can open a .hy file in emacs and have syntax highlighting, and editing with paredit is a joy. I however, don't k...

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...

I have some weird behavior, I don't actually know if it's a bug or something else. When I do C-c C-e the option to convert to markdown doesn't appear. Nonetheless I can type the option M-x org-md-e...

Follow up to: Emacs org-display-inline-images I managed to show inline images following abo-abo's advice. Now I want to set a fixed width size for all of them. Setting (setq org-image-actual-widt...

This is what the buffer looks like when I run rgrep. I'd like to just see my results--all the other information is meaningless to me. -*- mode: grep; default-directory: "~/.emacs/" -*- Grep starte...

Ever since upgrading to emacs 24.x I've been seeing this error whenever I open a directory. The entire error is: ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details. Looking a...

I'm using Emacs 24.3 on Windows 8. I want to be able to right-click a file and select "Edit with Emacs" and have the file open in an existing emacs frame. All steps I have done so far are listed be...

I'm running Emacs 24.4 for Windows (installed through Chocolatey) and trying to install CIDER. When I run M-x package-install [RET] cider [RET], I get [No match]. When I run M-x package-refresh-co...

In previous emacs, "M-x shell" new a shell buffer in current windows. but recently, I update my emacs to GNU Emacs 26.0.50.2. "M-x shell" new a shell buffer in the other windows. I search google ...

I have been using org-mode for publishing scientific notes. Most of what I publish is compiled latex code and I am looking for a way to highlight latex syntax in the org-mode buffer. I came across ...

I'm running emacs 24.5 installed via homebrew. for some weird reason my emacs gets stuck on Contacting host: melpa.org:80 I even tried a fresh install of emacs (removed .emacs.d folder as well) Al...

In the JetBrains products, there's a very handy key binding that lets you visit all the spots you made an edit. Hit the key once to go to the last edit (file and location), and keep hitting the key...

I have followed post to enable emacs in windows explorer by adding following registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open In Emacs] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\O...

I'm a new user of org-mode and thoroughly enjoying and seeing the benefits it can bring. However, I often want to update my agenda file (it's satisfying). This will read like a 1st world problem, b...

Related to this question: How to disable x paste in emacs This works for the mouse (setq mouse-drag-copy-region nil) How do I do the same for Evil mode in emacs? I'm on Mac OS, running Emacs 2...

In latest version of ̀emacs ( from 24.3.50 snapshot) there is a warning at startup when .emacs.d happens to be in the load path. Warning (initialization): Your `load-path' seems to contain your `....

IDO mode is awesome. It's essential to know the basic shortcuts, especially the escape hatch Ctrl-f (introduction-to-ido-mode/) which gets you out of ido-mode. In dired, if I want to copy a file t...

When using Cider, doing "M-." above symbol "clojure.lang.ISeq" gives error "No source available for clojure.lang.ISeq". I see that the source for this file is in "clojure-1.5.1-sources.jar". How ...