What's the current authoritative way to check and send email in emacs 24? I've checked the following SO links: Setup for Gmail in Emacs VM https://superuser.com/questions/476714/how-to-configure...

I got problems with emacs/auctex fill paragraph which insert linebreaks after each $blabla$ block, resulting in a poorly readable code. For exemple, hitting M-q on the following long line: a $1$ b...

In Centos 6.4,when configure Emacs,it shows: configure: error: The required function `tputs' was not found in any library. The following libraries were tried (in order): libtinfo, libncurses, libt...

I'm using web-mode in Emacs to get syntax highlighting and indentation for PHP and HTML. If I have this code in a .php file <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. <...

How can you generate a dynamic "Reply-To:" (and "From:") header in emacs/gnus based on Message-ID of the created message? I would like to use external (perl) script to generate a dynamic +detail pa...

The Emacs manual only has an example to set a binding for a single command. How to do so for a sequence of commands. Specifically the following. [M-down] to [C-u 1 C-v] [M-up] to [C-u 1 M-v] Wh...

When starting gdb from emacs, emacs says that gdb should be started as gdb -i=mi The option -i is not defined in the gdb man page. If gdb is invoked from the command line with option -i=mi, it w...

TL;DR: Can 32bit emacs-lisp byte ranges beyond the first 512 MB of a file? I like using emacs-lisp for various data processing tasks due to its (obviously) high level of integration with the edito...

In elisp, (cons 1 2) `returns` (1 . 2) (list 1 2) `returns` (1 2) What is the difference between both the outputs?

What is the equivalent of a python dictionary like {'a':1, 'b':2} in elisp? And again, does elisp have any map-reduce api?

I am trying to get Emacs 24.4 running on Mac (Maverick). I have tried following these instructions, but when I run: ./build-emacs gzr I get the error: bzr: ERROR: exceptions.ImportError: Unabl...

I would like to change (or hide entirely) the "bent arrow" character that appears in the Emacs fringe (both on the left and right hand side). I'm using Emacs 24 on a Mac, installed via ho...

I tried out Sublime Text 2 recently, and I found Goto Anything superbly useful for navigating source code (Ctrl-P file@symbol seems to work really well). Is there something similar for Emacs? Prefe...

I want to use cabal repl to instead of ghci (. My goal is being able to use other modules in my project ).

I'm trying to learn emacs and would like to use the super key on my keyboard for any meta commands in emacs, because I use dwm as my window manager and it uses the meta key extensively. I have read...

I am having an issue in emacs (24) where occasionally the line no. in the status bar gets set to ??, e.g. U:--- filename All (1000, 4) (Conf[Unix]) switches to: U:--- filename All (??, 4) (Conf...

In my init.el I want use "use-package" to lazily load my mode and speed up my emacs start. I want use-package automatically download my mode from elpa/melpa/... thanks to package lib. But it seem...

How to define <backtab> short key in emacs24 ? I had found some solution, like: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/daveg/Info/backtab-howto.txt Emacs Shift-Tab to left shift the block ...

When display-buffer has to create a new window in an existing pane, the Emacs manual states that split-height-threshold is looked at first to determine if the new window can be below the current on...

I have installed some packages by using elpa in my Emacs, but how are they loaded when launching Emacs?

I use emacs in terminal mode. I know how to get the menu through F10 key. Emacs used to show the menu in terminal mode as text in a separate buffer. Either since a recent update, or I installed som...

I recently started using CIDER under Emacs 24. My workflow involves going to a remote server via Tramp and then executing cider-jack-in to run the nREPL server connected to Clojure on that server. ...

I'd like to remove several packages that I've installed. When I invoke package-list-packages, I notice that there is a 'd' (mark for deletion) command and an 'x' (execute). However, it seems like t...

I have download a emacs package for to format python codes with autopep8. This package is named py-autopep8 this is the lisp code can you se in the line number 78 this common lisp function (inc...

In an ansi-term terminal in Emacs, when I ssh to a specific remote host, the terminal is not recognized properly, and I get the error: 'eterm-color': unknown terminal type. I added export TERMIN...