Hi, I'm trying to use C-h c in emacs to figure out what a key combination is bound to. The combination is C-u C-c C-q, which realigns tags in org-mode. However, Emacs just tries to look up C-u C-c and then fails. What am I doing wrong? I realize I could easily look at the orgmode source or something to figure this out, but for future ref...
I'm learning Emacs Lisp and I came across this decade old post saying that at some point Guile (Scheme) will replace Emacs Lisp, or Emacs will be rewritten with Guile. http://sanpietro.red-bean.com/guile/guile/old/3114.html I was wondering if this is still a possibility, and if developers should be trying to write Elisp with this in m...
This is probably silly but I don't have enough Elisp knowledge to understand what is going on with respect to quoting and evaluation. Suppose I have this Elisp code: (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width . 100)) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 50)) It will result in the expected default-frame-alist value: ((height 5...
Normally when i need to change the color of a certain element in emacs, i would do a M-x describe-face which will eventually bring up a customize buffer to change it. In the emacs term, It seems like i dont have the ability to enter the minibuffer to input that command. How do I figure out which variable to change? Heres a picture, to m...
I'm sharing my emacs configuration files between a linux box and an OS X box. The config breaks however when I define a specific font for Emacs.app in the config which is then not available on linux. Is there a way I can test for the current platform and then execute or skip the OS X specific instructions? ...
Hi, I often commit files with similar cvs comment but not in a single operation. I would like to able to bring up previous comments I've used in a previous commit when I am in the process of writing a comment in emacs. Meaning, from within the VC-log buffer. Is there a way to do this? Thanks ...
I am facing some strange behavior with file-name completion in emacs. C-x C-f to find file opens up the minibuffer with i:/cygwin/home/rrajagop/StockScreener/working_copy/master_repo/stock_screener/. Hitting a TAB makes it i:/cygwini:/cygwin/home/rrajagop/StockScreener/working_copy/master_repo/stock_screener/. A couple of interesting thi...
I have a strange interaction with tramp and cygwin-mount (I think: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1705802/emacs-tab-completion-of-file-name-appends-an-extra-i-cygwin). Because of this, I want to disable tramp. I'm unable to find anything in my .emacs which is loading tramp explicitly. I can see "Loading tramp..." when I hit a tab in ...
How can I fix the simple macro foo in (elisp)Eval During Expansion? None of the followings work: (defmacro foo1 (a) `(setq (eval ,a) t)) (defmacro foo2 (a) `(setq ,(eval a) t)) (defmacro foo3 (a) `(setq ,a t)) I really don't get what's said in (elisp)Eval During Expansion. I think if I got it, I'd have been able to fix the ma...
I'm trying to figure out how the "hyperlink" works in the *Help* buffer (so that I can implement something similar in the output of M-x compile). Here is a more detailed description of the behaviour I want to imitate: M-x describe-function find-file opens up a *Help* buffer. The first line of this buffer (for me) shows: find-file is an i...
Is there a suitable Emacs lisp mode for Go? C mode doesn't work without semicolons. The best I have found is the JavaScript mode by Karl Landstrom, since JavaScript also doesn't require semicolons. ...
Hi, Is there a way to convert an emacs macro into elisp, not like what M-x insert-kbd-macro does, the actual activity becoming elisp statements. Thanks for your help. ...
I would like to have which-function-mode on by default when I open up Emacs. I've added the following lines to my .emacs file. (setq which-func-mode t) (setq which-function-mode t) When I open up a .cpp file and navigate to the body of a function, I'm not seeing the function name in the status bar at the bottom like I should. If ...
I keep getting this error and similar errors while using php-mode on Emacs23 on Ubuntu: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function php-template-if-hook) php-template-if-hook() abbrev-insert(if #("if" 0 2 (fontified t face font-lock-keyword-face)) 414 416) #[(G73404 funs global) "[Byte Code]" apply(#[(G73404 funs global "[Byte ...
I'm not too familiar with elisp, and am trying to learn. In emacs, I'd like to be able to do the following: Mark via C-space Go to where I want the the marking to end, so I have a region that is highlighted, suppose it is "highlighted text" Hit a key-sequence Have emacs ask me to input some text, say "plot", and Have that highlighted...
I started using defaultcontent.el to fill newly-created buffers with content. Apparently this module is not widely used. I think there are 3 people including me and the author who use it, because when I do a search on it, my published emacs.el comes up as the first hit. Despite that, I find it useful. I specify a template for each f...
I'm wondering what the difference is between (add-to-list 'flymake-allowed-file-name-masks '("\\.py\\'" flymake-pylint-init)) and (add-to-list flymake-allowed-file-name-masks '("\\.py\\'" flymake-pylint-init)) What is the clear meaning of the apostrophe here? ...
I want to copy a text from one buffer to another with text properties. So I have (with-current-buffer from-buffer (setq text-to-copy (buffer-substring beg end))) How can I insert the text-to-copy to another buffer with all text properties? I'm interested especially in 'face' properties. The function buffer-substring returns a list...
I use emacs via Putty and since Putty doesn't send certain key combinations to the remote console I generally need to re-bind them to other key combinations. After installing the amazing Zen-Coding mode I had some trouble with the preview it generated; I couldn't get it to insert the output it was previewing. I got around this with the ...
Sorry if this has already been asked; however I don't seem to be able to find an answer anywhere grr. How do I programmatically determine which os emacs is running under in elisp? I would like to run different code in .emacs depending on the os. ...