hello I have written few functions, which nearly identical, save for names. For example ; x is name, such as function/paragraph/line/etc. (defun my-x-function (interactive) (mark-x) (do-more-stuff) (modify-x)) is there a way to put it automatically to generate function, paragraph, etc. functions? I have a feeling this is what macr...
I really love org-mode in emacs and want to customize a few things. While reading thru org.el, I'm finding several references to filename but can't find filename using describe-function? I'm sure there's a simple answer, but I'm just learning elisp and it's not obvious. Any insight into where filename is defined? And/or if it's not a f...
I have a program that can send text to any other program for further analysis (eg sed, grep, etc). I would like it to send the data to Emacs and do analysis there. How would I do that? EmacsClient takes a filename by default, this is a data string not a file and I really don't want to create and delete files just to send data to Emacs...
I am starting with emacs, and don't know much elisp. Nearly nothing, really. I want to use ack as a replacement of grep. These are the instructions I followed to use ack from within emacs: http://www.rooijan.za.net/?q=ack_el Now I don't like the output format that is used in this el file, I would like the output to be that of ack --gr...
I'd like to recenter a buffer, called *Lense*, where I've inserted some text. I wished to make it the current buffer by (set-buffer "*Lense*"), then (recenter 0)). By the following code segments: (save-excursion (set-buffer "*Lense*") (recenter 0)) However, it seems that the above code would only recenter the buffer w...
Hey, I have a minor mode. If that mode is active and the user hits DEL, I want to do some action, but only if some condition holds. If the condition holds and the action is executed I want to do nothing more after that. But if the condition fails, I don't want to do anything and let the default DEL action execute. Not sure how I could ...
Hi, I am trying to make a simple keybinding to the "na" function. When I execute (na) it inserts "å" in the current buffer, which it is supposed to, but the when I try the keybinding as described in the first line I get the error: "Wrong argument: commandp, na". I am not sure if it matters, but I have also put the (local-set-key) comman...
My problem is I am opening a buffer using (set-buffer (find-tag-noselect (current-word))) and then I try to copy some text out of that buffer. The text that I get back has only the properties (fontified nil). find-tag-noselect automatically opens the buffer found in the TAGS file but it seems it does not run the font lock mode over it....
One of my colleagues uses TextPad, and one feature I found really useful is the Auto-Reload. (The feature has been described in this SO quesion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1246083/alternative-to-textpads-prompt-to-reload-file). Basically, it keeps reloading the file without any prompt from the user, which is really helpful when m...
I can connect manually by doing: M-x sql-postgres and type the User, Database, Host, Server I'd like to do something like: (connect-foo (user "me")(database "bar")(host "earth")) Solution so far: I grabbed some code from sql.el and changed it so I can use it non-interactively. (defun sql-create-buffer (profile) "derived from sql...
I can't get 'remember' to work in org-mode of emacs. I'm on snow leopard. I added (global-set-key (kbd "C-M-r") 'org-remember) to my .emacs file but when I try to use that shortcut it says: Wrong type argument: commandp, remember So I added (org-remember-insinuate) and when I start emacs it says: symbol's function definition is vo...
Basically I have my Emacs set up so it has a GUI specific elisp, but when starting it in daemon mode this doesn't evaluate. The code is something like: ;; gui.el (when window-system (progn ;; do stuff here )) I'd like this file (or at least the code within it—perhaps a funtion) to be re-evaluated when I run emacsclient -c on...
Hello, I have the following lines in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el (custom-set-variables '(flymake-allowed-file-name-masks (quote ( ("\\.cc\\'" flymake-simple-make-init) ("\\.cpp\\'" flymake-simple-make-init))))) (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'flymake-find-file-hook) When I open a C++ file that has a proper Makefile...
I don't know why I'm having so much trouble groking the documentation for the elisp debugger. I see it has a commands to "step-into" (d). But for the life of me, I cannot see a step-out or step-over. Can anyone help? If I have this in the Backtrace buffer: Debugger entered--returning value: 5047 line-beginning-position() * c-p...
What do I put in my .emacs file to use four spaces instead of the tab character for all indentation? ...
I am trying to have the "Birthday" property of an Org-mode contact entry added to the agenda automatically: * John :PROPERTIES: :Name: John :Birthday: 5 4 1900 :END: This can be done manually for each entry using: %%(diary-anniversary 5 4 1900) John's birthday But I don't want to type the date twice. I would like to use the ...
I would like to import a CSV into Org-mode. Others have already asked about importing CSV to Org-mode tables. That's not what I am trying to do. I need to import CSV to Org-mode properties. For example, a CSV like this: Name,Tel,Mobile,Fax John,11111,22222,33333 should become: :PROPERTIES: :Name: John :Tel: 11111 :Mobile: 22222 :Fax...
There is a strange behavior of delete-directory function with enabled flag delete-by-removing-to-trash. It deletes files one by one instead of applying move-file-to-trash to the directory. As a result emacs deletes big directories slowly and there are many files in the trash after deleting, so it is impossible to restore the directory. ...
How can I create an empty file from emacs, ideally from within a dired buffer? For example, I've just opened a Python module in dired mode, created a new directory, opened that in dired, and now need to add an empty __init__.py file in the directory. If I use C-x C-f __init__.py RET C-x C-s then emacs doesn't create the file because no...
hello, suppose I have a text list in emacs like this: a b c ... d Is there a way to assign numbers to those items in Emacs, by selecting the region? End results should look like: 1. a 2. b 3. c j. ... n. d Thanks. ...