I'm looking for a way to check periodically if a files under a certain directory were changed from the last check (a functionality symilar to FAM daemon or to gio.monitor_directory). In emacs lisp. Are there any library/snippet that provide this functionality? If not, how can I implement such a function? ...
Common LISP and Emacs LISP have the atom type predicate. Scheme and Clojure don't have it. http://hyperpolyglot.wikidot.com/lisp Is there a design reason for this - or is it just not an essential function to include in the API? ...
Is there some emacs lisp code that would automatically find /nfs file paths in the buffer and highlight/link to them? So clicking on them would open that file? Example path: /nfs/foo/bar/file.txt ...
I'm searching for a way to "pop" an element from an association list, in other words a "destructive" assoc: (setq alist '((a . 1) (b . 2)) (assoc-pop 'a alist) ;; -> (a . 1) ;; alist -> ((b . 2)) Are there any function in the elisp harness? What's the most elegant way to obtain a symilar functionality? (not sure about that this sort o...
When I query the current value of the keymap it shows me something along these lines: Value: (keymap (S-mouse-2 . muse-follow-name-at-mouse-other-window) (mouse-2 . muse-follow-name-at-mouse) (33554445 . muse-follow-name-at-point-other-window) (S-return . muse-follow-name-at-point-other-window) (13 . muse-follow-name-at-point) (...
I just upgraded from Emacs 21.2 to 23.2 (on Windows XP) and while I managed to tweak my .emacs to fit the new changes, I couldn't find a solution for the unreadable buffer names: Neither in the minibuffer, nor in the buffer menu can the characters be displayed normally. Instead, all I see are the infamous Unicode blank rectangles. Any ...
I know that to (funcall (car (nth (random (length color-themes)) color-themes))) gives me a random color theme on every Emacs startup; but I hardly restart Emacs. How do I cycle between random color themes, say, every hour? ...
Emacs has poor handling of auto-indentation in Flex and Bison. In fact, it seems to have no support for flex mode. So, how does an emacs user cope with these? I like VIm but I would prefer not to switch because I am much faster and more comfortable in Emacs. I had a third party elisp module for Bison a few months ago but when its inden...
I notice that the current auto-mode-alist entries all end with a single quote, for example ("\\.java\\'" . java-mode) What is the purpose of the single quote. I would have expected to see ("\\.java$" . java-mode) The reason I ask is that I am trying to get files with names matching regexp ^twiki\.corp.* to open in org-mode....
Suppose you visit a file F in an emacs buffer B, let r and R be some replacement regular expressions. Now I want to replace all occurrences of strings r_i which matches r (in some region) by the corresponding replacement-string R_i defined by R such that the following conditions are fulfiled: if I save F, the above replacement must not...
Can some please explain the following regexp, which I found in ediff-trees.el as a specification for which files/directories to exclude from its comparison process. "\\`\\(\\.?#.*\\|.*,v\\|.*~\\|\\.svn\\|CVS\\|_darcs\\)\\'" Although I am somewhat familiar with regular expressions encountering this elisp string-based variant has throw...
I have this data structure (basically): (setq ssm-list '(tasklist ((id . "10525295") (name . "Inbox") (sort_order . "0")))) This works for getting the name: (defun ssm-list-get-prop (list prop) (cdr (assoc prop (car (cdr list))))) (ssm-list-get-prop slack-one-list 'name) What'd I like is to create a macro that will creat...
Are there any library or function that performs a bash-like glob expansion for emacs lisp? For example: (directory-files-glob "~/Desktop/*") > ("/home/user/Desktop/file1" "/home/user/Desktop/file2") If there isn't such a function are there any hint/suggestion on how to implement it? EDIT: I've found in the docs also an useful funct...
The challenge of upgrading from Emacs 21.2 to 23.2 continues... In my .emacs I have the very convenient: (global-set-key (quote [f4]) (quote dired-omit-toggle)) It used to work since Emacs 18... but it no longer works in Emacs 23.2: Lisp error: (void-function dired-omit-toggle) Any idea how I can replace this functionality in ...
I am working on an emacs mode for a review tool, and want to use ediff for viewing diffs... the problem is that the review tool only yields a diff, rather than old and new files. I'd like to put the old file in a buffer and apply a diff rather than copying the file, calling out to diff as a subprocess and loading it into a separate buffe...
Hello, For some reason I got the default M-del key binding for backward-kill-word mapped to a scan for matching brackets and resetting is not working, so I am trying to set the global key binding in lisp. So I wrote in ~/.emacs.d/init.el the lisp commands: (global-set-key (kbd "M-h") 'backward-kill-word) (global-set-key (kbd "M-<\dele...
Emacs Lisp does not seem to have a PPRINT function. How do you pretty print an S-EXP in elisp the way you can in Common Lisp? Thanks! ...
I use the following code to run "ls -l ./" and get the result in scratch buffer. (start-process "my-process" "*scratch*" "ls" "-l" "./") How can I get the result in clipboard or something (kill ring or whatever) so that I can easily copy the result whenever necessary? ...
I have the following code to run python and get the result in scratch buffer. (defun hello () "Test, just prints Hello, world to mini buffer" (interactive) (start-process "my-process" "*scratch*" "python" "/Users/smcho/Desktop/temp/hello.py") (message "Hello, world : I'm glad to see you")) (define-key global-map "\C-ck" 'hello)...
I have the following code that runs figlet that has input as a range. How can I modify this code to check if b or e is not specified, make b to the start of the current buffer, and e end of the current buffer? (defun figlet-region (&optional b e) (interactive "r") (shell-command-on-region b e "/opt/local/bin/figlet" (current-buffer...