I have the following line in my Emacs init file. (global-set-key (kbd "C-x a r") 'align-regexp) Is there any way to hard-code in a particular regex so that I don't have to specify it every time? ...
I would like to create only a syntax highlighting minor mode for Emacs. I have the "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions" by O'Reilly, but it does not go into any depth of detail. Is there a simple tutorial for a real or fake programming language highlighting mode? Thank you ...
From reading introductory material on Lisp, I now consider the following to be identical: (list 1 2 3) '(1 2 3) However, judging from problems I face when using the quoted form in both Clojure and Emacs Lisp, they are not the same. Can you tell me what the difference is? ...
Is there a native Emacs Lisp function that behaves like strpos() in PHP? It should return the position of first occurrence of the given string in current buffer. Function search-forward is nice, but it modifies the character position. ...
Let's say I am editing blah.txt with Emacs and I decide to open dired to rename the file blah.txt. When I press C-x d RET (or C-x C-f RET), a dired buffer will show up to display the content of the directory containing blah.txt, but the cursor will not be on blah.txt. So I need to search my file first (C-s blah.txt) to place my cursor on...
I'm trying to byte-compile cc-mode 5.31.3 using emacs 23.1.1 as follows: $ emacs -batch --no-site-file -q -f batch-byte-compile *.el But two of the files are failing to compile (in addition to numerous warnings): In c-init-language-vars-for: cc-mode.el:168:10:Warning: Function `mapcan' from cl package called at runtime cc-mode.el:16...
Unlike windows style self explanatory copy/cut/paste commands, I could not understand ring concept in emacs. Since I don't program very often in emacs, I could have not realized the value of ring feature. Can you tell me what is called ring in emacs and how to use it? ...
Suppose I have variables dir and file containing strings representing a directory and a filename, respectively . What is the proper way in emacs lisp to join them into a full path to the file? For example, if dir is "/usr/bin" and file is "ls", then I want "/usr/bin/ls". But if instead dir is "/usr/bin/", I still want the same thing, wi...
Hello everyone! I am puzzled by the expression #[nil "\300\207" [nil] 1] as a value of skeleton-pair-filter-function. Is this an alternative way of writing function in elisp? Or lisp in general? Thanks. ...
In 1987, I wrote the code I'm going to paste in a moment. The mechanism used here to capture the initial function binding of switch-to-buffer doesn't work any more, resulting in infinite recursion. I guess that there's a right way to do this sort of thing now, could someone please fill me in? (defvar *real-buffer-switcher* nil) (defun ...
According to the Emacs documentation, Directory Variables apply to all files below a directory that contains an .dir-locals.el file. How can I, in that file, set a variable to the full path that contains the file? For example: ((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t) (my-project-path **THIS_DIRECTORY**)))) ...
As an Emacs beginner, I am working on writing a minor mode. My current (naive) method of programming elisp consists of making a change, closing out Emacs, restarting Emacs, and observing the change. How can I streamline this process? Is there a command to refresh everything? ...
I've got elscreen on my emacs for tabbed windows but it's splitting my screen in 2 like so... |-------| | | |-------| | | |-------| How would I make it only display one screen? The only things in my .emacs file is.. 135;; --------------------------------------- ...
I'm in my second year of my CS major, and I've only had courses in C (first course and then a polymorphic data structures course), C++ (OOP focus), MIPS assembly, and a compiler course. I worked in WinForms and C# over the summer. I worked through the Little Schemer and I'm really interested in learning some sort of LISP. Emacs is my e...
I need to automatically send an email from within an elisp function. Hypothetically, I would like a single function which I can pass in the to, from, subject, body, and possibly other headers. Does such a function exist? If not how could it be implemented? ...
Hi all, I'm trying to use smart-operator.el in emacs. I've put the following into my init.el file: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/dotemacs_git/smart-operator/") (require 'smart-operator) (smart-operator-mode 1) That doesn't seem to turn on smart-operator-mode automatically ... I still have to do M-x smart-operator-mode to get...
In GNU Emacs, what is [C-tab]? Consider: (version) "GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1" (defun key-binding-test () (interactive) (insert " key-binding-test called ")) For a single letter control character, a character constant must be used in the vector: (global-set-key [C-l] 'key-binding-test) ; ...
Hi! I've described a grammar in a .wy file, but how can I build the parser? Also, sorry if this question is too simple, but I'm having a bad time figuring out how to use CEDET. Are there any docs besides the gentle intro and the info files? Thanks! ...