I have a windows laptop (thinkpad) and somewhat recently rediscovered emacs and the benefit that all those wacky shortcuts can be when the arrow keys are located somewhere near you right armpit. I was discouraged after php-mode, css-mode, etc, under mmm-mode was inconsistent, buggy, and refused to properly interpret some of my files. (I...
I use Emacs primarily for coding Python but sometimes I use IDLE. Is there a way to change the key bindings easily in IDLE to match Emacs? ...
I want to find any text in a file that matches a regexp of the form t[A-Z]u (i.e., a match t followed by a capital letter and another match u, and transform the matched text so that the capital letter is lowercase. For example, for the regexp x[A-Z]y xAy becomes xay and xZy becomes xzy Emacs' query-replace function allows bac...
I've read in several places that the rectangle functions in emacs are very useful. I've read a bit about them, and I can't quite figure why. I mean, when you want to kill a paragraph, you mark the first row/column and then the last one, and that's actually a rectangle, right? But you can still use the normal kill... So what kind of tra...
By default the webjump hotlist has the following which I use quite often: M-x webjump RET Google M-x webjump RET Wikipedia How can I add 'Stackoverflow' to my list? ...
My primary editor is Emacs, but my usage habits and knowledge of features has barely changed over the last few years. What are the Emacs features that you use on a daily basis? Are there any little-known Emacs features that you find very useful? Edit: Made this into the recommended poll format...please put one feature per answer fro...
I am fairly new to emacs and I have been trying to figure out how to change the default folder for c-x c-f on start up. For instance when I first load emacs and hit c-x c-f its default folder is C:\emacs\emacs-21.3\bin, but I would rather it be the desktop. I believe there is some way to customize the .emacs file to do this, but I am sti...
Edit: This question had been tagged "Tolstoy" in appreciation of the quality and length of my writing:) Just reading the first and the last paragraph should be enough:) If you tend to select and move code with the mouse, the stuff in middle could be interesting to you. This question is about how you use text editors in general. I’m loo...
I've recently had a need to do a bit of lisp editing and I found the nifty Ready Lisp package for OS X, which is great, except Aquamacs automatically uses a proportional font (which is idiotic, IMHO) and I want to change it to a monospace font. However, I'm not really much of an EMACS user, and the preferences menu in Aquamacs is less th...
Particularly, what is the best snippets package out there? Features: easy to define new snippets (plain text, custom input with defaults) simple navigation between predefined positions in the snippet multiple insertion of the same custom input accepts currently selected text as a custom input cross-platform (Windows, Linux) dynamicall...
Currently my workflow with Emacs when I am coding in C or C++ involves three windows. The largest on the right contains the file I am working with. The left is split into two, the bottom being a shell which I use to type in compile or make commands, and the top is often some sort of documentation or README file that I want to consult w...
Hey folks, I program with Emacs on Ubuntu (Hardy Heron at the moment), and I like the default text coloration in the Emacs GUI. However, the default text coloration when Emacs is run in the terminal is different and garish. How do I make the colors in the terminal match the colors in the GUI? Thanks! ...
So that each line starts with its line number? ...
When I yank text in Emacs 22.1.1 (in its own window on X, in KDE, on Kubuntu), I can't paste it anywhere else. I'm reduced to opening kate to copy the text with ^C. Is there a better way? ...
Most text editors have a navigation pane that lets you see all the files you currently have open. Or a pane that lets you browse a file directory. How do I do this in emacs? ...
Is there an Emacs package for using rmail with an imap server? ...
Say I have a line in an emacs buffer that looks like this: foo -option1 value1 -option2 value2 -option3 value3 \ -option4 value4 ... I want it to look like this: foo -option1 value1 \ -option2 value2 \ -option3 value3 \ -option4 value4 \ ... I want each option/value pair on a separate line. I also want those sub...
I want to create a regexp in emacs that matches exactly 3 digits. For example, I want to match the following: 123 345 789 But not 1234 12 12 23 If I use [0-9]+ I match any single string of digits. I thought [0-9]{3} would work, but when tested in re-builder it doesn't match anything. ...
I've been unsuccessful in getting Emacs to switch from 8 space tabs to 4 space tabs when I'm using Text mode. I've tried to edit my .emacs file to: (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (setq-default tab-width 4) ;;; And I have tried (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) (setq tab-width 4) No matter how I change my .emacs file (or my buffer's lo...
I'm writing an Emacs major mode for an APL dialect I use at work. I've gotten basic font locking to work, and after setting comment-start and comment-start-skip, comment/uncomment region and fill paragraph also work. However, comment blocks often contain javadoc style comments and i would like fill-paragraph to avoid glueing together li...