Custom background for active window
How can I configure a different background color for the active window in Emacs? ...
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emacs 23 and font size
I am using emacs 23 on my Ubuntu netbook edition. Every app, automatically goes to fullscreen (so does my emacs). But depending on the font size (:height), I get a smaller working window. If I go to :height normal I get the full area but the fonts are HUGE! any ideas? ...
emacs equivalent of vim's shift-h and shift-l
i'm wondering if emacs has these cursor movement commands built in or if i'm going to have to write them or find a snippet somewhere. i find them pretty spiffy and use them in vim regularly. i haven't found them in emacs' documentation so far. in vim, they look like this: shift-h -> move cursor to the top of the screen shift-m -> move c...
Snap Open for Emacs?
Hi. I need some script that will find and open files by given pattern within current directory and it's subdirectories, kind of Snap Open for GEdit, fuzzyfinder for VIM and TextMate's Open Files. any ideas? ...
Can I run JUnit 4 to test Scala code from the command line?
If so, how? I haven't come across the proper incantation yet. If not, what's the best approach to unit-testing Scala code from the command line? (I'm a troglodyte; I use IDEs when I have to, but I prefer to play around using Emacs and command-line tools.) ...
How can I change a buffer view in emacs to hide HTML tags
Like any conscientious emacs user I edit blog posts with it all the time using "It's All Text". However I'm often inserting HTML hrefs into my text and when I come to do my final proof read they tend to get in the way. Is there a mode I can toggle into that will hide these elements? More generally are there any pointers on how to write ...
CGI Programming in Elisp?
Has anyone written any libraries for elisp to do CGI programming? I threw together a quick first script. However, I'm only a long-time emacs user and I've never really programmed it. When I saw that I could write scripts (--script) in emacs instead of bash, I thought that I would give it a shot. #!/usr/bin/emacs --script (princ "Co...
Jump to Model/View/Controller in emacs
Most rails modes for emacs have this kind of functionality. You are in a controller file over a function "kaboosh" in "app/controller/bla.rb" and with a keyboard shortcut you switch to "app/views/kaboosh.erb" or to app/models/bla.rb". A similar functionality exists for .c and .h files using ff-find-other-file. I checked jump.el and fin...
emacs, auctex, noweb-mode - how to keep screen from recentering around point?
When in auctex and noweb-mode (using Sweave in emacs), I find it distracting when the screen recenters itself as I use next-line, previous-line, etc. (C-n, C-p, and mouse-1). Does anyone know how to turn it off? Thanks much! ...
emacs - emacsclient or new frame?
Hi, this is a rather rudimentary question, but what is the practical difference between opening a new file in a separate frame (make-new-frame) from emacs or opening the file in an instance of emacsclient? I can see that if you are working through a terminal, the difference is clear... but can emacsclient additionally restrict the list o...
gnu screen - changing the default escape command key to ALT-X?
In GNU screen, I want to change the default command binding to Alt-s (by tweaking .screenrc) instead of the default C-a, the reason is I use emacs hence GNU screen binds the C-a key, sending "C-a" to the emacs becomes tedious (as @Nils said, to send "C-a" I should type "C-a a"), as well as "C-a" in bash shell, and I could change the esca...
How do I debug my emacs crash on Windows?
I use emacs on windows (at work) and on linux (at home). On the windows machine, I'm using emacs 23.1 (from here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-23.1-bin-i386.zip). It just crashed right now. Recently, I've taken a healthy interest in debugging on windows (using WinDbg), so I really want to try my hand at this ready-made crash...
How to make forward-word, backward-word, treat underscore as part of a word?
In my C# mode, M-b and M-f are bound to {backward,forward}-word. But these things stop at underscores, which I use sometimes as a prefix on member variables. How do I get emacs to treat the underscore as a word character? ...
difference between (defalias 'A (symbol-function 'B)) and (defalias 'A 'B)
I was reading subr.el and saw this code: (defalias 'backward-delete-char 'delete-backward-char) (defalias 'search-forward-regexp (symbol-function 're-search-forward)) Interestingly, the first line doesn't use symbol-function while the second line does. The only difference I know of these two ways of using defalias is that the help for...
Emacs: How to view sftp folders
I'm running Ubuntu and playing with Emacs for the first time but unfortunately it doesn't seem to see any sftp folders I currently have mounted. These folder are visible to nautilus and gedit. Can any experienced emac users point me in the right direction? ...
Emacs - slime not starting
I recently upgraded to Emacs 23.1.50, and Slime stopped connecting - it would start the inferior-lisp, but never connect. After some investigation, I found that it would work if started from emacs -q and then everything up until and including the call to slime would work. Is there any way to force the remainder of my customizations to ...
Emacs lisp "shell-command-on-region"
In GNU Emacs, I want to run a program, figlet, on the currently selected text. I then want to comment the region which is produced. I have figured out how to do it using the standard Emacs commands: set mark with C-<space> at the start of the word move cursor to the end of the word C-u M-x shell-command-on-region RET figlet RET M-x co...
Emacs comment-region in C mode
In GNU Emacs, is there a good way to change the comment-region command in C mode from /* This is a comment which extends */ /* over more than one line in C. */ to /* This is a comment which extends over more than one line in C. */ ? I have tried (setq comment-multi-line t) but this does not help. There is a section on multi-...
emacs tramp performance
Is there a way to improve emacs tramp performance? For me it's faster to open an external ftp client (filezilla), transfer files to the local disk and open them in an external editor (notepad) than open them with emacs. I use emacs23.1 under windows xp. I tried different tramp-default-method (telnet, pscp, ftp), all of them have the sam...
Paths with whitespaces in ido (find-file) (on MS Windows)
I am running GNU Emacs 23 on a Windows-machine and having problems getting ido-find-file to match files that contain whitespaces. In my .emacs I (setq ido-use-filename-at-point t) and would like to match a string like "D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Username\Eigene Dateien\Scratch\ipswitch.bat" when hitting C-x C-f. When point is locat...