Not being using Emacs all that long (v23, windows) and just discovered M-x ediff. Fantastic. Although I'm not to keen on the fact it opens its help/navigation in a separate frame/window, meaning that if I lose focus to that window, the single key shortcuts don't work. For example as soon as I press ? to expand the window, it shifts over...
Is there a way to get a word to be rendered with a different face in text mode? ...
Hello, I am working with Ruby on Rails projects most of the time so I need a way to save projects and the state of the buffers/windows I am working on, mostly because I often find myself switching to a different project for a few minutes and then going back to the project I was working on. Desktop.el seems to be very close except for th...
I would like my tcsh script to launch an editor (e.g., vi, emacs): #!/bin/tcsh vi my_file This starts up vi with my_file but first displays a warning "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal" and my keystrokes don't appear on the screen. After I kill vi, my terminal window is messed up (no newlines), requiring a "reset". I tried "...
My itch to see the Emacs syntax highlighting handle generics more effectively is getting worse and worse with each new release of the Java language. I suspect adding customization support for the language level is a significant piece of programming effort. But it would still be interesting to hear someone knowledgeable expound at a fai...
I'm wondering if anyone could weigh in on pros and cons of different spelling modes for Emacs. Emacswiki-CategorySpelling mentions three modes for spell checking: Flyspell mode (default one) Speck mode (seems to be designed to be faster than flyspell) Wcheck mode. (designed to be general purpose) I'm also interested in which of ...
Hi, I often commit files with similar cvs comment but not in a single operation. I would like to able to bring up previous comments I've used in a previous commit when I am in the process of writing a comment in emacs. Meaning, from within the VC-log buffer. Is there a way to do this? Thanks ...
How can I re-enable the hash (#) key in carbon-emacs on the mac? I've tried everything I've come across in google and still can't get it working. My config file currently looks like this: (require 'redo+) (require 'mac-key-mode) (mac-key-mode 1) (setq default-input-method "MacOSX") (setq mac-command-modifier 'alt mac-option-modifier 'm...
I am facing some strange behavior with file-name completion in emacs. C-x C-f to find file opens up the minibuffer with i:/cygwin/home/rrajagop/StockScreener/working_copy/master_repo/stock_screener/. Hitting a TAB makes it i:/cygwini:/cygwin/home/rrajagop/StockScreener/working_copy/master_repo/stock_screener/. A couple of interesting thi...
I have a strange interaction with tramp and cygwin-mount (I think: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1705802/emacs-tab-completion-of-file-name-appends-an-extra-i-cygwin). Because of this, I want to disable tramp. I'm unable to find anything in my .emacs which is loading tramp explicitly. I can see "Loading tramp..." when I hit a tab in ...
When I open a multi-byte file, I get this: ...
How can I fix the simple macro foo in (elisp)Eval During Expansion? None of the followings work: (defmacro foo1 (a) `(setq (eval ,a) t)) (defmacro foo2 (a) `(setq ,(eval a) t)) (defmacro foo3 (a) `(setq ,a t)) I really don't get what's said in (elisp)Eval During Expansion. I think if I got it, I'd have been able to fix the ma...
The key bindings I've defined in my .emacs file aren't working. Here's the file: ;init modes (menu-bar-mode 0) (tool-bar-mode 0) (cua-mode) (column-number-mode) (fset 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) (cperl-set-style PerlStyle) ;keymappings (global-set-key [f12] 'save-buffer) (global-set-key [S-f12] 'write-file) (global-set-key [f7] 'ispell) (g...
What tools are there that supports refactoring C code (renaming variables, extracting methods, finding method references, ...) Preferably for a Linux environment, but Windows tools are ok too. If there's something available for emacs, even better! ...
I'm trying to figure out how the "hyperlink" works in the *Help* buffer (so that I can implement something similar in the output of M-x compile). Here is a more detailed description of the behaviour I want to imitate: M-x describe-function find-file opens up a *Help* buffer. The first line of this buffer (for me) shows: find-file is an i...
Is there a suitable Emacs lisp mode for Go? C mode doesn't work without semicolons. The best I have found is the JavaScript mode by Karl Landstrom, since JavaScript also doesn't require semicolons. ...
Hi, Is there a way to convert an emacs macro into elisp, not like what M-x insert-kbd-macro does, the actual activity becoming elisp statements. Thanks for your help. ...
What I do is C-u M-x apro-var RET isearch mode-map RET if I want to find out the name of the keymap for the isearch mode. Is there other ways? ...
Is anyone aware of an emacs mode or function that will reformat a buffer holding a delimited file such that each delimiter (e.g. tab) defines a "column" with the width of each column set to the longest entry? I can reset the tab-width variable but that makes all columns equal width. I would much prefer variable-width columns if possible...
I would like to have which-function-mode on by default when I open up Emacs. I've added the following lines to my .emacs file. (setq which-func-mode t) (setq which-function-mode t) When I open up a .cpp file and navigate to the body of a function, I'm not seeing the function name in the status bar at the bottom like I should. If ...