this sounds like a silly problem: I'm putting my R code into a package and R CMD check src complains about the .Rd~ backup files being produced by Emacs. * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING Subdirectory 'man' contains invalid file names: read.PI.Rd~ write.PI.Rd~ the documentation says: »In addition [...] files [...] wit...
Just now I was fumbling around on the keyboard and saw a  appear in the emacs buffer. How'd I do that? That would be handy, if I could do it on purpose. ...
I often have split windows in a frame where one is much smaller than the other (usually done through C-u C-u C-x ^). This is so I can see some snippet of code as reference while doing something else. The problem is: when I use C-x 4 b to switch to some other buffer (or C-x 4 f to open a new file in the lower window), the lower window i...
Is there some sort of general pathname-rewriting/normalizing facility I can exploit in Emacs to allow source files in compile-mode to be translated to local paths based on remote paths? I was hoping to use symbolic links, but that's not working for me in Windows. I'm running GNU Emacs 23.1.1, and have tried cygwin-mount and w32-symlink...
I'm setting up emacs as my ruby development environment. I run tests by doing M-x compile and then rake test. I've set up compile-error-regexp-alist appropriately so that the resulting compile buffer can recognize test failures and make them clickable, but I'm facing trouble getting compile-find-file to use the correct directory to find ...
I use Emacs at work and at home, both on Windows XP, both EmacsW32. On my work computer, if I setup FTP login details for a site, for example: machine ftp.stackoverflow.com login codinghorror password orange then if I want to ftp there from Emacs, I just type /ftp.s<tab> and it knows from my .netrc that it can autocomplete to /ft...
I'd like to get emacs sql-mysql mode working in windows xp. I'm able to enter sql-mysql mode and connect to mysql database successfully. The problem is that the SQL buffer doesn't show the "mysql>" prompt. In other words, it's not interacting with mysql.exe. I think it's because the mysql.exe program is going into "non-interactive" mode...
I use Emacs to do most of my development work, I'd like to be able to connect to the Emacs server running on my office workstation from home. I connect to my office network over a VPN, I think this is mostly safe. Anyway, I have a script that copies the server authentication file out, but it looks like the port changes every time. Our V...
There's a lot of Text editors which support autocomplete during programming, but I want one which can autocomplete while typing normal text as I see a lot of repetition of words I type. Any emacs fans who have implemented this ? ...
If I select a region of text, is there a way to use isearch (or some other search command) that will allow me to only search within the region? I was hoping to use this to technique inside a macro. This might be obvious, but I did a quick search and couldn't find a way. ...
I'm attempting to use Pymacs with rope/ropemacs for flymake syntax checking as described here: http://www.enigmacurry.com/2009/01/21/autocompleteel-python-code-completion-in-emacs/ When I start Carbon Emacs "normally" it throws the error: error: Pymacs loading ropemacs...failed I had this working on OSX 10.5 with Carbon Emacs but it f...
After selecting 1 + 1 and issuing python-send-region, my subprocess buffer shows no results. I have to evaluate print 1 + 1, instead. How can I force the python-send-* commands to print the value of the respective statements rather than echoing their stdout? ...
I am getting an error in my .emacs file at the following line: (switch-to-buffer *Completions*) error: symbols value as variable is void I did a describe-function on switch-to-buffer and found I CAN pass it a BUFFER (and another optional argument which I do not currently need). What am I doing wrong? Just a few notes: a. I also need...
typically the code is something like: <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> body { font-size:12pt; font-family: Arial;} .... </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.1.3.2js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- $(document).ready(function(){ ... }); ...
So I just downloaded emacs 23.1 for my new snow leopard macbook pro from http://emacsformacosx.com/ and it works like a charm, except... I have visual customizations in my .emacs, a few lines are extracted here: (set-background-color "black") (set-cursor-color "green") (set-default-font "--Lucida Console-normal-r-normal-normal-1...
Hello, I just started playing about with emacs yesterday for a project I'm working on. Anyway, i've started using the nxhtml-mumamo for web dev work and have got everything working alright except for when an HTML attribute contains is written as such... <element attribute="<?= _ID ?>"></element> ... which invalidates the source. I've...
C-x C-f blah.info opens the file in fundametal mode. I used apropos and found Info-mode which I thought might change from fundamental mode into Info mode, but that throws a lisp error. How can I open a external/thirdparty *.info file in emacs so that I get the same bells and whistles as when I'm looking at M-x info (n for next, u for u...
I'd like to write a little emacs command to send an email. What's the simplest way to do this? I know there are a lot of mail-sending plugins for emacs, but I really just need to send a simple little email. ...
how would I figure this out? I added delete-trailing-whitespace to the before-save-hook in my c-mode-common-hook, but it looks like delete-trailing-whitespace is getting called for every file, not just buffers using c-mode and derivatives. Can I make the before-save-hook buffer local? ...
is there any way know there is set-mark beginning and where is the start point query in lisp ...