Context: using the Buffer List in Emacs to see what I'm doing, choose a buffer to visit, etc. FYI, I use fairly deep (sub-)directory organization to organize my files. When I have lots of files open from the same subdirectory, the 'File' field mostly shows the part of the pathname that is the same for all files, i.e. the first 2-3 laye...
There are plenty of ways to fold code in Emacs and I've settled in on using the outline minor mode... it works great! However, I really want my folding to be persisted when I close and re-open files. It is quite frustrating to have folding set up in a file the way I like it, only to have that lost when I restart Emacs. Has anyone found...
I would like to bind C-` (control-backquote) but I could not do it. The sexp (global-set-key "\M-`" 'other-window) works, whereas (global-set-key "\C-`" 'other-window) doesn't. It fails with the "Invalid modifier in string" error. ...
Anybody knows some actual documentation written? I can't find anything good for any of the 2 competing modes. Looks like Emacs is pretty much abandon when it comes to Python and it is a shame as there is no other programmable programming editor that comes close to Emacs. ...
I'd like to recenter a buffer, called *Lense*, where I've inserted some text. I wished to make it the current buffer by (set-buffer "*Lense*"), then (recenter 0)). By the following code segments: (save-excursion (set-buffer "*Lense*") (recenter 0)) However, it seems that the above code would only recenter the buffer w...
I've tried psvn.el, but the command to diff the file you're currently looking at is just hideous: M-x svn-file-show-svn-diff. I tried installing vc-svn.el, but couldn't get that working on my version of Emacs: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO. I've tried putting a copy of vc-snv.el in my site-lisp dir, but...
I want to write a .emacs that uses as much of the mainline emacs functionality as possible, falling back gracefully when run under previous versions. I've found through trial and error some functions that didn't exist, for example, in emacs 22 but now do in emacs 23 on the rare occasion that I've ended up running my dotfiles under emacs ...
Hey, I have a minor mode. If that mode is active and the user hits DEL, I want to do some action, but only if some condition holds. If the condition holds and the action is executed I want to do nothing more after that. But if the condition fails, I don't want to do anything and let the default DEL action execute. Not sure how I could ...
When viewing piped output to Less, sometimes I'd like to be able to view it in Emacs in order to get syntax highlighting and use emacs commands for searching, marking, copying, etc. I see that Less has a v command that can be used to open the currently viewed file in $EDITOR. Unfortunately this doesn't work when viewing piped input. A...
Hi, I am trying to make a simple keybinding to the "na" function. When I execute (na) it inserts "å" in the current buffer, which it is supposed to, but the when I try the keybinding as described in the first line I get the error: "Wrong argument: commandp, na". I am not sure if it matters, but I have also put the (local-set-key) comman...
Exuberant cTags doesn't support Groovy. ...
My problem is I am opening a buffer using (set-buffer (find-tag-noselect (current-word))) and then I try to copy some text out of that buffer. The text that I get back has only the properties (fontified nil). find-tag-noselect automatically opens the buffer found in the TAGS file but it seems it does not run the font lock mode over it....
One of my colleagues uses TextPad, and one feature I found really useful is the Auto-Reload. (The feature has been described in this SO quesion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1246083/alternative-to-textpads-prompt-to-reload-file). Basically, it keeps reloading the file without any prompt from the user, which is really helpful when m...
Hi guys, How can I get a tabbed interface in carbon emacs which corresponds to one-tab-per-buffer similar to Aquaemacs(http://aquamacs.org/)? ...
Emacs seems to save synchronously, i.e. the interface locks up during a save. This is especially noticeable when using tramp. Is there any way to have the save happen in the background? ...
I often wish to search for variables that are simply called 'c' or 'count'. For example int c, count; Unfortunately when I use an incremental search for 'c' or 'count' I get a lot of unnecessary hits like the 'c' in 'choice', or the 'count' in 'wordcount' which do not interest me. I know Emacs can do i-searches with regular expressi...
Dear Emacs gurus; I would like to set up a project to be published as HTML using org-mode. I don't want to litter my .emacs with project definitions, and I was wondering where I could put the (setq org-publish-project-alist) variable. Can I somehow put it in the same dir? Thank you ...
I can connect manually by doing: M-x sql-postgres and type the User, Database, Host, Server I'd like to do something like: (connect-foo (user "me")(database "bar")(host "earth")) Solution so far: I grabbed some code from sql.el and changed it so I can use it non-interactively. (defun sql-create-buffer (profile) "derived from sql...
Emacs uses an older version of python(2.3) i have for the default python mode, is there a way for me to tell emacs to use the newer version that i have in my home directory? btw I'm using a red hat distro and dont have root privileges. ...
I'm using Emacs as an editor. I want to set the tab size to four spaces. In my .emacs file I have the following: (setq default-tab-width 4) I've also tried: (set-default tab-width 4) Either way, when I open emacs and try to tab, it inserts two spaces. Am I doing something wrong? It almost seems like its not seeing my .emacs fil...