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Does emacs have an option to display build settings?

Does emacs have an option or some internal command that displays build time settings and whatever features it supports? A good example is the nginx -V command which lists the ./configure options it was compiled with.
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How to change the current working directory?

how to change the current working directory of emacs? set default-directory doesn't not affect the emacs process's current working directory, which can be verified via lsof -p pid.
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How to get the same Emacs environment on a different computer?

I'm a beginner in Emacs (using it for about 2 weeks now and loving it). As I update and expand my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file, the things that I write in there depend on certain packages that I installed from MELPA using M-x package-install, on .el…
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Use several Emacs configurations/versions simultaneously

I want to use several emacs configurations/versions simultaneously so that no configuration disturbs each other, each with their own configuration directory and elpa repository. I heard about the trick with symlinking ~/.emacs.d and ~/.emacs, but…
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It is possible to instrument a literate Org-mode configuration file with a backing Emacs Lisp file?

It is a common practice to write Emacs configuration files using literate-programming style in Org mode. Unfortunately, while improving readability, this comes with significant programming disadvantages. In particular, since there is no backing .el…
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File error: Cannot open load file, no such file or directory, multi-web-mode

I want to load the multi-web-mode package and have put it in ~/.emacs.d/ or ~/ or ~/.emacs.d/lisp/(so far). My .emacs contains the standard from the multi-web-mode distribution: (require 'multi-web-mode) (setq mweb-default-major-mode…
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Configure Magit user name and email

Windows has an environment variable HOME which is on a remote serve (say Y:/, set by administrator and suppose not to be changed) and I start Emacs on my local disk, say C:/. (Emacs becomes slow if I start from Y:/) However .gitconfig file locates…
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How to make the natural language for Emacs be English?

My computer's default language is Portuguese, and I don't want to change that. But, for some usages (especially programming) it's better to have English output, for example to copy/paste an error message on a search engine. I would like to have…
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What controls things like cursor appearance in a terminal?

In the GUI version of Emacs, it is easy to see that something like (blink-cursor-mode t) makes the cursor blink. However, in a terminal emulator, such as on Mac OS X, it is possible to set things such as the cursor color or whether or not the cursor…
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Enhance python lsp-mode with elpy functions and keybindings

I've been using Elpy for a long time and have grown used to many of the default keybindings. I recently decided to give lsp-mode a go to see how it compares. I set it up following this blog and made my own tweaks. There's things I really like about…
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Where to put user configurations/defaults for spacemacs?

I am a vim user trying to covert to emacs/spacemacs, but I'm having a horribly difficult time configuring things that seem like a breeze others. I want to limit the fill to 80 (mainly for .txt files and .org mode.. I thought the default was 80…
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How to change Emacs' word movement behaviour?

I want to do this on forward-word: (| shows the cursor position) Normal Behaviour: int main(int argc, char *args[]) { int a = 45|; printf|("%i", a); } What I want to do: //forward-word first int main(int argc, char *args[]) { int a =…
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Can't adjust font size anymore in emacs 25

I just upgraded Emacs to 25.1.1 (via the Arch Linux package manager pacman). Now I can't set the font size in my .emacs anymore. I am able to adjust it via C-x C-+ and C-x C--, and I can also use M-x customize to set the default font height to 83…
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Get describe-key links to bring me to org-mode config files, not .el config files?

For my Emacs configuration, I use a literate programming setup. My config files are in org-mode format, and my init.el file consists mostly of org-babel lines like (org-babel-load-file "~/emacs/startup.org"). I often use describe-key to look up…
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Emacs org mode WYSIWYG editing

Intro Is it possible to replicate the following rendering of org mode blocks like in LogSeq? I have done some research but failed to find any kind of solution that would achieve it and I have a feeling that it is impossible, yet we have LaTeX…
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