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Emacs manuals are missing on Debian/Ubuntu

I was expecting the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual at (C-h i m elisp). But there was no menu elisp or lisp there. C-h v and C-h f work fine for variables or functions though. C-h i 5 takes me to file permissions. What other binding is standard to find…
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Where to find missing dependencies (imagemagick and m17n)

I am compiling Emacs from source and can't figure out what libraries I need to enable imagemagick and m17n. I have imagemagick and libm17n-dev installed (I am on Debian). My ./configure script says: Does Emacs use imagemagick? …
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Detect the operating system

What is the most Emacs-y way to detect the operating system Emacs is running in? My intention is to conditionally set up package repositories depending on whether they are needed. (If the operating system is one that I know has Emacs packages…
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crypto-newbie: how to securely sign outgoing email with `smtpmail` (or simplest alternative)?

I'm running $ cat /etc/debian_version jessie/sid $ uname -rv 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13) $ gcc --version | head -n 1 gcc (Debian 4.8.2-1) 4.8.2 $ emacs --version | head -n 1 GNU Emacs 24.3.1 $ gpg --version | head -n 1 gpg…
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How to set up emacsclient as default editor on Debian?

What am I trying to achieve I want to use emacsclient (not emacs) as my default text editor on Debian Buster. What have I tried so far Alternatives: > sudo update-alternatives --config editor` There are 3 choices for the alternative editor…
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Emacs via X: how to use higher resolution fonts?

I have attached a screenshot of Emacs 24.5 running in X-Quartz in a Debian VM. Does anyone know how to configure Emacs to use higher resolution fonts? For instance, like the ones Mac Terminal.app is using in the same screenshot? Thank you]1 $…
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Can't uninstall emacs on Debian

I want to purge emacs from debian in order to install the newer version from git but when I do apt-get purge emacs and then emacsit still runs. Any idea on how to get rid of emacs ?
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Cannot install emacs from official repository; missing files and dependency problems

My emacs is broken and I cannot repair it. I want to reinstall emacs 26.3 from the official linux mint repositories -- not snap or other 3rd party repo, as those are spawning even more errors/warnings. I am on linux mint 20.3. First, I have tried to…
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Having problems starting EXWM

I am running Debian 9.3. I created an .xinitrc file and a symlink, .xsession. File permission was changed to 774. #!/usr/bin/env bash # # This is a sample file for the ~/.xinitrc file. # # Set fallback cursor xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr # If…
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What does emacs want for non-ASCII keys

Under Debian-Jessie, Emacs recognizes qualified special keys, e.g. C-, in an X terminal (e.g. mate-terminal) but in TTY it does not. I have corrected this by making a replacement keymap, loaded by adding KMAP=myReplacement to…
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What Debian packages are needed to build Emacs from source?

I know that I can run sudo apt-get install emacs25, but (for reasons I don't want to get into) I want to build Emacs from source. In the past, in order to do this, I've had to apt-get install Debian packages required to build Emacs, but this time I…
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Async shell command can't find command

I have installed the Rust programming language (Debian). Now i can compile and run programs from terminal (with the cargo build and cargo run commands), but not from inside emacs. The cargo compiler stays on my system in /home/me/.cargo/bin/cargo…
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How to remove emacsclient and emacsclient.emacs from linux(debian)

I have installed emacs using apt. I have already tried: apt purge emacs apt purge emacs-gtk When I tried to remove emacsclient using apt. It says "E: Unable to locate package emacsclient"
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What's the right order of the settings on init file?

I've had an annoying moment with emacs (GUI). I'm a newbie and now I'm trying to use emacs for writing, so I need spell checking. Well, the consensus is flyspell. In order to load flyspell when starting up emacs with Org mode I've added the next…
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Use pylint3 for checking Python 3 code using flycheck

By default, flycheck uses pylint for checking python code. However, the pylint program on Debian/Ubuntu is for checking Python 2, not Python3 (there is instead pylint3 for Python3). How do I configure flycheck to use pylint3 instead of pylint for…
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