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Build a minimal Emacs 25 for unit testing

I would like to build a very minimal variant of Emacs trunk for unit-testing my Emacs Lisp package. The build needs no GUI, no image support, etc. It should should essentially just be a minimal Emacs Lisp interpreter with the core Emacs Lisp…
user227
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Helm-mode change default keybinding for "helm-find-files-*" * -> "down-one-level" (?)

I wan't to switch the keybinding in helm-find-files when I go one level up or go in to a folder. Now it looks like: "C-j" -> go in to the folder "C-l" -> go one level up For me, it's intuitive to switch them, so it will be the following: "C-j" ->…
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how to customize the secondary highlighting in searches

When I search for text in my buffer, the cursor moves to the first occurrence but all occurrences beyond the first are also lit. E.g. "jumped" in the screenshot below: Unfortunately, this particular color for the "other" occurrences is very similar…
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Split configuration into multiple files

It's a very simple task, really. But all my google results come up with complex solutions. I must be blind or going about this wrong. Anyway... Here's what I want: I want to split up my emacs configuration in the following structure: .emacs.d/ …
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Symbol's function definition is void: special-form-p

Hello I'm currently running emacs 24.3.1 on Ubuntu 14.04. I recently discovered that I cannot call special-form-p as apparently its definition is void. Do I need to change emacs versions or is this function defined in some library?
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Emacs 24.3 and 26.3 scrollbars refuses to move up if not moved up immediately, on various OS's and X-servers

The problem manifests on: Emacs 26.3 on Fedora Release 31, using Xming on Windows 7 as X server, whether in -Q mode or not Emacs 24.3 on RHEL7, using MobaXterm 12.2 4204, whether in -Q mode or not The scrollbar I'm seeing is a medium-dark…
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Building Emacs 24.4 without admin rights, ncurses dependency

I'd like to build Emacs 24.4 from source on a system where I don't have admin rights. When I run ./configure, I get the error: The required function \'tputs' was not found in any library. The following libraries were tried (in order): libtinfo,…
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Emacs not asking for password for .gpg file

Have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 which required an emacs reinstall of version 24 Now I've noticed that my symmetrically encrypted org mode file (file.org.gpg) no longer requires me to enter the pwd when opening. Clearly its caching it…
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autocomplete popup menu broken emacs 24.5.1

I have recently encountered a problem with autocomplete when used together with linum. When I turn on the global-linum-mode, the emacs only shows part of the popped-up menu of candidates correctly. For example, after typing 'add' at line 11, several…
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Automate the removal of git-rebase-mode and git-commit-mode

From the Magit docs: Furthermore the old dependencies git-commit-mode and git-rebase-mode have to be removed because they are no longer used by the 2.1.0 release and later, and get in the way of their successors git-commit and git-rebase. I have a…
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Trying to install org-ref package, but getting error 'emacs-25.1' unavailable

I am trying to install org-ref package but getting error package-compute-transaction: Package 'emacs-25.1' is unavailable. I searched Stack overflow, Stack Exchange Emacs, and github. I've found many solutions like this but isn't working for…
Sreekumar R
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Loading charset map: no such file or directory, KOI8-T

Today I suddenly started getting the above error whenever I try to save a file in emacs 24.5 on Windows 10. Here is my full list of messages: Loading c:/Users/Psalm3_3/GDrive/Tools/Emacs-24.5/site-lisp/flymake.el (source)...done Loading…
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Why does forward-word stop at this quotation mark?

Minimal example code, run it from emacs -Q. Note the use of unicode RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (’) not APOSTROPHE ('). (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w p" text-mode-syntax-table) ; that's the same syntax as ' (progn (switch-to-buffer "test") …
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Forgot to expand macro

I just installed emacs24 on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS OS as follows: $ sudo apt-get install emacs24 When I open emacs, I get the following errors (duplicate messages removed): eieio/eieio.elc:Error: Forgot to expand macro…
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Running multiple emacs versions with homebrew

Perhaps this is more of a homebrew question, but I imagine someone here knows the answer. What is the best way to have two versions of emacs on OS X with homebrew? I need to be able to quickly switch between emacs 24 and 25 in order to properly test…
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