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Practical benefits of new advice system in Emacs 24.4
Emacs 24.4 comes with a new advice system. The NEWS file says:
** New package nadvice.el offers lighter-weight advice facilities.
It is layered as:
*** add-function/remove-function, which can be used to add/remove code on
any function-carrying…
itsjeyd
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org-mode link to heading in other org-file
Is there a way to link to specific topic (*) in a different
org-file?
How can I quickly find and copy the relative path from the
current org-file to the file that I want to link to?
Probably both straight forward but I couldn't figure it…
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Why does my *vc-log* buffer start with "Summary:" in Emacs 24.4?
I just upgraded to Emacs 24.4 (from 24.3). Now, whenever I run vc-next-action on a modified file, the *vc-log* buffer that comes up starts with the word "Summary:" in log-edit-header face, followed by a line of inverse video.
This wasn't happening…
cjm
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Where do DLLs go for Emacs 24.4.1 on Windows 7?
I'm getting the message "zlib library not found" when I start emacs and I found that I need to download zlib, which is fine. Then I need to put the DLL somewhere, but I can't find where that should be.
Where do the DLLs that emacs depends on need to…
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Emacs 24's python.el + ipython cannot complete module names
I'm using Emacs 24.4.1 on OSX (installed with Homebrew), with the built in python.el, and Python 3 (also installed with Homebrew), along with IPython 2.3.0. I have this in my .emacs:
(setq
python-shell-interpreter "/usr/local/bin/ipython3"
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Customizing c-mode indentation behavior in Emacs 24.4
Before Emacs 24.4, indentation in c-mode happened after typing things like ;, , and so on and I like this behavior.
But in Emacs 24.4, c-mode also indents on RET. This causes a lot of problems for me because if I want to insert a blank line, I need…
fghj
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Byte-compiling a file against a package that may or may not be here
I am trying to include support for smartparens in a major-mode package. I want that if a user is using smartparens, then he will get additional pair definitions, and if he isn't, he will not notice anything different.
For that, I am using…
T. Verron
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Autosave *scratch* to a directory
When typing ls in my home directory, I amm greeted by a lot of this:
#%2Ascratch%2A#1399_po# #%2Ascratch%2A#14484YsZ# [...]
I also have the following in my init.el
(defvar autosave-location (concat user-emacs-directory "data/autosave"))
(setq…
PythonNut
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Replace whole words only
I want to replace all occurrences of a word in the whole buffer. What i do is:
M-x replace-string RET word-to-be-replaced RET new-word
The problem with this is that it also changes the word-to-be-replaced even if its only part of another word (for…
user12021
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nxhtml mode support
I've been using https://stackoverflow.com/a/17761144/788700 to get multiple major modes in rst-mode. It has been working in Emacs 24.3. However as emacs develops the same code gradually stops working.
Here's emacs-24.3:
as I go from rst-mode chunk…
Adobe
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Add window to the right of two horizontally split windows
Following scenario:
1) I start emacs and the initial frame is as follow:
+---------------+
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
+---------------+
1) I split the window horizontally (C-x…
Rainer
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emacsclient of 24.4 does not work on Yosemite
I have used emacsclient without any problem on OSX. Usually I just start Emacs server by emacs --daemon in Console, and then emacsclient works. I use emacsclient -nc to create a new frame. However, after upgrading to Emacs 24.4, emacsclient just…
Nolan
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Emacs very slow on one machine
I'm not entirely sure what the problem is. I'm using the same version of Emacs on three different computers ( laptop, work, home ), and the problem only shows up on one machine ( the home machine ).
Basically, when I'm using Emacs ( 24.4, compiled…
Sean Hagen
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Can't run Python shell in Emacs 24.4 due to a space in the path
When I try to start a Python shell in Emacs 24.4.1 running on Windows, I get an error "invalid argument" when Emacs tries to spawn the process. This is occurring because Python is installed under c:\Program Files (x86), which of course has those…
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installing Emacs 24.4 from source on CentOS5 with libpng12
When trying to install the new emacs I'm getting an error about libpng15 being missing:
$ ./configure
...
$ make all
...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I have libpng12 installed. How can I make emacs use that…
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