Questions tagged [emacs26]
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how install emacs 26 (or whatever latest ver) on mac
Someone (in another SE answer) mentioned a feature thats only available in 26,
so I guess now I gotta upgrade.
How do you install emacs 26 on macOS Sierra?
What I tried:
Googled how install emacs 26 Mac,
brew install emacs.
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After I updated Emacs 25.1 to 26.1 org-mode does not work any more
I am anything but an Emacs expert but I use Emacs org-mode quite frequently. I configured Emacs to regognize .org files. After I updated to version 26.1 Emacs does not only recognize .org files any longer:
File mode specification error: (file…
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aspell with emacs 26.1 on ms windows
After updating emacs to version 26.1 on a windows machine, I get the following error message from flyspell:
Error enabling Flyspell mode:
(c:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/bin/aspell.exe release 0.60 or greater is required)
The problem is, even after…
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Emacs 26.1 RC1 display issues over SSH/X11 with xming/vcxsrv
I can compile Emacs 26.1 RC1 ok, and use it locally on the host fine.
However, when attempting to ssh -X to host via PuTTY 0.70 and launch the Emacs gui, emacs is not displaying correctly. See screenshot below - no default welcome screen, and…
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(ucs-names) in Emacs 26 is not working for "EURO SIGN"
I have in my .emacs:
(when (>= emacs-major-version 23)
(define-key global-map "\C-x8g" (lambda nil (interactive) (ucs-insert `,(cdr (assoc-string "HRYVNIA SIGN" (ucs-names) t)))))
(define-key global-map "\C-x8e" (lambda nil (interactive)…
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Make Org Table with #+NAME label collapsible
I have an org table with has a NAME label like:
#+NAME: TBL
| Foo | Bar |
In the past I have always been able to expand and collapse the whole table by cycling using TAB on the #+NAME line.
However in the latest version of emacs (26.1), this…
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can't make vm run in emacs > 25;
My life depends on the vm email reader in emacs, and I'm currently using vm 8.2.0b under emacs 25.2.2. When trying to upgrade emacs, I run into problems.
In emacs 26.3, I get the message "Symbol's function definition is void, defun*" -- the asterisk…
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Why doesn't the same Windows font look the same when migrating to emacs 26.1?
I'm trying to migrate from emacs 24.5 to emacs 26.1. I installed 26.1 and running both with the same config files. I took several tries and fixing small things in the config, for emacs 26.1 to start without errors.
However, the font setting has…
Tom
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M-S-up/down in org-mode suddenly does not 'move' whole items anymore
Consider a .org file containing
* Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 2.1
- Item 2.2
with the point being at Item 2. With GNU Emacs 25.2.1
(x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0) of 2017-04-21 and Org-mode version 8.2.10 executing M-S-up leads…
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TRAMP on Emacs 26 doesn't work (macOS)
I've just installed Emacs 26.3 on my macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) using the binary at Emacs for OSX Everything so far works fine icluding new package installations and different themes. However, when I tried to edit a file on my Linux server using this…
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sudden let-alist feature failure
This morning, I wake up and restart my Emacs.app (26.3 GNU Emacs but the emacsformacosx.com version, from brew cask) and get stuck at this:
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Loading file /Users/erik/.emacs.d/elpa/let-alist-1.0.6/let-alist.elc…
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"void-variable" error when adding advice to `kill-ring-save`
I am trying to add an advice to kill-ring-save and kill-region, so that when I call them with no active regions, instead of throwing an error, the line the point is currently on would be marked automatically. I am requireing the package simple.el…
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Strange comment indentation results
I am working with a simple major mode. The format has one single line comment delimiter, i.e., %. However, I get strange results when running fill-paragraph on a comment. Specifically, the result I see when running fill-paragraph on the first line…
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Since upgrading to emacs 26.1 C-SPC behaviour changed and I have to press it twice to set-mark
Since upgrading to Emacs 26.1 C-SPC behaviour changed and I have to press it twice (most of the time) to set mark, which disrupts my flow and is hard on my thumb joint (don't ask).
I'd like to understand what is changed and possibly have the old…
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Show both relative and absolute line numbers in Emacs 26
One of the new features in Emacs 26 is display-line-numbers-mode:
Emacs now supports optional display of line numbers in the buffer.
This is similar to what linum-mode provides, but much faster and
doesn't usurp the display margin for the line…
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