Questions tagged [inputs]
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How can I check if a user has pressed a button while a function is running?
I have a function that automatically runs after the user does some action. However, the function takes a long time to complete. This means Emacs becomes unresponsive for a short time after every input. To fix this, I'd like to check whether the user…
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Detect if mouse button is held down?
I have some code that runs in a hook that I want to change to only execute only if the left mouse button is not currently held down. I don't see any obvious functions or variables that let me directly query the mouse button state. What's the easiest…
Joseph Garvin
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How to provide keyboard input programmatically for org-export-dispatch UI in elisp?
The org-export-dispatch command in org-mode (C-c C-e) brings up an UI from which one can, e.g. select l and l to export the .org file to latex format.
My question is:
Can one use elisp to fix the input to l and l programmatically in order to get the…
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Python shell warning about readline and completion?
*Warning*:
Warning (python): Your ‘python-shell-interpreter’ doesn’t seem to support readline, yet ‘python-shell-completion-native-enable’ was t and "python3" is not part of the ‘python-shell-completion-native-disabled-interpreters’ list. Native…
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How to avoid a dialog box for input (e.g. "Open File" behavior)?
I generally like to use the emacs-gtk3 package for my editing since I find it has better compatibility with my clipboard and a couple packages I use..but I don't like opening files in the GUI version of emacs. I like how I can open a file from the…
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How to uppercase all input in elisp?
I want to create a mode which in certain states converts all input to uppercase, regardless of the caps-lock status. But I'm at a loss as to how to go for this, and I'm not sure it could even be done. Any help would be appreciated.
Andrea
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How to give all inputs of a multiple inputs command at one time
There are commands which take multiple inputs. My question is about the possibility of defining a new command which take all the inputs of another command at one time (separated by commas).
As an explicit example, after activating calendar (by M-x…
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Understanding of Emacs way of managing user input events
As an Emacs newbie (with two weeks of Emacs experience) I am in the process of understanding the way Emacs manages user input events.
My current understanding of how it works is that the way Emacs handles user input events seems to differ from what…
Claudio
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Read multiples arguments for interactive function without sequential read functions
I have an interactive function taking 2 arguments. I can read them with
(defun example-fct (arg1 arg2)
"This function take two arguments"
(interactive
(let ((arg1 (read-string "Arg1: "))
(arg2 (read-string "Arg2: ")))
(list arg1…
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Impossible to answer y-or-n-p prompt in EXWM if X window is focussed
When a y-or-n-p question (e.g. The file you want to open is very large. Really want to open it?) pops up in the minibuffer while an EXWM buffer is focussed, I have no option to answer the question (using y or n).
In that situation, ALL inputs are…
moritzschaefer
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How to let make-process prompt user in echo area
This works:
(make-process :name "test"
:command (list "bash" "-c"
(concat "echo hello stdout!; "
"echo hello stderr! >&2; "
"exit 20"))
:buffer (generate-new-buffer "*stdout*")
;;:stderr (generate-new-buffer…
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Unable to use Microsoft Japanese IME in Emacs under Windows
For some reason I can't seem to use the Microsoft Japanese IME in Emacs, even though I can apparently use the Microsoft Chinese IME to input Chinese without problems. Even if I've switched to the Japanese IME, only English is entered, and I cannot…
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Unable to Send Commands to Omxplayer from Dired
When opening a video file with Omxplayer through dired using dired-do-shell-command, I am unable to send commands to the external program to, for example, pause the video. The file plays fine but all keyboard input gets sent to the buffer from which…
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