Questions tagged [insert]
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Result of arithmetic evaluation in buffer, not echo area
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1
I want to do some arithmetic operation I do this:
The result is in the echo area, but I want the result to be in cursor place in the buffer. Something like this:
How do I do this?
user8542613
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How do I insert text with a specific face?
I have a face, created this way:
(defface test-face
'((t . (:height 2.0)))
"A face for testing.")
I'd like to insert some text with that face. But these ways insert the text without the face:
(insert (propertize "text to insert" 'face…
zck
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Insert line above/below
I have a couple of functions for inserting blank lines above and below the current line:
(defun insert-line-below ()
(interactive)
(move-end-of-line nil)
(open-line 1))
(defun insert-line-above ()
(interactive)
(move-beginning-of-line…
Simon
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How to insert a new same-level headline after current one?
Suppose I have an org-mode buffer that contains the outline shown below, and that point is at the position indicated by the ▮ character.
* foo
** bar
*** baz
- eenie
- yabba
- dabba▮
- doo
- meenie
- minie
* frobozz
**…
kjo
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Mimic self-insert-command with insert/insert-char?
Due to various/extensive remappings I insert symbols with Control+key, for example Ctrl+9 inserts a left parenthesis (. This works fine with the remappings and the insert/insert-commands, however, modes such as smartparens do not catch this. In my…
user6729
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Insert multiple minus ('-') characters using the universal argument (C-u)
I was manually creating a table in my source code's multiline comments
and inserting horizontal separators using - and =. E.g. C-u C-u C-u = as expected and inserts 64 =s at the point. But - is used to provide negative arguments and does not work in…
loonatick
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Spacemacs : insert single character in normal mode
I am using Spacemacs in Vim mode, and I would like to be able to insert a single character while remaining in normal mode, as described here for Vim.
For example, typing SPC i k in normal mode would insert k where the cursor stands, while SPC a k…
BenzoX
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Key bound to string does not handle some chars in string correctly
(I ask this question after reading this one.)
The form
(global-set-key (kbd "M-e") "e")
is, as far as I can tell, equivalent to
(global-set-key (kbd "M-e") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "e")))
However, after evaluating
(global-set-key (kbd…
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Insert into specific buffer (not the active buffer)?
Is there any way to insert text into a buffer that isn't the active buffer with Elisp?
Perhaps there is an equivalent to with-temp-buffer that takes a specific, existing buffer as an argument?
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How to insert a specific number of newlines in org-mode
Inside org-mode, RETURN is bound to (org-return &optional INDENT). This command apparently ignores C-u numeric prefixes and so if you want to enter 10 newlines, you can't just type C-u 1 0 RET and have it work. You can do C-u 1 0 M-x newline and get…
William Everett
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How to insert invalid UTF-8 sequence
In order to test that some code handles an invalid UTF-8 sequence properly, I need to insert an invalid UTF-8 sequence into an existing text file. However, my attempts to do so result in a valid UTF-8 sequence, not an invalid one.
The byte 0xff is…
Wayne Conrad
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How to insert a formatted string into a specific buffer?
I am looking for a way to insert a formatted text into a specific buffer (not the active buffer).
As it seems to me, the only way to do so is to use a snippet as shown below:
(insert (propertize (format-time-string "%H:%M:%S")
…
myTerminal
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Define an emacs function to take arguments in the same way as something like M-x goto-line
I want to write an emacs function for debug purposes in c++ code. Basically I'm fed up typing the following:
std::cout << "variable is: " << variable << std::endl;
Instead I want to define an emacs function called say "td" for temp debug such that…
Joey O
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Insert a string from eval-expression without the quotes
I want to use C-u M-:, then (format-time-string "%m/%d/%Y") to insert a customized date string. But it is inserted into the current buffer with double quotes.
Any trick to remove these quotes?
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How to insert character or word N times in a buffer or file?
Just curious to know how to do this, since i already know in other languages (bash, etc).
I know how to insert a character in elisp, just not sure on how to do it when it's done nth time (in succession) in elisp.
Here an example:
Basically,…
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