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Make forward-sexp recognize blocks defined by keywords, not just parentheses
In a language (julia) that has blocks defined by keywords such as for..end, begin..end, as well as parentheses, what is a good way to skip over such a block? Also, end is not only a block keyword, but also a valid identifier used in other…
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Is there a simple way to use all org-files referenced in a main file for the org-mode clock table
I'm using org-mode to keep track of the time I spend on various projects. I have one main org file and two more for two large projects I'm working on. All three are listed in org-agenda-files. I created a clock table in the main org file and set…
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Can emacs show formatted backtraces?
When getting an Elisp error and trying to debug the problem, the backtrace buffer is quite hard to read with its long lines.
Is there a way to get a pretty-printed backtrace buffer?
Tom
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How to defalias lambda?
I have this in my .emacs:
(defalias 'λ 'lambda)
which works fine for simple things like (funcall (λ (x) x) 1).
But when I do something like (org-add-link-type "foo" (λ (s) (message s))) or (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("foo" . (λ () (message…
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How to schedule exclusively with the keyboard?
If you look a the screenshot the cursor is locked in the echo area. If want to select the date, I have to click on one with the mouse. Do I, or there is a way to do with the keyboard?
EDIT:
Also the navigation key bindings don't work as they're…
user19777
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Emacs not responding to keyboard input
Sometimes Emacs stops responding to keyboard input. It responds to mouse input though. If I do killall -s SIGUSR2 emacs, the debugger shows this (but remains unresponsive to keyboard):
Debugger entered--entering a function:
* company-pre-command()
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How show hidden and system folder/files?
Emacs 26.1. , Dired+
Here content folder TraderMonitor in Total Commander:
and here how look same folder (TraderMonitor) in Emacs, dired mode:
How show hidden/system folders:
.git
.idea
and file:
.gitignore
?
P.S.
If I start by emacs -Q I see…
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How to start emacs in "nothing" mode (`fundamental-mode`)
If I type emacs test.sh Emacs insists on putting me in Shell-script mode. Another time I want to edit the file help.txt and then Emacs puts me in Text mode. But sometimes I don't want any of this, especially when I am doing a large paste into Emacs…
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How do I disable python-help
I just upgraded to Emacs 26.1 on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04, but emacs26 from the kelleyk repo).
python-mode is now bringing up a *Python-Help* window whenever the cursor in on a symbol or keyword. I'm finding this very distracting because it messes with…
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iedit vs. multiple-cursors
What is the difference between iedit and multiple-cursors?
As far as I can tell they provide basically the same functionality.
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Magit: Getting to the current/editable version of a file from a commit/diff view
Very similar to this question, particularly the second part to this answer:
From the diff view of a specific commit, is there a way to jump to the current+editable version of a modified file? If I press RET on the file, Magit takes me to a read-only…
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Adding box around text without changing the text width
The documentation of Face Attributes suggests that adding a line-width of -n to the box attribute will
draw a line of width n whose top and bottom parts occupy the space of
the underlying text, thus avoiding any increase in the character
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Align vertical columns of numbers on the decimal point
I wrote this post in Emacs. In order to make the tables look nice, I decided to adjust the spacing so that decimals line up neatly. The original format from the database looked like this:
emacs 11505 227 3.6 3.3 …
Jon 'links in bio' Ericson
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Outside of Emacs what other software supports org-mode syntax?
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In my spare time, I've been adding very limited support for org-mode syntax in the Atom text editor for my friends that absolutely will not switch to Emacs.
Over the last few years I've found approximately 10 org syntax parsers which all…
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where is default org mode capture template for tasks located
I was configuring some capture templates for org mode but when adding any new template to init file, the default TASK template disappeared.
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/refile.org" "Tasks")
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