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How do use Emacs to look up a function in Python?

What is the easiest way to configure Emacs to be able to look up where a function is defined? I want to highlight it in Emacs and press a key combo to look up where the source of the function is. Can you also find out where a specific function is…
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How do I automatically load a mode for a specific set of file extensions?

I'd like to load the yaml-mode for any files named *.yml or *.yaml.
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Editing files with one-sentence-per-line

A bit of background. I’m trying to version-control my latex documents, and the effectiveness of this initiative would be greatly improved if I adopt a one-sentence-per-line approach. For instance, the following is what my documents will look…
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what does "let*" ( let asterisk) mean in elisp

I've used let before, but never used let* what does let* ( let asterisk) mean in elisp? fyi this one was hard to google because of the asterisk.
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Display PDF images in org-mode

Note: This question was asked here before, with no success. Org-mode’s ability to display inline images is fantastic for writing my weekly scientific reports. I can include graphs, link them with their data, link with the conclusions, and really…
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Does emacs have an option to display build settings?

Does emacs have an option or some internal command that displays build time settings and whatever features it supports? A good example is the nginx -V command which lists the ./configure options it was compiled with.
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Switching between window layouts

When I configure a custom layout and then just need to temporary look into one file fullscreen and once I want that layout back - I need manually to reflow it. I would like a plugin/elisp code to save my layouts and to be able to switch between…
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New line in Title of an org-mode exported html document

I use org-mode to document stuff and usually export it to pdf (via latex) and html. If the \\ characters are at the end of a line, it forces a newline character when exporting to both pdf and html. But I would like to know how to force a newline…
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In Magit, what is the difference between a 'stash' and a 'snapshot'?

The Magit user manual includes two sets of "stashing" commands: lower-case commands save a stash, and upper-case commands save a snapshot. After consulting Google and Stack Overflow and the git-stash(1) man page, I still don't know what the…
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How to unhighlight symbol highlighted with highlight-symbol-at-point

highlight-symbol-at-point is really useful however I could not find an easy way to un-highlight symbols. Currently I have to call unhighlight-regexp repeatedly for each highlighted symbol. Is there a better way to: unhighlight all highlighted…
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Magit, how to use system's ssh agent and don't ask for password

I've googled and read the FAQ and Wiki for Magit, but still unable to figure this out, all I find are answers about Windows... How can I configure Magit to use my running ssh-agent session and don't ask for my password when doing a push. I'm running…
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How to distinguish C-i from TAB?

Normally, for historic reasons, emacs treats the TAB keycode and the C-i key as the same, cf. the emacs lisp documentation on function keys or abo-abo's answer on the question "What is the difference between TAB and ?". NOTE: In this post, keycodes…
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org: How to sort headings by TODO and then by priority?

I often have a list like this: * Main heading ** TODO [#A] Make world better ** TODO [#B] Make Emacs better ** TODO [#B] Customize emacs ** DONE [#C] some task ** TODO [#A] Launch rocket to mars I would like to sort it according to the 'TODO'…
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How to highlight text permanently in org-mode

I know I can use *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =verbatim= and ~code~, and, if you must, ‘+strike-through+’ to do some markup to text according to org-mode documentation, but they are not enough for me(bold is not obvious when viewing the org…
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Hide list of minor modes in mode-line

I use quite a few minor modes and usually I know which minor mode is enabled in every major mode. If I really want to see the full list, I can run C-h v minor-mode-list. At the same time, my mode line get really clogged, so when I vertically split…
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