Most Popular
1500 questions
11
votes
3 answers
How does Emacs manage to start instantaneously with many el-files?
As every Emacs'er will know, I'm currently suffering from my extensive dot-Emacs configuration. All my packages are within the containers of use-package, and I bytecompiled all of my .el-files.
Even with that, Emacs starts in 6.4 seconds, and then…
ReneFroger
- 3,855
- 22
- 63
11
votes
2 answers
How to copy minibuffer contents?
To post this question and this question, I had to copy the contents of minibuffer.
I tried to copy from minibuffer but it didn't worked.
I came across this discussion and checked *Messages* buffer also. But minibuffer contents won't be there…
Chillar Anand
- 4,042
- 1
- 23
- 52
11
votes
2 answers
emacsclient to access remote emacs server
I'm trying to open an emacsclient session from a remote host. I walked through the following steps on the tramp website How can I use TRAMP to connect to a remote Emacs session?.
I'll walk you through the step
on the remote host put in .emacs…
DJJ
- 732
- 5
- 19
11
votes
1 answer
Javascript mode compatible with es6
Does anyone know of a javascript editing mode that supports the es6 syntax additions (arrow functions, extends, imports, generators, etc.)? I've done some quick searching but it looks like so far everyone just uses js2-mode and ignores the syntax…
lmjohns3
- 253
- 4
- 11
11
votes
2 answers
How to determine the package version to require in your package?
I have a couple packages now, and in the PackageRequires section I would like to put all the packages I require in it, put it seems like it requires the name and version. Where do you determine the version number? For example I have (cl-lib…
user78810
- 111
- 2
11
votes
1 answer
Color declared variables
I'm looking for a simple way to make emacs remember of declared variable in a single function in C/C++. By "simple", I mean without any external package, just with some elisp lines in configuration files.
My default Emacs configuration colors…
Aracthor
- 173
- 7
11
votes
3 answers
How to see recently opened files in helm
What's the best way to get the recently opened files in helm. Without helm I just did C-c C-f and then arrow up to get the last opened file. And with M-r I was able to to a regexp search through recently opened files. Both doesn't work with helm…
student
- 1,007
- 9
- 29
11
votes
4 answers
Replace text inside various delimiters (eg: brackets, quotes)
I often do some testing implementation with hardcoded values which I later want to change. Like
ref = open('specific-file-name')
Which I would like to change into
ref = open(fname)
I'm used to vim and there I can type ci(fname assuming that point…
kain88
- 825
- 7
- 19
11
votes
2 answers
Build a minimal Emacs 25 for unit testing
I would like to build a very minimal variant of Emacs trunk for unit-testing my Emacs Lisp package. The build needs no GUI, no image support, etc. It should should essentially just be a minimal Emacs Lisp interpreter with the core Emacs Lisp…
user227
11
votes
1 answer
How do I use emacsclient as EDITOR or VISUAL?
Scenario: I'm in zsh and I want to edit a long shell command in an already open instance of Emacs. I've set $VISUALto emacsclient -n -c. When I run C-x C-e from zsh, a new Emacs frame opens, populated with contents of the zsh line. After editing and…
cg433n
- 285
- 2
- 6
11
votes
2 answers
Rethrowing an error in Emacs Lisp
I need to call a function and perform a cleanup only if the function fails, and then relaunch the error. Here is the pseudo-code:
(condition-case err
(call-function)
(error
(cleanup)
;; how do I raise `err`?
))
Eleno
- 1,428
- 11
- 17
11
votes
3 answers
Running ipython remotely
I am trying to run an ipython interpreter remotely (with Emacs 24.5 and native python.el), but I'm not sure I have the right approach: whenever I try to run such a command for instance (which gets triggered with C-c C-c):
Run Python:…
cjauvin
- 594
- 4
- 15
11
votes
1 answer
make org-blank-before-new-entry distinguish between a TODO list and a text outline?
Like many of us, I use org-mode for two different things:
As a TODO list manager
As a text outliner
I'd like my blank lines to work differently based on context.
TODO list: no blank lines
text outline: automatically insert 1 blank line…
incandescentman
- 4,111
- 16
- 53
11
votes
4 answers
Converting an xls file to org-mode?
Is it possible to convert convert an xls file into an org table? I found this article on the emacs wiki but wasn't able to get it to work.
Brian Fitzpatrick
- 2,265
- 1
- 17
- 40
11
votes
2 answers
Ctrl-K Kill Line, Not Screen Edge in Visual Line Mode
(I apologize in advance for my general technical / emacs inexperience. I use org-mode for writing novels, so have not delved very deep into its many options)
I have visual-line-mode set as my default with the line (global-visual-line-mode t) in my…
oldrobotsneverrust
- 211
- 1
- 4