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How to make shell-command run using shell profile and current directory hooks (ex. direnv)

I am trying to get shell-command and async-shell-command to integrate seamlessly with a couple of programs in my .bashrc file, specifically direnv in this example. I found that if I customized shell-command-switch, I could get shell processes to…
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How can I prevent flycheck-mode from checking certain files?

I've configured Emacs to open files named *.cfg in shell-script-mode. These are config files, of course, rather than shell scripts, but 90% of the time it does what I want (mainly, good guesses about faces for comments and variable assignment). I…
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How to get org-agenda to prefer split-window-right

After upgrading to Emacs 24.4.1, when I call org-agenda with no splits it will show on the bottom half of the frame. Previously, it would show on the right half. How do I configure this behaviour?
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org-babel result to a separate buffer

I use org-babel to generate some reports which can't be automatically processed, and since org is a good outline format, I print the results in org to represent them as trees. I've noticed that nesting org markup into #+begin_example block makes…
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Browser not opening when exporting HTML from org-mode

Org-mode can export as HTML and open on a browser with C-c C-e h o (org-export-dispatch), but the problem is that the generated html file opens in a buffer inside emacs. There is no error in the message buffer, either. How can I make it work? When I…
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Run ssh-add from Emacs and enter a passphrase

I want to call the ssh-add shell command. So I invoke M-x shell-command RET, and in the minibuffer, I type: ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa The only thing I get is: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory^M How can I make Emacs give…
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Can I change the background color of the inactive minibuffer?

I tried it with the following settings: (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook (lambda () (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist) (add-to-list 'face-remapping-alist '(default (:background "green"))))) (set-face-background…
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Speed up TeX-insert-macro on \input

In latex-mode when I use TeX-insert-macro to type a \input{...} macro, Auctex conveniently offers filename completion, which is great. However, it seems to search a lot of places to compile the completion list, because emacs hangs for almost a…
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How do I get my initial frame to be the desired size?

I have the following in my .emacs file: (when window-system (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 0 0) (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 91 63)) The value of 63 is supposed to make my initial frame take up the full vertical height of…
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cl-destructuring-bind on partial plist?

This causes an error (cl-destructuring-bind (&key a b) '(:a "foo" :b 13 :c "bar") (list a b)) because the :c key/value is not handled in the pattern match. Often I find myself wanting to extract some subset of keys/values from a…
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Shift+arrow to change window does not work in org-mode

I installed a package that changes emacs windows using Shift+arrow, and it works in various modes I use but not in org-mode. Is there a reason why org-mode shadows this command?
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How can I save UTF-8 files with a Byte Order Mark?

I am trying to configure Emacs to save UTF-8 files with a Byte Order Mark. (Yes, I know that the BOM is evil and unnecessary for UTF-8 files. However, Microsoft has decided they know better, so I want to make sure I'm able to save files with…
Scott Weldon
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Automatically switch focus to new window

Is there a way to automatically switch focus to any new windows? For example, if I C-h f some-function, that creates a new window. But the focus remains where I was, so when I'm done reading and hit q, I just type a q in whatever buffer I was in…
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Highlighting upcoming dates in org mode agenda

I have entries in my org file similar to: * Birthdays :PROPERTIES: :CATEGORY: birthday :END: %%(org-anniversary 1981 1 2) Harry (%d) What I would like is for these to appear in the agenda (say) 2 weeks before they're due, similar to how a deadline…
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In Org-Mode, is there a way to narrow the buffer to just the text under a heading?

For example, say I have a buffer that looks like this: * Org-Mode This is a document written in Org-Mode ** This is a subheading below that Would it be possible to narrow the buffer to just "This is a document written in Org-Mode" and continue on…
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