Questions tagged [emacs23]

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

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How do I set emacs to use 3 spaces instead of tabs in verilog mode?

I am pretty new to emacs (using version 23.3) and I wanted to set the default tab key to insert 3 spaces instead of a tab character in verilog mode. I did find a number of posts regarding this in stack overflow. Some of them are: - How To Force…
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Changing Emacs default font size and new buffer text

I want to configure Emacs so that it has: Increased default font size. Currently I use Shift+Click to change it every time I open a file, but I want my configurations saved to the emacs config file. I wanted to have the default text that appears…
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how to get windows version from emacs

how to get the detail version information of windows from emacs. i am try to invoke "ver" windows command to get version information, but got failed. (call-process "ver") C-x C-e Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program" "no…
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How to resize a buffer so it only takes a small part of the screen?

In Emacs how can I resize a buffer so it only takes a small part of the screen ? Is there any way ? I would like to have the src taking 70% of the screen and a file manager in the other 30%
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emacs choose one of the parts of the window

Possible Duplicate: How to switch between visible buffers in emacs? I'm using C-x 2 for splitting editor place to two parts. For choose one of them I use mouse now. How I can choose one of them using keyboard?
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Turn off anti-aliasing in Emacs

I'm using Proggy (ProggyCleanTTSZ 12 in .Xdefaults) font in Emacs. I'm not happy with how my OS (Ubuntu 10.10) applies anti-aliasing to it. How do I disable it?
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Emacs Lisp-error meaning when trying (require 'package)

I have an init.el file which only consists of a single line (require 'package) I am running emacs 23.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Release 6.10 (Santiago) Execution of emacs --debug-init returns the following screen: I have absolutely no…
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Pymacs lisp version rarities

I am running Ubuntu Natty and install Emacs and pymacs and ropemacs all from the repos. So when I add to my .emacs file the script to load ropemacs and pymacs I get the following error: File mode specification error: (error "Pymacs Lisp version is…
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Disabling prefix key binding

In shell mode on emacs, the current key binding for quitting the shell mode ('comint-interrupt-subjob) is "\C-c \C-c", and I want to change it to "\C-c" as in ordinary linux shell. I tried (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook '(lambda () (local-set-key…
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Emacs 23 on Ubuntu - menus between Tools and Help are broken

I have used succesfully used for some time GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0) on Ubuntu 9.10. With all kinds of plugins and additions. Now I have installed a completely new Ubuntu, that's 11.04, and I installed most of…
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Linewrap in GUI Emacs in Linux

When I run term mode in emacs GUI, I have issues with line wrapping. It runs fine when I am running emacs in xterm. When there is an output that has a very long line, it is all displayed on the same line, with my prompt. When I launch emacs in…
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Emacs c-mode autoloading failed

I want to load my file named "my-c-setup.el" when the c-mode is loading. So, I'm using the function "autoload". With my python setup, it works well : lang.el (autoload 'python-mode "my-python-setup" "" t) my-python-setup.el (require 'python) ;…
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Can not start start emacs server

When I run start-server in Emacs I get the following in my *Messages* buffer: apply: Cannot bind server socket: cannot assign requested address This Emacs binary is available on a bunch of hosts at my site but it only has a problem on one host. …
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Plugin in Emacs

I'm trying to install lua-mode into emacs for windows but nothing seems to be working. I've set my HOME environment variable. I've added init.el and lua-mode.el to the HOME\.emacs.d directory. Then I've added the following code to init.el: (autoload…
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Fixing colors in XCygwin emacs

I am using Emacs 23 in Cygwin with X, and the colours are nothing like they should be...e.g. in color-theme-gray30, the background is chocolate brown rather than gray30. I suspect I might have to export some setting in the Cygwin BAT file, but can't…
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