Questions tagged [emacs23]

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

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emacs23 menu problem

After some upgrades my emacs23 stopped work properly. Some item in the main menu could not be open. After F10 they start to work. I reinstalled emacs - it does not help. (I am using ubuntu 10.10 on Dell Latitude). I will be thankful for any…
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Emacs 23 avail melpa package manager

Im a newbie in emacs. I am using emacs 23 on a shared development server without root access. I want to use melpa which has more packages available. Is there any way I can use melpa on emacs 23(without upgrading)? (I tried to built from source like…
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How to make emacs perform the same as other editors on tab character?

The TAB key in emacs is bound to indent-for-tab-command, but the indent itself converts all the tabs into spaces, which I didn't like because it's harder to locate character in the code and the code gets bigger. I tried to use (setq-default…
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emacs 23 on OS X: mailto links & calling compose-mail?

I'm trying the 23.2 release Cocoa Emacs build (OS X 10.6). There's a number of things that are more annoying about Cocoa Emacs than the terrific Carbon Emacs (based on an Emacs 22 build, I believe), so I hoped folks might have some…
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GDB in Emacs 24 messed up

I am using emacs 24.5.1 and GDB 7.10 in conjunction with the GUD integration. I am starting GUD with the following bash command: emacs --eval "(gdb \"gdb -i=mi --fullname --cd=`pwd` -args $*\")" & I have set the following variables '(gdb-show-main…
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Emacs key binding to f3 resulting in a yank instead

Solution: So I found the solution ... and do I feel stupid. The problem was not anything to do with emacs at all - it was to do with my keyboard. So my keyboard has this button which I never use and guess I accidentally pressed called 'F-lock'. I…
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Antialiased fonts in emacs 23.2 on Windows

I'm having trouble getting antialiased fonts to work correctly in emacs 23.2, to the extent that it appears that it doesn't actually support antialised fonts. If I do the following in emacs 23.1: (set-face-font 'default "DejaVu Sans…
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Create an Emacs semi-interactive macro

I would like to create a quick Emacs macro (with C-x () which takes some user input from the minibuffer each time it's executed. The usage scenario is this: You have a complex text to change where the regexp query substitution just doesn't cut it,…
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Is there any way to evaluate (expand-file-name) in .dir-locals.el?

I'm trying to move all my compilation config (compilation-command and compilation-directory to be exact) to .dir-locals.el file at the top of my project. It is working fine except that I can't find the way to use expand-file-name there and without…
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bm.el is broken

Is anyone using bm.el to traverse through bookmarks in multiple buffers ? If so did you notice that bm-next is broken ? I see several people using it but no one seems to have noticed this. The buggy version got into emacs-goodies as well. How do I…
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Emacs 23.3.1 fixedsys font issue

I have downloaded the Fixedsys.TTF font. I have moved the font into the /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory. I have opened Emacs and navigated to Options > Set Default Font... and selected FixedsysTTF and specified Monospaced and size 11. I then…
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Automatically launch a command with Emacs when it's a .tex file

I want to launch a command when I start emacs with a .tex file. The command is: M-x flyspell-mode Is it possible and how?
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One compile command per buffer, not directory

I am often editing foo.cpp and bar.cpp (or foo.tex and bar.tex) in one directory. During these edit sessions, I run make foo and make bar many times. At some point with Emacs 23, I needed to type make foo and make bar just once on the respective…
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Emacs: wrong-type-argument error in Emacs23 but not in Emacs24

First of all, I'll admit that I'm a complete novice at Emacs and ELisp (and for that matter Lisp in general), and I have stumbled upon an error that has got me stumped for quite a while now while trying to write my .emacs file. Here is a minimal…
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emacs syntax highlighting for c++ using the "const" keyword

I am having an issue with syntax highlighting in emacs when writing c++ using the const keyword. A MWE is the following #include class MyClass{ pulbic: void helloWorld(); }; void MyClass::helloWorld(){ std::cout << "Hello,…
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