How can I have emacs start and be in the middle of a command input? Particularly, I want emacs to start in the middle of a command input find-file with a message in the small buffer saying:
Find file: ~/
and the cursor at the last character of it…
I intend to change certain features/functions in Emacs. I'm familiar with different modes however my question is how certain functions are removed from the Graphical Interface - e.g. removing Games from Tools item in Menu bar or add new items to it?
I need to implement some new functions on an editor. I picked Emacs - although my main programming knowledge is in Java and C - and I want to add some functions and edit some existing functions of Emacs Editor. I looked at the source code of it and…
I'm currently using Emacs 23.1 on a remote server through putty. I would like to be able to zoom out (so I can view all my code when needed). I've tried several methods and none of them have worked.
Text-scale-decrease and text-scale-increase give…
I used to be a comfortable emacs user and for close to 10 years I completely got away from using emacs (I know its a shame) but I have a wage memory of setting something in .emacs to open remote files in a server via local emacs.
Just to make the…
I was installing some packages from marmalade and when I reboot my emacs I receive this error, I can't uninstall those using marmalade again, I run emacs in debug mode and this is the error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable…
Under Emacs 23, mailto:foo@foobar.foo is nicely underlined and launches the writing of an email when pressing enter on it.
Given a system with Emacs and Skype installed, is it possible to configure tag such as phoneto:+5623689753 which is…
I've just installed emacs 23.3b (OSX Lion) using brew. The startup takes over 11 seconds (v 22.1 starts instantly). I've blanked out my .emacs and tried with various options such as "-Q" or "--no-init-file" "--no-site-file" but the startup time…
commit source code into git repository with emacs vc-mode.
I used Chinese characters to write commit message. and push the changeset into github
then all of the Chinese characters changed to be irrecognizable
↓↓↓↓↓↓After push into github↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
I want to use the locate-file function in Emacs to find files quickly using file names. This link: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Locating-Files.html says that there is a command function 'locate-file' for this purpose.
But when I…
I've attached an external keyboard to my laptop and I've modified my keyboard mappings such that
1. Ctrl is CAPS
2. CAPS is Ctrl
I want to continue using the right Ctrl key as Ctrl instead of CAPS. Any pointes on how this can be achieved ?
The code is below but seems to have an error because it says when started can't find the remove duplicates function. Anyone have an idea how to fix this?? There is a second code on the same page with the problem. Essentially I can get it working but…