Questions tagged [emacs23]

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

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Copy & paste non-ASCII characters to an Emacs window from another window doesn't work correctly

I work with emacs23 with the iso-8859-1 coding system. I have these lines in my .emacs file: (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'iso-8859-1) (set-selection-coding-system 'iso-8859-1) However, if I try to copy a non-ASCII character from…
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Emacs and CWB under Windows

I'm trying to use the Edinburgh Concurrency Workbench (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/perdita/cwb/) with Emacs under Windows. I have placed the file cwb.el under C:\emacs\emacs-22.3\emacs-stuff. My .emacs file is located at C:\emacs and has the…
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From x-display-pixel-width in Emacs 23 to display-monitor-attributes-list in Emacs 24

In Emacs 23, evaluating (x-display-pixel-width) yielded the width of the current window. In Emacs 24 the same expression returns the combined width of all windows. How does one return the width of just the main/current window while evaluating the…
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installing ya-snippet in emacs 23 manualy

I an new to emacs...so i was trying to install ya-snippets for this first i downloaded the ya-snippet tar file and then uzipped it and then kept it .emacs.d/packages/ and then added the following code to my .emacs file ;; yasnippet …
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Invalid function warning with a recursive Lisp function

I'm watching these tutorials on Lisp and I've been following along so far. However, when I try to evaluate this function, (defun tailfact (n &optional (intermediate 1)) (if (= n 1) (return-from tailfact intermediate)) (tailfact (1 - n) (* n…
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Why the function name that starts with "do-" gets highlighted in emacs?

I am using zenburn.el color-scheme in emacs 23. The function name that starts with "do-" gets highlighted, as given in the figure below -- How do I fix it? Any idea?
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Change .emacs directory in Ubuntu

Currently my .emacs file is found in /home So is my .emacs.d folder and I suppose some other files like diary, notes etc will be created in this folder. I find this really messy and I want all my emacs related files(including the .emacs) and…
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What is the correct syntax for .emacs file in emacs 23?

I am trying to get solarized color theme in emacs 23 as per http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/customize_colors.html . I have put all folders and files in ~/.emacs.d . Then I added: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/color-theme-6.6.0"') (add-to-list…
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How to get View-goto-percent defined at startup

If I startup emacs with emacs -q, then emacs does not know about the command M-x View-goto-percent, (which allows one to hop around large files by percent value). However, if I type C-h a percent (search apropos "percent"), it finds the…
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In emacs23 how to bound C- to C- instead of C-J

I am trying to use org-mode and whenever I press Crtl+return emacs does C-J instead. I know this because when I use c-h k and then press crtl+return, emacs shows: "It is bound to C-j." Is there anyway I can make it register ctrl+return so I can…
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Where does emacs Predictive Mode store its dictionaries?

I know I installed Predictive Mode correctly, because it works. However, I have a large file I want to turn into a custom dictionary, and I can't do it. First, I gave it the proper formatting, and tried to call it from within emacs. No go -- it…
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Enabling preview-latex For All Modes

I can use preview-latex successfully on any Tex buffer, and it works great. I was wondering how I can enable previewing capability for any mode, such as Fundamental, or any other programming language modes. I tried this, and I get…
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Package sierotki.el doesn't work under Emacs-snapshot

For a couple of years I used to use the sierotki.el package (NonbreakableSpace) in Emacs for my LaTeX writing. It worked very well in my configuration (Ubuntu 12.04, emacs 23 or emacs 24 (24.2.1)). Some time ago I've installed the emacs-snapshot…
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In elisp How do I extract value from a variable

I'm on the first exercise section (Emacs Lisp Intro) and I'm not getting it; 3.12 exercises: Write a function that tests whether the current value of `fill-column' is greater than the argument passed to the function, and if so, prints an appropriate…
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Syntax read error: )

I'm trying to set up an emacs environment like this guy, but I keep getting this darn error: Syntax read error: ) Here's what my init.el file looks like, it's not long, but I have NO idea what any of it means. I'm brand spankin new to…
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