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Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

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Changing Emacs Forward-Word Behaviour

As the title says, how does one change the behaviour of emacs forward-word function? For example, suppose [] is the cursor. Then: my $abs_target_path[]= abs_path($target); my $abs_target_path = abs[_]path($target); I know I could just use…
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Adding Subdirectories to Load Path

Rather than individually specifing each subdirectory in my plugins directory I want to be able to automatically load them, to that end I included the following to my .emacs file: (let ((base "~/.emacs.d/plugins/")) …
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Emacs compilation mode won't see bash alias

Emacs M-x compile does not see any aliases set in .bashrc. If I use M-x shell then type the alias, it is fine. I tried sourcing .bashrc from /etc/profile, from ~/.profile, ~/bash_env, anything I can think of to no avail. I am on Emacs 23 and Ubuntu…
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cannot open load file when using emacs

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 I have downloaded rainbow-delimiters.el and put into the following directory: ~/.emacs.d/site-list/rainbow/ In my emacs configuration file, I have the following: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-list/rainbow") (require…
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How to debug an R package (with C code) in Emacs using GDB?

I am currently writing an R package and using compiled C++ code through the Rcpp package in R (Rcpp makes the interaction of R and C++ code easier for a non-programmer like me, IMHO). I want to debug a few errors in my C++ program using gdb. I have…
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python 3 in emacs

I changed two days ago to Emacs 23, which lately gave me a lot of headache, especially, as I have two Python versions installed, the older 2.7 and 3. As I generally want to start the python 3 interpreter, it would be nice if I could tell Emacs in…
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What are good custom keybindings in emacs?

Emacs seems to have all the possible keyboard combinations already randomly distributed among it's commands. :p If I am to define new keyboard shortcuts, where should I put them? Which prefixes should I use? For instance: I want to define shortcuts…
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increase 'buffer' column width in buffer list view

I am working with rather longish file names and when viewing the buffer list, the width of the Buffer column is too short for my purposes. How can I increase that width (at the expense of, say, the width of the Mode or the File columns). Width I am…
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How to install melpa in emacs?

I need to install MELPA into my emacs 23.3 version. I have googled for the ways to install it but couldn't find/understand any of them. Can anyone please help me with installing MELPA. I am using ubuntu 12.04 I need MELPA to install OmniSharp…
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Emacs run-javascript?

Is there such a thing as a javascript equivalent to run-python et al available for Emacs 23 or later? I'd like to run a JS REPL from within Emacs with the standard load-definition/load-file bindings.
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Emacs: list-packages [no match]

I'm new to Emacs. I'd like to install a package, but doing M-x package-install says there is no such command. Trying to look which packages are installed with M-x list-packages does not work either. GNU Emacs manual does not say much about it (or I…
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How can I get the compilation buffer on the bottom rather than on the right in Emacs 23?

I've installed Emacs 23 and have found that the compilation buffer (when using M-x compile) appears in a different position than it did in Emacs 22. The currently open buffer appears on the left and the compilation buffer on the right. How to I…
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emacs "Find File:" default path

I am using emacs on windows. I would like to know how to change the default "Find File:" path in emacs i.e. When we press "C-x C-f" I want the default file path to point to my Documents directory and not to "c:\emacs-**\bin/".
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M-RET and M-UP/DOWN not working in Emacs org-mode in console/terminal

I'm using emacs23 on Ubuntu 32-bit 10.04/10.10 with GNOME and Compiz. Pressing M-RET in an org-mode plain list in Emacs (GUI) inserts a new item. Pressing M-Up moves the item up in the list. These keys don't work as expected in emacs -nw under…
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Using prolog with emacs

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 Fedora xfce 14 I starting to get into Prolog, and I want to use my emacs as the IDE for programming in Prolog. Currently I use emacs for c/c++. But not sure how to get started with Prolog. I know that emacs has a built in library…
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