Questions tagged [emacs23]

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

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What is the purpose of the emacs menu bar in console mode?

Loading emacs into the terminal (console) window, at the top is a menu containing File, Edit, Options, etc. As far as my googles have told me, the way to access it is by F10, M-x menu-bar-open, etc. However, this opens a new buffer with the contents…
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global-set-key but exclude specific modes

I am trying to create a new key-bind that will work fine in all modes except for one, where it conflicts with another. For example: (global-set-key (kbd "") 'move-line-down) Is there a simple way (without setting it for specific local…
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Emacs 23, emacsclient arguments?

I recently installed Emacs 23 (on OS X Leopard) and trying out the emacs server. I have tried both ways: (1) putting (server-start) in my .emacs file, and (2) running emacs --daemon at the terminal (in separate trials; not at the same time). In…
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How to enable backspace in incremental search?

How can change this behaviour: C-s — start incremental search type word — misprint the last character Backspace — Oops! incremental search disappears, and I actually delete 1 character from the buffer. to that one: C-s — start incremental…
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emacs cedet semantic with Qt4 how to configure

I use emacs 23.1.1 on X86_64-pc-gnu-linux (ubuntu 10.04) and follow the famous link http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html to add all config to .emacs. But it can NOT do even basic job. There must be sth wrong with my setup or…
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What do I need to put in .emacs to print to default Windows printer?

I used to have postcript printing working perfectly in Emacs 21 in Windows+Cygwin, but after upgrading to Emacs 23, I am receiving the following error in the minibuffer: Opening output file: invalid argument, C:/PDFCreator: My current .emacs…
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autoexp.dat equivalent in emacs

Does anybody know if an equivalent of "auto expansion" mechanism (works with Visual Studio ) exist for emacs (used in debug mode with gdb). In Visual Studio i can really hover over any class instance / structure and it shows me desired structure…
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Emacs - set mark on edit location

I want emacs to add last edit location to the mark ring, so I can jump back to previous edit locations. Ideally this would only mark one edit location per line. When I edit another line, the last edit location on that line would be added to the…
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Emacs 23.3.1: whitespace style

I've just upgraded to Kubuntu 11.10. After that the way Emacs represents whitespace in whitespace minor mode got changed. It were shaded rectangulars and not Emacs puts dots in the place of white space: I tried to change it through the M-x…
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emacs and python updating modules

atm i'm using emacs to write some python code, so far it works quite fine except one problem that is really a bit annoying. Always when I update something inside a self written module i reevaluate the buffer and the module in the python shell inside…
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Org Mode iCalendar export non-unique UID generation

I am using Emacs 23.2 and I am using org-mode to keep track of my tasks. I have quite a list of tasks that I have made up as events by mentioning the time period and adding the SCHEDULED tag for the tasks. When I export the task to the iCalendar…
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Emacs Erlang mode indenting twice what erlang-indent-level specifies

Emacs is indenting my Erlang twice as much as I think I'm telling it to. If I set erlang-indent-level to 2, it indents to 4: fun(Keys, Values, ReReduce) -> lists:sum(Values) end. If I set erlang-indent-level to 4, it indents to 8: fun(Keys,…
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emacs -- keybind questions

I have successfully used Ctrl+Shift+Up ' Ctrl+Shift+down ' Ctrl+Shift+left' Ctrl+Shift+Right to different commands. But when I tried to use Ctrl+s to the command save-buffer and Ctrl+Shift+s, which is equivalent to Ctrl+S, to another command, it…
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Tips, Tricks, Shortcuts for using EnigmaCurry's Emacs configuration

I just stated using emacs and wanted to find a good configuration for python programming. I choose the EnigmaCurry emacs configuration which is very extensive. There are a lot of ".el" files. The problem with this configuration is the lack of…
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Adding a previously defined macro to the macro ring in Emacs

I've been using kmacro commands such as kmacro-name-last-macro to save keyboard macros. The problem is that after I have saved a macro and even added it to my .emacs file, I come across an error and want to edit the macro using…
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