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Questions tagged [spacemacs]
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Spacemacs auto-complete
Disclaimer: I'm quite new to spacemacs and emacs so I'm probably missing something very obvious. Whenever I attempt to use auto-complete in a javascript file (with js2-mode), I get the following messages:
Error running timer `ac-update-greedy':…

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autopep8 reformat a region in emacs/spacemacs
I'm a recent convert from vim to emacs (spacemacs). Spacemacs comes with yapf as the standard code reformatter tool for python. I find autopep8 to work better on python code when the code is broken. I can't figure out how to make autopep8…

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Copying/yanking to the system clipboard in spacemacs (Ubuntu)
I cannot seem to figure out how to copy text from an open emacs file in the terminal to my system clipboard (e.g., to copy into an email).
I've read a number of other questions and have the following in my dotspacemacs/user-config() function:
(setq…

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How to map SPC-b-b or SPC-p-b to an umlaut like ä,ö,ü
I'd like to shortcut some very often used keystroke combinations in spacemacs to my umlauts (as they are unused otherwise). I mapped all my umlauts in vim easily, so I thought, this should be easy in spacemacs, too.
I tried to define
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How to add a custom keybindings to a specified layer of Spacemacs?
For example, I want to bind M . to godef-jump, how can I do this for only the go layer?

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ES6 in Skewer-repl mode of Spacemacs
I'm pretty sure that I started skewer mode and run repl properly.
But it seems like it can not execute ES6 javascript.
Is it just because skewer doesn't support ES6 or there is a setting I missed?
If there is an alternative way to use ES6 in…

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lsp mode for dart support on spacemacs
I want to setup dart support on spacemacs, android studio takes up too much resource and I already have spacemacs keybindings on muscle memory.
I have had a look at Averrins's implementation which is unfortunately deprecated and there is a proposal…

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How to configure org-mode in spacemacs
I did not know where to ask that question, so I am asking here.
I have trouble onfiguring org-mode (specficly org capture) in spacemacs.
In my .spacemacs file (in the fucntion dotspacemacs/user-init) I have added the following code :
(setq…

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How can i use cquery with spacemacs
Is there a canonical/robust way to use cquery with spacemacs?
I recently swiched from vim to spacemacs and am not yet very familiar with emacs/spacemacs configuration/customization.
I have used cquery with vim before.
My projects have a…

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How to install flycheck in spacemacs?
I am attempting to use flycheck with my spacemacs setup.
The spacemacs documentation, under "12.4.0.6 Minor Modes" lists flycheck as a mode which can be toggled with SPC t s.
However, no such option is present in my spacemacs setup. Pressing SPC t…

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Copy-pasting in Spacemacs from within tmux in an ssh session
My current setup consists of an OS X host machine in which I run iTerm. From inside iTerm I ssh into a second machine in which I do all the development. In there I run tmux, and inside tmux I run Spacemacs.
The experience is quite smooth with the…

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Error while installation of spacemacs
I am facing the following error while trying to install spacemacs. I am presently on ubuntu 17.04.
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading '/home/User/.emacs.d/init.el'
File error: Searching for program, Is a directory,
Here is…

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Spacemacs custom color
I've recently switched to Spacemacs, and I'm trying to incorporate my own custom color theme. Normally, I do something like this.
(setq-default dotspacemacs-themes '(firebelly)) ;; additionally use with spacemacs
(use-package firebelly-theme
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Save layout shell/terminal state between sessions
So any shell/terminal buffer turns into a text or scratch between sessions (if I close and open spacemacs again)
I'm doing TDD and it's quite convenient to have mocha running tests in a vsplit window on the side of a workspace.
What would be the…

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spacemacs gui lagging on close while saving clipboard
When closing spacemacs with SPC q s or SPC q q. Often the emacs GUI will display the message "Saving Clipboard to X Clipboard Manager". Then it will not close.
Interestingly, this does not occur when using terminal emacs emacs -nw.
The clipboard on…

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