Questions tagged [lines]
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How to remove trailing '$' character
I'm very new to Emacs. Emacs renders all lines with $ appended. I want to remove them. I think Emacs is visualizing a new line character as $, so I searched for options related to newline or ...
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alphanumeric sort of a region
Assuming your buffer content is similar to this:
x1_y1_text_x3_y1
x1_y1_text_x3_y10
x1_y1_text_x3_y11
x1_y1_text_x3_y12
x1_y1_text_x3_y2
x1_y1_text_x3_y3
x2_y1_text_x3_y20
....
how to get the region ...
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evil-delete-line deletes hidden children in org-mode
Calling evil-delete-line from a headline is deleting hidden children. Same behavior with evil-change-line.
On a collapsed outline tree how can I delete from the cursor to the end of line while keeping ...
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What is the default value of TRY-VSCROLL in `(previous-line &optional ARG TRY-VSCROLL)`?
The documentation shown with Ctrl h k up states:
<up> runs the command previous-line (found in global-map), which is an
interactive byte-compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.
It is bound to C-...
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delete backwards until indentation
In my config I have
(bind-keys*
("C-<backspace>" . (lambda () (interactive) (kill-line 0))))
which deletes the entire line backwards until column position 0. I would like to only ...
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Count unhidden lines from hide-lines?
I want to count the number of lines shown with hide-lines-matching.
count-lines seems to return the wrong number.
(length hide-lines-invisible-areas) seems to be related in that we hide the regions ...
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Undo one specific line in a text file within Emacs
Usually when doing the normal undo it will undo all code changes since you went into insert-mode (for me it's evil-undo).
I was wondering if it were possible to implement a function that will only ...
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Sorting lines based on numbers in unicode
I want to sort some text in emacs that is based on a field that contains verse numbers in unicode (devanagari). The text is like this:
Verse text bla १०.३ #10.3
Verse text blah This is १.१९ #1.19
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Unrestricted movement of lines Alt-Up/Down
I'm learning Orgmode and moving lines (headers, checkbox items) up and down.
These movement are restrited to a tree part of the line (header section, checkbox list):
* Here is a list
- Item 1
- Item ...
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Show only one or two lines of a buffer
I need to check numbers in a buffer each on a line against an external paper sheet
To make this easier I would like to make the window very narrow to see only one (or max. two) lines. However shrink-...
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How to get line number for a given buffer position in a performant way?
I have list of buffer positions and I want to get the numbers of the lines at those positions. Is there a better way to do that then using with-current-buffer, goto-point and get-thing-at-point 'line? ...
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Delete duplicate lines, with partial match
Sample text:
This is first line.a
This is over_second line.
This is over_fourth line.
This is third line.
This is over_fourth delete it.
This is over_fourth and one more.
This is over_second with ...
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Is arbitrary buffer position at the beginning of a line?
What's the simplest way to check whether a given point value p is at the beginning of some line or not? Is there anything simpler than (save-excursion (goto-char p) (= p (point-at-bol))) or (member (...
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How to count the number of lines in the region?
Is there a command similar to count-words-region to count the total number of lines of a selected region?
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