Questions tagged [emacs]
A text editor, usually characterized by its extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." There is an Emacs-specific SE site for specialized questions.
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XFCE: M-Tab, active windows and „Always on Top“
I run XFCE under X11 with focus policy „focus follows mouse“. What happens when I open an application, create a new (second) window in it, set it to „Always on Top“ from window menu, move the mouse ...
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Disable colors in emacs terminal
How to disable all colours in emacs running in a terminal?
Note that I don't want disabling just a buffer.
I don't want (global-font-lock-mode 0) because that only works on normal buffers, however ...
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Add LC_CTYPE to Desktop Entry
I'm using fcitx5 with emacs, to enable entry of Chinese characters. There is a known issue with emacs, where in order to input Chinese characters, one needs to launch emacs using LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 ...
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xterm seems to change its "home" key behaviour for emacs
In xterm, when I press the HOME key on my keyboard, it normally sends ^[[H but when I open emacs -nw, it changes to ^[OH; those are home and khome respectively. I figured out while trying to build my ...
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Fontawesome icons are not pasted correctly
I am using Fedora and installed fontawesome via sudo dnf install fontawesome fonts. Later because it didn't work I also additionally installed the font manually via downloading the zip from the Github ...
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Emacs hangs the network when C-g or M-x keyboard-quit, what does keyboard-quit do behind the scenes?
Working with emacs on a new RH8 network accessed from a remote windows machine using VNC.
Emacs is running on RH8.
Starting from emacs -Q
when I perform C-g or M-x keyboard-quit emacs hangs and the ...
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Distrobox: emacs: Could not open file: /dev/tty
Am currently trying to automate running emacs on a Distrobox container (the Docker container is silex/emacs:29.2-alpine, although I've also tried silex/emacs:29.2 which uses a Debian image), and am ...
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Ctrl-= in terminal mode
In Emacs, I have bound Ctrl-= to a custom function.
What is strange is that when I run Emacs in a terminal, hitting Ctrl-= just enters an equal sign and does not execute this custom function. In a GUI ...
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How to use `perldoc` within Emacs (shell)?
While programming using Emacs, you frequently consult manual pages.
My environment is text-based Emacs via SSH.
While I can open "Normal" manual pages in Emacs using the man command ((man ...
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How to get Guix perfect setup to work
The official Guix documentation describes The Perfect Setup for hacking on Guix.
I have followed this description and set up everything like described, but still Geiser does not work fully. I thought ...
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How does GNU Guix's resource usage compare to lightweight linux distros (Puppy, AntiX, Q4OS, Linux Lite, Mabox, and Arch) when using EXWM?
I am looking for a lightweight Linux distribution for development purposes on older hardware and considering GNU Guix (yes, I like lisp, functional programming, and reproducibility :D). My ...
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Getting 'emacs-common-non-dfsg' from Debian bookworm-backports
This in reference to this question. Many thanks to user Marcus Müller for providing the silver bullet for getting Emacs 29 from Debian backports. I've done this already, and profited.
However, one ...
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Ubuntu 16.04, install evince via snap, but no service via dbus
I am running 16.04 with evince GNOME Document Viewer 3.20.1
Now evince 4.X displays hyperlinks as pop-up windows, which is very useful for documents with equations.
I installed evince 4.4 via snap
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How do i scroll backwards in the emacs help menu
Today i tried emacs for the first time, and i found that C-h C-h opens up the help menu. The menu says press SPACE or DEL to scroll the menu. If i press SPACE, it scrolls me forward which is great, ...
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Can systemd start a user service after loading `.profile`?
I'm using systemd to start the Emacs daemon, as explained in the Emacs wiki.
I also use my ~/.profile file to add my user-installed TeX Live installation to the PATH variable, so it contains the line
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