emacs - Is a popular text editor, usually characterized by it's extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." Now part of the GNU project, it was originally developed by Richard Stallman in the mid 1970s and development, and ongoing ...
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How to use 'dired' as default file manager (instead of Nautilus)?
I use Emacs dired-mode as file manager and like it a lot. I am wondering if the following is possible: Say you write an Email from Gmail in Chrome (I know that there are many email clients in Emacs, ...
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How to install emacs 24.3 on Ubuntu?
This is my first time using Ubuntu and I dont know how I should install a program on it. I tried using cd the directory where it is and then ./configure it but it is not working!
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Broken emacs installation
First of all, I am really sorry about behaving like an over smart. But hope you will be able to help me under the circumstance I am right now.
I was having some difficulty with emacs in my Ubuntu ...
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gtk-key-theme Emacs: what keystroke is for select-all?
I prefer emacs keystrokes, but select-all doesn't seem to be part of the emacs vocabulary, or at least, the gtk-key-theme for emacs. M-w isn't working to copy the selected region.
What's the ...
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Control tab not registering in emacs -nw
I have this in my .emacs which works in X mode.
(global-set-key [C-tab] 'next-multiframe-window)
I have tried to M-x global-set-key C-tab but only the TAB registers
which successfully remaps tab to ...
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Prevent X/Gnome/Terminal from catching emacs commands
When I use emacs, I often end up typing many exciting key combinations which I would usually not use, such as C-M-t (i.e. Ctrl - Alt - T), which in emacs is supposed to run the command ...
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application focus of emacsclient frame
I use emacs24 and I usually start emacs as a daemon at start then use emacsclient frames.
But I've encountered a problem: After I created the first frame, then whenever I created a new frame (after ...
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How can I add 'emacs' to one of the 'Show other application' in file explorer
In file explorer (Nautilus) under Ubuntu, I can select a file and right click and scroll to:
open with other application
My question is how can I add emacs to that list of "other application"
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How to install color themes onto Emacs 24.3?
I'm trying to install the Oblivion color theme into GNU Emacs 24.3.
I downloaded the repository as a .zip file then moved the zip folder into my ~/.emacs.d/color-theme/themes directory. I'm pretty ...
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Emacs 24.3 won't lock to unity bar [duplicate]
I'm running a Ubuntu 12.04. I just installed emacs 24.3 from Damian's Cassou's emacs PPA.
Before I doing this, I completely removed all emacs with the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emacs*
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A better input method for Chinese in Emacs?
I would like to type Chinese in Emacs. I followed this link, and tried several input methods including chinese-py. It seems that, unlike normal IME of an operation system, it is not possible to type ...
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How to install local applications in ltsp thin clients?
I've configured a ltsp server at home and built the thin client. Though, I'd now like to know how to add local applications to the thin client, namely chromium-browser and emacs24.
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How to install emacs-snapshot under 13.04 (raring)? [closed]
I added
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu raring main
deb-src ... raring main
to /etc/apt/sources.list and did sudo add-apt-repository, sudo apt-get update, and sudo apt-get ...
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How do I start emacs?
I am trying Linux again after many years, and I have installed Ubuntu 12.10. I have downloaded the full GNU Emacs24 package, but I cannot get it to launch a text editor.
Can someone tell me what I ...
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Emacs C-. not working in terminal
I use GNU Emacs, usually like emacs -nw which launches the terminal version (as opposed to the windowed GUI version).
I write school papers in LaTeX so I use flyspell-mode for spell-checking within ...
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Failed to install emacs [closed]
I'm trying to install emacs in ubuntu 12.10. I've typed the following in the terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
and I had ...
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Emacs blinking when switching desktop on Ubuntu
I am using emacs with Ubuntu (12.04 LTS).
I used the following command to put it on fullscreen
(defun toggle-fullscreen (&optional f)
(interactive)
(let ((current-value ...
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Using Emacs as Terminal in Ubuntu
I want to know whether there is any way I can use Emacs as Terminal in Ubuntu. Means, I want to do the basic works with Emacs that I usually do with Terminal in Ubuntu, like 'sudo apt-get update'. ...
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Emacs-like keybindings system-wide?
Is there a way to set Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts (at least the subset mentioned below) for the whole OS? This is possible in some apps such as the terminal, Emacs (go figure :) and additionally ...
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Emacs 24 in Ubuntu 12.10
I am running Emacs 23 on Ubuntu 12.10. I see that there is a package called emacs24; will installing this package overwrite my current installation?
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“ctrl+space” has been bound to invoke some input method and does not work in Emacs
In Emacs run in terminal, ctrl+space is a standard shortcut key to select region. But under Ubuntu 12.04, it will invoke some input method for non-English language. I was wondering if I can reserve it ...
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How to use ESC key for Emacs
When typing Esc within an Emacs window under Unity (Emacs 23 standard package), the sound is turned on/off, but Emacs does not receive the key.
How can I change (probably) unity such that the Esc ...
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XF86WakeUp keys - where do they come from?
$ head -1 /etc/issue && emacs --version | head -1
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l
GNU Emacs 23.3.1
From time to time I get undefined messages in the echo area (that do not show up in buffer ...
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How to enable zeitgeist logging for emacs on ubuntu 12.04
I would like the files I open in emacs to show up in the dash under the files lens.
As far as I understand zeitgeist is doing the work, but I can't seem to find the emacs zeitgeist data provider that ...
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Is it possible for emacs to appear on right side of the desktop area when invoking it from the command line?
My standard programming mode is to have a bash shell open on the left side of my desktop and to have emacs open on the right side. However, when I type emacs "filename" in to my shell, it comes up on ...
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ess won't fully install ubuntu 12.04
The last time I ran sudo apt-get upgrade ess gave this error and now says its not fully installed. I checked and installed all dependencies and couldn't find any other reports of this issue. I also ...
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Set emacs -nw as default editor
When editing files like sudoers, I want to use emacs instead of nano. So I ran this command
sudo update-alternatives --config editor
And I selected emacs. The only issue is I like emacs in no ...
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Open all files in project with long lines in an editor
I'd like to edit all text files under a certain directory that have one or more lines that are over a certain threshold in length. How can I do that?
To keep things simple, let's assume that all the ...
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emacsclient: command not found
Having what feels like a really weird problem.
Running 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 as a virtual machine on a 64-bit Win7 host.
Open Emacs 23 and turn on server mode. In Bash, try to call emacsclient to edit ...
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Emacs gives warnings in lubuntu
I am running lubuntu-desktop (quantal quetzal) which I installed after having started with the standard ubuntu install. It all works fine but when I run an application from the command line I get ...
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Auctex in 12.04 ignores Emacs 24
I just installed Emacs 24 (emacs24 24.1+1-2ubuntu3) in Ubuntu 12.04 but it does not seem to work with Auctex (the current version is 11.86-2ubuntu2). My .emacs file contains a line loading Auctex, so ...
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Broken fonts in Emacs over SSH
I'm having a problem with Emacs when I SSH from my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop to another Linux machine. FWIW, I believe the remote machine is using SUSE Enterprise Server 10 SP2, which is possibly quite ...
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What library I need to install if I want to compile emacs
I am trying to compile emacs on Ubuntu 12.04. This is because I want to use emacs 24.2.
But I am getting this error. How can I fix it?
checking for long file names... yes
checking for X... no
...
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Low-res emacs24 icon in application switcher 12.10
I recently upgraded to Quantal, and also switched up to emacs24 from 23. Everything is great, except for one thing: the icon in the Application Switcher for emacs24 is a horrible, low-resolution ...
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Installing programs without apt-get
I would like to install some programs on a computer which uses a proxy
to access to the Internet.
I tried to configure the proxy access but for reason that I do not
understand this does not work.
I ...
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Emacs shell mode pointer always goes to middle
I have been using Emacs shell mode for some time, but one thing keeps bothering me. After I split the window vertically with Ctrl+3, invoke M-x shell and fill the window with commands and output, ...
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How can I enable 'cscope' in menu bar in java mode?
I have install xcscope in my .emacs, like this:
(require 'xcscope)
(setq cscope-do-not-update-database t)
But I only see 'cscope' in my c/c++ mode, but I don' see that in my java mode.
Can you ...
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Emacs24: emacsclient doesn't use global application menu [closed]
I noticed that Emacs24 makes use of Unity's global application menu. (I'm using Damien Cassou's Emacs24 snapshots.)
However, it doesn't do that when emacs, emacsclient or emacsclient.emacs24 are run ...
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How do I get emacs 24? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to upgrade to Emacs 24.1?
emacs24 seems to bring quite a lot of minor improvements over the last version. I know there are already ppa's to easily install it but are ...
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Emacs package without GTK
Is there, in the "regular" Debian/Ubuntu repositories, a package for emacs without GTK support? I'm on a server and would like to install only the console version, without a dozen of unneeded ...
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Can't install emacs due to a “/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 3” error
Trying to install emacs in Software Center Ubuntu 12.04 got this error.
installArchives() failed: Selecting previously unselected package emacs23.
(Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 5%
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Why xemacs looks like this?
On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 xemacs looks like this
where as emacs looks like this
Xemacs also produces the following warnings:
Warning: Cannot convert string ...
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apt-get issues after messed emacs24 installation
As the title says, I am having some trouble with apt-get after messing a bit with my emacs24 installation from ppa:cassou/emacs. I see the following after typing sudo apt-fast update && sudo ...
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emacs keybindings in ubuntu 12.04
I am trying to get Emacs-like Keybindings in GTK, Firefox, Chrome, etc. I have followed the directions recommended here (and in lots of places) but to no effect.
In other words, I added ...
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Emacs snapshot daemon crashes on 12.04 [closed]
I run Emacs 24 from the Cassou PPA. It is run as a daemon and I connect to it with emacsclient. This was all fine in 11.10 on my MacBook Pro. But now I've upgraded it to 12.04 and Emacs crashes when ...
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Equivalent of OSX “open” in Ubuntu Unity?
I know there is xdg-open, but it does not run in the background. It is not as easy as appending & at the end when calling this command from emacs.
I often use ! then open in emacs dired, or C-! ...
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How to upgrade fontconfig? [closed]
This question is more specific to Mint 12, but as mint extends off of Ubuntu, I think the answer may still be the same.
I am trying to start up emacs but keep getting this error:
font 'serif 10' is ...
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why is emacs allowing multiple instances?
Around the time I fresh installed Ubuntu 12.04, I noticed that I can start multiple instances of Emacs. I find this annoying because I will think that a buffer should be open, but I'm in the wrong ...
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Difference between launching an application from a keyboard shortcut vs the terminal?
What I have observed:
When I type emacs in gnome-terminal, it launches in the same environment, with variables set in .bashrc. If I use a keyboard shortcut to the command emacs, it opens in an ...
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How to upgrade to Emacs 24.1?
Emacs 24.1 was released recently, and I'm wondering what the recommended way of upgrading Precise's Emacs to it is. I know of the snapshot PPA, but I'd like the final, stable version. I've found a ...
