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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Application specific environment variable settings
I'm trying to work around a known bug in Ubuntu 9.10, where using the scrollbar in emacs causes text to be highlighted, and the cursor to move. This page here shows that you can fix this by setting an ...
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How do I download the command-line emacs instead of the GUI one?
I used sudo apt-get install emacs to download emacs. I expected the command-line emacs to start when I ran emacs but instead the GUI emacs started.
How can I download the command-line emacs?
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How to change font size in emacs?
I download emacs with 'sudo apt-get install emacs'. When I run emacs, I see emacs with too big fonts. I don't know why the default setup to have normal font size in emacs. How can I do that?
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Emacs keybindings for textboxes in firefox?
I'm so used to emacs that sometimes, when I'm typing something in a textbox in firefox, I sometimes try and do C-p to move up a line. It is seriously annoying to have to cancel a print dialog box ...
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An alternative to the Super key on an old keyboard
I've got a classic M-series IBM keyboard that I want to put to a use. However, it does not have a Windows (a.k.a Super) key, that I use for many windows-manager-related shortcuts. On top of it, I ...
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Force apt to remove all emacs*
I have a bug-problem with the apt-packages of emacs:
>>Error occurred processing debian-ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" ...
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IBus client for GNU Emacs: Installed, but how do I start it?
Having recently moved to Linux/Ubuntu, I'm looking for a good editor, and GNU Emacs seems to fit the bill.
One thing I want from a text editor is the ability to handle Unicode Input Method Editors ...
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Is GNU Emacs Unicode compliant, or is it just Multi-Lingual aware via Mule?
I've read that GNU Emacs handles international scripts via a system called Mule (Multi-Lingual-Environment).
I also read (somewhere, a while back) that there was a move afoot (in recent years) to ...
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Switching buffers in Vim
I've recently switched from Emacs to Vim, so this may just be me completely misunderstanding how Vim works.
I've opened a file in Vim and make some changes but don't save them. I then use :e ...
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What differences are there between the various version of emacs available?
Ubuntu (10.10) offers emacs21,22,23 and emacs-snapshot. What are the differences between them and which one does the emacs package install by default? Also, I presume emacs-snapshot-gtk is the most up ...
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How do I set environment variables in an Emacs session launched from Gnome Panel?
My .bash_env file sets several environment variables, including PATH and EMAIL, but in an Emacs session launched from the Gnome Panel (command: "/usr/bin/emacs23 %F") these variables do not have the ...
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Upgrading to 10.10 has made the terminal go crazy
I asked this question on the unix/linux SE and someone suggested I try my luck here.
The problem is this: since upgrading to 10.10, the terminal has gone a little funny. Here's a picture of the ...
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Keeping emacs from splitting the window when openning multiple files
Whenever I open more than one file at the same time with emacs, as in:
emacs foo.dat bar.dat
The window that opens will be split between the two files (a buffer for each file). I would like to ...
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How do I load ecb at emacs start up?
I am having trouble loading ecb at emacs startup.
d@d:$ apt-file search ecb.el
ecb: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/55ecb.el
ecb: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ecb/ecb.el
emacspeak: ...
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Is there an equivalent to MacRabbit's cssedit on Ubuntu?
If there is an emacs pluggin that would give me similar functionality, that would be welcome as well. Thanks!
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Window decoration of emacs23 window on fluxbox is outside screen
I am starting emacs remotely over an ssh connection.
But on the emacs window I cannot find a way to resize or move it. There is no fluxbox title bar visible, and I guess the title bar is above the ...
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How to get rid of odd error line when ALT+TAB'ing away from an emacs launched in terminal
I have a very fresh install of lucid 10.04 64bit, fully upgraded, and with a raft of additional packages added. Amongst them is emacs (23.1+1-4ubuntu7). I habitually launch emacs from a terminal.
I ...
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Debugging/monitoring emacs
I'm using GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0) and start my Emacs session inside GNU screen. Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and the version of emacs-snapshot there I ...
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text editors in ubuntu? vim vs. emac vs. nano
I was wondering the difference between these text editors and which is best used with ubuntu?
What are each of them good for? Are there better ones?
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root running emacs
Today, after about 20 minutes of logging in my Ubuntu 10.4, I notice the CPU and hard disk usage going up. top revealed that root was running emacs23.
It is basically the same behavior described at ...
