Questions tagged [emacs]
emacs is a popular text editor, usually characterized by it's extensibility and 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 extension of it continues to this day.
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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 12....
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`emacs24` package not available on Ubuntu 17.10
I use Emacs24 for testing Emacs modes. emacs24 package is not available on Ubuntu 17.10. Any external ppa or help would be very helpful.
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17.10: How to get the right version of Emacs when searching for it?
I regularly use Emacs and I have gotten used to on my Mac to just search for the first few characters and hit enter. Doing this for Emacs - typing "emacs" - has worked well on Ubuntu too until I ...
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Set ipython as default interpreter in emacs
I happen to experiment with Emacs for Python coding. I'd tried to change the default interpreter with Anaconda's ipython by the following ways in .emacs:
(setq python-python-command "~/anaconda2/bin/...
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How can I run emacs in gnome terminal without popup interface?
Just like using emacs on putty. I just transfered to Ubuntu from windows.
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Emacs24 unmet dependencies problem
I'm unable to use apt-get due to unmet dependencies in emacs24. I'm not sure what happened, but I'm unable to apt anything.
Here is the output:
user5@system:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo apt ...
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Prevent extraneous formatting of apt output
When using apt from "dumb" terminal (this is a code word for Emacs), it produces many lines of garbage output (it probably tries to display progress, but it doesn't work on this kind of terminal).
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A shorthand for rIght-click...paste
It doesn't always work to ctrl+y to paste text (while it works in emacs and at the terminal). Is there something that always work so I don't have to right-click and select paste in the terminal when ...
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Long-press enter as Control key
I am a Emacs user and I want to have Long-press enter as an extra control key. I used to do this in Mac OS with KeyboardRemap4Macbook. But was not able to find it how to do in Ubuntu Unity. This would ...
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Emacs 25 on Ubuntu 16.10?
Is there any way of installing Emacs 25 or 25.1 on Ubuntu 16.10 without having to compile from source?
I want a stable install of Emacs and do not wish to install an unstable or nightly build.
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Emacs C IDE / Gnu Global helm-gtags
Hello Ubuntu Community,
so first of all I'd like to say that I am quite new to ubuntu (16.10) and linux. I decided to use Windows as little as possible and also wanted to start learning the ...
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In emacs, having mouse over other frame cause Alt key to produce a <switch-frame> event
In emacs, if I have two frames open and the mouse is positioned over the other frame (i.e. not over the active one), pressing the Alt key produces a <switch-frame> event.
While this event does ...
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Difference between emacs and emacs-lucid packages
After Ubuntu installation(13.10), I found two versions of Emacs 24 in my software center:
GNU Emacs 24(emacs24)
GNU Emacs 24(emacs24-lucid)
I don't understand what the difference between them is ...
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emacs + screen not properly handling keys
I'm sshing to an ubuntu server:
cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=zesty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 17.04"
I run screen, and then emacs.
$ screen --...
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What is Emacs Key Theme?
I recently installed Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 and in Gnome Tweak Tool I have a menu called Keyboard and Mouse. In there I see Key Theme and I can select between Default and Emacs, but I haven't installed ...
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Cannot open Emacs as a window
I am new to Ubuntu and am currently using Ubuntu 14.04. I installed Emacs 25.2. When I use the emacs command, the files are directly opened in terminal and I cannot open emacs window.
I used these ...
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Navigate back and forth in IntelliJ without using arrow keys [closed]
I am an emacs person. In emacs, to navigate forward and backward one character I use ctrl-f and ctrl-b. Using IntelliJ I do not want to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys slow me down significantly. ...
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Uninstall Emacs [duplicate]
I have downloaded and installed emacs from the homepage and now want to unistall and reinstall it. When i do remove purge or autoremove the emacs icon is still to see at the sidebar left, but the ...
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How do I select and copy text in Emacs using the keyboard?
How do I select text using the keyboard?
After selecting text, I click on Edit. It shows Copy <copy>.
How do I copy text using the keyboard?
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can't enable xft and freetype support for emacs 25.2
This question relates to emacs compilation, but it is more about library lookup problem on Ubuntu so I think I should put here. If it is better to put over emacs forum, I will do that later.
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Ubuntu 16.04 Changes Installed Emacs Version
I used this guide to build emacs 25.1 on 16.04 and accomplished it without a problem.
Before installing, I did not have emacs installed. A part of the building process, however, is to sudo apt build-...
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Starting session with exwm
Today I found that emacs has its own window manager with very impressive showcase. However I can't really understand how to configure it from the brief documentation where I don't understand how can I ...
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Menu bar invisible in Emacs
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu, then installed Emacs. The icon bar (with commands such as copy and paste) is invisible (grey).
When launching Emacs in a terminal, I get this :
(emacs:15443): ...
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Installing package with gdebi incorrectly finding newer version of package
I am trying to install Emacs version 25.1. I have the .deb package for this, which I created using checkinstall. This was part of the short tutorial that I followed (perhaps the clue is there ...
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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 stop Ctrl+= being swallowed?
I want to bind C-= in Emacs but Emacs sees it as "=". Emacs is 24.3 running in gnome-terminal on Ubuntu 14.10. xev sees that Control is pressed but C-v C-= in bash prints only "=". I assume that ...
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How can I make running emacsclient from the unity launcher reuse an existing emacs window
If you create an emacsclient launcher by copying a .desktop file (e.g. the Emacs one), it does not behave in the standard Unity launcher manner. It always launches a new window; it doesn't recognize ...
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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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Emacs toolbar icons missing in Ubuntu-16.10, struggle to compile emacs24 and 25
I'm writing to see if you have tried to compile Emacs lately. I want to compile emacs-25.1 but hit a segmentation fault. If you wonder why I want to compile, or why I'm asking here, read on...
I ...
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Moving to a word in bash in Emacs mode
I am using the command line in Emacs mode and would like to move my cursor to a character forwards or backwards. Are there any shortcut keys that I can type to get to that position fast. For e.g., the ...
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unity somehow captures Control+G from Emacs [closed]
When I press Control+G in Emacs (C-g in Emacs's conventions), it does not do what it is supposed to do, eg quit from a minibuffer, instead it just blinks "Quit" but remains there (so I exit with C-] ...
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Hiding text in emacs
Every time I open up emacs, I tend to get this text on my screen.. How do I permanently hide it? Thanks!
https://i.stack.imgur.com/LbSPt.jpg
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Emacs and xft fonts
I'm trying to set up Consolas font in emacs. I built emacs with --configure --with-xft and put:
Emacs.font: Consolas-16
Emacs.fontBackend: xf
to the .xsession
But when I'm trying to start emacs I'm ...
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More modern or more conventional version of Emacs
Is there a more modern or more conventional version of Emacs?
I'm thinking something like Aquamacs from Mac OS X. I'd like the standard conventional keyboard shortcuts found in common programs to ...
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Emacs Keybinding customization
I have just discovered that using gnome-tweak-tool it is possible to use emacs keybindings inside every input field and I think this is an amazing feature. Anyway I would like to customize this ...
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Removing emacsen-common Ubuntu 16.10 [duplicate]
I've installed emacs via apt-get but then I uninstalled it but this package still remained installed.
When I try to uninstall it it says:
sudo apt-get remove emacsen-common
Reading package lists... ...
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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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Difficulty Installing GLOBAL
Preface: I don't know what I am doing.
With that out of the way, I found a tutorial that is trying to make me a competent emacs user. In it, there was a section describing how to install GLOBAL. ...
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Emacs, which to use?
There seem to be the following versions: emacs23, emacs23-nox, e3, emacs23-lucid, and jove, as choices to download. Where can I find out what the differences are?
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ubuntu 14.04 emacs: how to revoke the fullscreen default?
When I start emacs, it is always fullscreen. I can't find the configuration to have emacs start not in fullscreen (maximized). I'm not the only one with this problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/...
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Upstart not starting emacs --daemon
I am trying to start emacs daemon through upstart. Here is my script
# emacs --daemon - Emacs daemon
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# The Emacs daemon provides a server for Emacs clients.
description "Emacs daemon"
start ...
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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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Display the date with Emacs editor
I'm trying to configure Today is 20/11/2016 with Emacs editor. I think the command date is located in \bin. Therefore, with the editor I wrote what is in the following image :
I know it should be ...
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Why am I seeing error configure: error: No package 'gtk+-3.0' found when I installed libgtk-3-dev?
I have successfully installed libgtk-3-dev using sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev. However, when I run ./configure to install emacs, I get an error showing the following:
checking for GTK... no
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Package in emacs-25.1.tar.gz
I'm a new user of Linux/Ubuntu, and I'm still not comfortable with the notion of a packages. Actually, I'm trying to install Emacs 25.1 and I try to find out the good package in emacs-25.1.tar.gz (see ...
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How to enable ALT Gr key as ALT R for Emacs on Ubuntu 16.04?
Emacs is famous for causing tendinitis, but one must remember that Ctrl and Alt come in pairs, at left and right of the keyboard :-)
However, in Ubuntu 16.04, Alt R behavior is Alt Gr, messing with ...
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Associating an alias with .org files on the Desktop
I have the following alias in my .bashrc on 16.04 LTS:
alias emacs-org='emacs -q --load ~/.emacs.d/init.org.el'
I would like to associate emacs-org with the .org files that I put on the desktop. I ...
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How to install the latest Emacs in 12.04?
In 12.04 , emacs version is 23.3.1.
How to install the latest version ?
I remember there is a PPA about the newer Emacs.
Emacs 24.5 can be compiled and installed manually in 12.04?
Is here anyone ...
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Trying to install Emacs in one directory in Ubuntu
I am absolutely new to Linux ans Ubuntu. I am switching to Linux because I really want to use all the features in Emacs, Win version has many non-working features. However, I cannot figure out how to ...
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How to compile GNU Emacs 25.1 on 16.10
I've managed to build and install (using checkinstall) an GNU Emacs 25.1 Debian package on 16.04, but on 16.10 for some unknown reason the compilation fails (at the make stage) giving the truncated ...
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