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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 to remap Emacs evil-mode toggle key from Ctrl-Z?
I'd like to remap the toggle key for emacs evil mode. From Ctrl+Z to something that won't confuse me like the CUA bindings (I'd like Ctrl+Alt+`, but I think that terms don't recognize that one).
In ...
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How to select and copy on emacs by keyboard?
How to select by keyboard?
After selecting , I click Menu's Edit, it shows 'Copy '.
How to type copy by keyboard?
Thank you~
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I can't change the keybinding theme from emacs to default in gnome tweak tool
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome Shell. I have changed the keybinding theme from Default to emacs using Gnome Tweak Tool. For some reason I can't change it back to default. Has anyone encountered this ...
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How to open a remote file (ssh) with my local Emacs?
I use ssh to connect to a remote machine where a file is.
Once the connection is established, if I run emacs the_file in the terminal, instead of launching my local Emacs, it opens an editor inside ...
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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 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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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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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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“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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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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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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How do I enable Emacs keybindings in Google Chrome?
Can anyone tell me how to enable Emacs keybind on Chrome?
I found some links but they are either not clearly mentioning how to do so or not what I want (I don't want external tools to be run for this ...
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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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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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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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Unable to do ./configure during emacs installation
I want to install emacs on my XUBUNTU 12.04. So I downloaded the emacs.tar.gz file.
I did tar zxf emacs_x.x.x to extract it to a folder.
Then cd emacs/
Then I tried to ./configure. This is not ...
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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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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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basic beginning emacs questions - install latest version and pick appropriate UI
I'm running the latest Kubuntu (12.04 beta 2) and I would like to run the latest emacs (currently v24). The repos are one version behind. What's the best way to install v24 or later (and avoid future ...
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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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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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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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Emacs ignores .Xresources
I have some settings in .Xresources for emacs. Namely:
Emacs.font: Monospace-10:antialias=True:pixelsize=14
Emacs.menuBar: off
Emacs.toolBar: off
Emacs.verticalScrollBars: off
This worked fine on ...
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GNU Emacs can't work on X11 and crashes with a message "Font `Ubuntu Mono 13'
I got an GNU Emacs' problem, it can't work on X11 and crashes with a message "Font `Ubuntu Mono 13' is not defined" but it works fine without X, more Xemacs can run without problem, GNU Emacs is a ...
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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 ...
