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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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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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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Lines disappearing intermittently from both Terminal and Emacs
I'm having trouble even finding the right search terms to diagnose this problem. It's also hard to reproduce on my own machine.
When I enter a command in the terminal, occassionally I will see no ...
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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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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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Problem with the keyboard layout in Emacs (ubuntu 12.04)
I've got some problems with the keyboard layout. I have a french AZERTY keyboard. When I switch to another layout (I tested both programmer DVORAK and Greek) everything seems fine. However, in emacs, ...
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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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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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Unable to install Qt XUBUTNU 12.04 fresh install
I've Qt SDK which is an offline installer. According to the instructions given for installation, first I have to
chmod u+x Qt_SDK_Offline.run
then
./Qt_SDK_Offline.run
But when I do ...
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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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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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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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How do I provide arguments to an application launcher in kde?
So I can create launchers in a quicklaunch thing on the kde desktop.
The launchers are easy to create, and work most of the time.
What I haven't figured out, is how to pass arguments to the ...
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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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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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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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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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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.
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