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(Running Emacs as a daemon and using emacsclient) I have a cron job that regularly creates an ICS file for an ORG file using (progn (find-file "myfile.org") (org-icalendar-export-to-ics t)) ...
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I'm writing a package that makes remote calls for certain low-level emacs operations (think Tramp). I'm using a custom protocol between emacs and the remote system, and open-network-stream with a ...
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I'm trying to use shell asynchronously with named sessions, but it doesn't work: #+begin_src sh echo "a" #+end_src #+RESULTS: : a #+begin_src sh :async echo "a" #+end_src #+...
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Let's say I have the following org-file: #+TITLE: Presentation title #+BIND: org-beamer-outline-frame-title "My own title" #+LATEX_CLASS: beamer * Section 1 ** Slide 1 When I export this ...
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I'm trying to run a hook that should start after buffers are loaded - it hooks into ein package that starts an "ipython server" that takes some time to start and it seems that the subsequent ...
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in my library, i have completion backends that i add to completion-at-point-functions as per the docs, but my completion candidates are fetched from a server with an http request. the call is very ...
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Imagine in the current buffer I have the text: Hello Bye I want to call an external program and add the output of it at the end of the buffer. The tricky thing is that the external program provides ...
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I want to perform a repetitive task using Emacs and another program (which, unfortunately, runs under X). I have then set up an elisp function and a xdotool script to do the two parts of the work. The ...
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I'm using the org-pomodoro, and I have added a function to the org-pomodoro-started-hook that prompts the user for a reminder for what they should do during the break. However, I don't want to call ...
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Let's say some package does (make-thread (lambda () (message "Started thread.") (error "Fit happens.") (message "Finished thread."))) Regardless of M-x ...
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The lisp function start-process is meant to start an asynchronous subprocess, namely a process running independently of Emacs itself. I have noticed that, under my GNOME desktop environment, when my ...
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I have a lot of org files in emacs 27.1 so when I do an agenda listing for the week it takes about 20seconds. Is there a nice way to do this in the background? I've put together the following function ...
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I am writing a lisp program to be run as a batch file through emacs. The program calls an external application which is supposed to stay running after the call to emacs finishes. The two basic ways ...
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I'm trying to make use of the fzf fuzzy finder to search through a list via a term process. The way I do this is very similar to fuzzy-finder.el or fzf.el. This is by launching fzf with: (progn (...
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I use notmuch to read emails. I've configured notmuch to call offlineimap via pre-new hook. When I press G to refresh my notmuch buffer, I want emacs to open my offlineimap log file in another window ...
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I am often opening exwm buffers by running async-shell-command but unfortunately these buffers always get named *EXWM*. It would be great if when I ran async-shell-command 'firefox the buffer that ...
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Ok, this issue I'm running into seems pretty weird. I'm running an async process during init and I have set a process sentinel to tell me when it exits. This works fine in terminal Emacs but in GUI ...
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I like to generate JPG images from my LaTeX/tikz drawings in my org files. For this, I use constructs like #+NAME: my image #+HEADER: :file my-image.jpg #+BEGIN_SRC latex :results file raw :...
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While I develop some Emacs-Lisp code, I often test it in the *scratch* buffer, just to make sure that what I just wrote behaves like I believe it does. But sometimes evaluating an expression takes ...
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I sync my org files via Dropbox. Occasionally, Dropbox will bring in changes into a file whose buffer I've already modified. I can diff the buffer and the file on disk with diff-buffer-with-file; but ...
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I want to use async-shell-command to run a .bat file on Windows. Reading the function documentation it says: (defun async-shell-command (command &optional output-buffer error-buffer) "Execute ...
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With a function that calls an asynchronous process, it's possible to call the same function multiple times. What is a reliable way to avoid this that properly handles quit and errors being raised? ...
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I have this function implemented to basically compile and run the cpp file I am writing. Some files needs input (cin) so running this function will not stop and would continuously showing this message:...
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In orgmode, it is quite useful to view the equations inline. However, sometimes this can take a while to execute. Running org-toggle-latex-fragment asynchronously would be quite useful. However, most ...
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I have a situation in a mode I'm writing that saves a portion of the output of a long-running asynchronous process to a variable at intermittent intervals. I need to access this data periodically. My ...
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I am trying to build a function, that takes a body of text from a buffer or a file, and "simulates typing" in another buffer. This will serve me towards recording programming videos where the code ...
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Emacs 27.0.50. Windows 10. This function works finely when the line is commented: (defun Pfedj/write-async-file () (interactive) (async-start (lambda () (setq path "~/org/file....
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I've repurposed some code to show me a list of packages that I have installed which have upgrades available. Currently I'm running package-refresh-contents when I start-up Emacs and then display the ...
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I am trying to copy files from one directory on a remote computer to another directory on the same remote computer. Using Dired I can open up the two directories, mark the files I want to copy and ...
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I found the following code in TRAMP: (defun tramp-adb-handle-shell-command (command &optional output-buffer error-buffer) "Like `shell-command' for Tramp files." (let* ((asynchronous (...
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I would like to asynchronously run code blocks in org mode. My org mode version (org-version output) is: Org mode version 9.2.1 (9.2.1-23-g126a37-elpa @ /home/user/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.2.2/) I ...
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I'm running this emacs GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian directly in a Gnome terminal by calling emacs, which is actually a link to /etc/alternatives/emacs. ...
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I have this snippet of code: (async-shell-command (concat "perl myscript.pl " (buffer-name)) (read-string "RETURN: ") (with-temp-file "file.new" (insert-file-contents "file.new") (perform-...
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I want to run some Elisp when my command executed by async-shell-command terminates. How can I do this? Does it have completion hooks?
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When I give a new async command with an interactively called async-shell-command, it gives a message "A command is running in the default buffer. Use a new buffer? (y or n)". I think this behaviour ...
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With synchronous export I can call C-c C-e l o to generate a pdf and open it. If I try the same keys with the async export, i.e. C-c C-e C-a l o, then the pdf will be generated but the pdf won't open. ...
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I have a problem which is very similar to this one. I have some text that I'd like to listen to with macOS's say utility. Unfortunately, Emacs locks up when I use shell-command-on-region because it is ...
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I learnt about asynchronous execution of org babel shell code blocks, thanks to: How is #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results drawer different to #+BEGIN_SRC sh I want to know if it's possible to tail/stream the ...
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I'm writing an emacs package for Pipenv and the spike solution uses sync shell calls, which is not desirable for general usage. I'm now changing calls to be async (make-process) and for output to go ...
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If I locally call async-shell-command it takes the shell from shell-file-name (/bin/bash). However if I use su or ssh via tramp to invoke a shell command remotely it always runs as /bin/sh. The ...
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I'm trying to set up a function running on my timer to refresh my org-gcal files by using the emacs-async library as follows: (async-get (async-start `(lambda () ,(async-inject-variables "...
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I have installed the Rust programming language (Debian). Now i can compile and run programs from terminal (with the cargo build and cargo run commands), but not from inside emacs. The cargo compiler ...
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Given code such as (defun some-code () (url-retrieve my-url #'my-callback) (setq *a-global-var* (some-func *a-global-var*)) ...) (defun my-callback (status &rest args) (setq *a-global-...
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I'm starting a process with start-process and immediately calling set-process-sentinel to get notifications when it ends. After attaching the sentinel I send the buffer's contents to the process's ...
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If I am copying files using dired having previously called (dired-async-mode) to make it copy asynchronously, how do I know when it has successfully finished copying the files?
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Historical Perspective On Unix like operating systems, it is common practice to redirect IO between shell commands using pipes. For example, the command below would insert all the lines that didn't ...
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I use this function for tangling my init.el file (defun tangle-init () "If the current buffer is 'init.org' the code-blocks are tangled, and the tangled file is compiled." (when (equal (...
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I have alias msexcel (w32-browser "C:/program files/microsoft office/office12/excel.exe") and this means I can do msexcel from eshell and an asynchronous MS Excel will begin to run. I am looking for ...
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Calling org-preview-latex-fragment blocks user input for a second or two depending on the size of your fragment, and with universal args, converting all fragments in buffer can take minutes. It would ...
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I want to run several programs one after another and display their output in a single buffer. I can do this by calling call-process multiple times: (call-process "cmd1" nil "*out*" t) (call-process "...
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