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So I have been using AUCTeX on Emacs recently, and I have been using doc-view to display the compiled pdf, but the doc-view standard resolution is too low and the image looks foggy, I increased the ...
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I frequently have auto-revert-mode enabled for log files, where the mode hook runs ansi-color-apply-on-region. That deletes ANSI color sequences and adds overlays to produce the desired color. That ...
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I see this done a lot. Don't know what it's called. Don't know how to do it. See how the comments are all lined up? int myNum = 5; // Integer (whole number) float myFloatNum = 5.99f; /...
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This is my config file. As you can see, on line 351, there is: ;; Update my Emacs' packages every week (use-package auto-package-update :custom (auto-package-update-interval 7) (auto-...
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I was wondering if anyone knows if C-c C-a in AucTeX is using behind the scenes latexmk or not? I've tried looking into the source files for both C-c C-c and C-c C-a but I couldn't find in any those ...
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Is there something similar to pexpect that can be used to automate a tty connection running inside emacs, i.e. in term-mode or on top of serial-term ? I'd like to automate some repetitive tasks like ...
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I use emacs to write latex and I need to enclose a lot of small expression in braces ( \{ and \} for latex) I would like to select the text to enclose and have some command that would add { before the ...
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In this scenario I press C-x C-s to save the file being edited in upper window C-x o to switch focus to lower window Alt-p to recall previous command in M-x shell buffer Enter to execute command # ...
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How can I do this more efficiently, assuming I do this hundreds of times a day - it becomes tedious. # while editing a source code file M-x magit-stage-file M-x magit-commit type in wip C-c to ...
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I'm currently learning C with a book that has many small code examples that the reader is supposed to write, run and experiment with. I'm using Emacs as my primary tool for everything that has to do ...
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I've been getting very vexed by the following. Goal: Take the clipboard contents and paste them into another application by using a shell script called by Emacs, followed by a Return. [This is for ...
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I would like to repeat actions (preferably as a keyboard macro, but I am open to other solutions), in some kind of automated, "slow motion". By "slow motion", I mean at a speed that is close to human ...
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What's the name of that feature that auto indent the code when I press tab (Even fi the indentation is more to the right, the tab "erases" the abundany spaces) and how can I change the size of it?
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Edit: Highlight text that matches the marked region, without the use of any key, but just by having a region marked. Then have two commands to directly move across the highlighted text, forward and ...
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With abbrev mode, I can define abbreviations that trigger when I type a certain term. For example, typing "yn" would be expanded to "Your Name". For this, "yn" must have been defined as an ...
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If i select first option it will become l.remove But as the completion candidate is function type, how can i make it to l.remove() so that i don't have to manually type parens?
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I'm building a new appliance, linking BusyBox with Tor on top of a minimal GNU/Linux operating system. I'd like to try something different for the automated build infrastructure with this one and ...
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Lets say I'm editing a javascript file in emacs that has objects as such scattered through out the file: foo: [1], foo: [2], foo: [3], foo: [4], foo: [5], foo: [6], foo: [7] obo: [1], obo: [2], obo: [...
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I use siunitx to typeset units in LaTeX. This is quite painless when typesetting it directly because of Emacs's siunitx.el (see below). However, sometimes I copy exercises or solutions containing ...
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I'm planning to move StackMode to a literate program once it matures, but until then I'm using the conventional ^L section markers. My files look like this: ;;; Code: ^L ;;; Section 1 Title (defun ...
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When coding Android projects, resource variables are somewhat cumbersome to define, as they involve visiting a file far away in the directory structure and writing xml(!). Say I want to define a ...
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