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How to identify the parent group(s) of a symbol defined with a defcustom form with elisp code? For instance I would like to use or write a function custom-group-of such that (custom-group-of 'delete-...
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I have installed a fresh copy of emacs on a new linux machine. Instead of creating an init.el file in the ~/.emacs.d folder, I just used the menu and set some options and set a default font. I exited ...
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I have an existing init.el file but an otherwise "clean" Emacs - the .config/emacs directory is empty. When I start Emacs I naturally get warning messages about missing packages which are ...
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I have a made-up markup-like language named weirdlang which I wish to include within org files like this: #+begin_src weirdlang H: Hello L: This is a list I: Item 1 #+end_src This corresponds to ...
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I'm trying to show full b/B bytes, l/L lines, c/C columns in the mode line (where n/N denotes "point is at n of N total), all zero-based, with both sides of each fraction padded as needed to keep ...
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There is a new LaTeX package: "contract". Inside a contract environment there are two new sectioning commands: \Clause[optionlist] \SubClause[optionlist] The section command of Clause is on ...
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In my .emacs file, I have some settings that I need to share with my colleagues to ensure that other tools I've shared in a Git repository work correctly. I was thinking of moving these settings to a ...
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I'm new to emacs and installed the nerd-icons.el package along with the package nerd-icons dired. The problem is I don't like the icons set as default. Even though i've read the nerd-icons GitHub page,...
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The default "bell.wav" sound file included in the org-pomodoro package that plays when an interval is concluded is much louder than other sounds on my computer. I'm trying to figure out how ...
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In a package of my own, namely skel-el, I define a user option skel-el-line1 (well, ok, I'm the only one user) which can be a string, a variable (containing some string) or a function (whithout ...
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Does anybody know of a function/package/etc. to draw visual separators between "high-level" blocks of code, like class and function definitions? Similar to the horizontal lines in these ...
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I'm a bit uncertain about which method to use for setting a variable: setq, customize-set-variable, or setopt. I did some research online, and it seems that opinions on this matter are quite varied. ...
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Emacs 29.1 introduced new functions to install packages directly from source. Configuring it to download from the latest commit works fine, but I can't find how to download from a specific commit ...
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How can I set the text size to be larger all the time, starting from when I open the GUI app? I am specifically referring to the text size for the buffer and modeline. I am moderately visually ...
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I want to change some attributes for the mode-line using elisp file calls. But I want to use exclusively the code that I write myself, without having emacs write to my init file. Although I have been ...
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I found this answer: (eval-after-load 'dired '(progn (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "c") 'my-dired-create-file) (defun create-new-file (file-list) (defun exsitp-untitled-...
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So today I installed a dashboard for emacs with M-x package-install RET dashboard. It works perfectly fine. I made some nice customization and it looks great! But by default, there are some messages (...
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The font face of the window labels in ace window seem to have the same size as that of the text in the buffer, which is in general too small for me to allow for quick visual parsing. I was hoping that ...
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I am new to Emacs (28.2) and would like to customize certain packages by simply hiding some of their elements or faces. For example, I'm trying to remove elfeed-search-last-update-face from elfeed-...
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On my linux box when I run emacs .& from the command line, inside a folder it opens up and displays that folders contents via Dired. I need to either: display the Doom landing screen instead of ...
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What I am about to say is best reproduced with an empty configuration. So if you want to reproduce this issue just back up your ~/.emacs.d and any other init files to a different folder and try this. ...
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One of the nice features of Emacs is that you can use Tab for in-line completions and Tab-Tab for showing possible completions to already typed text in a separate buffer if there are multiple of them. ...
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I use emacs for common lisp development. I noticed that the documentation string for functions is white and makes it hard for me to read. Is there a way for me to change the color of this string? ...
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I want to write a defcustom definition for a variable my-var. my-var is an alist that maps strings to plists. Each such plists maps one of three keys (:x, :y, :z) to a list of strings. So, a member ...
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I would like to create more separation between the custom variables generated through the Customize UI that are generated for org-mode, and non-org mode features. I have already broken out my primary ...
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https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Displaying-the-current-line-or-column.html M-x (global-display-line-numbers-mode) But after I do C-x C-c then it's not configed. How do I make ...
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I would like to set the frame position of the initial frame, by letting the user position the frame where he wants. I can then save the cons cell in a variable which will then be used for set-frame-...
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I'd like Emacs to follow this indentation style: struct Foo { void bar() { for (int i=0; i<10; i++) { if (condition) { // code // code ...
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I really need this but couldn't figure out how to do it. Let's say I open a file in a new buffer which has 200 line of code. Now I'm in the beginning of my file in line 1. And Mode line showing All(1,...
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What i'm trying to do here is that, in my buffer I want to point the cursor position through highlighting the line horizontally and column vertically. Much like the CrosshairHighlighting mode. (https:...
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When I have a custom variable and a function that changes it's value: (defcustom current-fileset nil "Currently selected fileset" :type 'string) (defun set-val () (setq current-fileset &...
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When reading a pdf file, I use different colors for highlighting; for example to distinguish different ideas. Is it possible to have a number of colors readily available when using pdf-tools. That is ...
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How can I customize pdf-tools' default color for highlighting (from yellow to something else)?
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I'm using emacs 28.1 with Spacemacs and after installing pulsar I'm wondering how to add the pulse functionality on certain events, such as, when going through search matches, scrolling up, down, etc. ...
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I have mark-even-if-inactive set to t in my init.el; I've found that I that so (interative "r") works as expected; if that variable is nil, I get "The mark is not active now" when ...
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Here it says that the type of lsp-clients-pylsp-library-directories is (repeat string) How do I write my dir_locals.el file ? I tried this but it doesn't work (see here) ((lsp-mode . ((lsp-clients-...
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Sometimes I would like a tree's statistics cookie, for example "[1/3]", to be calculated differently than what is specified in the global value for org-provide-todo-statistics. For example, ...
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In GTK versions of Emacs (or more generally any GUI version of Emacs), can the scrollbar and menubar colors be customized? I can probably change the look of ALL my GTK applications, but when running ...
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I work with latex/other documents with long nested of texts/codes are enclosed by paratheses or braces, like this: { long blocks of latex or other materials ( another long blocks of texts ...
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I am currently running Doom Emacs and using org-mode. When I try to move a file to the front of the agenda file list (C-c [), It is updating the custom.el file, rather than the config.el file. In my ...
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I'm trying to add a new file foo.org and delete an old bar.org from the org-refile-target variable. So doing (setq org-refile-targets (quote (("~/foo.org" :maxlevel . 2)) should work by ...
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I have a problem that variables defined with defcustom in elisp files under ~/.elisp do not appear in the Customize UI. In particular, I use word-count-mode from https://github.com/tomaszskutnik/word-...
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I'm trying to configure a remote path when using tramp. I have added (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/root/.cargo/bin") to my init.el I get the following error: Symbol's value as variable ...
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I customized org-tag-alist using the built-in customization interface. This stored the values in ("tag") . <ascii key value>) pairs like this: ("ez" . 90) ("pin"...
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I am using lsp-mode with Gopls as my coding environment. But I have one file with // +build tagthis at beginning of the file. Then my emacs lsp-mode cannot work well in this file. How can I change ...
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I like using org-mode as a distraction free text editor. I also like using org-indent-mode when navigating my entire file. I also like using org-tree-to-indirect-buffer to focus on a desired section ...
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I'm trying to edit a mode's font-lock-keywords variable to use defcustom instead of defconst (which it was using previously). Obviously, this is because I want to be able to easily customize the mode'...
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I had tried to use a thin weight font as the default face and a regular weight font as the bold face (try, it's a nice combination), but I desisted because there are a zillion faces that do not ...
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In my init.el, I have the following line (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory)) which is supposed to set the file custom.el into .emacs.d config folder for ...
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When I install packages with M-x package-install, it edits the ~/.emacs file and adds the following content: (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by ...
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