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I have been reading the emacs lisp introduction and emacs lisp manual. In the elisp introduction the author says that one should think of emacs as a "extensible computing environment" as ...
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I'm trying to switch to Emacs for all my text-related tasks. I've set up org-mode for note-taking, but configuring it as a programming tool is overwhelming. I am aware of many questions here that ask ...
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I am trying to use emacs for programming python and c/c++. I recently upgraded my MacOS setup to emacs-plus@30 --with-ctags--with-dbus --with-debug --with-mailutils --with-no-frame-refocus --with-...
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I'm trying to setup Emacs for editing Roc (https://www.roc-lang.org/) source code. I have an LSP server for Roc and tree-sitter parser for Roc installed. Unfortunately I failed to find tree-sitter ...
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I have reduced a large text file to a 1.9GB size that Microsoft Access can handle, but only as a linked file. To permit full Access operations - to import the relevant data into Access - I need to ...
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What I am looking for is a guide to show what area of the code a set of brackets covers. I am not referring to highlighting the match between parentheses or brackets but instead outlining the field ...
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I am wondering whether current versions of Emacs have any built in mechanism for guessing whether a file (that my elisp code is about to load, or perhaps has just loaded, into a buffer) is 'binary' ...
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Is it possible to program the export in org-mode in the following way? Say you'd like to export some org-mode text in latex or html but you'd like to program a kind of limited text loop with an ...
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Are there any alternatives to ts-comint.el? https://github.com/emacs-typescript/ts-comint It's old and unmaintained. I'm using tide, but I don't see how I can transpile/evaluate the code directly from ...
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I have this small piece of code on emacs org-mode : #+BEGIN_SRC C :eval #+BEGIN_SRC C :fork-example1.c :noweb no-export :eval :flags -Wall -Werror -pedantic //Fork-exemplec-cours.c #include <stdio....
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I started noticing this after an update, every two spaces at end of a word/symbol places a period at the end. I am not sure how to debug this or where to look. any pointers appreciated.
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I have some experience in Emacs-LISP. Today I spent 6 hours writing LISP code that I guess-timate would have taken 1h30 to write in Python because my workflow to develop and debug is very clunky. In ...
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I have this problem in JavaScript, but I understand the solution to it could be more general. My cursor (point) is on the name -or on the body- of a function, like this : function test() { // My ...
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Often when fixing a bug or implementing a new feature in a code repository, I start off with an investigatory step. For example, I would have a lead, a word such as "Article" and I would start by ...
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If I edit an executable script, say foo.sh, then upon saving emacs makes the backup file foo.sh~. That's all well and good, but if the original file has the executable bit set, then so does the backup....
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I am pretty sure I have seen some service, with an emacs plugin, that does something like the following: whenever you're programming and type a function name it'll show example usages of the function ...
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I'm using the ada-mode 5.2.1, gnat GPL 2017. I've built and installed gnatcoll successfully. However, when I try to build gpr_query, I get the following error: $ gprbuild -p -P gpr_query.gpr ...
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void parse(std::vector<float>& io_vertices, std::vector<unsigned>& io_indices) {} Oftentimes when we code we need to break lines repeatedly as new expressions and statements enter ...
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Is it possible, or does some function exists, to get the equivalent of the alt-q command, but in programming? Suppose I've just written this in python: group_parser.add_argument('-n',nargs=1, ...
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When I type a loop keyword (for, while, do) in perl program, emacs automatically inserts brackets and parenthesizes to complete the loop structure. I would like to disable this but I'm not sure what ...
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When writing Lisp, I often encounter a long line such as the following. (map function (|apply append long-list-name1 long-list-name2 long-list-name3)) (where '|' denotes the point). This can be a ...
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In wakatime-mode, there are a bunch of process calls that is done by the wakatime-call function. It calls a predefined shell command, so no real magic inside. Now I’d like to make it a bit more error ...
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I recently installed a programming package, "Haskell mode," and apparently I changed how "initial parenthesis highlighting" works. I'm used to a quick black/white box superimposed on the initial ...
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In realgud I have a text button that needs access to a dynamically-bound buffer-local variable. The situation occurs like this. Inside one buffer that has the buffer local variable, there is a ...
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I'm just getting started with tcl; what sort of beautifier, or prettifier, or formatter, is there for tcl with emacs? My main interest would be to fix existing scripts so that particularly the ...
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Like a lot of people I think I activated inhibit-startup-screen because it’s ugly and tedious to always have your emacs horizontally split when you open a file with half taken by an useless startup ...
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I heard it’s better to use Customize to define variables/settings instead of just some setq inside .emacs.d… because it autoloads when loading packages, because it’s more consistent, more checked/...
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Years ago I saw a feature in XCode where nested code blocks (delimited by {}) containing my cursor had graded background shades, with the lightest at my cursor, and the darkest at the outer level. .e....
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I'd like tab-width to be set to 2 in all programming modes. I use prelude (which might be one of the problems), but I have this in my custom.el (which is sort of the analogue to .emacs): (setq my-...
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Is there a package to let emacs display the parameters of a function while typing? For example, if I were to start typing printf( in C, I would like it to display the format taken from man pages, ...
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I'm modifying some elisp code from linum.el: (custom-set-variables '(linum-format 'dynamic)) (defadvice linum-update-window (around linum-dynamic activate) (let* ((w (length (number-to-string ...
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I am new to gnu Emacs and have a question. I created an M file to run in Matlab and I got it working fine. My question is, is there a way to compile my code in the Emacs editor or test out my ...
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I want to sleep until a predicate is true, without blocking the rest of Emacs from executing. For example: (defun clock-striking-one-p () (eq clock 1)) (defun hickory-dickory-dock () (run-up-...
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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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How can one quickly remove ancillary snippets of code in Python scripts under Emacs? For example, for debugging purposes, I often add some print statements to print out the values of some variables. ...
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Autocomplete for Go code (fantastically) suggests functions and helpfully shows the documentation for the function, e.g. arguments and return types. If I hit tab, the DialHTTP function is inserted. ...
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I have a bunch of keywords: set write quit which each can be shortened down to one letter: s se set w wr wri writ write q qu qui quit Further, these keywords are case-insensitive, so the following are ...
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I would like to display the opening part of a scope when this one get out of screen. Example: namespace a { ... --------------------- <- display frame ... | }* ...
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Having written a couple of custom comint-derived modes, I often find it tricky to decide how to keep track of buffers and processes: for instance, to associate different source buffers with different ...
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I have used a package before which used the header line to show the name of the current function being edited. Whatever package it was, I don't have it installed now. What are my options for getting ...
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Is there an easy way to create a list of "to-do" items on-the-fly when writing code? For example, suppose that I am writing a function write-this-now when I realize that I am also going to need to ...
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I know basics of Common Lisp. I've learned it using Emacs + SLIME, and I must say that without these two I wouldn't learn too much - using bare REPL is tough job. However, SLIME makes a great job at ...
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As a programmer, I want to see a ruler at a specific column (usually 80), both so I see when I cross that column, but also to see how close I am getting to it so I can reformat my code early. The ...
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