Top new questions this week:
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Let’s say I have the following checklist in org-mode: * TODO Example [/] – [ ] First – [ ] Second How do I automatically add a timestamped entry into the logbook drawer when an item is checked? …
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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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Suppose I have a regular expression with many alternatives, such as “[a-z]+\\|[A-Z]+\\|[0-9]+” and it has just matched some text. I’d then like to know which of the given alternatives …
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Suppose I have the following snippet inside an .org file: The Need to Read What You (Want to) Want After selecting the region with the mark command and executing org-ctrl-c-minus, I can convert the …
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Using org-beamer (Emacs 27.1, Org mode 9.3). I have one slide that does not use columns, and one bullet point has a footnote. The footnote exports with an Arabic-numeral numbering style (1). Another …
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Is anybody able to get suggestions after typing x. using code below? E.g. name import json from types import SimpleNamespace data = ‘{“name”: “John Smith”, “hometown”: {&…
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I have recently learned (in shock!) that it is impossible to predict the moment a macro defined via defmacro is expanded (i.e., its code is run in order to generate the expanded form which will in …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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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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Is there a way to maximize my window on start-up? Currently, I hit Control++Up on my keyboard but it is very bothersome to do that every time. I am using Emacs 24.4 on Ubuntu 12.04.
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Someone (in another SE answer) mentioned a feature thats only available in 26, so I guess now I gotta upgrade. How do you install emacs 26 on macOS Sierra? What I tried: Googled how install emacs …
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When posing questions on this site, people sometimes talk about “windows” when they mean “frames,” and “buffers” or “files” when they mean “windows.” So: Q: What is the difference between a buffer, …
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Background: I’m mostly a vi user and am converting to Emacs. Past the basics and now use it for writing code in C and some Python with plans to do an R conversion too. I wrote (Common) LISP for …
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It says emacs/bin/emacs.exe. If it’s not necesarily useful, I’d like to stop it from starting with emacs. The extra window is messing me up a bit.
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I would like to change the cursor, like in Terminal, from the block to the I-Beam cursor. From this: To this: How would I do this? Also, on a side note, how do I change the color of the cursor?
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