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I am reading the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, 9.3 Creating and Interning Symbols: Each element of the obarray is a bucket which holds all the symbols with a given hash code; to look for a given …
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What does the name “obarray” stand for? Obarray seems to be a property unique to Elisp that is not found in other Lisp-like languages. So its name probably came up with by the early Emacs developers;…
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I’m working on debugging this backtrace (from Emacs bug #12145, shortened): Debugger entered–Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument “markerp nil”) signal(wrong-type-argument (“markerp nil&…
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From any message in mu4e, triggering a reply causes Emacs to hang entirely, becoming totally unresponsive. It doesn’t respond to C-g, or anything else. I can stop the process with kill -SIGUSR2 <…
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Org mode supports quotations with the following syntax #+begin_quote To boldly go where no man has gone before #+end_quote I would like to make this region italic by default. Is there a variable for …
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According to the documentation of other-window-for-scrolling we should be able to specify the “other window” by setting the variable other-window-scroll-buffer: other-window-for-scrolling …
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I want my Emacs to store its frame position and frame size into some-specific-file before quitting, so that at the beginning of the next session, Emacs will appear where the last session ended and …
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In Dired mode, I can m mark files and R to move them to a destination. Some times the destination path is too long. With the destination open in a split window, is there a way to move files quicker? …
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I use Emacs + evil mode. When I position the cursor on e (in normal state) in a chunk of text such as abc_def_ghi, ciw (change inner word) changes only the def part of the string, while Vim would …
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I am using spacemacs and often use the SPC p f key binding to find files in a projectile project. But even after removing a file from a git, SPC p f will show me that deleted file. I tried using SPC …
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If I am editing a .tex file in emacs, by default (for me) the bottom right corner of the frame will say “LaTeX/P”. However, I won’t get to that mode by typing “M-x LaTeX/P-mode”; I can only get to it …
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Having some issues with PATH settings on Emacs that are affecting my Haskell environment: I’m using ZSH, and when I go to the command line and call echo $PATH, it returns: /Users/g/Library/Haskell/…
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I am using a Windows 7 computer and do not have administrator access. Therefore I can not place a dot emacs file in the root directory. Is there a way for me to specify a different location for …
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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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To profile Elisp code, I tried benchmark.el and some profiler–prefixed built-in functions. But all their reports are either non-human-readable or inadequate. I think the ideal outcome is like what …
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