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 I have specified both backup directory and auto-save directory.  ;; set auto-save intervals  (setq auto-save-interval 25)  (setq auto-save-include-big-deletions t)  ; auto save path  (defvar autosave-dir (… 
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 I am trying to use a certain minor mode (inferior-scheme-mode), which is activated by M-x run-scheme. But its key combinations are masked by another competing minor mode (geiser-mode).  How can I … 
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 I use text objects with evil like “i(” for the contents of the brackets. I would quite like “magic code aware text objects”?  This textobject would:    return the entire function if I … 
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 Let’s say I have a file called .alias in my $HOME directory with the following content:  alias “my-first-alias”=”ls -lha”  alias “my-second-alias=”echo ‘Hello World'”    … 
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 I have upgraded my emacs using brew install emacs-plus. Now when I run emacs & from the terminal, the following message appears.    Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-number-of-arguments (3 . 4) … 
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 With Bookmark+, we can define our own bookmark types, and list bookmarks by type.  I am not a lisp programmer. Can someone give me an example of how to define a new type, such as dev or web? 
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 I want to reproduce the result of the in-built Agenda view, yet add some further elements to it (using Org QL). I do not want to use block agendas, since they looks ugly. Instead, I want to return a … 
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 I just tried to install ascii-art-to-unicode from the gnu repository (elpa.gnu.org/) via list-packages. I get the following error:    package–check-signature: Failed to verify signature      … 
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 I wish to run Emacs from the latest development version.    I’ve downloaded the latest Emacs development version from savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs (with git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu…. 
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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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 I just upgraded Emacs on my Windows 10 machine from 24.5 to 25.1. For Emacs 24.5 I had GnuTLS correctly setup and for 25.1 I did what I thought I remembered I did:  Got prebuilt Emacs binaries from … 
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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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 When you have to edit system files, it’s an usual situation that you launched Emacs with a normal user before, so the file will be write-protected. What can I do to gain root privileges? I mean … 
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 I am writing python code so shifting/moving blocks of lines is important to avoid going through each line individually. How can I do this without an add-on? Is there a type of operation keystroke … 
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