Questions tagged [emacs]
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Emacs top bar doesn't follow system theme in Fedora
I have dark theme enabled in Fedora (Gnome), but Emacs doesn't follow it. How to make it dark?
Emacs window:
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Emacs M-s-b is undefined
Until recently I was able to use the ◆ (super) key on my keyboard as an alt key inside emacs.
I used xmodmap with
remove Mod4 = Super_L
keysym Super_L = Alt_L
add Mod1 = Super_L
to turn that super ...
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Cannot open files with Emacs after mounting Google Drive on Ubuntu using ocamlfuse
I have installed a FUSE filesystem for Google Drive so that I can mount my Drive on Ubuntu. It's something I have done before on other machines with no problem.
Everything is installed and mounted ...
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emacs tmp file created by previous OS can not be deleted in new OS
I have installed a VirtualBox with ubuntu20.04 and add a share folder from windows11 host.
Then I use emacs and it create a tmp file:
$ ls -lah scripts2/org/.#drawer.org
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 30 ...
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Selecting multiple lines in emacs open from Screen Gnu mode
Normally when open files with "emacs -nw" to edit, I can select line by shift+arrow or ctrl+shift+arrow. The selected line or paragraph gets highlighted. But when I open file using "...
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Does Neovim or any of its GUI variants have the option to be embedded in a Window?
Emacs as the ability to be embedded in a GUI window using the --parent-id=xid option which is an X Window handle.
So I have created GUI programs in which can embed an Emacs session for improved ...
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Hunspell does not propose an obvious correct form of a misspelled word
For the misspelled word "perapring" hunspell does not propose the correct spelling "preparing" and only proposes the following words:
persevering
pertaining
innerspring
preferring
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CTL-Y no longer works
Suddenly the highlighting color, when copying changed from gray to yellow.
CTL-Y no longer works, When I try it I get:
Symbol's function definition is void: x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value.
My .emacs ...
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Does Ispell send any of the checked data to a server?
Does Ispell only use local dictionaries, or does it send any of the checked data to a server?
The best answer I can find is that it is up to the implementation, and the only open-source repository I ...
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Emacs org-mode export to LaTeX and PDF produces incorrect double quotes
I am currently finishing up the formatting of a book written in Emacs org-mode. I noticed that me using a specific kind of formatting for dialogue produces odd results when it comes to closing double ...
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Building emacs 29 on openSUSE: `configure` cannot find json library despite it being installed
Im currently trying to build emacs 29.0.90 from source. I've installed every version and permutation of json-devel, json-c, libjsoncpp, etc on the repositories, and even built, tested, and installed ...
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How to access GNU-Emacs binaries located in HOME partition from everywhere?
I built GNU-Emacs from scratch and now I have working binaries of it in my home partition. So ~/somedir/emacs/src has all the binaries. If I issue the following:
PATH=$HOME/tmp/emacs/src:$PATH
that ...
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When should TERM be set to alacritty-direct
I am using alacritty 0.11.0 (8dbaa0bb) on Arch.
the default TERM type is alacritty, which works well (truecolors etc) for everything except terminal emacs. In a terminal emacs does not show truecolors....
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Missing Emoji in Emacs and Firefox
I've had this issue on Mojave, and it remains now that I upgraded to Big Sur with a clean install. Can't find anything about it on Google.
All emoji are working just fine everywhere on my system, ...
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How can I run WSL2 in Windows Emacs? M-x shell RET wsl RET doesn't output anything
How can I run WSL2 in Emacs? M-x shell RET wsl RET doesn't output anything.
This happens on my Windows 11 machine.
Tried it on macOS, Emacs told my macOS machine that its terminal is too dumb for WSL.
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