Questions tagged [emacs]
A text editor, usually characterized by its extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." There is an Emacs-specific SE site for specialized questions.
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Idle time (tty st_atime) not updating when emacs is running
When running GNU emacs in a terminal (in the old-fashioned way, that is, i.e. not in its X windows mode) I've noticed that the w command shows the session as idle, even though emacs is active and ...
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How to ignore newly installed font unless specifically asked for?
I've installed a Japanese font (this one, if it makes any difference) that I wanted to use to practice reading cursive writing - i.e. it's deliberately very hard to read. However, it now appears to be ...
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function keys for emacs on a Linux VM
I have been using emacs for many years, and I have several common commands mapped to the function keys (at the top of the keyboard) for convenience. I am now trying to use emacs on a Red Hat 8 Linux ...
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F10 keybinding of unknown origin (maybe Gnome?)
I am running Fedora 40 which I installed a few months ago. I noticed that F10 in my Emacs does not run the function that I have assigned to it in Emacs: in fact, Emacs does not see the F10 key any ...
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XFCE: M-Tab, active windows and „Always on Top“
I run XFCE under X11 with focus policy „focus follows mouse“. What happens when I open an application, create a new (second) window in it, set it to „Always on Top“ from window menu, move the mouse ...
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Disable colors in emacs terminal
How to disable all colours in emacs running in a terminal? Note that I don't want disabling just a buffer. I don't want (global-font-lock-mode 0) because that only works on normal buffers, however ...
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Add LC_CTYPE to Desktop Entry
I'm using fcitx5 with emacs, to enable entry of Chinese characters. There is a known issue with emacs, where in order to input Chinese characters, one needs to launch emacs using LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 ...
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xterm seems to change its "home" key behaviour for emacs
In xterm, when I press the HOME key on my keyboard, it normally sends ^[[H but when I open emacs -nw, it changes to ^[OH; those are home and khome respectively. I figured out while trying to build my ...
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Fontawesome icons are not pasted correctly
I am using Fedora and installed fontawesome via sudo dnf install fontawesome fonts. Later because it didn't work I also additionally installed the font manually via downloading the zip from the Github ...
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Emacs hangs the network when C-g or M-x keyboard-quit, what does keyboard-quit do behind the scenes?
Working with emacs on a new RH8 network accessed from a remote windows machine using VNC. Emacs is running on RH8. Starting from emacs -Q when I perform C-g or M-x keyboard-quit emacs hangs and the ...
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Distrobox: emacs: Could not open file: /dev/tty
Am currently trying to automate running emacs on a Distrobox container (the Docker container is silex/emacs:29.2-alpine, although I've also tried silex/emacs:29.2 which uses a Debian image), and am ...
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How to use `perldoc` within Emacs (shell)?
While programming using Emacs, you frequently consult manual pages. My environment is text-based Emacs via SSH. While I can open "Normal" manual pages in Emacs using the man command ((man ...
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How to get Guix perfect setup to work
The official Guix documentation describes The Perfect Setup for hacking on Guix. I have followed this description and set up everything like described, but still Geiser does not work fully. I thought ...
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How does GNU Guix's resource usage compare to lightweight linux distros (Puppy, AntiX, Q4OS, Linux Lite, Mabox, and Arch) when using EXWM?
I am looking for a lightweight Linux distribution for development purposes on older hardware and considering GNU Guix (yes, I like lisp, functional programming, and reproducibility :D). My ...
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Getting 'emacs-common-non-dfsg' from Debian bookworm-backports
This in reference to this question. Many thanks to user Marcus Müller for providing the silver bullet for getting Emacs 29 from Debian backports. I've done this already, and profited. However, one ...
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