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How to automate the process to open 3 shells and run 3 commands?
I set up something so that I'd open up 3 shells and run the programs one by one: cd foo/bar ./foo.sh cd foo/bar node bar.js cd foo/bar ruby foobar.rb However, since it is time consuming, so I wrote ...
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emacs path replacement
I had a old version of emacs, I removed it and install a new one. For this new install I got a gz file, and compiled in my laptop. After a successful installation I got a small situation: If I type: ...
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Make Emacs load .bashrc / .bash_profile when started by GUI
I wrote LD_LIBRARY_PATH both in .bashrc and .bash_profile. However, if I started emacs in terminal using emacs, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is shown in getenv. If I started it using GUI (installed from apt-get), ...
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VISUAL and EDITOR variables aren't defined
I'm using CentOs 6 and learning about command line editing modes. The VISUAL and EDITOR variables aren't defined in my system and printenv or env commands don't show them. My X terminal starts in ...
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How to set and determine the command-line editing mode of Bash?
How to set the vi or emacs command line editing mode the Bash AND how to determine which mode is currently set?
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Script for converting .org to .xml
I want to convert tree written in .org file to some XML code to generate graphic tree from it later (for example loading it to www.draw.io webpage). In order to do this I need a bash script which will ...
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How to set environment variables to path so it can be read from GUI and command line from the same program?
I installed texlive and I want to add it as an environment variable to my Path so that Emacs AucTeX can read it when I start emacs from the GUI or from the command line. So far I've read that emacs ...
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How do I make a working emacs alias function?
In an attempt to go around an annoying aspect of tmux, I have the following code in my .bashrc file: alias emcs="command emacs" # Fix emacs in tmux emacs () { if [ $TERM != "xterm" ] then ...
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Emacs installation package error
I'm trying to install emacs on my debian jessie, but I have the following package error, thinkpad-keith@debian-keith:~$ sudo apt install emacs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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Command not found error - bash
$ which sudo emacs /usr/bin/sudo /home/user1/local_build/bin/emacs $ sudo emacs /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf sudo: emacs: command not found $ emacs /etc/apache2/sites-available/...
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How to change/fix the v command in less using a shell profile?
I am beginning to learn bash and emacs and wanted to change my default editor from vi to emacs. After going through many great questions throughout different stackexchange communities, I have not ...
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Org-Mode doesn't export to pdf
I am using emacs with org mode to take notes. I read that org mode can export to pdf whene you type C-c C-e lp. When I type this in, *Org PDF LaTeX Output* buffer says : /bin/bash: pdflatex: command ...
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How to set bash readline to vi mode automatically upon login to a system?
My team is responsible for thousands of Linux/Unix machines, so naturally the root account is "shared" amongst the admins. I prefer vi mode, others prefer emacs mode. How can I set bash's readline ...
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How to compute the numbers of the form 5i+1, i between 1 and 20 with emacs?
First off, I'm not only new in emacs, but in unix in general. I've tried writing: #!/bin/bash for i in {1..20} do j=(5*$i)+1 echo "$j" done The result: (5*1)+1 (5*2)+1 (5*3)+1 (5*4)+1 (...
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Is bash command line interpreter implemented on emacs?
I'm investigating the relationship between bash and emacs shorcuts. Someone told me that the reason why they're similar is that bash uses emacs as its command line interpreter. However, I haven't ...
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