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I have the following statement in two installations of emacs (setq default-directory "~/.emacs.d/") followed by (load-file "keyboard.el") One installation finds the file, the ...
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In the question Optional parameter defaults, the suggested way to set default value for the parameter of an elisp function is along the lines of: (defun my-command (a &optional b) (command-...
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Is it possible to make the first history item available as the default argument when running commands like eval-expression and goto-line? I'd like to be able to just press enter to use the previous ...
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My Emacs init file works fine in general. But, if I am in my home directory and if I execute: pwd /home/pedro sudo emacs /etc/nixos/hosts.nix For some reason, this opens vanilla Emacs without ...
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Have set the last three function arguments to optional. When calling the elisp function in code (rather than interactively), how can I check the optional arguments fol nil? When brcmk-end in nil, I ...
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After setting Dired do-what-I-mean (setq dired-dwim-target t) which, quoting the man pages If non-nil, Dired tries to guess a default target directory. This means: if there is a Dired buffer ...
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While in a dired buffer, after pressing C to copy a file, often the new filename you want is actually a variation of the original file name. Is there a easy way to get original file name in to the ...
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My default line wrapping is 'truncate long lines'. How can I change it to 'wrap line at window edge' ?
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I have got two versions of Emacs on my Windows 10 laptop: Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) and Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32). I would like the windows shell to run the 26.1 version by ...
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It works when using setq-default in place of setq or when customizing through C-h v. C-h v reports that it is set in 'C source code'. I was thinking it might be affected by my c-default-style, but my ...
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When I load emacs without any configuration I see a dark theme: There is no way for me to get back to the default theme. I tried the following: M-x disable-theme: no theme is enabled M-x customize-...
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I have been looking on the web to the existing answers to this question, but non of them works for me. I would like to change the default font size for all frames in Aquamacs 3.3 GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (...
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I want a "default directory" which is constant across all contexts (buffers, packages, etc). That is, when working on multiple files, opening a new terminal, doing anything which requires a starting ...
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I have a function that creates a buffer, with a default file name, and would like the first user action for that buffer be a prompt to write the buffer to a file, allowing the user to change the ...
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Running emacs 25.2.2 on Kubuntu 17.10. I have an Org mode file that is mostly in English but certain headlines contain text in Devanagari. From Options -> Set Default Font, I have chosen Hack 13 ...
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