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About starting and initializing an Emacs session

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Let's see, if emacs is running, I want to use emacsclient -n file. If emacs is not running, I want to use emacs file&. How frustrating. Why can't it be like chrome, which automatically knows you ...
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I'm moving from Emacs 24 on Windows to Emacs 30.1 in server mode on Ubuntu via Snap so I'm having to deal with a huge number of things changing all at once. The problem I'm bothering you with occurs ...
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Trying to get Emacs setup on a new install and have copied my config over to ~/.config/emacs/. Its not perfect so I have manually installed auto-compile with M-x package-install auto-compile and ...
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I have installed a fresh copy of emacs on a new linux machine. Instead of creating an init.el file in the ~/.emacs.d folder, I just used the menu and set some options and set a default font. I exited ...
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If I start emacs with the following init.el ;; Of course, my actual init.el does real work here (sleep-for 1) (load-theme 'wombat t) then the initial frame will first show the light default theme for ...
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I load some extensions during startup and I am annoyed by the startup log messages displayed in the echo area: Loading delsel (native compiled elisp)...done Loading desktop (native compiled elisp)......
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When I start up Emacs I get this warning in a *Compile-Log* buffer. Warning (bytecomp): Unused lexical variable 'start' I grepped for "start" in init.el and the two mode files I use and I ...
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I'm writing a package with several different files, in which the placement of the root directory is important. Since I don't know where other users will put the package, I thought I'd be clever and ...
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A symbolic link on windows for emacsclientw.exe with the following flags: C:\Users\XXX\bin\emacs-29.3\bin\emacsclientw.exe --init-directory "~/Dotfiles/emacs/.emacs.d/" -n -c -a "" ...
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Yesterday, I didn't change anything in Emacs. All that I did was set up SSH through ssh-add and ssh-keygen. Today, Emacs crashes moments after opening. I suspect the two are related. How can I debug ...
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How do I start non-GUI Emacs on the commandline? emacs-no-x11 doesn't seem to be in recent Emacs versions.
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I upgraded a few months ago to Emacs 29.1. Everything appeared to work until I tried to open Emacs from a terminal. Here is the error message Warning: arch-independent data dir 'c:/Program Files/Emacs/...
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On windows 10 at this time. Transitioning from emacs 27.2 -> 29.1 Emacs 27.2 starts up and runs the code in the .emacs and custom file ok. Downloaded emacs 29.1 to try it out. Emacs 29.1 errors out ...
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The emacs installer puts a shortcut on the desktop that works perfectly. If I open the emacs/bin folder, choose emacs.exe an the "Send to desktop" it creates a different kind of shortcut. ...
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When I start emacs, it opens an empty buffer named BLANK. I have no idea where this comes from and would like to not have it there, since there's nothing in it and it clutters up the buffer list. I do ...
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