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2011/12/21-2012/2/6 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:54269 Activity:nil |
12/21 In Emacs, how do I make it so that it will resize its screen when the maximum resolution of my monitor changes? When I use my laptop, my emacs is too big (and I can't resize it because the bottom-right corner is not accessible). \_ Which OS? Can't you drag the top border (not a corner) to resize the height to be smaller? \_ MacOS 10.7, bottom right only. \_ How about "M-x eval-expression (set-screen-height <some number>)"? You'll have to type this without seeing the minibuffer. \_ yes that works. I tried this at home (when my screen is downsized from a 24" work monitor to my laptop) and had to do this blind without seeing the mini buffer and had to do it a few times. I guess I should learn how to write a keyboard shortcut in elisp :( \_ Can't you drag/move windows by any border, or am I thinking of a different OS? |
2011/8/9-27 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:54162 Activity:nil |
8/9 So I just found out that an old college friend of mine lost her four month old daughter to SIDS. What is the correct response here? \_ "Did she sleep with her belly?" and "Did you breastfeed?" \_ try this joke: How do you make a dead baby float? ˙ʎqÉq pÉÇp ÉŸo sdooÉ”s oÊʇ puÉ É¹Ç\ Çqʇooɹ ÉŸo ƃnɯ É \_ I will try this one at the memorial service, thanks. \_ Can't read the inverted text in emacs. \_ i can. GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29) \_ I was using the emacs here on soda which is 22.2.1. -- PP \_ "I'm so sorry for your loss." Then shut up. |
2010/4/30-5/10 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Security] UID:53813 Activity:nil |
4/30 When I ssh into soda and run emacs, how do I activate the File/Edit/... menus at the top? Thanks. \_ Hit F10 or M-`. If you ever forget this, it's on the startup screen that emacs displays every time you run it. \_ It works! Thanks. I thought there was going to be a drup-down menu like when I run it under X or in Windows. menu like when I run it under X or in Windows. Many text-based editors in the DOS era did that. |
2009/6/29-7/9 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:53086 Activity:nil |
6/29 When will we have the real emacs back? Thx. \_ real men use pico and ed!!! -kchang \_ It's hard to teach old men (me) new tricks. -- OP \_ Done. emacs22 installed. --root \_ Thanks! -- OP |
2008/6/12-13 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:50233 Activity:nil |
6/12 Does emacs or vi include a column paste? I sometimes have a block text I want to insert horizntally next to another block/column. This is common for data plotting etc. In Microsoft Word has this, I need it in a Unix text editor. \_ Does M-x picture-mode in emacs work for you? \_ Yes, with the commands below, thanks. \_ C-x r k runs `kill-rectangle' C-x r y runs `yank-rectangle' \_ Does this work outside picture mode? \_ Yes. There are quite a few other rectangle commands as well. \_ How do you select a rectange? \_ It's defined by point and mark. RTFM for details. \- also valuable in emacs is align-regexp |
2008/3/15-17 [Transportation/Car, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:49466 Activity:nil |
3/14 Is there any good document composition mode in emacs? auto-fill-mode is pathetic. |
2008/3/6-7 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:49358 Activity:nil |
3/6 Dear emacs expert, how do I make emacs highlight leading spaces (but ignore tabs)? |
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2008/2/2-6 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:49051 Activity:nil |
2/2 Real programmers use emacs: http://xkcd.com/378 |
2007/11/13-16 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:48630 Activity:nil |
11/12 emacs masters with macbooks, why do my arrow keys in emacs + Terminal not work? |
2007/11/9-11 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:48591 Activity:nil 75%like:48590 |
11/9 What's the best standard Xemacs font? |
2007/11/9-12 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:48590 Activity:nil 75%like:48591 |
11/9 What's the best Xemacs font for coding? \- the Entrella Font \_ no no, the ETANRETLA font! |
2007/11/7-12 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:48571 Activity:nil |
11/7 When I use ssh with X11 forwarding my emacs would run. But when I NX into the machine and launch emacs, it would complain that fontset-16 is not found. What is going on? \_ different set of fonts in your nx's virtual X server. |
2007/10/29-11/1 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:48475 Activity:nil |
10/29 Is there such a command in emacs where I can say "mark this point so I can roam around and then jump back immediately?" -learning \_ Ctrl-SPACE to mark, Ctrl-X Ctrl-X to jump back. \_ Ctrl-SPACE to mark, Ctrl-X Ctrl-X to jump back. You can do Ctrl-X Ctrl-X repeatedly to jump back and forth. \_ Thank emacs guru!!! \_ Is there a way to avoid the annoying highlighting? \- i am not sure exactly what you are seeing, but you might see if the issue is the "transient-mark-mode" setting. \_ What type of file are you looking at (.cpp? .html? ...) What is emacs highlighting in that file? |
2007/10/10-14 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:48289 Activity:low |
10/10 Anyone know emacs has a session saver? It drives me nuts to have to reload and restore. \_ I looked at this six or twelve months ago, and they do exist, but no one implementation seemed simple nor robust enough for my needs. Let me know if you find anything. -dans \_ run emacs in screen, never kill it! \_ emacsserver/emacsclient \_ What do these have to do with saving sessions? -- !OP \_ If you never 'quit' emacs, there is no need to 'save' sessions. \_ I have an idea. How about you do "kill -9" to kill emacs every time you want to quit it, then user M-x recover-session to restore it? you want to quit it, then use M-x recover-session to restore it? You might even map C-x C-c to do "kill -9" on itself, and add recover-session to you ~/.emacs. \_ Can't you just boot directly into emacOS and use the system suspend and restore functions? \_ The following works for me without having to do too much work: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/docs/emacs/emacs_423.html basically, add an entry to your .emacs and then do "M-x desktop-save <path>" for the very first time, and subsequent launch of emacs from <path> will auto reload previous files, buffers, history, etc. I have this setup in less than a minute. |
2007/7/23-26 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:47384 Activity:nil |
7/23 kchang i am using emacs + tramp to edit /etc/motd.public . this is a great solution for anyone editing the motd. emacs notifies me if the motd has changed since i started editing it, so i don't rudely stomp on anyone's changes. \_ Just lock the motd, like everyone else and you won't have to worry about it. \_ i guess it's for my own benefit, so the dude I am writing over doesn't write over what I just wrote! |
2007/7/17 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:47319 Activity:nil |
7/17 why doesn't my fucking backspace key work in emacs \_ Maybe you need the following in your .emacs: (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?) |
2007/4/17-18 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:46339 Activity:nil 77%like:46334 |
4/17 In Linux 2.6, if two users run Emacs 21 to open the same 100MB file for viewing, do the two processes eat up ~100MB of RAM/swap-space, or ~200MB? Thanks. \_ Test and see. \_ It seems to be the latter. Too bad. Thanks. -- OP \_ Considering how emacs handles buffers that's almost a given. |
2007/4/17 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:46334 Activity:nil 77%like:46339 |
4/17 In Linux 2.6, if two users runs Emacs 21 to open the same 100MB file for viewing, do the two processes eat up ~200MB of RAM or swap space just for that file? Thanks. |
2007/3/7-11 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:45897 Activity:moderate |
3/7 In emacs 21, is there a way in Emacs-Lisp to detect whether emacs was started with the "-r" switch? In C mode, the syntax colors are different when I start emasc with and without "-r". I want to do the same in my elisp code, but I can't find how this is done in cc-mode.el. Thanks. -- yuen \- are you sure what you are talking about is being done by the cc*.el and not the font-lock package? also, it is likely they are checking "inverse-video" than the argv. btw, who are you? i almost always run emacs in a terminal window without any syntax highlighting, so i havent looked at this deeply, but i'm guessing from plausibility. --psb "inverse-video" than the argv. btw, who are you? --psb \_ Actually I'm not sure whether it's cc*.el or font-lock.el. Whether I run "emacs" or "emacs -r", "inverse-video" is always nil. -- yuen \- the cmdline is parsed by the "startup.el" file. [which in turn calls a function in $lisp/term/x-*.el for "windowish" commands]. for "windowish" options]. if you want to test for reverse video, i guess the modern way is to look in default-frame-alist. it sounds like you know how to do that. i'd look in the frame properites, not the command lien to do this. that is sort of the point of the side-effects of the startup funcs. --psb ------------------------------------------------------ default-frame-alist's value is ((tool-bar-lines . 0) (menu-bar-lines . 0) (reverse . t)) Documentation: Alist of default values for frame creation. These may be set in your init file, like this: (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 80) (height . ... These override values given in window system configuration data, including X Windows' defaults database. |
2007/3/4-7 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:45868 Activity:nil |
3/4 Does anyone have a good C# mode package for emacs? I'm using 21.3.1. According to http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CSharpMode it seems like none of the available ones are good. Thanks. \_ for all languages invented in the past 25 years, the emacs modes are not good. \_ Probably. But is there any other editor that has modes for all languages invented in the past 25 years? (Plain text mode doesn't count. :-) ) |
2007/2/10-13 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/IDE] UID:45701 Activity:nil |
2/10 Looking for a decent lightweight Javascript editor that can do simple error detections (like IntelliJ) on UNIX. Emacs can highlight well but doesn't do anything wrt to js errors. Recommendations? |
2006/8/30-31 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:44204 Activity:nil |
3/30 Does anyone know a good, free, C++ code formatter? We'd like to enforce some semi-arbitrary coding guidelines. (Like, a keyword should not be on the same line as a closing brace.) \_ astyle comes with Cygwin http://astyle.sourceforge.net \_ Cool, this looks like it might help. Thanks. (Does anyone else have suggestions?) -op |
2006/8/22-23 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:44095 Activity:low |
8/22 In emacs21, is there a way to change the number of spaces that emacs indents my C code at each level when I press the <TAB> key? Thx. \_ http://csua.com/?q=emacs+indent&sort=d \_ (c-basic-offset . 2) |
2006/8/11-14 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:43976 Activity:nil |
8/11 How do I open a unicode file containing English text in Emacs 21.3.1 such that I won't see tons of "^@" characters? Thanks. \_ The emacs portion of the Unicode-HOWTO may be useful: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO |
2006/8/8-11 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:43942 Activity:nil |
8/8 My emacs fu is weak. How do I specify a position offset when I start Emacs (windows, not linux)? If I do -g 100x70, it specifies the size of the window, but the window starts at the top left corner. I don't want it at the top left corner.. Thanks! \_ "-g 100x70+xxx+yyy". Same as running it on X. \_ Thanks! |
2006/8/2-6 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:43864 Activity:nil |
8/2 So what patches do I need in order to prevent the system-wide web site defacement thing? \_ 1, 3, and 17 \_ All of them. -tom \_ ask a stupid question... \_ "How do I use emacs?" \_ 62.974 and 17.2 -proud American \_ Cabbage patch. |
2006/7/15-18 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors] UID:43675 Activity:nil |
7/14 Do you like cscope or ctags? What do you prefer and why? \_ They do totally different things. \_ etags (since I use emacs). |
2006/3/18-20 [Transportation/Car, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:42311 Activity:nil |
3/18 What is a good emacs mode for editing the motd? I'm looking for something that will do word wrap properly w/ M-q. I tried text- mode but it doesn't play nice w/ followups. \_ Is this the same as M-x auto-fill-mode? -dans \_ I think that M-q is different than M-x auto-fill-mode. |
2006/3/17-18 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:42280 Activity:moderate |
3/16 I'm looking to troll the motd. What are some good topics guaranteed to get results? \_ sex! \_ Easy. Anything of interest to more than 1 person that isn't resolvable. Next! \_ http://www.trollwars.com -John \_ http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue10/GrammarFascist1.html \_ This would make the motd so fun. \_ You've got a couple at the top now. \_ tom -dans \_ Evolution vs. Intelligent Design. \_ Emacs vs. vi. \_ uh, not this again. It's so boring. Besides, it has been established by now that vi lost. \_ how about emacs vs. vim? \_ And xemacs vs. vim? \_ Emacs. No contest. When vim grows up and gets modes for reading mail, reading news, surfing the web, compiling lisp, running in client-server mode, &c. lets talk. \_ Someone has been trolled. \_ Someone was trying to make a joke. \_ Linux vs. FreeBSD vs. ...... \_ Any environmental issue. (Is global warming real? Does recycling help? Should we conserve? Etc.) \_ Years ago "Is Windows a real OS?" used to be a hot topic. \_ Gun control. Postgres v. MySQL. The MacMini. |
2006/3/15-17 [Computer/SW/P2P, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:42260 Activity:nil |
3/15 dans, would you like to explain your accessing patterns? Why you've become really active all of a sudden? -anonymous coward, dans #1 fan http://csua.com/?q=dans&type=hist&sort=d \_ Sure. I'm writing lots of code. The motd serves as an amusing distraction that gives my mind a chance to recharge and helps my subconcious chew on the problems I'm hacking on. -dans \_ Alright thanks. May I add that you've been very entertaining, especially the dans vs. tom cat fight. And thanks for sharing your emacs know hows, it's quite educational -dans #1 fan |
2006/3/15-16 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:42242 Activity:moderate |
3/14 Emacs TRAMP, best Emacs extension evAR!!! In a nutshell, it lets you transparently edit files on remote hosts, e.g. Find File: /user@host.tld:/path/to/file/on/host.tld/file will open up file on the remote host. It even supports remote filename completion. I wanted this for years, and always considered writing it until a friend pointed out that someone had done it already. It's built in to the build of Emacs 22.0.50.1 for OS X I have, but you can build it yourself if necessary. Check it out. -dans \_ Someone wanna write me a edit the motd remotely mode? thanks. \_ No. Need. With tramp: C-x C-f /user@soda.csua.berkeley.edu:/etc/motd.public \_ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tramp and it uses scp! \_ Hmm... while I'm talking about my emacs wishlist, does anyone know if there's a way to save the `project state' of emacs. i.e. if I have 17 files open in emacs, and need to close emacs to upgrade, reboot, or whatever, is there a way to open emacs, and have it automagically reopen all the files I was working with? -dans \_ http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SessionManagement \_ Okay, that's pretty cool -- thanks for posting that! -mice \_ Sweet! Thank you anonymous motd emacs wizard. -dans \_ If you have DarwinPorts installed on OSX, you can install a new version of emacs w/ tramp enabled via: $ sudo port -d install emacs-devel TRAMP is unbelievably k3wl. Thanks dans. |
2005/12/16-19 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:41050 Activity:low |
12/16 Anyone figure out how to fix tabbing inside emacs? \_ Maybe if you mentioned what you perceive to be wrong with tabbing inside emacs, someone could offer a helpful response. \_ Try it now. I changed the default file motdedit uses to edit. It previously had a .c in there and that caused emacs to snort cocaine. \_ Thanks. It runs in Fundamental mode now. Works well. \- among the emacs standard modes, i'd use text-mode over fundamental-mode for the motd. \_ What's the best way to set that? \_ Wow, you're right, text-mode is great for the motd! What's the best way to automatically set that mode for files named motd.public.r \_ (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.xsl\\'" . sgml-mode) ("\\motd.public.r\\'" . text-mode)) auto-mode-alist)) |
2005/12/11-14 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:40964 Activity:kinda low |
12/11 Since the SSH change, I've been getting the following error message in Outlook Express: "The certificate's CN name does not match the passed value". How can I get rid of this message? I'm guessing it has to do with the certificate I'm using. I got it from: <DEAD>soda.csua.berkeley.edu:995<DEAD> It's called "localhost". Do I need to use a new POP server? Right now I'm using http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu port 995. Or get a certificate from elsewhere? \_ ever since the new soda, emacs has been acting up on me. Anyone have a good default .emacs that allows me to do standard text editing, like editing motd? Tab doesn't even work anymore; it's checking for programming(lisp?) statements, I think, and overriding all standard editing. \- i find the new emacs a little strange too. the issue isnt so much as a "good emacs" but solving specific problems. \_ Looks like an issue with the name of the temp file assigned by /csua/bin/me: my $motdcurrent = "/tmp/motd.public.c.$>.$$"; \_ That's strange. Ever since the new soda, my emacs works better than before even though it's the same emacs version. Now the prompt in my shell buffer is displayed in color, and my commands in bold. When I do Ctrl-S to search, all the nearby matches are highlighted. global-font-lock-mode now does color highlighting. BTW my .emacs file hasn't changed for 12 years. If anyone can shed light on what's behind these improvements, that'll be great. --- yuen \_ New soda is now running emacs 21, that's why. \_ I thought it was also 21 before the upgrade. No? \_ A fixed termcap maybe? \_ The self-signed SSL certs are now fixed. Thanks. You might want to look into using Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express. \_ Thanks, the error is gone! -op \- i have noticed some interoperability issues between older SSL programs and recent SSL applications. doing a little digging, it looks like there are some different padding strategies. \_ I've fixed the self-signed SSL certs, but that might not fix the message in Outlook Express. Try Mozilla Thunderbird. -brett \_ The self-signed SSL certs have been fixed. Try Mozilla Thunderbird. \_ telnetd is broken, can we get telnet turned back on? thanks! |
2005/12/6-7 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:40879 Activity:nil |
12/6 After the upgrade, when I do M-x shell in emacs, the prompt has color and my commands are automatically highlighted. Wow! What change enabled this? |
2005/11/22-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:40695 Activity:kinda low |
11/22 Emacs users: Do your fingers get tired of pressing the Ctrl key so much? \_ No. -mice \_ I use Kinesis keyboards where they map CTRL to thumb operation and I've been really happy since then. \_ http://csua.com/?entry=21074 http://csua.com/?entry=28755 http://csua.com/?entry=38806 \_ No. I don't use the cntl keys for everything -- I try to spread basic navigation between both hands, and leave special functions to my left. So far, this has worked very well for me. -mice \_ No. Actually I've been using only the left Ctrl and Shift keys (instead of both left and right ones) for emacs and everything else, so as to train my left pinkie which is the weakest. It works. -- piano player \- if you are C-f/b/n/p too much, you are probably not doing something correctly/optimally. \_ My keystrokes are far, far from optimal. But then I press a lot of C-a C-e C-a C-e ...... out of no reason but boredom anyway, so being optimal is not my concern. BTW I bind C-q / C-z to scroll down / up one line, and I use them a lot. Also, I don't swap Caps and Ctrl on my PC keyboard. -- piano player \- if you dont use incremetnal search to move, you may want to consider that. \_ what piano piece(s) are you working on? \_ I like Chopin's short pieces like Nocturnes and Etudes. I'm not good enough to play any of his long pieces. With a kid in in the family, I rarely practise now. But on the rare occasion that I play, I find that over the years my left pinkie have gained strength. Now I don't need any wrist action when playing the low notes. I think it's nice to write code and get paid at my job while training my fingers at the same time. BTW, if anyone still remembers the Sun4's in 260 Evans and the TVI920c's in Evans basement, those keyboards were even better for training fingers even though they drove me crazy when a project deadline was coming up. were even better for training fingers too even though they drove me crazy when a project deadline was coming up. -- piano player \_ oh my god yes. I recall how stiff those keys were to press! \_ No, I play FPS games and bind walk and crouch to shift and ctrl. I can press them all day with my pinky. But I was amused to notice that after recently not playing for 6 weeks or so, the next time I tried both my hands got really tired. \_ Nostromo is calling you! http://csua.org/u/e23 (Belkin) \_ lame, it's not even a mouse \_ Yes. very. Emacs and screen both kill my pinky finger. switching the caps and ctrl key helps, but doesn't make it go away. Ultimately, using *nix less helps the most. \_ Yes, so I switched to VIM. -emarkp \_ As a vi user, no, but doing HTML kills them (all of the <>s and ""s) \_ ouch. html is for html-editors \_ No, and don't be such a baby. -meyers |
2005/11/2-4 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/HW, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:40406 Activity:nil |
11/2 Does anyone still use VM (Vmail) in Emacs? I reluctantly switched to Outlook 4 yrs ago when I switched job, and I haven't used VM since then. \_ Used it until ~1 year ago. It unfortunately hasn't been updated for several years. It's really solid for what it does, but it doesn't do IMAP. I switched to the similar "Wanderlust" which does support IMAP and haven't looked back. \_ In the VM 7.19 from http://www.wonderworks.com/vm there is an vm-imap.el dated 5/30/2003. \_ VM's IMAP support is marginal. You can pretty much use it like POP to fetch mail, but you can't do things like disconnected operation etc. ... if you need to use it just like POP because your server only supports IMAP not POP, it's fine, but if you need to do server synching, marks, disconnected operation, etc., VM is not your bag. -pp |
2005/11/1-4 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:40379 Activity:nil |
11/1 In emacs, I'm editing a C++ header file in C++-mode. However, when I tab, it only goes 2 spaces instead of 4. Tabbing in a source file does work, but not a header file. TIA. \_ I think the 2 spaces are for "public:/private:" lines; then another tab and you can get to the 4 spaces for member vars, decls, etc. |
2005/10/27-28 [Computer/SW/Editors, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:40292 Activity:low |
10/27 My new job is completely Windoze based...anyone know of a windows version of TextWrangler. I'm looking for a free text editor with extended capabilities. Thanks. -scottyg \_ I'm completely in love with Crimson Editor. \_Thanks, I downloaded SciTE and it seems to rock. I've heard good things about Crimson Editor though. -scottyg \_ Thanks, I downloaded SciTE and it seems to rock. I've heard good things about Crimson Editor though. -scottyg \_ a friend of mine uses visual slick edit. You could always try xemacs. \_ most expensive dedicated code editor you can buy != "free text editor" |
2005/9/23 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:39843 Activity:nil |
9/21 Emacs sucks. emacs user was here \- you may wish to use: (defun next-line (arg) "Move cursor vertically down ARG lines. ... If at the end of the buffer, it will add up to next-line-max-inserted-newlines newline characters to allow moving to the next line." (interactive "p") (if (= arg 1) (let ((opoint (point))) (forward-line 1) (if (or (= opoint (point)) (not (eq (preceding-char) ?\n))) (if (< (- (point) (save-excursion (skip-chars-backward "\n") (point))) next-line-max-inserted-newlines) (insert ?\n)) (goto-char opoint) (next-line-internal arg))) (next-line-internal arg)) nil) \_ Just add (setq next-line-add-newlines nil) to your ~/.emacs. \- the above lets you pick how many blank-lines are ok. i set to 2. i find this more useful than the binary option. |
2005/9/21-23 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Languages] UID:39784 Activity:nil |
9/21 Dear motd loser who posted "Female wants to keep last name, male wants her to take his, marriage this summer, what do you do" guy: http://csua.com/?entry=17194 Did you ever resolve the issue and how? \- to the guy: she gets to keep the name ... since it is hers. but since you are buying the ring, you get to choose between DIAMOND and DIAMEL. --not debeers \_ if the man hyphenates his last name, then the kids can have the same hyphenated last name too! emacs user was here \- you may wish to use: (defun next-line (arg) "Move cursor vertically down ARG lines. ... If at the end of the buffer, it will add up to next-line-max-inserted-newlines newline characters to allow moving to the next line." (interactive "p") (if (= arg 1) (let ((opoint (point))) (forward-line 1) (if (or (= opoint (point)) (not (eq (preceding-char) ?\n))) (if (< (- (point) (save-excursion (skip-chars-backward "\n") (point))) next-line-max-inserted-newlines) (insert ?\n)) (goto-char opoint) (next-line-internal arg))) (next-line-internal arg)) nil) \_ Just add (setq next-line-add-newlines nil) to your ~/.emacs. \- the above lets you pick how many blank-lines are ok. i set to 2. i find this more useful than the binary option. |
2005/9/20-21 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:39772 Activity:kinda low |
9/20 Is there a way to tell Emacs not to append an LF at the end of a C file if the last line doesn't end with an LF? Thanks. \- i dont undersand exactly what you mean [append when?] but emacs can certainly do anything in this area with the approprite hook (which should already exist for what youa re trying to do) calling an appropriate function (which you may have to write). if what want to do is reasonable, it is probably already solved. who are you? \_ Say I have a 7-byte file foo.c like this: 'F' 'O' 'O' <LF> 'B' 'A' 'R' i.e. the second line doesn't end with <LF>. \_ Found it: (setq require-final-newline nil). Thanks. -- OP |
2005/7/25-26 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:38806 Activity:nil |
7/26 I work on Mac's mostly. I use a lot of emacs and screen. My left hand is in pain due to the pinky finger constantly stretching downwards to reach the Ctrl key. How do you people deal with it? \_ It is impossible to get pains by typing. williamc says so, and will prove it. He'll also prove that you're an idiot. http://csua.com/?entry=37970 \_ Tiger lets you remap the caps lock to the control key. |
2005/7/25-27 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:38802 Activity:low |
7/25 I'm wondering what people's favorite test editors are under Windows. Notepad has terrible performance on very large ascii or binary files, (X)Emacs is very slow-loading, and Vi is not mouse-driven. Does anyone know a fast-loading, mouse driven text editor which handles large (multi megabyte) text and binary files nimbly? \_ One guy at work uses something called Visual Slick Edit. My mom uses jEdit. \_ Textpad, I sent in my $30-40. \_ How about WordPad? Better than Notepad but not as full-blown as M$ Word. \_ How about WordPad? Better than Notepad but not as bloated as M$ Word. I use Emacs21 though. \_ Ultraedit32 or nedi under cygwin. -John \_ Last I checked vim does have mouse support. Googling for "notepad replacement" is a fruitfull search but this is a very religious topic and I'm not about to endorse any of them. -gabriel \_ Standard GNU emacs works great for me. Of course I leave it open all the time, but it seems quick to load when I launch it. \_ I use textpad, and my colleagues editplus. I don't know if they are good or not, but they work for what I do. \_ I've been using vinvi32, which is a decent vi port to windows. Has a good balance of mouse/keyboard UI, and is entriely contained in a single .exe so installation/removal/management is easy. I cannot comment on its abaility to open truly huge files. -ERic \_ So anyone want to comment on hte performance of these with large files? -op \_ On OS X, vim is actually the only thing I've found that will read some very large files (even more/less won't handle some of them). \_ When you're an administrator you don't have time to install Cygwin or other UNIXy stuff on 1000s of machines in a 15000 employee company, so you use whatever you can find. I prefer vi for configuration, but usually I use Notepad because that's what exists on people's machines. \_ Emacs -- made Windows so much more enjoyable for serious development \_ Crisp (vertical edits are a breeze with this text editor) |
2005/6/30-7/1 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:38375 Activity:nil |
6/30 What .emacs option will tell emacs to not write a file like #*scratch*#4271V0C# in the current working directory? \- look at the auto-save section of the emacs manual. it looks like C-ha auto-save is a little lean here. --psb |
2005/5/6-9 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:37552 Activity:kinda low |
5/6 Is there a way to pass command-line arguments to emacs, and then detect them in my elisp code in .emacs? I want to distinguish, in my .emacs, whether it's started by me typing "emacs" at the command line, or by some other program using the EDITOR environment variable. So I'm thinking I can change EDITOR from "emacs" to "emacs -foo" and then detect it in .emacs. Thanks. \_ try it the other way; set up an alias or wrapper script that gets run when you run emacs by hand, that does something like setenv IRANEMACS yes ; emacs $@ ; unsetenv IRANEMACS. Then you can just get it out of the environment. -tom \- The argv is processed by startup.el and eventually will leave a list in the variable command-line-args, e.g. M-x lisp-interaction-mode (eval 'command-line-args)C-j ("emacs" "/tmp/holube") You can also look at command-switch-alist assuming unlike holube you dont find alists scary and hard. There are probably other ways to do what you want [e.g. with gnuclient/gnudoit] if you want to be specific or just calling emacs -f ... \_ I don't find them scary and hard; I find them stupid. -tom \- you find alists "stupid" and you love perl? there you have it folks. do you also recommend people use environment variables "instead" of hashes? variables "instead" of hashes? any other data structures you find "stupid"? how about say patricia trees? \_ I wonder why, other than emacs, no other program uses elisp for configuration. It is not the data structure I object to, it's the syntax and its use in an application which should be simple. -tom \- do you know what guile is? are you making a serious objection to elisp as opposed to objecting to lisps in general? lisp has much more expressive power than say a twmrc configuration language. "emacs people" are more interested in power than popularity. they also dont confuse aesthetic/elegant and simple. the rule is not "thing should be simple" but things should be as simple as necessary" there are certainly problems [scoping] with elisp and limitations as well [say with continuations] but "alists are bad" is not one anybody reasonable would take seriously. these comments of yours are getting increasingly retarded. keep it up. bitching about m4 however is reasonable. \_ I am not objecting to lisp; I am objecting to lisp used as a configuration language for a text editor. I don't like it much as an extension language, either, but that's more a personal preference. The fact that you have an extension language doesn't mean that you have to use it for everything. It would be much more effective to separate configuration and extension in emacs. -tom \_ Tom, do you know lisp, or are you objecting to not being able to figure out lisp syntax from randomly looking at code snippets? I don't see any specific objections of the type generally expected when critiquing programming languages. If you don't know what lambas, let*, progn etc are, you are not qualified to let*, progn are, you are not qualified to \- mapcar >> holube comment on the language design. Maybe you should just stick to comments in the form "I do not like elisp" instead of the arrogant "Elisp is broken". These kinds of incessant "Elisp is broken". These of incessant arrogant pronouncements make you look like an asshole. But maybe you are an asshole. \_ I'm not commenting on the language design at all; I'm commenting on its use in configuration of a text editor. I also think it would be stupid to use java or perl to configure a text editor. -tom \- it might be more effecting at raising emacs's mkt share but programmatically i dont think it would be more effective at all. it sounds really lame in fact to have an .emacsrc where you do things like "set fgcolor= blue" just to make people who dont understand lisp a little happier. the way scope in handled in web server configs or procmail configs or mailagent configs is much lamer than how it is handled in emacs. [like say if you want to have one notion of what is a paragraph when editing lisp vs english text]. \_ well for me, that's exactly why I hate lisp. (set fgcolor blue) instead of just fgcolor = blue, and it gets worse with the nested levels of parentheses and quoted identifiers and blah blah. I would much prefer a Ruby-like syntax. I always found lisp to be unpleasant. \- setq is more powerful than simple X=Y type assertions. also there is a point to having setq, setq-default, defvar, defmacro, defun, defadvise, let let* etc. you can happily "configure" much of emacs only knowing a little bit about setq. however if the documentation tells you something is expected to be a list and you dont use setq correctly, that's an E_TOOSHORT problem as far as i am concerned and not a problem with elisp. once again richer semantics != gratuitious complexity. \_ I'm inclined to think it is gratuitous in the context of text editor config. I don't want to learn all that stuff just for emacs. I find it questionable that all those setters are required; there's no such complexity in Ruby and I never felt constrained. Plus the oop stuff would probably work nicely for a text editor. But text editor arguments are stupid so I'll stop. I'm just saying I don't like lisp. I don't mind that config files use a rich language but it means I have to look in a thick manual to find how do do anything, since the gui tools are worthless. |
2005/3/15-17 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:36708 Activity:nil |
3/15 Partha and/or emacs guru, how do I make my cursor blink? \_ Is it really so hard to M-x apropos and search for blink? \- i usually run emacs in a terminal so this is a non-issue. you can look for kyle jones' package for frame-based modes. His packages are of good quality, e.g. crypt++, VM, filladapt etc. --psb \_ My emacs21 in XP, SunOS5 and Linux all have blinking cursor by default. I didn't do anything special to turn it on. |
2005/3/7-8 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:36566 Activity:nil |
3/7 Suggestions for a Tex editor? I've used TeK, and found it lacking. any others? -nivra \_ On windows? WINEDT!!!!!! WINEDT is the standard!!! http://www.winedt.com If you use it, send the guy his money. \- emacs + auctex \_ I do all my latex work in vi. *shrug*. What do you want your editor to do? -- ilyas \_ obEDIsTheStandard!Editor! |
2005/3/5-8 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/Networking] UID:36537 Activity:kinda low |
3/5 I have a problem with X. Let's say I open up xemacs. If I don't do anything to it after 15 minutes, connection would die and I'd have to restart it. How do I make it more persistent? ok thx \_ you're connecting through a NAT gateway, aren't you... and X11 forwarding throuh ssh? Turn on connection keep-alives \_ NAT yes, X11 forward no (raw forward). Where is the option? \_ your NAT translation is timing out due to inactivity. If your router has an option to configure this, raise it. If not, perhaps you can script emacs to do something that generates some change in the screen (maybe a redraw screen command) every 5-10min. But in openssh, it's something like TCPKeepAlive. -dwc \- You can put the time inthe mode-line, for one. \_ I had a netgear router that would drop cxn's after 5 min. Firmware upgrades wouldn't fix the problem, but the v2 box they started selling didn't have the problem. bastards. |
2005/2/19-20 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:36247 Activity:nil |
2/18 Emacs guru please help. I am running shell within emacs and have a couple hundred lines of text beyond the current prompt, which I use one by one as some command argument. Somehow it just all disappeared (from the current prompt to the end). It is not a c-w because I couldn't yank it back. I didn't save it to another file/buffer. Is there anyway to get it back? |
2005/1/28-30 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:35967 Activity:very high |
1/28 emacs question: How can I specify a keyboard combo for saving the file? I find "control x s" awkward. I would like to use "control x \" instead. \_ put this in your .emacs: (global-set-key "\C-x\"" 'save-buffer) to get rid of C-xs for saving, you can use: (global-unset-key "\C-xs") \_ Thank you. That's awesome. I tweaked it like this: (global-set-key "\C-x\C-\\" 'save-buffer) Now it works great. Thanks! Now it works great just like jove. Thanks! \_ As someone who's switched from jove to emacs (many years ago), and also from random package X to random package Y, I urge you to learn and use the default bindings. If you don't, you can't ever use the package outside of your own environment; your buddy says, hey, here, fix this piece of code in my buffer, and you can't move the cursor because you defined the move-cursor commands to be like the Doom bindings ... -- one who's been there \_ Seconded. I also recommend learning vi to the point where you are comfortable editing code using it b/c one day you will end up crunched for time and stuck on a box w/o emacs and the last thing you want to worry about is how to insert text. \-In the case of C-xC-s/C-xs, I think it is a good idea to stick to those bindings unless there is some weird reason not to [like C-q/C-s lossage]. In some other cases it may be reasonable to swtich. You know there is nothing that says you have to unset C-xs ... I suppose since C-x\ is not normally bound having both isnt too bad. Re: vi ... you probably want to be able to use vi enough to get emacs running and do basic edits but that is a long way from being able to edit code. In fact the whole approach to editing code is different between emacs and vi, so if you see them as interchangable [do i use ESC-l, or C-f to move to the right], then you are likely not using emacs correctly/fully [e.g. M-x compile etc]. --mr. emacs \_ My emacs session generally has mh-rmail, gnus, w3c, gdb, compiles and dozens of buffers open at any given time. At one point in my life I used to use emacs client/server regularly. However, I still think that knowing how to switch btwn emacs and vi is a valuable skill (ex i is to insert, a is to append, hjkl is to move, :1 is first line, G is last line, / to pattern match, % is to paren match, this will be good enough for 95% of all problems). \- By all means go for the "95%" but that is a long way from "I am comfortable working on large projects in either emacs or vi and merely prefer emacs." |
2004/11/8-9 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:34748 Activity:nil |
11/8 In emacs21 under Windoze, when I press and hold, say, Ctrl-V and emacs can't keep up with the scrolling, it skips redrawing the screen until I release the key. Is there a way to disable this behavior so that it'll keep redrawing the screen the way emacs20 does? Thanks. |
2004/9/16 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:33555 Activity:high |
9/15 Spaces or tabs? I was almost converted to the tab true religion, and then I tried to actually set this up in emacs. I find code with eight character wide tabs to be less readable. This is totally a personal preference, if you like reading code with eight character wide tabs, more power to you. Simple enough to fix, right, just: (setq tab-width 4) and, voila, my eyes stop bleeding from overexposure to white space. Not so fast! Suppose you're editing in cc-mode with a style that sets c-basic-offset to 8. cc-mode now inserts two tabs, which is definitely not the desired behavior. See: http://csua.org/u/92a for a discussion of this on the emacs-devel list. Note RMS smacking the original poster down. Thoughts, suggestions? What do folks using other editors do? \_ never use tabs in public text files. end of story. spaces are always spaces, tabs are a mess. \_ http://csua.com/?entry=12521 \_ Check out astyle. I use 3 spaces. \_ Sounds similar to gnu indent. I was kind of hoping for something better than configuring [ your favorite revision control system ] to slam everything through [ your favorite code reformatting tool] at checkin time. Thanks for the input though. -op \_ http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html "My opinion is that the best way to solve the technical issues is to mandate that the ASCII #9 TAB character never appear in disk files: program your editor to expand TABs to an appropriate number of spaces before writing the lines to disk" \_ I prefer pressing the TAB key goes to tab stops (whether they're every 8- or 4- or user-defined # of spaces), but spaces are actually output. I prefer setting my editor to default to stripping all trailing spaces and converting all tab characters to spaces when saving. Too bad jove (ancient, I know) doesn't do all this, emacs is too big, but my Windows editor TextPad does all this. Does anyone know a tight little non-GUI UNIX editor that I can configure to do all of this by default? \_ i'd be surprised if some vi/vim version can't do it. \_ yeah, I guess I just need to track down all the .vimrc magic |
2004/8/19 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:33009 Activity:nil |
8/19 When I run "emacs -nw", the menu bar is still displayed. How do I use it? Thx. |
2004/8/17 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:32951 Activity:moderate |
8/17 hola, does anybody know of something already written to cronologically sort the default human readable date fmt, preferably via a pipe [as opposed to emacs etc]. --psb May 17 13:03:38 2001 May 22 17:04:12 2001 Nov 30 13:01:38 2001 Aug 21 13:02:46 2002 Aug 22 17:02:42 2002 Aug 7 21:06:41 2002 Aug 9 09:02:24 2002 \_ You might want to pipe through something like php -r "echo strtotime(fgets(STDIN));" and then sort. This, of course, will get rid of strings and sort by unix seconds. Now I feel dirty for using php for something. -- ilyas \_ Anything wrong with Perl Date::Parse? \- hey what happened to some of the other suggestions? nothing is "wrong" with the perl, i was just wondering if someone had done this alrady rather than my having to write something. i was hoping someone had cooked up something with gnu sort analogous to something like "sort -n -t . -k 1,1 -k 2,2 -k 3,3 -k 4,4" to sort ip addresses. --psb |
2004/7/25-26 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:32475 Activity:nil |
7/24 Help. I have an emacs session in which I made many edits without saving. I played with undo and it goes on and on. Now I want to return to the state before any undo and emacs does not seem to have a redo. How can I undo the undo without reverting to the last autosave? I haven't yet made any changes after the undo. Thanks. \_ Move the cursor, then hit undo. |
2004/7/15-16 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:32311 Activity:low |
7/15 In emacs20, how do I set indent-tabs-mode to nil using ~/.emacs such that emacs will use spaces instead of tabs to indent in all my C files? I tried "(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)", but the value is still t. Thanks. --- yuen \_ use setq-default, or look up hooks in the emacs manual. \_ I see. Now c-mode-common-hook does the trick. Thx. -- yuen |
2004/7/15 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:32296 Activity:insanely high |
7/15 I am editing a binary file with some ascii in emacs. It asks me which encoding to use when saving. Should I use raw-text or no-conversion? What's the difference between them anyway? \_ You want no-conversion. Raw-text means it won't try to convert the text itself, but it will still do newline conversion -- it's intended for the opposite of what you have, a text file with some binary data in it. \_ ok tnx. \_ Use M-x hexl-mode instead. |
2004/6/1-2 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:30524 Activity:low |
6/1 Argh! I accidently hit double-bucky-kill-XEmacs. Is there some magical incantation to make it open up the 20-some-odd files I was editing? (I don't need to recover lost data). \_ How about this? Find the last .saves-xxxxx file in your home dir, run "grep -v # ~/.saves-xxxxx", then somehow pass the resulting lines as arguments to the elisp function (find-file ......). \- no but you can plan for the future. there are a few packages to save your emacs state. look around the elisp archive or the emacs sources newsgroup or the emaccs wiki. --psb |
2004/5/17-18 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:30262 Activity:high |
5/17 emacsexpert: I am using emacs in text mode. When I use tab to indent (only) the the first line of a new paragraph, it always uses the first space (i.e. the beginning of the 2nd word) on the last line of the last paragraph as the tab stop, even though that is not what the manual say about indent-relative. I have the same behavior even in Parindent mode. I can turn this off only by going into fundamental mode, but then I lose the other feature of text mode and this also seems contrary to what the Emacs manual say about the various text modes. Did I misunderstand the manual? What's the right way to do it? \_ There's a blank line between paragraphs. \_ Yes there is, but even if I remove it, the problem remains. \_ you misunderstand the manual. use C-q TAB or create a keybinding for tab-to-tab-stop and use that for indenting. |
2004/5/12-13 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:30198 Activity:kinda low |
5/12 Are there any emacs modes for .l files (lex) and .y files (yacc)? I'm running emacs20. Thanks. \_ just use c-mode or c++-mode. |
2004/5/10 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:30132 Activity:nil |
5/10 I am using emacs to edit text file in the auto-fill or refill mode. It does not think tab = fixed number of spaces or fix column numbers but instead always take the first space of the last nonblank line as the tab position. How to change that behavior? \_ M-x local-set-key <enter> <tab> self-insert-command <enter> -anonymous emacs user \_ M-x fundamental-mode |
2004/5/6 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:30062 Activity:nil |
5/6 Why does my emacs 21.2 keep asking me for confirmation when I do ctrl-x-ctrl-s to save a file? it's fsking annoying! |
2004/4/29 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/Networking] UID:13470 Activity:nil |
4/29 Does anoyone know why ^K (delete line) works so slowly in xemacs over X-forwarding? It takes like, 5 seconds a line over my DSL connection. What's the deal? \_ It needs to re-transmit the whole screen so as to redraw? |
2004/4/14-15 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:13186 Activity:nil |
4/14 In emacs, how to I turn off ~ backup file creation for files with a certain .extension? |
2004/4/2-4 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:12982 Activity:moderate |
4/2 problem with emacs. After I use it for a while (2-3 hours), the indentation went from 4 (default that I set and prefer) to 2. I have no idea why this is happening. Can someone tell me how to fix it? I tried M-x load-file .emacs but indentation sticks at 2. Thanks. \_ this question was answered already. search the archives. \_ (setq-default c-basic-offset 4) At least, that's what's in the archives. \_ So the following works for c, but somehow doesn't work for java, anyone know why? (setq indent-level 2) (setq c-indent-level 2) (setq c-basic-indent 2) (setq c-basic-offset 2) ; this works! (setq-default c-basic-offset 2) ; this works! ; none of the followings work! (setq java-indent-level 4) (setq java-basic-indent 4) (setq java-basic-offset 4) (setq-default java-basic-offset 4) \_ maybe because there isn't a java-basic-offset variable, duh. java-mode is just a part of cc-mode. \_ so, in another word, emacs only allows 1 indentation for all the modes? \_ of course not. it just uses that sort of naming convention. do 'info ccmode' and look at the section on hooks. \_ USE PENCIL! \_ HUG TREE! \_ LIGHT CANDLE! \_ CURSE THE GLARE! \_ that's "CURSE GLARE!" \_ AVOID PRONOUNS! \_ LOOKUP "ARTICLE"! \_ can you guys FUCK OFF! \_ USE LINUX! \_ CONTROL ANGER!!!!! \_ ESCHEW !!!! ! \_ (setq-default c-basic-offset 4) \_ Use M-x view-lossage to check what keystrokes you recently pressed. Maybe you changed the setting by mistake yourself. |
2004/3/4-5 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:12521 Activity:nil |
4/3 (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) in .emacs has been the best thing I ever did in my 10 years as an emacs user. The tabification is just wayyyy annoying. Spaces rule. Fuck tabs go space! \_ doesn't work for me. When I save I still get tabs. How do I make it untabify automatically? Thanks. \_ what's wrong with tabs? do you know using spaces is so annoying!? especially when I want to format my code, I have to hit space so manytimes. With tab you get things done quicker. The best practice is to have everyone working on the same file agree on the tab space. Then problem solved. \_ you must use a crappy editor. do you use pico or something? \_ Please find out what it does before you comment on it. It still lets you hit the TAB key to indent, but it insert spaces instead of tabs to the buffer. \_ that works for you, but someone else use a different editor will have the pain to space things out. One used to be able to hit the del button and a tab is erased, now one has to keep hitting space depending how deep the code is at. All the time wasted on hitting the spacebar or the backspace while coding can't be efficient. Just simply agree on the tab space, one setting and everyone is happy to use their own editor of choice. \_ Only users of a shit editor would have such pain. You don't have to "keep hitting space" either, if you have something like the mode-dependent indents in emacs. Spaces are the common denominator, asking for tabs is asking for special arrangement. In many default tools, and printers, tab widths default to 8 which is ugly, especially when spaces get mixed with tabs. \_ I'm with spaceman...tabs are annoying at best to get right, spaces are a no-brainer and always work. Just hope the editor you use lets you substitute the right number of spaces for a tab. \_ As the guy above noted, that's exactly what this command does in emacs. \_ Yes, but I'm talking more about an editor-agnostic environment (i.e., not everyone using emacs). \_ many other fine editors support this too. if you want to drive a scooter on the freeway and complain about how everyone is going so fast, well... |
2004/3/3-5 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:12513 Activity:nil |
3/3 So I've compiled emacs 20.X and emacs 21.X and found out that 20.X with X is MUCH MUCH zippier than 21.X. Why is that? \_ they both work fine for me, unless you're MUCH MUCH more sensitive about zippiness than me. \_ tradition. higher version # always = more bloat. |
2004/3/3-4 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/OS/VM] UID:12509 Activity:nil |
3/3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 What is wrong? I've included /usr/X11R6/lib and still no luck... \_ if you included the actual command line and OS details, maybe someone could give a more helpful response. gcc -nostdlib `./prefix-args -Xlinker -R/usr/X11R6/lib -z nocombreloc -\ L/usr/X11R6/lib` -o temacs pre-crt0.o /usr/lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/crti.o dispnew.o\ frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o xmenu.o window.o charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o cm\ .o term.o xfaces.o xterm.o xfns.o xselect.o xrdb.o fontset.o emacs.o keyboard.o\ macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o buffer.o filelock.o insdel.o marker.o minibuf.o filei\ o.o dired.o filemode.o cmds.o casetab.o casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o u\ ndo.o alloc.o data.o doc.o editfns.o callint.o eval.o floatfns.o fns.o print.o l\ read.o abbrev.o syntax.o unexelf.o mocklisp.o bytecode.o process.o callproc.o re\ gion-cache.o sound.o atimer.o doprnt.o strftime.o intervals.o textprop.o composi\ te.o md5.o terminfo.o lastfile.o vm-limit.o ../oldXMenu/libXMenu11.a -L/usr/X11R\ 6/lib -L/project/tom/lib -lX11 -lncurses -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/crtn.o \_ various "maybes": try -lx11; are you getting the error at compile time or runtime (if latter, man ldconfig); reduce it to a a smaller testcase (find some small source file that uses X and compile that); find out what exactly your X lib is called (the errors says that it can't find "-lX11", not "X11" so maybe it's interpreting it incorrectly. |
2004/3/2 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:12484 Activity:kinda low |
3/2 How do I disable tab in emacs and make it output space only automatically (without doing "untabify" manually)? Thanks. \_ Why don't emacs users just mail directly to psb? He's the only one here who knows anything about it. \_ on the contrary. (setq indent-tabs-mode nil). but since that only does it for the current buffer, you may want to do (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) in .emacs.el or whatever. \_ do not underestimate the motd \_ Just do it on write? (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook (lambda () (add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks (lambda () (untabify (point-min)(point-max)))) ... |
2004/1/27 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:11967 Activity:nil |
1/27 If you used jove before do you still use it now? yes: ..... no: ..... \_ converted to emacs what is jove: \_ before what? there was something after jove? \_ Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs (4.16) \_ haven't used jove since memory became cheap |
2003/12/30-31 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:11619 Activity:nil |
12/30 Does anyone know what happened to Windows port of Emacs 21.x? I can only find downloads for 20.7 now on gnu. \_ look harder: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/21.3 \_ There are only README files in there. \_ tried reading any of them? you might have noticed that http://ftp.gnu.org was hacked a while back, and they haven't gotten verified files back up for some things, which is pretty lame. \_ Ah, thanks. I tried to read them but somehow my gunzip reports they weren't valid gzip files. -op \_ Is there really any difference? \_ Yes, 21 looks a lot more like Xemacs than previous versions. To OP, just get xemacs if you really want all that whizbang eyecandy that 21 gives you over 20. \_ 21 does syntax highlighting in consoles. \_ can't you guys just edit? do you really need all the toys just to write some code? \_ wait, let me guess. "i program with ED!!!" \_ BZZZT! nice try. What's wrong with any version of emacs after, say, version 16.x? \_ what's wrong with a car with, say, no power door locks? depends on who you ask. |
2003/11/21 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:11164 Activity:nil |
11/20 Setting up colours on my emacs. How do I check what colors are available on my OSX? thanks. \- mr. emacs doesnt like helping people with font-lock or color questions but mr. emacs suggesting trying M-x list-colors-display. On the question of homosexual marriage: try "papaya whip" |
2003/11/19 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:11127 Activity:kinda low |
11/18 I'm using Emacs 21.X.X and it's complaining the following: "Error in init file: Symbol's function definition is void: hilit-translate" What is wrong? \_ exactly what it's saying maybe? i've not been impressed with the default redhat 9 install. one should really customize their own .emacs anyway. \_ 21.X.X? Yeesh. Kids today. Back in the day we had emacs 17.x. We didn't have the E or the X.X. We had to have one lousy .x and be happy with it. \_ Back in the days I used jove. -- !OP \_ hah! I still use jove! If jove isn't installed, a unix system isn't complete. \_ obREALMENUSEED! |
2003/11/8 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:10988 Activity:nil |
11/7 My emacs says hilit-translate has a null definition, what does that mean? |
2003/10/9 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:10552 Activity:nil |
10/9 in elisp, what's the difference between setq and set-variable? I've googled to no avail. \_ According to M-x describe-function, the name of the variable in setq is not evaluated. So I guess you can't do something like "(setq (foo bar baz) 3)" but you can with set-variable. |
2003/10/3-4 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:10450 Activity:nil |
10/3 Anybody know of a linux application to create and view SVG's? I know I could "draw" them in emacs-xml-mode, but I want to see them! \_ I think KDE 3.2 will partially support them. \_ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg |
2003/9/3-4 [Computer/SW/Editors, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:10062 Activity:nil |
9/3 What editor can be controlled by another program? What I want is to have my program launch, say ED, and the user edit a given file. Only a subset of ED's command is avaialbe to the user. The rest of the functionality is controlled by the parent program, so that ED is acting like an embedded editor. \_ rex \_ Do you mean red? \_ I should have said that I want a VISUAL editor that can be embedded. \_ list the restrictions you want... if you just want to, e.g., limit file access, you can probably wrap it in a jail or something like that. \_ Suppose my program asks the user to type/edit some documents at some stage, and I don't want to write an embedded editor just for that. The user is not allowed to edit any other file or change buffer (as in emacs). And the parent program can change the file/buffer without relaunching the editor. I guess the EMACS way is to write the program in elisp etc so everything is inside editor. I want the other way around. \_ What are you actually trying to do? If you want that level of control you're going to have to completely manage the widget. This isn't as bad as it seems, many toolkits have powerful rich text editor classes. |
2003/9/2-3 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:10047 Activity:nil |
9/2 When I double-click the "FOO" part in "FOO_BAR" in an xterm, it selects the whole word "FOO_BAR". However, when I do the same thing in Emacs20, it only selects "FOO". Why? \- probably emacs notion of what word boundaries are. where does it delete to if you run delete-word or fwd-word. you can change the regexp. --psb \_ forward-word and kill-word only forwards over and kills "FOO". How do I change the regexp? Thx. |
2003/8/20-21 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:29413 Activity:high |
8/20 Georgy (she has a CSUA acct) got /.'d... \_ she was also on the front page of USA Today, but of course that's nothing to slashdot. \_ she has my view on text editors: I'm so glad you asked!! Both. vi for quick editing, emacs (NOT xemacs) for coding projects. \_ As long as she isn't slapping the motd, she's okay by me. \_ What do people have against xemacs? |
2003/8/15-16 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:29361 Activity:high |
8/15 Is it really worth it for me to learn emacs? I've been getting by with pico and vi for years and years and am pretty busy, but there sure seem to be a lot of emacs fans. Is there things i can't do because i don't use emacs? Is there uber-cool cvs plugins i should be using that i can't get for vi? I know i'm risking a religious war, but i really am just asking and want to know. -phuqm \- you can use one of the vi-emulations in emacs. although i think they will bea little tricky to use if you know 0 emacs. --psb Is there things i can't do because i don't use emacs? Is there uber-cool cvs plugins i should be using that i can't get for vi? I know i'm risking a religious war, but i really am just asking and want to know. -phuqm \_ what do you mean you're not a troll? you don't even exist- danh \_ how can he be a troll if he doesn't exist? how did he post all that stuff if he doesn't exist? what are you talking about? \_ I only use emacs, but there are many people here at my company who only use vi and they get by fine. \_ well, i get by fine too, but sometimes one "gets by" on american cheese 'cause he doesn't know that real cheese exists. If there really is some spread-sheet hook (as discussed below) and/or other cool/powerful things about \_ I used RMAIL and then VMail in emacs and I loved it. But now at emacs, then maybe it is worth learning. -phuqm \_ who moved my cheese!?!? \_ what color is your cheese? \_ please don't start that here \_ that was a joke. your consternation is more of a conversation starter than the joke \_ you dont want to know \_ I use emacs when coding several files. I use vi for making small edits to those files or for writing perl/bash scripts. vi has the advantage in that it is quick to load and on almost every unix box. My big three pros about Emacs are 1. fancy syntax highlighting \_ vi also has 2. mouse support (!) if you running X or Windows \_ This is a plus? Free yourself from the mouse. You'll get more done. \_ Does emacs support a joystick? 3. auto-tabbing \_ vi also has There are a million other features, those are just my favorites. \_ I used RMAIL and then VMail in emacs and I like them. But now at this job I'm forced to use Outlook. \_ I concur. vi for stuff like our beloved motd. emacs for several C/Perl/language-du-jour files \_ This is kind of OT, but something I've always wanted: the major drawback (for me) with emacs was the setup process. Once I had syntax highlighting, auto-tabbing, find-this-method-definition, etc., things were SUPERB. But getting there, and staying there, has never been easy, and I'm currently using Eclipse, which I like. Are there any quick and easy "distributions" of emacs that are well-polished and targetted to, say, java and jsp, or C/C++, or XML development? \_ I hated emacs setup and chording until I got RSI. Now I happily use Vim, and have everything I liked about emacs in Vim out-of-the-box with the exception of gdb integration. |
2003/7/2-3 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:28902 Activity:moderate |
7/2 I just installed Emacs and XEmacs for Win2k. They both seem to kind of suck. Neither seem to automatically fontify. Does Xemacs vs emacs have a better reputation on NT (on UNIX I usually prefer emacs bc of the faster load time) also, anyone have a good NT .emacs file that I can steal? \_ Hmm. I run emacs on win2k and have no problems getting emacs to fontify. Are you sure you've got it set up correctly? \_ Post your username so I can send you mine. \_ Do you have "(global-font-lock-mode t)" in your %HOME%\_emacs? -- yuen |
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