Commands are functions that can be invoked interactively either through M-x or by a key binding.
Questions tagged [commands]
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How to use 'interactive' arguments when calling the command from code
I have a command called test which simply takes an input from the user and echoes it back:
(defun test (input)
(interactive "MInput: ")
(message "%s" input))
I want to write another function which would call it. The following fails:
(defun…
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Is there a column equivalent of `C-l`?
The command C-l scrolls the current line to center, top, bottom. Is there an analogous command that scrolls the current column to center, left, and right?
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Run shell commands in emacs by something similar to M-x ...?
I have a program which can run as a command in bash.
Can I run the program in emacs, in some way similar to run emacs' command (i.e.M-x , e.g. M-x occur), instead of first explicitly running a shell in a buffer of emacs and then running the program…
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Repeat n(th) last command in emacs?
I know that to repeat the last command, there is C-x z and then to keep using z to easily keep the last command in operation, but what can be done for the 2nd or 4th last command? Or is that information lost?
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How to force the user to comply with a command?
First, here is the full source code of my package.
Requirement
Currently I'm working on a package that provides a feature which upon the user invoking several times in a row certain command in a short amount of time, an alternative command is invoke…
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Open File and Directory: What's the Emacs command?
I would like to set custom keyboard shortcuts for the Open File and Open Directory commands listed in the File menu. The only problem is that I don't know the corresponding Lisp commands. I've tried open-file but it doesn't work. I've tried Googling…
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How to specify a command that should be called by #'repeat?
I want to create a command that, when you call it for the first time, it's executed normally, but when you repeat it with C-x z, some other command is executed and the original command is never called.
I tried defining it like that (I want…
mkcms
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Refile and keep the original
How to refile while keeping a copy of the original object in org-mode? In other words refiling works as a cut&paste while I would like to have a copy&paste.
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how to give optional arguments to commands
Looking at the documentation for shell-command (M-!) I see there are two optional arguments, OUTPUT-BUFFER, and ERROR-BUFFER. But when I type M-! it only asks me for the shell command.
How do I supply a value for OUTPUT-BUFFER and ERROR-BUFFER?
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How to create a command that runs all of those functions on the current buffer?
I'm a total noob so be patient with me. I wrote a piece of elisp code that reads a .csv file (FILE.CSV) on which every line has the format Key, Value
It composes a mail using the keys and values in this CSV file. When reading from the file…
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Creating shortcut key for repetitive work
I create short text files in a folder c:/Dropbox/daily/ and insert them in various documents using shortcut C-x i. I would like to define a shortcut so that I don't have to type the path of folder again and again while allowing me to choose the…
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Simple and fast way to show interactive functions associated with a package
I am using M-x protoc to show me the interactive functions provided by the package protoc. Is it possible to have a shortcut for displaying protoc related functions without having to write protoc TAB after calling M-x?
For instance, the following…
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Are commands not equivalent to functions in Emacs?
The documentation for M-x says:
M-x runs the command execute-extended-command (found in global-map),
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.
It is bound to ,
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How to get the default input value in minibuffer and edit it?
For example, I am using M-x occur, and want to edit the default regexp (which is shown in the prompt), and then enter your edited regexp.
can we edit the default value ^ *[[:digit:]]\.[[:digit:]]\.[[:digit:]] + to create a new input e.g. deleting +…
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How to append some behavior to a command?
How do I string together functions and actions in a key binding.
Say I want to make a binding that does comment-dwim and then appends "TODO: " to achieve /* TODO: */ in C.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c T") 'comment-dwim "TODO: ")
This doesn't work…
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