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Questions tagged [linux]
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Has anyone else encountered gui-get-selection: (error "Timed out...") bug?
When trying to paste into Emacs from my Linux system GUI, I'm getting
a 10-15 second Emacs freeze and:
gui-get-selection: (error "Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner")
I would post a bug, except I can't pin-point the condition…
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Disable LINUX mode in Emacs
I am using Emacs 25.3 on Mac and when I try to open some linux kernel code, the behavior is different as below:
I cannot simply open a C file, but I am prompted for arch each time.
Occasionally, emacs tries to 'parse' all the include files (I can…
Niranjan T
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Access Serial Port on Remote System
Is there a nifty emacs command to access the serial port on a remote system?;)
I've seen socat, which creates a virtual serial port on the local system, but if emacs can do it directly, without that, I'd like to know.
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How to install Emacs 26 on CentOS 7?
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
To install Emacs on CentOS I use this:
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install emacs
Nice. But the problem is that... it install old version of Emacs = 24.3
But I need Emacs 26 to install on CentOS
Is it…
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(To file an emacs bug report) are there services out there that let's me ssh to a clean GNU Linux machine
I want to file a bug report about emacs.
From what I learnt, bug reports relating to GNU/Linux
are given precedence over more exotic OS's like MacOS.
I can spin up an ubuntu instance in 10 seconds using my (free)
Amazon AWS cloud login. But ubuntu…
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Emacs Save As with external File Manager Popup -(Linux)
On some of my Linux machines, when I file-save-as, then the system file manager pops up and I can easily select destination.
On other Linux Machines, I only get the emacs internal buffer save-as, which is clunky to use for me.
I went through all the…
diyer
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How can I run GUI emacs (using a shortcut) in a very light xmonad installation?
I am trying to launch Emacs through a keyboard shortcut on my Debian/xmonad system. Relevant lines from my xmonad.hs:
~$ cat .xmonad/xmonad.hs
import XMonad
...
main =
xmonad =<< xmobar
(defaultConfig {modMask = mod4Mask,…
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