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How should I get the filename of the original buffer in an indirect cloned buffer?
I wanted to look at different portions of a buffer in two different frames, as I have two monitors of different shapes that I can't easily span a single frame over. Some googling led me to use clone-indirect-buffer, which works nicely.
However,…
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How to know if emacs is running as a daemon?
I want to know if emacs is running as a daemon, so I can load some parts of my configuration according, I want to know this from within emacs.
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Using constants inline
How to do the following in org-mode:
define a constant in the beginning of file, and
than use it in the text or even compute on it.
Following methods didn't work for me:
Method 1:
#+CONSTANTS: t=10
The temperature is `$t`, and twice of that is…
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How to display overlay like this screencast?
How to make an overlay in Emacs like the following (maybe it's not overlay, I don't know, it's from company-coq inline-docs):
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Emacsclient: One single emacs process all the time from start up & never close & better hide GUI
Since emacsclient can handle long package loading time proerly, I really want to keep at least one emacs process, and most of the time only one emacs process, open as a background process and better hide GUI.
Right now I defined the following…
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How to customize syntax highlight for just a given mode
I would like to change the syntax highlighting in my lua-mode.el without affecting other major modes.
Just as an example, I would like "key words" like if, then, else to be in bold and blue typeface when in lua-mode (instead of the default pink)…
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How to get keystrokes displayed in the echo area immediately?
How do I get keystrokes displayed in the echo area immediately?
For example: when I enter the key sequence C-u j, it will not display in the echo area immediately, but then I press key k, and I discover that I was making a typo beforehand. So, I…
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Change permission of file
I use GNU Emacs 24.3.1 and want to create a new buffer and execute that directly without using terminal and chmod. Is there a way to change the permission of a saved buffer (file) directly from emacs?
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How can I turn [1..10] into [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] in calc?
When playing around with data in calc, I often want to generate a vector from an interval.
How can I easily create a vector from just a start point, end point & step value.
Something like 1 10 1 MAKE-VECTOR to give me…
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Automatically formatting brackets
I'm trying to create a function that places/aligns/indents curly brackets according to Allman-style formatting (for coding in C).
Generally speaking, I am fan of Smartparens' interface available to users for customizing functionality. I've…
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Export Javascript source block to script tag in HTML when exporting Org file to HTML
To avoid the XY problem, let me say that what I actually want is to embed Javascript code into