Questions tagged [emacs]
A text editor, usually characterized by its extensibility. Often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." There is an Emacs-specific SE site for specialized questions.
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Idle time (tty st_atime) not updating when emacs is running
When running GNU emacs in a terminal (in the old-fashioned way, that is, i.e. not in its X windows mode) I've noticed that the w command shows the session as idle, even though emacs is active and ...
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function keys for emacs on a Linux VM
I have been using emacs for many years, and I have several common commands mapped to the function keys (at the top of the keyboard) for convenience. I am now trying to use emacs on a Red Hat 8 Linux ...
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XFCE: M-Tab, active windows and „Always on Top“
I run XFCE under X11 with focus policy „focus follows mouse“. What happens when I open an application, create a new (second) window in it, set it to „Always on Top“ from window menu, move the mouse ...
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Add LC_CTYPE to Desktop Entry
I'm using fcitx5 with emacs, to enable entry of Chinese characters. There is a known issue with emacs, where in order to input Chinese characters, one needs to launch emacs using LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 ...
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Fontawesome icons are not pasted correctly
I am using Fedora and installed fontawesome via sudo dnf install fontawesome fonts. Later because it didn't work I also additionally installed the font manually via downloading the zip from the Github ...
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Distrobox: emacs: Could not open file: /dev/tty
Am currently trying to automate running emacs on a Distrobox container (the Docker container is silex/emacs:29.2-alpine, although I've also tried silex/emacs:29.2 which uses a Debian image), and am ...
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How to get Guix perfect setup to work
The official Guix documentation describes The Perfect Setup for hacking on Guix. I have followed this description and set up everything like described, but still Geiser does not work fully. I thought ...
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Getting 'emacs-common-non-dfsg' from Debian bookworm-backports
This in reference to this question. Many thanks to user Marcus Müller for providing the silver bullet for getting Emacs 29 from Debian backports. I've done this already, and profited. However, one ...
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