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Given a symbol defined with a defcustom form, how to programmatically identify its group(s)?
How to identify the parent group(s) of a symbol defined with a defcustom form with elisp code? For instance I would like to use or write a function custom-group-of such that (custom-group-of 'delete-...
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Had set emacs to disable tabs and insert spaces forever. Now tabs are being inserted again
OS: Fedora 42 emacs: GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.49, cairo version 1.18.2) of 2025-04-08 Tabs are being inserted into my source files again instead of spaces in ...
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How to customize a function's output
I use the function wiki-summary-insert from the Melpa package wiki-summary quite often in my Org Mode files and because it's actually a quote from a source I end up highlighting the region and ...
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Emacs 'package-selected-packages' is not get saved in a customization file
I have noticed recently, the Emacs always shows a list of "unneeded" packages, which could be "auto-removed". The packages it suggests as not needed are those that were installed ...
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Enable Lexical Binding by Binding “lexical-binding” to t
(Please see what is letrec first.) The following code is obviously fine and self-explanatory: ;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- (setq post-self-insert-hook `(,@(when (boundp 'post-self-insert-hook) ...
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How to output ALL of the settings an Emacs version comes by default with as text to see where the differences between the versions are?
The Title already tells what the question is about. The purpose of the answer to this question would be to become able to find out which default values differ between the versions 27.1 and 28.2 of ...
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Customizing colors – Invalid Face
I am trying to just adjust a few colors, without creating a whole theme. My lisp startup file contains: (load-theme 'tsdh-dark t nil) ... (set-face-foreground 'custom-variable-tag "White") ...
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Determining use of customize-set-variable versus setq [duplicate]
How can I determine whether to use customize-set-variable rather than setq?
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