Questions tagged [hooks]
Hooks are an important mechanism for customizing Emacs. A hook is a Lisp variable which holds a list of functions, to be called on some well-defined occasion.
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access server-buffer-clients from mode hook, or access current server process from lisp code
How can I access, from a mode's hook, the client process(es) that is/are visiting the buffer the mode is being set on? Outside of the context of a hook, I can just access the buffer-local variable ...
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Clarification on use-package with :hook
At https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/use-package/Hooks.html, the Emacs manual states (use-package company :commands company-mode :init (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'company-mode))...
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How to make format-all-mode stop affecting evil-jump-backward?
I recently added following configuration for auto formatting. (use-package format-all :commands format-all-mode :hook (prog-mode . format-all-mode) ;; <------------------ this ...
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Launch Emacs - How pass name of second monitor to function make-frame-on-monitor?
Given: Emacs 28.1 I have two monitors. M-x make-frame-on-monitor I select "DISPLAY2" and new frame open in the second monitor. Nice. But I want to do this when Emacs is launch. I init.el I ...
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Hooking backspace character
I have already found the proper hook for when the character is inserted(post-self-insert-hook), but how to hook when a character is deleted? Also, how to get the character that was deleted, I am ...
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Make backticks electric for markdown mode
I'm trying to use electric pair mode for backticks in markdown mode. The following code hasn't worked and throws and error whenever I type a backtick. How was it wrong? (defvar markdown-electric-pairs ...
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Can cape be disabled on a mode basis?
I love using cape in text mode, but I cannot figure out how to stop it from activating in programming modes. Is it possible to either only enable it in certain modes or to disable it in specific modes?...
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before-save-hook not working with use-package and custom mode
I wrote a little derived mode for the kage shader language, it's derived from go-mode (syntax is the same). I also like to use gofmt, but it's just not loading the hook. Here's the mode: (define-...
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