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What's the difference between these two? (setq foo "bar") (setq foo 'bar)
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I have set values of bibtex-completion-bibliography, bibtex-completion-notes-path and bibtex-completion-library-path in a .dir-locals.el file. The .dir-locals file looks like this: ;;; Directory Local ...
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When I run the following three lines with eval-region (defcustom custom-var "some-custom-value" "for testing only") (setq indirectRef (make-symbol "custom-var")) (message ...
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I use etags to find functions in my C code and everything works fine when I'm in a .c (or .h) file. If I use the find-tag key (M-.) when the buffer is a different type of file (.txt) the tag search ...
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Context: Emacs version 29.0.60 ; function goto-char An example of misleading symbol/function naming making it necessary to consult the documentation in order to use it the right way is the Emacs ...
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I am reading the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, 9.3 Creating and Interning Symbols: Each element of the obarray is a bucket which holds all the symbols with a given hash code; to look for a given ...
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I want to do this. (let ((myvar "my/variable") (myval "Some Value")) (setq myvar myval)) The manual method is: (setq "my/variable" "Some Value") Here ...
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I want isearch-forward-symbol-at-point to also save to the kill-ring. How can I accomplish that please?
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