Questions tagged [wsl]
WSL is acronym for Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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How to fix crashing of WSL Emacs over X?
On a Windows machine I run the MobaXterm X server system. I use this to display Emacs running on a remote Linux machine. This works fine. I also use this X system to display Emacs running on a WSL ...
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emacs on wsl2 creating directories with bad/unusable permissions
Running emacs (29.1.90) in WSL2 on Windows 11. (Also tried 30.0.50, same results) Got everything working smoothly but when emacs creates directories they are being created with the wrong permissions. ...
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How can I use Canadian CSA keyboard layout in Emacs on Windows WSL
Following the questions How to use a certain keyboard layout from emacs as Ubuntu keyboard layout and How to add a new keyboard layout to Emacs input methods? I need help for a concrete example - I ...
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Slowly updating text appears to be in overwrite rather than insert mode--but isn't
I'm running emacsclient -nw and I notice sometimes the buffer appears to be in overwrite mode---I'll go to the beginning of a line and start typing, and when I do the existing text does not get pushed ...
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Help me use emacs with org mode at work
When working from home on my linux machine - I have all my org files on Dropbox. I store all agenda files, todos, references and stuff like that in those. Basically my whole life is in those org files....
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How to paste all images into emacs org-mode running in WSL in one directory
I got How to paste images into Emacs org-mode running in Windows Subsystem for Linux running, so I can paste images in emacs org-mode, but I would like to get all images in the same directory, f.e. ~/...
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How can I get the name of the file on the current Dired line?
I'm running emacs on WSL. The following function launches the binary file marked in dired: (defun wsl/execute () "execute file at point in dired" (interactive) (dired-do-shell-command ...
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Buffer display issue with unicode characters on WSL2
I have a file with a single Unicode character in it: 🕯 (Unicode character CANDLE, codepoint 128367, #o372557, #x1f56f). When I open this file via emacs -Q and hit C-l, the display buffer has issues. ...
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