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I want to display a colored string of text in the minibuffer, but when I use the 'message' function, the text-properties of are stripped.
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Trying to install emacs in Software Center Ubuntu 12.04 got this error.
installArchives() failed: Selecting previously unselected package emacs23.
(Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 5%
(Reading database ... 10%
(Reading database ... 15%
(Reading database ... 20%
(Reading database ... 25%
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My ~/.emacs start-up file is stored in my AFS home directory. Often when I login to a linux machine I will forget to renew my AFS credentials before attempting to edit a local (non-AFS) file with Emacs.
When this happens Emacs will attempt to load ~./emacs but cannot because it is in AFS space where…
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If I use the following .emacs file, I am able to go to the beginning/end of the current line using the home/end keys as I would expect.
(keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?)
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/sam/programs/go/go/misc/emacs/" t)
(require 'go-mode-load)
(global-set-key [kp-home] 'beginning-of-line)…
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When I try to compile GNU Emacs 23.1 on my machine with Mac OS X 10.6.3 I repeatedly get the following ending:
Directories: /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/. /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./calc /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./calendar /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./emacs-lisp /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./emulation /src/emacs-23.1/lisp/./erc…
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I have seen a few suggestions on making emacs portable (on Windows). I have this in my site-start.el:
(defvar program-dir (substring data-directory 0 -4))
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setenv "HOME" program-dir)
I changed the HOME variable so that not only my .emacs init files (and other init…
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In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way to make the minibuffer prompt active again is to click inside the minibuffer, which is annoying because…
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In Emacs, there are some cases where I would like to prevent messages from appearing in the minibuffer, mainly pertaining to "Beginning/End of buffer" and "Text is read-only".
Is there any way I can prevent these messages from appearing in the minibuffer?
Also, is there some significant reason I…
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Consider the following example: I want to read a file using ido from the minibuffer, but merge in all of the directories I use often. I can't just execute
(ido-find-file)
(ido-merge-work-directories)
Because the second sexp will only execute after the user is finished selecting the file. The…
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I want to display a colored string of text in the minibuffer, but when I use the 'message' function, the text-properties of are stripped.
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In Emacs, after a lot of editing, I press C-x s (save-some-buffers), then Emacs asks "Save file ...? (y,n,.... d ...)" for each file, I sometimes answer d (diff) to see the changes, but then it's not easy to scroll the diff buffer because the cursor is on the minibuffer. Scrollbar does not work. C-M-v…
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