I would like to open files/sub-folders in the same window which is already established in my emacs(I understand the difference between emacs frames an ...

I'm trying to add use-package to my init.el and I'm running into this error: Error (use-package): evil-leader/:config: Invalid function: (global-evil ...

I'm looking to build a capture template that, when run, prompts the user for more information to determine the path of the target file. I have a few ...

In my .emacs there is the following mode hooks: (defun my-html-mode-hook () (interactive) (setq tab-width 4 ;; this will make sure TABs a ...

I'm six years into emacs and only just getting into the details. I have a hyrda in my init for browser activity, using engine-mode, browse-url, and br ...

I want to open a few (or at least one) .org file(s) upon starting spacemacs and I can not achieve this. I suspect it would be the same lisp code for s ...

On my ArchLinux number cruncher I have two accounts: A user account (benj) and the root account. For administrative tasks I ssh into the machine usin ...

In my init.el file, I am using a hook to display line numbers in all programming modes: When I recently upgraded to Emacs version 26.1, I wanted to ...

I'm writing some custom functions to move the point in specific ways, and I'm running into issues to manage the mark & region properly. For illust ...

I'm interested in using a session manager in emacs with the possibility of saving sessions by name. The problem is that I almost exclusively use emac ...

I switch windows with M-left and M-right. Also Tab, S-Tab and C-Tab are hardwired into my spine. Since I use markdown-mode my workspeed has halved. H ...

I installed emacs and it worked ok. I tried to change configuration file ( I made init.el file and copied Styling (Themes & More) part from: realp ...

I have been loading emacs with emacs -q -l "init.el" quite a bit and was trying to enable auto-complete in my scratch buffer. I was struggling to figu ...

Just FYI, I am new to the .emacs file. I would lik to set up my .emacs file to auto-indent and auto-pair a certain way to make writing code a little ...

I have something like (to be simplify) in my .emacs. But I was told that Symbol's function definition is void: helm-mode after startup emacs. Afte ...

I'm having some issues getting company-rust to work the way it should. It loads fine initially, then dies with this error when I attempt to actually u ...

I have some PC boxes some 32 and some 64 bits. I keep a local svn repo of the CCL implementation on all of them and I have the same .bashrc and .emacs ...

Background: I modularised the init.el file into several files and tried to load them one by one from init.el. Each file has a: at the end and I use ...

Very simple question but confuse me for some time: and both seem work. But works, while not. May I ask why is this? ...

Helm has builtin helm-mini command which includes buffers and recentf in its sources. There is one more package helm recent dirs which provides he ...