Questions tagged [emacs]
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor written primarily in Emacs Lisp.
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ssh directly into a specific node on a cluster, without first ssh into login node?
I usually log on to a cluster, start a slurm interactive job, then I am able to ssh into specific running nodes.
My questions is, is it generally possible to ssh into a specific node from my local ...
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Installing emacs on debian stable stretch
I have a user who needs emacs (emacs-x11, preferred) on Debian stable. I found the following https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsSnapshotAndDebian which mentions to "packages built directly from ...
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Where is the yum repository for emacs 23 for CentOS 5.5?
I want to update my emacs on CentOS 5.5 to 23 but I can't find any rpms or yum repos that have it?
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Shorten Emacs timeout of ~/.emacs read
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 ...
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Building Emacs.app (OS X) – make bootstrap or not?
BACKGROUND:
I've downloaded Emacs from Github's Emacs mirror (commit f92c4be63204ed0bd914). Using Mac OS X 10.6.4, I'm now about to compile and install Emacs.app.
MY QUESTION:
The nextstep/...
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Vim: How can I :cd to an sftp directory?
I'm currently an emacs user, but thought I would come back and take another look at Vim for fun.
My client machine is Ubuntu, and I frequently work on other ubuntu servers within my network, emacs ...
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How to check if Emacs is in GUI mode (and execute `tool-bar-mode` only then)?
I have this line in my .emacs file:
(tool-bar-mode 0)
because I hate the toolbars in my GUI emacs (/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs).
But when I start up my other, text-based emacs in ...
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How to set PATH variable on Mac OS so that even non-terminal apps see it?
I need to add a directory to my PATH variable on Mac OS.
I added it in .bash_profile and .profile, and that works for the terminal.
But Emacs (http://emacsformacosx.com) still does not use the new ...
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emacs for sys admins [closed]
Are you a sys admin that uses emacs?
What tools/plugins do you find essential? In my organization the programmers tend to use emacs whereas the sys admins gravitate towards vim. Since we have 4:1 ...
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What is the best way to run emacs under Windows?
I tried using the GNU Emacs download, unzipped it and then clicked on emacs.exe, but got some obscure error.
Then I tried Cygwin emacs, but when I press ctrl x ctrl c to quit emacs it thinks I ...
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Emacs/tramp: sudo to root on localhost hangs after asking for password
Can't use the su method, since I don't really want to veer from the Ubuntu default too much. ssh is right out (for localhost? I ask you!).
It shows a "Waiting for prompts from remote shell". And ...
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Problem with Ctrl tab keybinding in Emacs in gnome-terminal
I want to be able to flip back and forwards between two buffers in Emacs in the same way I can flip between tabs in some other editors. The following Ctrl + TAB key binding works nicely in XEmacs:
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Why does Tramp hang when sending Perl scripts to the remote host?
I know that this is not directly programming related, but I'm stumped, and since Emacs is my main programming tool...
I am trying to set up Tramp to connect to my testing host. I'm invoking it ...
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Unable to have a Vim-like keybinding in Emacs
I want to replace the command for moving between windows in Emacs to
Ctrl-t
The command in pseudo-code
(global-set-key "\C-moveBetweenWindows" 'C-t)
How can you remap the command for moving ...
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Unable to understand a stty option for Emacs in OS/X [closed]
Steve recommends to run the following code before you start your Emacs
stty erase ^\?
I get after running it
stty: illegal option -- Backups
usage: stty [-a|-e|-g] [-f file] [options]
Steve's blog ...