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Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

Version 23 of the GNU Emacs text editor.

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Evil Mode best practice?

I've been using Vim as my primary editor for years and tried Emacs several times during that time. Then I discovered Evil and decided that it meets my demand for speedy movement well enough that I can finally move on to Emacs. So, to all you Evil…
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How do I change Emacs' default font size and font type?

I am using Emacs 23.3. How can I change the font size and font type?
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How to switch to a different buffer from a terminal buffer

I've been using emacs for few weeks and it's been great so far - coming from vim was easier than I expected (actually - emacs' keyboard shortcuts feel more... natural). I have added few customizations like moving between buffers using…
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How to gracefully shutdown emacs daemon?

On login to Ubuntu, I start an Emacs (version 23) daemon using Ubuntu's Startup programs. I then start Emacs clients whenever I need to edit something. When I logoff from Ubuntu, it says Emacs is still running, of course. I need to attach a script…
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How can I switch focus after buffer split in emacs?

I would like that after splitting the window (C-x 3 or C-x 2) to be able to automatically get to cursor in the new opened buffer (the other than the current). How can I achieve this behavior ?
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Do you use Emacs tabbar?

The emacs tabbar.el package adds (buffer)tabs to each window and comes standard with aquamacs and can be added to emacs23 with the emacs-goodies-el package. Are any of you hardcore emacs users actually using tabbar? I'm sort of used to having tabs,…
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Emacs auto-complete-mode at startup

I just install auto-complete-mode, however everytime I start emacs I have to M-x auto-complete-mode. Is there anyway to have it loaded automatically ? My .emacs is as follows: ;; auto-complete (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/") (require…
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Making the emacs cursor into a line

Hi I have been using Emacs23 for some time now and find it a really cool editor. However I am not happy with the cursor (or point in Emacs lingo) being a ' little black box'. I want it to be a nice thin straight line just the way it is in gedit or…
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How can I get the keyboard shortcut for a given emacs command?

Is there any function to do this? something like the inverse of "describe-key"?
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Emacs Org-Mode: Turn off line numbers

I've recently moved from vim to Emacs because I want to use org-mode. I opened a ~10000 line, 50kb file in Emacs23 Org-mode and proceeded to add about 10 first-level headings. Performance on a quad-core with 3GB RAM in Emacs23 under Ubuntu…
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Binding M- / M- in Emacs 23.1.1

I'm trying to put in a feature that I miss from Eclipse, where Alt+[Up/Down] transposes the lines up or down, but can not for the life of me figure out how to assign to these keys properly. I am using it in -nw mode (so just in a shell window), and…
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Emacs 23 and iPython

Is there anyone out there using iPython with emacs 23? The documents on the emacs wiki are a bit of a muddle and I would be interested in hearing from anyone using emacs for Python development. Do you use the download python-mode and ipython.el?…
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CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning doesn't help cygwin warning

When I try to use ediff-revision under Emacs 23.2.1 for a CVS-managed file, I receive the following error in the *ediff-errors* frame, instead of commencing directly to the ediff results: cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected:…
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How start Emacs in a console window?

i would like to know how can i launch emacs inside the console window, not in a separated GUI. Im using emacs 23.2 in Windows.
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Adding Marmalade as Package Source

I'm trying to add Marmalade as a package source, but when I do so I get the error:Symbol's value as variable is void: package-archives. Anyone know how to resolve this? Below is my .emacs file. ;;; This was installed by package-install.el. ;;; This…
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