Apr 16, 2017 · Within Emacs, ~ at the beginning of a file name is expanded to your HOME directory, so you can always find your .emacs file with C-x C-f ~/.emacs. There's further information at HOME and …

Aug 19, 2010 · This article says that "Emacs has redo because you can reverse direction while undoing, thereby undoing the undo". What does this mean? How can a user 'redo' with Emacs?

Sep 16, 2009 · Emacs used to be the only editor of the two that was programmable, and while Vim has a lot of weird levels to its programmability, with the addition of Python and Ruby bindings (and more, I …

Mar 18, 2009 · I want to select or highlight a block in Emacs without using the mouse, but doing it from the keyboard like Vim's visual mode. What is the easiest way to do this from a keyboard?

Apr 4, 2025 · How can I run Ruff in Emacs? I need to enable 2 commands on the current buffer: ruff check --select ALL current_buffer → bind to M-x ruff-check ruff check --select ALL --fix current_buffer …

How do you run Emacs in Windows? What is the best flavor of Emacs to use in Windows, and where can I download it? And where is the .emacs file located?

Download the theme folder or download the '.el' file. Since you are on ubuntu you'll need to copy the '.el' file in to your theme-load path. Or create your custom theme-load path as follows Make a directory …

Sep 10, 2008 · I just started using GNU Emacs as my text editor and I am concerned about getting afflicted with "Emacs Pinky" by having to constantly press the control key with my pinky finger as is …

Sep 4, 2014 · I'm trying to run Python code for testing and debugging using Emacs. How should I debug and run code in *.py files ? I tried using the M-x compile commands . Using M-x compile, I get a …

Aug 27, 2015 · Since eshell is written in platform-neutral Emacs Lisp code, it works in essentially the same way on Windows-native Emacsen as it does on *nix, right out of the box (though of course …