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 …

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 …

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?

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 …

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 …

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?

Apr 24, 2024 · This is only an issue in emacs before 27. I fixed this by removing gnu-elpa-keyring-update after restarting emacs to make sure that the new key is imported and then deleting the old …

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 …

Jan 12, 2009 · Does anybody know a good Emacs mode to edit JSON? An app I am working on uses a JSON based communication protocol and having the data nicely indented and syntax-highlighted …