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What is the correct way to join multiple path components into a single complete path in emacs lisp?

Suppose I have variables dir and file containing strings representing a directory and a filename, respectively . What is the proper …

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Ctrl+U in emacs when using evil key bindings

I'm using the wonderful evil package for vim bindings in emacs. The one key that is not right is Ctrl+…

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Bind key to increase / decrease font size in emacs

In my terminal (I have terminator) I can use the key combinations Ctrl + and Ctrl - to increase / decrease the …

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Render Markdown in Emacs buffer

Is it possible to present Markdown rendered in an Emacs buffer using Emacs' own buffer text formatting capabilities? Emacs in …

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How to capture standard output of a shell command in elisp?

I want to run a shell command within Emacs and capture the full output to a variable. Is there a …

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C++11 mode or settings for emacs?

I'm running Emacs 23.3.1 (Ubuntu, Oneiric package) and emacs doesn't appear to understand any of the new C++11 keywords, constexpr, thread_…

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elisp regexp search in strings, not buffers

I have been searching everywhere in the emacs lisp documentation for how to regular expressions search into a string. All …

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Elisp List Contains a Value

How do you check, in elisp, if a list contains a value? so the following would return t: (contains 3 '(1 2 3)) …

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Auto install emacs packages with MELPA

I want to declare all packages that I want to use in emacs in a init.el file. I wonder …

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How to treat my custom emacs theme as a "safe theme"?

I'm new to Emacs. So, I'm using emacs 24 and solarized color theme. When Emacs starts up, it prompt me with "…

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