Top "Emacs" questions

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor, which can be extended with Lisp code.

How do I make Git use the editor of my choice for commits?

I would prefer to write my commit messages in Vim, but it is opening them in Emacs. How do I …

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Differences between Emacs and Vim

Without getting into a religious argument about why one is better than the other, what are the practical differences between …

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How to set the font size in Emacs?

I also want to save the font size in my .emacs file.

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Set 4 Space Indent in Emacs in Text Mode

I've been unsuccessful in getting Emacs to switch from 8 space tabs to 4 space tabs when pressing the TAB in buffers …

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How do you 'redo' changes after 'undo' with Emacs?

This article says that "Emacs has redo because you can reverse direction while undoing, thereby undoing the undo". What does …

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How can I reload .emacs after changing it?

How can I get Emacs to reload all my definitions that I have updated in .emacs without restarting Emacs?

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Why should I use an IDE?

In another question, Mark speaks highly of IDEs, saying "some people still just dont know "why" they should use one...". …

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How do I control how Emacs makes backup files?

Emacs puts backup files named foo~ everywhere and I don't like having to remember to delete them. Also, if I …

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Step-by-step debugging with IPython

From what I have read, there are two ways to debug code in Python: With a traditional debugger such as …

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What are these ^M's that keep showing up in my files in emacs?

So I think it may have to do with textmate, but we work in a small team and are having …

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