Top "Emacs" questions

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

emacs zoom in/zoom out

Is there a way to zoom in and out (dynamically change the font size, quite smoothly) on emacs?

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Package listed in MELPA, but not found in package install

I am currently trying to install ENSIME for emacs 24.3.1 following the instructions at https://github.com/ensime/ensime-emacs under the …

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How to copy/select a whole file or buffer in Emacs?

Is there any command to select the whole file contents in Emacs? For example, Control+a selects whole contents of …

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Open file via SSH and Sudo with Emacs

I want to open a file inside Emacs which is located on a remote server, with sudo powers on the …

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A good project tree browser for Emacs?

Do you know of a good project tree browser for Emacs other than the Emacs Code Browser (ECB)? The features …

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How to remap the Caps Lock key to Control in OS X 10.8?

I want to use Emacs and need remap the Caps key to Ctrl (switch them). How can I do it?

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Debugging python programs in emacs

How to debug python programs in emacs? I use python-mode.el I get reference like import pdb; pdb.set_trace(); …

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How to best integrate Emacs and Cygwin?

There are a ton of ways to integrate Cygwin with Emacs on Windows. EmacsWiki shows a few ideas. Here are …

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wrong type argument: stringp, nil

Before now I've just been cutting and pasting code into my .emacs file, but then I decided to add some …

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Emacs C++-mode incorrect indentation?

I'm running emacs 23 with c++-mode and having some indentation problems. Suppose I have this code: void foo() { if (cond) { &…

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