Top "Emacs" questions

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

Will Emacs make me a better programmer?

Steve Yegge wrote a comment on his blog: All of the greatest engineers in the world use Emacs. The world-changer …

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Best Common Lisp IDE

I've used Slime within Emacs as my primary development environment for Common Lisp (or Aquamacs on OS X), but are …

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How do I run a python interpreter in Emacs?

I just downloaded GNU emacs23.4, and I already have python3.2 installed in Windows7. I have been using Python IDLE to …

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Open new file in a new gui window or by splitting the window

How can emacs open a new file in a new gui window? And how can it be made to open …

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How can I insert current date and time into a file using Emacs?

What commands in Emacs can I use to insert into the text buffer of a file the current date and …

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How to run multiple shells on Emacs

I am using Emacs 23.3.1 on windows 7. I know that I can run shell from emacs using M-x shell. I would …

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How to have Emacs auto-refresh all buffers when files have changed on disk?

I have a non-emacs global search and replace function that causes my disk files to become more up-to-date than my …

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How to remove all files ending with ~ made by Emacs

Whenever I edit files on emacs, it seems a temporary file is created with the same name with ~ appended to …

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Emacs, switch to previous window

In Emacs, C-x o takes me to the next window. What keyboard macro takes me to the previous window in …

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How to scroll line by line in GNU Emacs?

To put it simply, I'm trying to get scrolling in emacs like in vim and most other editors; when I'm …

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