Emacs tips

ITT we give fairly short tips or advice about Emacs.

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If you want line numbers for Emacs, use Linum mode: http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/linum/linum.html
You'll probably want to have a space between the line numbers and your buffer's content, so modify linum.el: on line 160 or so of linum.el, change (setq width (max width (length str))) to (setq width (max width (+ (length str) 1))).
Example here: http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/static/LinumGap.png

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ido-mode for M-x:


    (defun ido-execute ()
      (interactive)
      (call-interactively
       (intern
        (ido-completing-read
         "M-x "
         (let (cmd-list)
           (mapatoms (lambda (S) (when (commandp S) (setq cmd-list (cons (format "%S" S) cmd-list)))))
           cmd-list)))))
   
    (global-set-key "\M-x" 'ido-execute)
Good for newbies.

How do you change the color of filename which is displayed at the titlebar?
I'm having trouble reading it.
any help will be appriciated.
thanks!

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>>35


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>>13
tl;dr warning

Richard Stallman couldn't recommend OpenBSD as a fully free operating system, because a requirement is that it can't have non-free software in it's repository, or recommend non-free software.  Only a small list of (Gnu/)Linux distributions are officially recommend by the FSF. Most, including Slackware, Debian, and Ubuntu are not.

A lot of the work to support Emacs (and other Gnu software) on windows was done by a third party, cygnus solutions.  The first "freedom" of free-software is that you can run the software however you want, including running it on an operating system the author doesn't approve of.

But that's irrelevant, because I would never use OpenBSD, anyway. They act like 13 year-olds on their mailinglists, this is illustrated by the fact that some butthurt dev came on some random thread about emacs to cry. It's often proclaimed by the OpenBSD team that their precious operating system is secure, though it's anything but, http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/   Only good thing that came out of OpenBSD was OpenSSH.

>>48
If you think 164 words is too long to read, I don't think your opinion is valid, and would like to direct you /Polecat Kebabs/

>>49
Validity is a property of mutations to propositions. Opinions are neither valid nor invalid.

>>50
My point remains.

Does anyone know of an M-x glasses-mode equivalent for Vim? It's a feature I always wanted to try out because it would improve code readability but couldn't find an alternative to it.

>>52
Try writing better code.

>>52

Stop writing in Java

>>53
I am trying but that entails reading code written by others.

>>54
I would, if my paycheck didn't depend on it right now.

>>13
Everyman is a hypocrite, son. Facts of life. Just ask the man that has teenaged daughters....

>>13
because he knows without windows support the software is worth much less. What does sound more important: Emacs a linux toy vs multiplatform editor 'EMACS'.

>>57
Emacs was fifteen years old before Torvalds even started working on the Linux kernel. Anyone who would have called it ``a Linux toy'' before the addition of Windows support wouldn't have started calling it multi-platform afterwards, because they wouldn't have a clue what the term means.

60 Name: Sgt.Kabukiman 2012-05-21 16:17

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