I have a .org file with an index of videos I create almost every day as a journal. The idea is that there's a date range for each week, and then under that, a date for each day a video was recorded in.
Now, I'd like to be able to have a link that opens the file in VLC. But when I try to link to the file (C-c C-l), it doesn't seem to agree with me: I can't tab and auto-complete the file's name. The link does start with file:...
the other thing is, if I go ahead and just type in the name of the MP4 file and click on the link, it will simply open the file into Emacs in text, which is not very helpful.
I can't find out how to change that so VLC fires up. This seems to be something very basic, I must be missing something -- but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Help?
(sorry for typos, I'm basically passing out in my chair here, for real).
The easiest I find is using openwith.
Get it from melpa then add the following to your .emacs:
(require 'openwith)
(openwith-mode t)
(setq openwith-associations '(("\\.mp4\\'" "vlc" (file))))
also look at SO link: How to use an external program as the default way to open PDFs from Emacs?
Where there are some system specific solutions, some that do not require the openwith package.
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I'm trying to use a source browser for a c++ project without using a big IDE.
My current favorite text editor is emacs.
I found a solution that fit well to my needs which is the ebrowse (not intrusive, can very easily add sources of third part dependancy...).
My problem is that it does not stay up to date while I edit a file already ebrowsed.
eg if I add a method, it will not appear in the tree, and I didn't find a command to update it.
I tried to do a script that execute the ebrowse command line with an (global-auto-revert-mode t) t try to automatically keep the open BROWSE file updated, but it complain about editing externally modificated file.
There is a solution or should I quit to redo the BROWSE file each time then reload it ?
Thanks a lot
PS: I already saw ecb, it is a bit heavy from my point of view, and there is an annoying known bug that force me to trick by an ugly way ecb permission denied bug http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.code-browser/page=2
This section of the emacs manual states that revisiting a file is the default way to load tags from the semanticdb, but (in the second paragraph) that it's possible to access the tag information without opening that file again. Does it require another program hooking into the API mentioned or are there built-in settings? I thought maybe the search-throttle setting would do it, but doesn't seem to help. If it does require another program, does such an app exist?
For example, if I open foo.cpp and foo.h, I can use semantic-analyze-proto-impl-toggle to jump back and forth between definition/implementation. When I close emacs, I can investigate the contents of ~/.emacs.d/semanticdb/ and ensure the tags from foo.cpp were saved.
Then, open foo.h in a new emacs session and try to jump to the implementation of a definition. Until I open foo.cpp in a buffer, I'll get the "Could not find suitable implementation" message.
I want it to work right away. If the file isn't opened I think emacs should just load it into a new buffer and take me there!
Is there a way to configure emacs so that whenever I open a file under a certain path it will automatically search (and in case load) a TAGS file in a part of the path? So for instance when opening
/usr/src/foo/baz/bar.c.It will load
/usr/src/foo/TAGS file?
I'd suggest you going through this wiki. There is a good example of doing the same with etags (Auto refresh of the tags file) (which I won't post here), but hopefully it's no so hard to make it work for ctags.
Check out this package http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EtagsTable It's available on MELPA and does exactly what you want.
http://blog.binchen.org/posts/how-to-use-ctags-in-emacs-effectively-3.html
The point is in this case, a little bit elisp code is more versatile, I've been using this solution for two years.
I created a TAGS file for emacs in my django project using the following command on my Linux machine
ctags -eR *
I can now jump to a symbol definition using M-. and specifying the symbol name.In my project i have py,html and css files so is there also a way i can make emacs automatically open a file, if i specify the file name ?.
Thank You
I think you are looking for project management. There are few packages to manage project directory in emacs. The best one may be ede. but Its not easy to setup. It does have some learning curve and its limitations.
Thankfully there are many easy ones. like eproject. https://github.com/jrockway/eproject/wiki
anyway you can also check out emacswiki page for more details. http://www.emacswiki.org/ProjectSettings
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/find-file-in-tags.el
IDO (Interactive Do) mode does this. If you activate it, C-x C-f searches for files matching what you are typing, interactively. Beware though, it may take some time to get used to it.
[edit] The search is based on files or directories you've recently visited, and you can use M-s to force a search.
From the comments, I figured that you are looking for has nothing to do with tags, you just want a better find-file that makes good automatic guesses for the path given only the file name.
For this, I use the entirely awesome ido-mode: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings
I have been a programmer for a decade now, but I believe this is the first time I've ever asked a question on a forum. I just can't figure this out and can't find the answer already online.
I am trying to turn on CUA mode so that emacs is more bearable for a windows user (normal copy paste functions). I am running Windows 7 and installed emacs through the Lisp In A Box package. I understand that I need to add a line to my .emacs file or init.el file. I'm not sure which, but I can't find either in my Lip In A Box install directory. The emacs package install also did not come with any tutorials or help files, so its really hard to pick this up.
I am stuck, any help is greatly appreciated!
The .emacs can be found by looking at the answers to this similar question.
Regarding documentation and tutorials, it looks like the link you provided for "Lisp in a Box" says:
If you are new to Emacs, it is
recommended that you read the Emacs
Tutorial which you can access from
with Emacs by going to the Help menu,
or by typing Control-h, letting go,
and hitting t. A more extensive manual
is also available from the Help menu,
or on the web at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/.
Which makes it sound like the manual is there, and certainly the tutorial (I made bold the directions to get to the tutorial).
As far as other places to get information, there is a collection of screencasts on the wiki.
Your question doesn't specify whether or not you what to add to your .emacs to activate CUA mode. You can check out the CUA mode documentation on the wiki (which has links to the manual). The minimal installation is just adding this to your .emacs: (cua-mode t).
For GNU/Emacs, you can choose to use any one of the following three file names as the start-up configuration file:
${HOME}/.emacs
${HOME}/.emacs.el
${HOME}/.emacs.d/init.el
It would probably be a good idea to decide on one of the three options and then stick to it - the first one seems to be the most widely used one. In any case, ${HOME} stands for your home directory -- which is likely to be different from the Lisp In A Box install directory!
Coming from a Unix tradition, Emacs understands ~ (tilde) as an abbreviation for your home directory, so you can visit the .emacs file by typing:
C-x C-f ~/.emacs [ENTER]
(Note that the capital C is Emacs standard notation for a combination of the CTRL key and a second key, i.e. here you press CTRL-x CTRL-f which stands for "find-file" and will then ask you for a file name in the bottom part of the Frame (aka mini-buffer).)
If these are your first customizations, you will just see an empty buffer. Enter
;; start CUA mode every time Emacs starts
(cua-mode t)
and save the buffer with C-x C-s.
Next time you start Emacs, CUA mode should be turned on automatically.
What the others have told you is true: Simply adding (cua-mode t) to your dotfile would be sufficient. HOWEVER: Lisp in a box' Emacs doesn't load this file by default.
Therefore, be sure to edit the shortcut so that it does load the dotfile. This is important, because otherwise you would get weird behavior, where you would add the correct line to the dotfile, start emacs, and then not get cua mode. That would suck.
The reason it does this is to ensure that it starts a vanilla emacs everytime, instead of finding, say C:/_emacs and loading that instead, giving you another user's customizations and confusing you.
The flag for not loading an init file is -q or --no-init-file. Also make sure that --no-site-file is not there.
(I realize that this is an old post, but I found this while looking for something related, and I don't want people walking away frustrated over something that doesn't work.)