During the initial setup spacemacs asked, "What type of completion framework do you want?" and I selected "helm".
Now I want to use ivy instead.
How to change spacemacs from helm to ivy?
There are 16 occurrences of "helm" in my ~/.spacemacs file.
I added "spacemacs-ivy" at top of ~/.spacemacs file and restarted, but that didn't work
as described in https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/407q2c/ivy_is_now_available_in_spacemacs/ .
On restart emacs said "Spacemacs encountered an error while loading your '.spacemacs' file."
I just put ivy in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers along with other layer names in configuration file and everything seems to work.
And I don't know if anything should be put at the "top" of .spacemacs.
If there is no .spacemacs file, Spacemacs asks some questions and creates a new .spacemacs file.
I reinstalled spacemacs by deleting .spacemacs file and then restarting emacs.
I answered the questions like this:
What is your preferred editing style? vim
What distribution of spacemacs would you like to start with? spacemacs
What type of completion framework do you want? ivy
Now ivy is installed.
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I want to use "ediprolog" package on Emacs. I followed installation and usage instruction here https://www.metalevel.at/ediprolog/ and he says:
The two most important configuration options are:
ediprolog-system, either scryer (default) or swi
ediprolog-program, the path of the Prolog executable.
So I tried C-X , customize-group , ediprolog and checked the configuration file. The files looks like this:
To be honest I have no idea how, where can I edit to add the prolog executable path ~/.cargo/bin/scryer-prolog. In addition, Emacs says You can't edit this part of the Custom buffer when I tried to type something on the file.
And as I can expected, when I run ediprolog-dwim, "view-echo" says ediprolog-run-prolog: No prompt from: scryer-prolog, probably because I don't set the path on a configuration file.
I'm noob to Emacs and the package also, sorry about that, but I'm really struggling to achieve this step. Your comments must be really helpful for me. Thanks.
Try adding the path to the exec-path variable in emacs: when emacs forks off a subshell, this variable is added to the PATH that is passed to the subshell:
(add-to-list 'exec-path (expand-file-name (substitute-in-file-name "$HOME/.cargo/bin")))
Recently I pass to Emacs org because is really convenient to me to write note there.
So I installed all packages I needed (principally ORG and EVIL) but I didn't understand how to setup everything.
I installed emacs from brew without using cask, I linked it, and I'm sure that I'm using the version that I installed (26.1).
So in my ~/ folder I have a .emacs file in which I set up evil mode, and I have a /.emacs.d/ in which I have a lot of file. The problem is: whatever I wrote in a ~/.emacs.d/init.el seems doesn't effect emacs.
So I said "whatever, I'm going on github and I installed some complete configurations and then I customized them myself". I tried to install these two configurations.
https://github.com/hrs/dotfiles
https://github.com/larstvei/dot-emacs?files=1
But for some reason, after doing exactly what they say on README.org
nothing happens.
In particular the second link, after install and open emacs said I need to have ~/.cask/.cask.el but I don't have it.
Advice?
I'm trying to install Emacs via Homebrew. Having done this and aliased to my apps folder, I found that when I ran Emacs it came up Spacemacs. I did them remember the system had Spacemacs installed a few years ago. So, I uninstalled Emacs, removed the emacs folders. Now, Homebrew shows no installation of Emacs. However, when I run emacs in the terminal, I still get Spacemacs.
How do I completely remove Spacemacs so I can install "vanilla" Emacs?
I thought I'd look at where Spacemacs is installed and did a "whereis emacs", but nothing but the prompt was returned.
Remove or rename ~/emacs.d folder. Spacemacs is not a different emacs, it's a different way of initializing emacs. The initialization files are in ~/emacs.d.
I realised that Spacemacs was a layer of Emacs. I needed to delete the .spacemacs folder in my user directory. Once done Emacs showed up as vanilla.
To completely remove emacs, I also searched for "emacs" and it found some folders in various bin directories. Once all of this was removed my system was ready for a vanilla emacs installation.
First, check where your emacs loads its configurations. Probably from ~/.emacs.d.
Then, remove the folder or just rename it.
Finally, restart emacs
As of spacemacs, there is another file named .spacemacs, it usually dwells in your home folder. If you remove/rename ~/.emacs.d and do nothing about .spacemacs,emacs will not read .spacemacs.
I would like to remove the 80 characters per line limit when pylint is checking files in Emacs (I am using the Elpy package for Emacs). I am on Debian Wheezy, and I'm using the backported Emacs24.
I checked the docs out here regarding the pylintrc hierarchy: http://docs.pylint.org/run.html#command-line-options, and tried placing a pylintrc and a .pylintrc file in my working directory with no luck. I also tried putting a .pylintrc in my home directory, again with no effect.
I suppose the question might be asked, "what is my working directory when I call pylint from inside Emacs?". I don't have a good answer to that question...
Where should the pylint configuration file be placed? Should it be .pylintrc or pylintrc?
create file:
~/.flake8rc
[flake8] ignore = E501
#max-line-length = 160
AFAIK emacs flymake is using flake8 by default (?)
Try putting it in:
~/.config/pylintrc
If the ~/.config directory doesn't exist, create it. If that doesn't work try:
~/.pylintrc
You can place the .pylintrc wherever you like and then tell Emacs what to use with...
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq flycheck-python-pylint-executable "~/.local/bin/pylint")
(setq flycheck-pylintrc "~/.emacs.d/settings/.pylintrc")))
I found this answer on the Emacs Stackexchange flycheck cannot find module for pylint and on my system ~/.emacs.d/settings/.pylintrc is a symlink to the rc file from work repository.
I found this website and downloaded the color-theme files.
It says:
Put the file color-theme.el and the
folder “themes” (with the files
color-theme-example.el and
color-theme-library.el) in a directory
on your LoadPath.
and then I checked the load path website, which says:
To add a single directory to the load-path:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/")
My question is, where do I type this line?
If I do M-x and then type, it complains add-to-list[No match].
By the way, I am using Emacs 23.2(9.0) on Mac, a GUI version.
For the text version on terminal, I use black background seems fine, except the blue is too dark on black
An answer for newbs like me!
In Emacs 24.5.1, on mac or linux the following will work.
The following command will create a folder called themes inside your .emacs.d folder (assuming one does not already exist)
mkdir ~/.emacs.d/themes/
Now tell emacs that you have installed a themes folder. In emacs open your .emacs file, by typing the following:
C-x C-f ;;;this opens a new .emacs file or creates one if it doesn't exist
Add the following line to your .emacs file:
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes/")
Now copy your theme's '.el' file to your .emacs.d/themes/ directory. A good place to find custom themes is here: emacsthemes.com
Now load your custom theme by typing the following:
M-x customize-themes ;;;now press return
Your newly installed themes should appear on the list like so:
Move your cursor to within the '[ ]' and press return to select that theme.
Enjoy emacs!
You can download Emacs 24 for Mac from here and Emacs 24 already has a built-in theming system. You can call it by M-x customize-themes and choose whatever themes you like. And you can find much more themes online. There is actually a quite nice theme called "solarized", you can use it both in GUI and command line.
I load color theme by this code:
(load-file "~/.emacs.d/color-theme/themes/zenburn.el")
(zenburn)
You should put that line in your init file. This is usually the file ~/.emacs. The .emacs.d directory is a conventional directory for storing your personal customization files. Many of the instructions for installing packages (like color theme) or explaining other parts of Emacs (like the load-path page) assume you understand the init file.
.emacs and .emacs.d are really at the core of Emacs customization. If you read up on those, Emacs will make a lot more sense. I hope that helps!
In emacs 23, I thought color theme is installed by default. If not, and you need to add that line, write it in either file ~/.emacs.d/init.el, ~/.emacs.el or ~/.emacs