I'm trying move from ido-mode to helm and projectile and are not used to, something will be overcome, but when I tried helm-projectile-recentf, I wish it can switch to last buffer I visited quickly, but the default buffer is my current buffer, I don't want to switch to my current buffer, I have to move down first. switch buffer is a very frequent operation, I think move down everytime is very annoying!
I have studied helm-projectile-recentf function, it seems it is not easy to customize it to suit my normal requirement.
Could somebody have good suggestion, thanks in advance!
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Question is simple:
Is there any way how yasnippet can be triggered at one place in the buffer, and executed in another place of the buffer, while returning to original position at the end of expand?
Typical situation is e.g. when coding Verilog design. One needs to define a new signal at the beginning of the module. So ideal would be to trigger the snippet, it goes to the top of the module, executes there, and reverts back to original position.
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I'm trying to get the content of current selected region in buffer. I'm aware of idle timer, but a hook should be more efficient/cleaner...
Not sure what you mean by "region change". If you mean "the text in the region is modified", then you'll need to use after-change-functions. If you mean that the selected text is modified by changing its bounds, then you'll probably want post-command-hook or maybe an idle timer (which is not less efficient than a hook, the main difference is that you get less guarantees about when it gets run; e.g. it won't be run between two commands if there's no idle time between the two, as is the case when running a keyboard macro).
A way to go seems to advice handle-shift-selection. AFAICT this function is called with every region-change by keyboard. Resp. advice mouse-drag-region.
I have a number of splits open, looking at various buffers. But when I for example check the help on a function it will replace one of the splits with the help buffer. Once I'm done reading the help I have to go back to the correct buffer manually which is a pain. How do I get Emacs to be nicer to my buffers?
Update: Help will let you press q to go back to the previous buffer. But causing the Emacs backtrace to pop up also steals one of my buffer windows and it doesn't have a q.
Update: Backtrace DOES have q to go back. My original question still remains: how do I ask Emacs not to steal one of my splits?
Adding the line(push "*Help*" special-display-buffer-names) to the init file should make subsequent invocations of the help buffer to appear in its own frame(what the desktop usually calls "window"), and leave the original frame with its configuration alone.
See Special Buffer Frames.
You could also use winner-mode. It came up on planet.emacsen.org a while back.
Winner Mode is a global minor mode. When activated, it allows to “undo” (and “redo”) changes in the window configuration with the key commands ‘C-c left’ and ‘C-c right’.
That way you can undo any changes to your splits immediately after they happen.
I hope this will help you :
C-x 0 to remove the current window
C-x 1 to keep only the current window
you can use windmove by adding the following line in your .emacs :
(windmove-default-keybindings)
Then, you can move the point between windows using S-right S-left S-up and S-down
There are lots of ways to store and restore emacs windows, see emacswiki.org on the subject.
What I do is just go to that changed buffer, C-x k it, and the current buffer in that window will be the previous buffer.
It may be possible to define advice for the help that saves the current window and buffer state and restores it with a simple keybind. But this is outside my basic elisp knowledge.
I'm trying to write a plugin that calls a function (icalendar-import-file) which has the nasty side effect of opening between 1 and 3 buffers every time it is called, and sometimes I want to call it a whole bunch of times.
I can't even find a function that will list buffers without popping up a new buffer, which is a little frustrating.
As far as I can tell that defun (ical...) doesn't return anything useful, so the two obvious solutions to me are to either: (1) set a variable to a list of buffers before I run the function, and then sweep through the buffers that exist after the function exits and delete the new ones, (something like save-excursion, but for buffers) or (2) somehow suppress the creation. It looks like ical... is pretty heavily dependent on this, though, so I'm not sure that that's feasible.
Are you looking for the function :
buffer-list is a built-in function in
`C source code'.
(buffer-list &optional FRAME)
Return a list of all existing live
buffers. If the optional arg FRAME is
a frame, we return the buffer list in
the proper order for that frame: the
buffers in FRAME's `buffer-list' frame
parameter come first, followed by the
rest of the buffers.
If you know which function is creating the unwanted buffers, and understand what effect removing them will have, you could always advise them (using after advice) to remove the unwanted buffer right at the source of the problem. I think this is safer than simply removing any new buffer once a function has finished.
In vim, visual block can be recall by 'gv' command so that multiple commands can be applied easily. (such as, comment out, then indent, then do_something_fun).
In Emacs, how can this be achieved?
[C-xC-x] only works when current cursor position stays where previous block ended.
If previous block was changed, the closest is to go through 'point-to-register' and 'jump-to-register'.
Just I am curious if there is an Emacs built-in command making this in one shot.
If Transient Mark mode is off, the region is always active. If it's on (which it sounds like is your situation), you can set mark-even-if-inactive to non-nil to allow region commands to work while the region isn't highlighted.
However, note you also can cycle back through previous mark positions using C-u C-SPC -- this will pop the mark ring. Once you're back to where you want to be, C-x C-x will rehighlight the region you want. (It may take a little bit of playing with this feature to get a feel for it, but it's why I can't switch away from Emacs now.)
If I understand correctly what you are asking for, then you don't need to do anything. When you select a region in emacs, it stays selected until you select a new one. So you could select the region and then perform as many actions as you want.
Sounds like you're looking for the secondary selection, which stays put even as the region might change. (It stays put until you move it.)
See:
the Emacs manual, node Secondary Selection
Emacs wiki page Secondary Selection
library second-sel.el:
Also narrow-to-region (CTRL-x n n ) applies every command from then on just to that region- you can't hurt the rest of the buffer, it doesn't even show. After done editing , widen (CTRL-x n w )to get back the whole buffer.
CMM
If you use evil-mode, just press gv like in vim.
Since the answers here and for other similar SO questions didn't help for me (CUA-mode, Emacs 24, not only indent-rigidly), I continued searching and finally found a reselect-last-region defined in this collection of custom function (starting line 670). That worked like a charm for me - and hopefully does for others still arriving here.