I'm trying to get TeXcount to work inside Emacs with AUCTeX. According to the TeXCount website, it should be possible to use the following to run texcount on the current buffer:
(require 'tex)
(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
(list "TeXcount" "texcount %s.tex" 'TeX-run-command nil t))
When I run this, a buffer is created with the results, but the buffer does not open in the current window and is instead buried in the buffer list where I have to then go and look for it. How can I get AucTeX to open the buffer next to the one I'm currently looking at?
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I have one frame, one window.
I use Cx 3, I now have two windows.
I use Cx Cb in order to see the list of buffers, however it opens it in another window but doesn't put the focus on it. It is even more annoying if I had opened a buffer on the 2nd window.
I would prefer to either open the buffer list in the window which currently has the focus, or temporarily change the focus to the buffer list.
First of all I want to start by saying that the ibuffer function does similary to what you want and does so in the current window, its definitely worth checking out.
Now onto your actual question. C-x C-b by default calls the function list-buffers. If you search for that command using C-h f it will show you the documentation, from there you can view the source code for the function by clicking on the underlined text that says buff-menu.el.
Now we can view the source of the list-buffers, the first function called is display-buffer. That sounds promising. We can now use C-h f once again to search for the display-buffer command. Reading though this documentation we see that the variable display-buffer-alist dictates how the display-buffer and in turn how list-buffers works. We can then see that by adding ("*Buffer List*" . display-buffer-same-window) to display-buffer-alist you will get the desired result.
All in all you simply need to put (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("*Buffer List*" . display-buffer-same-window)) in your init file for your changes to take place.
Please just try one of these:
open the buffer list who currently has the focus:
(defun my:list-buffers (&optional arg)
(interactive "P")
(display-buffer (list-buffers-no-select arg) '(display-buffer-same-window)))
change the focus
(defun my:list-buffers2 (&optional arg)
(interactive "P")
(select-window (list-buffers arg)))
How can I make Emacs start in text-mode and get rid of the following message?
;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,
;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.
To get rid of the start message just set the initial-scratch-message variable to ""
(setq initial-scratch-message "")
To start the scratch buffer in text mode you will want to initial-major-mode variable
(setq initial-major-mode 'text-mode)
For setting of auto-mode when you start a specific major-mode you'll want to add an event to the mode hook
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
Rather than fiddle with the way the scratch buffer works, I'd recommend you open Emacs with a file argument. E.g. if you do "emacs foo.txt" chances are it will already start up in text-mode without you having to do anything special for it.
You only do M-x text-mode in the scratch buffer.
That's all.
Working with >1 Emacs (on >1 machine), and want to check all open buffers for changes (they are open remotely via tramp/ssh) when I resume working on a particular Emacs.
Different Emacs might not have the exact same files open, but there is probably crossover.
Not using Desktop mode or anything flash like that (yet).
Thanks!
If you are wanting buffers to revert in Emacs when the associated files are changed by another program, then you should look at
C-hf global-auto-revert-mode RET
If I understand correctly, you want to revert any buffers to their file's contents if the file has been modified outside emacs.
Here's a little snippet of lisp that will loop through the unmodified buffers and reloads the contents from disk:
(require 'cl)
(loop for buffer being the buffers
do (when
(and (not (buffer-modified-p buffer)) (buffer-file-name buffer))
(switch-to-buffer buffer)
(revert-buffer nil t)))
When I open 3+ files in emacs, I get a split window with one of my files in the upper buffer and Buffer List in the lower buffer.
How can I get emacs to NOT put Buffer List there, but instead show another one of my files.
thanks. -John
Try this:
(setq inhibit-startup-buffer-menu t)
Documentation can be found here.
Note: This option was introduced in Emacs 22.
For Emacs 21 and before, you could add the following workaround to your .emacs which will force Emacs to only have one window visible upon startup:
(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'delayed-delete-other-windows)
(defun delayed-delete-other-windows ()
"need the call to happen after startup runs, so wait for idle"
(run-with-idle-timer 0 nil 'delete-other-windows))
When I use Emacs I want to be able to easily display and navigate through a list of files I worked on from not just the current session but from previous sessions. (BTW, running Emacs 22.2 on Windows)
From Joe Grossberg's blog (no longer available):
But if you're using GNU Emacs 21.2
(the latest version, which includes
this as part of the standard distro),
you can just put the following lines
into your .emacs file
;; recentf stuff
(require 'recentf)
(recentf-mode 1)
(setq recentf-max-menu-items 25)
(global-set-key "\C-x\ \C-r" 'recentf-open-files)
Then, when you launch emacs, hit
CTRL-X CTRL-R. It will show a list of
the recently-opened files in a buffer.
Move the cursor to a line and press
ENTER. That will open the file in
question, and move it to the top of
your recent-file list.
(Note: Emacs records file names.
Therefore, if you move or rename a
file outside of Emacs, it won't
automatically update the list. You'll
have to open the renamed file with the
normal CTRL-X CTRL-F method.)
Jayakrishnan Varnam has a page
including screenshots of how this
package works.
Note: You don't need the (require 'recentf) line.
Even if you don't have recentf turned on, Emacs is saving a list of files entered via the minibuffer in the variable file-name-history. Also, executing (savehist-mode 1) in your .emacs file makes that variable persist across invocations of Emacs.
So here's a little function that displays the files that actually exist from that list (anyone is welcome to use/build on this):
(defun dir-of-recent-files ()
"See the list of recently entered files in a Dired buffer."
(interactive)
(dired (cons
"*Recent Files*"
(seq-filter
'file-exists-p
(delete-dups
(mapcar (lambda (s) (string-trim-right s "/*"))
file-name-history)
))))
)
I find this quite useful and have it bound to one of those little special function keys on my desktop keyboard. (And so I have not seen the point of turning on recentf...)