Using Debian, when selecting multiple files in nautilus and opening them in emacs 23 all of these start in the same window with a different buffer for each.
However with emacs-snapshot (GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1) all of these files gets opened in different frames, which I find very annoying as I usually like to have all of these files grouped together.
How can I have the old behavior of selecting files in nautilus and having them open in a single frame with multiple buffers?
I know I can drag and drop, or opening from a terminal, but I would prefer to select from nautilus.
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Is it possible to open the same file buffer(editor) in multiple VSCode windows? This is not the same as opening the same file more than once. In the later, if you forget to save edits in one window, and then save different edits in another window, you end up with conflicts. I'm curious if it's possible to have the same buffer opened (mirrored?) in different windows, such that the view is identical for that file across all windows. So if I make changes in the file (even before saving), those changes also show in every other window that the buffer is opened in. I've searched around a lot but can't really find anything. Thanks.
Use the Split Editor command: Ctrl + \.
You can also use the icon in the top right. Hold Alt to split down.
Opening whole directories (each one requiring a new window) doesn’t play well with editing lots of little scripts/config files scattered in different folders.
Yes, you can! Here are three ways:
Either by running code {yourfilename here} in a terminal.
Dragging the file from a file explorer onto the open VSCode window.
Use the menu item "File/Open file... (Ctrl + O)", see image.
You don't have to open a folder in VSCode!
In VSCode create a New Window (instance) and open all the files you're interested in from anywhere on your disk.
If you want to keep this selection for later, you can Save Workspace As .. for later usage.
I have two windows open in my Emacs session. Both are remote files opened using tramp. I make a change in window A and switch to window B without saving file in window A. When Emacs decides to autosave, the buffer displayed in window B is switched to the buffer from window A that was autosaved. This only happens when using tramp, not local files.
Another thing I have noticed is, that if I have the same file opened in two windows, because I need to reference something at another position in the file and save the file, the buffer I'm in sometimes jumps to the position that the point is in the other window, so I have to move around to get back to the place where I was editing.
Is this a bug or is there some setting that I have(n't) set? I suspect it is something related to refreshing the windows when saving.
i'm using Emacs 24.3 on OSX, but I have seen this using Linux too.
Sounds very much like a bug, to me. Can you reproduce this starting from emacs -Q (i.e., with no init file)?
If so, use M-x report-emacs-bug to give Emacs Dev the recipe. If not, bisect your init file recursively until you locate the culprit code. Then ask for more help here, if it's not clear how to fix the problem.
I'm using tabbed mode but it doesn't seem to (or I don't know how to) open different files in different tabs. Could anyone tell me of a way to achieve this?
You can open multiple files at once with filename globbing, just as you would use in your shell.
e.g.: C-x C-f *.txt RET to open all text files in the current directory.
I don't use any kind of tab library (and Emacs does not offer tabs by default, so I'll echo 0x4b's query about where your tabs are coming from?), but if it displays each buffer in a different tab, then this may be enough to do what you want.
Does Emacs have the capability to open recent files (e.g. a menu like File > Open Recent...)?
I know that Aquamacs, for OS X, has this feature. But is it common to all Emacs versions?
The most idiomatic method of providing this functionality that I know of is through the use of recentf-mode (more here). I enable it in my initialization file with:
(require 'recentf)
(recentf-mode 1)
It then provides an interactive function, recentf-open-files, which I bind to C-x f, which provides a numbered menu of recently opened files that spans sessions, i.e. even if you shut down emacs and restart it, it will retain your recently opened files. You can bind the function to an accelerator with another line in your initialization file, like:
(global-set-key "\C-xf" 'recentf-open-files)
(Optional)
If you make extensive use of Tramp, recentf will track those files too, and do it's periodic cleanup thing which can be a real mess since the files are remote. Prevent this by putting this in your startup file:
(setq recentf-auto-cleanup 'never)
Ordinary GNU Emacs doesn't have a menu showing recently open files. However, all Emacs commands have history, including find-file (C-x C-f). Selecting “File | Open” in the menu or opening a file with emacsclient also adds to this history. After you press C-x C-f, press up and down to navigate the history of opened files.
The history is saved between sessions if you enable session saving with the desktop package.
If you just want to save the minibuffer history between emacs invocations you can put the following in your .emacs:
(savehist-mode 1)
Unlike the desktop package that can save all your open buffers across invocations, this does just the minibuffer history (e.g. when opening a file you can use the up arrow to navigate the list of files you opened in a previous session).
GNU Emacs does include library recentf.el, since Emacs 22. Just do as indicated by R.P. Dillon.