I have an org-mode file for todos, and I have renamed the todo bullets to "Att göra" (TODO in swedish). However org-mode (in Windows, see exact version below) think it is "Att göra" (pressing M-S-RET). I can see åäö correct, but "Att göra" is not intepreted as a TODO item. I can also see in the configuration files that it is spelled "Att göra", still org-mode think it is "Att göra".
I have tried to save the configuration files and my org-mode file in UTF-8 (C-x RET f utf-8 RET). I have the following in my Emacs configuration:
;; Prefer utf-8
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq coding-system-for-read 'utf-8)
(setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(inhibit-startup-screen t)
'(keyboard-coding-system (quote utf-8))
'(selection-coding-system (quote utf-8)))
This happens only in Emacs for Windows (I think this is the version number):
GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
It works in Mac, Cygwin (however I have trouble with M-S-RET as the terminal doesn't transfer that sequence right, despite that I have disabled the Alt-Enter shortcut to go fullscreen), Linux etc. It is only in Emacs Windows standalone client.
If you have any idea why this is, I would be very greateful for your suggestions.
I want to leave this question answered.
Brady told med to add
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "" 'utf-8-unix)
to my Emacs file and it works! No idea what it really does.
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I am trying to run emacs with proof generale to open Coq files. However, when I open emacs I get the following error message:
Symbol's value as variable is void: “/Users/myusername/.opam/default/bin/coqtop”
My emacs file is as follows:
(setq coq-prog-name “/Users/username/.opam/default/bin/coqtop”)
(require 'package) ;; (setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3") ; see remark below (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t) (package-initialize)
(custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(package-selected-packages '(proof-general))) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. )
Any advice on how to make my emacs work with coqtop?
Emacs treats “/Users/myusername/.opam/default/bin/coqtop” as a symbol because it's a sequence of ordinary characters. It does not start with an (ASCII) double quote, it starts with the character “ and ends with the character ”. They non-ASCII left and right double quotes. Use the ASCII quote ", which is the string delimiter in Emacs Lisp (and many other programming languages).
(setq coq-prog-name "/Users/username/.opam/default/bin/coqtop")
Don't edit source code with word processors that insert “smart quotes” and other features meant for text read by humans. The best place to edit your Emacs configuration is Emacs itself. Emacs knows what type of file you're editing and won't do such substitutions in programming modes (unless you've gone out of your way to configure it to do so, in which case, don't).
I have some weird behavior, I don't actually know if it's a bug or something else.
When I do C-c C-e the option to convert to markdown doesn't appear. Nonetheless I can type the option M-x org-md-export-as-markdown and after I do that, the option export to markdown appears in the C-c C-e menu.
Any Ideas?
If you are using Org-mode version 8.0 or later (check with M-x org-version), the export framework is broken up into several libraries that are not necessarily loaded by default.
Something like this in your Emacs configuration can load the Markdown exporter automatically with Org-mode:
(eval-after-load "org"
'(require 'ox-md nil t))
After emacs 25,you just need add a line in your emacs configuration file: .emacs
(require 'ox-md nil t)
M-x customize-variable <Ret> org-export-backends <Ret>
check option 'md', then save.
My Emacs opens .m files in ObjC mode. However I want to open them in Octave mode. I have already added to the .emacs file:
(autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
What else should I do? I do have Octave mode installed.
Fortunately everything is working now and unfortunately I don't remember how I fixed it :) Maybe there was an error in my .emacs earlier. This is the more correct code:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.m$" . octave-mode))
Autoloading is unneeded in recent versions; if you do need to enable it, note that "octave-mode" is not a typo.
(autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)
Use this.
;; octave-mode
(autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mode" "Loding octave-mode" t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.m\\'" . octave-mode))
Just ran into this exact problem.
Your statement is correct, but your .emacs file probably isn't loading up correctly. Emacs searches the "HOME" variable to load up preferences, lisp code etc.
To see what your HOME variable is:
Open scratch buffer (this is a "play place" to try things out):
C-x C-b *scratch* <RET>
Evaluate this expression by typing it, then putting the cursor to the right, then hitting C-x C-e
insert (getenv "HOME")
Emacs will display your home path at the bottom (mine defaulted to ...Documents and Settings\UserName)
I haven't worked out a good way to change it, but you're supposed to be able to simply add HOME as an environment variable (that didn't work for me).
It's also talked about a bit more over here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Windows-HOME.html
Also remember that the file has to be ".emacs" and not myConfig.emacs or something of the like. Use bash command ren to rename the file (windows explorer won't let you have nameless files)
I've had these functions in my .emacs.el file for years:
(defun dos2unix ()
"Convert a DOS formatted text buffer to UNIX format"
(interactive)
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'undecided-unix nil))
(defun unix2dos ()
"Convert a UNIX formatted text buffer to DOS format"
(interactive)
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'undecided-dos nil))
These functions allow me to easily switch between formats, but I'm not sure how to configure Emacs to write in one particular format by default regardless of which platform I'm using. As it is now, when I run on Windows, Emacs saves in Windows format; when I run in UNIX/Linux, Emacs saves in UNIX format.
I'd like to instruct Emacs to write in UNIX format regardless of the platform on which I'm running. How do I do this?
Should I perhaps add some text mode hook that calls one of these functions? For example, if I'm on Windows, then call dos2unix when I find a text file?
I've got a bunch of these in my .emacs:
(setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
(setq-default default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8-unix)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
I don't know which is right, I am just superstitious.
I up-voted question and answer, but spent a couple minutes possibly improving on the info, so I'll add it.
First, I checked documentation on each variable and function in user181548's answer, by (first cutting and pasting into Emacs, then) putting cursor over each, and typing C-h v RET and C-h f RET respectively.
This suggested that I might only need
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
Experimenting with the other lines didn't seem to change pre-existing buffer encodings (typing C-h C RET RET to check (describe-coding-system) and g each time to refresh), so I omitted the other lines and made a key-binding to quickly change any old files that were still DOS, that is,
(defun set-bfr-to-8-unx ()
(interactive)
(set-buffer-file-coding-system
'utf-8-unix)
)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c u")
'set-bfr-to-8-unx
)
For the curious, to discover the 3rd and 4th line of above function, (set-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix), I used C-x RET f RET to manually change the current buffer's encoding, then M-x command-history RET to see how those keys translate to code.
Now maybe my git commit's will stop whining about CRs.
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...)