I read the following on the Emacs list about Emacs multi-term:
Because of changes in advice.el, multi-term.el does not work anymore. These changes surely mark the emerge into a bright future. But I hate them because I can no longer use my beloved multi-term.
Unfortunately the development of multi-term is abandoned.
However, today I saw a new update when updating my Emacs packages:
multi-term 20140316.... installed Managing multiple terminal buffers in Emacs.
The date sems to be March 16 of 2014. With this, my question is:
Where did this update come from? Is there a multi-term repository that is actively maintained?
If multi-term is not compatible with Emacs 24.4, will the functionality of multi-term be available in Emacs? (e.g. automatically closing the buffer when exiting the terminal)
It does not seem that multi-term's development has been abandoned. Check the source on its emacswiki page. The change log in the file says
;;; Change log:
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;; 2014/03/17 Andy Stewart
;; * Swap key binding of `term-send-raw' and `term-send-input', i think it's better send yank data when user hit ctrl+m.
;;
;; 2014/01/16
;; * Fix breakage introduced in Emacs 24.4.
;;
The latest change was made yesterday. This is where the update came from. Also the breakage due to 24.4 seems to fixed.
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Recently I upgraded Emacs from 24 to 25.3.2 version. After automatic installation of all packages by use-package I noticed that M-x always shows the standard list of all possible commands in alphabetical order. For example, I press M-x and type dired. Next time I cannot press M-x and just run a previous command, I have to type dired again.
I have no idea which package forces M-x to behave in that way.
I was not so sure where to ask this question: here or in emacs.stackexchange. It seems, in stackoverflow there are also a lot of emacs questions.
Every time I type a comment in emacs, tramp freezes it.
it says:Tramp: waiting for prompts from remote shell
This happens for any file I open. It freezes for a minute whenever I type /, and repeats for all characters typed until whitespace.
I found a few other questions like this, but they all seemed to be asked by people who use tramp. I do not use tramp. Had it not been freezing emacs, I would not have known what it is.
Can anyone tell me how to make it stop?
.emacs
Does it happen in every file? Only for octave related files?
Have you tried with "emacs -Q"?. If you are free of the problem with "emacs -Q", then check with "emacs -q", if not, post your emacs version and OS.
If with "emacs -q" you are free of the problem, the problem is in your .emacs. Your .emacs is tiny, so a binary search of what is the offending part should be quick.
By default, auto-complete suggests file names when you type //, and this invokes tramp to get the file name list. To turn of this behaviour, make sure ac-source-filename is not in your ac-sources list. An easy way to do this globally is to edit your auto-complete-config.el to comment out the line
(add-hook 'auto-complete-mode-hook 'ac-common-setup)
According to this answer, Emacs + Slime already has much advanced functionality. So how can I get syntax coloring, auto-completion, and perhaps even version control management, set up and running in my copy of Lispbox?
If it's of any help, I have installed Lispbox on Mac OS Lion.
Syntax highlighting should already be working as soon as you load a lisp file in Emacs, regardless of whether you've got SLIME installed or not. If it's not, try doing M-x font-lock-mode and see if that turns it on.
Version control isn't provided by Emacs or SLIME, but Emacs can integrate with pretty much any version control system you care to use. I recommend Mercurial or Git. Emacs should start vc-mode automatically when you open a file that is in one of the supported version control systems. The manual includes extensive documentation, do M-: (info "(emacs)Version Control") to jump right to it.
Auto-completion is more complicated. There is more than one way to skin this cat, but for Lisp SLIME's default method should be good enough. Use M-TAB to complete the symbol at point.
Emacs is my editor of choice, and I use the cscope intergration xcscope.el provides. Recently I had a flirt with Vim. I decided to stay with Emacs, but one of the things I really liked in Vim was how I could control where my cscope windows should appear. Using cscope_maps.vim (http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_maps.vim) I get shortcuts that let Vim open search results in the same buffer, a new horizontal or a new vertical split.
In Emacs a the cscope buffer just pops up in a window somewhere, according to some rules I don't know. My guess: A new window is opened if I have only one. If I have more, the one I've been away from for the longest time is used.
Pin Emacs buffers to windows (for cscope) is the only related topic I've found that helps a bit, but that doesn't make it near as flexible as the key bindings in Vim.
Anyone got a better cscope setup in Emacs than what xcscope.el provides? I don't know lisp, so I have no idea how hard it would be to make this work the way it does in Vim.
Emacs 24 (not yet released) changes radically how it is decided which buffers are displayed in which windows. In principle it should give you more fine-grained control. In any case, how you solve the problem for Emacs 24 will be different from how you solve it for older versions.
Consider filing an Emacs enhancement request to specifically get behavior more like what you had with Vim. To do that, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
Is there a way to expand the current command at the Clojure repl like I'd be able to do in Common Lisp?
For example say I have typed:
Math/
I would like the tab key to expand to all the available variables and functions in that namespace.
I'm using Clojure as inferior-lisp would like to know how to do this from the plain vanilla repl in Clojure, and through swank slime.
Another vote in favour of clojure-mode and slime under Emacs. In particular, if you set up auto-complete, then you can use my ac-slime package to get context-aware tab completion in a dropdown list. Here's a screencast showing it in action.
And, further to technomancy's comment about hippie-expand, here's how to tie slime completion into hippie-expand.
Update: as of 2012, nrepl, nrepl.el and ac-nrepl are replacing slime and ac-slime; same functionality, smaller and cleaner codebase.
Update2: as of Oct 2013 nrepl.el is renamed to cider and it and ac-nrepl have moved to the clojure-emacs organisation on github. nrepl remains as the server component
Have you tried Clojure mode for Emacs? It has autocomplete (suggestions are shown in new window, and if there's only one possible option, it is used to expand name), highlighting and many other nice features (not more then for CL, but not less too).
It is available via ELPA. After installing ELPA type M-x package-list-packages, set cursor near needed package and press i (already installed packages are in red). You'll need packages clojure-mode, slime, slime-repl and swank-clojure. When you're done with i-marks, press x to complete installation. Finally, press M-x slime - Emacs will tell, that Clojure is not installed and propose to download and use latest version. Just agree.
You can also integrate Emacs with Leiningen.
The vanilla repl in Clojure is pretty crippled; it doesn't even have history. Avoid it for anything but the most primitive of tasks. I don't think you can get this in inferior-lisp, but in the slime repl you can just use TAB to complete things like this. In clojure-mode buffers with slime activated it's M-TAB, or you can tie it into your hippie-expand functions.