I prefer not to use indentation in my LaTeX documents because it makes cooperating with users of other editors more difficult. This is typically pretty easy to achieve, except that Auctex likes to automatically indent whenever I use (fill-paragraph).
For example, if I have something like:
\begin{abstract}
Some series of sentences here.
\end{abstract}
When I run (fill-paragraph) I get something like
\begin{abstract}
Some series of
sentences here.
\end{abstract}
I don't want the filled text to be indented.
Note that I don't want to disable this functionality Emacs-wide, because I like being able to fill indented comments and such in other modes. I just don't want it to happen in Auctex.
How can I achieve this?
I've already seen this question [1], but it only has a partial solution for latex-mode, not Auctex.
[1] Emacs: Turn off indentation when doing a paragraph fill in LaTeX mode
If you set the customization variables LaTeX-indent-level and LaTeX-item-indent to 0 you'll get rid of most or all of AucTex's indentation.
You could do something like
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(kill-local-variable 'line-indent-function)))
so as to disable LaTeX's indentation algorithm.
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I'm using most of the standard features of org-mode that come with the spacemacs develop branch, but I haven't been able to find a way to disable the automatic indentation for source code blocks on a case by case basis. I use tangle and I'm writing Dockerfile's in the same file that I'm writing groovy code or javascript for example. The Dockerfile's are the only ones I want not to be indented so I can get syntax highlighting. Here's what it looks like without the indentation:
And here's what it looks like with the indentation that automatically happens if I edit the text:
The automatic indentation is fine for groovy for example, so I have no issue with the automatic indentation here. (in fact, if I still got the syntax highlighting for Dockerfile's I probably wouldn't mind too much except the weird word wrapping not respecting the background face). Here's the example with groovy:
As you can see, I tried a :noindent property I found in the org-mode docs that's usually in a #+STARTUP directive. I also searched stack overflow, but I didn't find anything fruitful that didn't disable indenting for all source blocks or for the entire file.
In my practice (I'm not sure it is a good practice or not, just share it to you):
I setup org-src-tab-acts-natively to true for using the language’s major-mode indentation. In your case, it will format the src block with the formatting rules of dockerfile-mode.
I created a new major-mode plain-mode for the content which should not be indented automatically. Personally, I use this mode for something like:
shell outputs
ASCII diagrams
...
#+begin_src plain
this will not
be
auto
indented
#+end_src
Above src block will not be indented when you select them as region, and TAB on them.
In this way, the src blocks will always behavior as expected when formatting them.
Aside, the example code of plain-mode:
(define-derived-mode plain-mode
clean-mode "Plain"
"Major mode for plain text."
;; preserve the auto indentation on line
(setq-local indent-line-function 'indent-relative)
;; disable auto indentation on region
(setq-local indent-region-function (lambda (start end))))
I personally keep all lines under 80 characters, but I also work on projects in teams where other programmers don't care about line length.
I love using whitespace-mode, but the long line visualization is really annoying when I'm working on projects where I shouldn't interfere with the long lines. It seems like it should be easy to turn off the long line visualization---I hit m-x global-whitespace-toggle-options l, and then can hit m-x global-whitespace-toggel-options ? to confirm that the "long-line visualization" is turned off. But long lines are still highlighted. I kill buffers and reload them, and highlighting is still there. I'm definitely using global, not local, whitespace-mode.
Why can't I turn off the long line visualization?
The last time I customized whitespace-mode, I noticed that my changes to the settings didn't have any effect in buffers that already existed; try recreating the buffer, or leaving and reentering whitespace-mode. In case you don't already know, you can use M-x customize-group whitespace to turn off that particular option entirely, rather than doing it manually.
Edit: Specifically you want to customize the whitespace-style variable. This lets you turn on and off individual styles. In this case you should turn off the ones labelled "(Face) Lines" and "(Face) Lines, only overlong part". The former changes the face of the whole line when it is overly long, while the latter only changes the face of the part that extends past the threshold.
(Other options in this group define the faces that whitespace-mode will use to highlight the styles you've turned on, the regexes it uses to identify certain situations, etc, but usually you only care about whitespace-style).
Set whitespace-line-column to a higher value (default is 80), so the highlighting of long lines doesn't kick in:
(setq whitespace-line-column 250)
I'm assuming that you already have whitespace-mode activated somewhere in your init.el or similar. If so, you can adapt duma's comment above, and either
Edit the elisp that sets whitespace-style to remove lines-tail. E.g., Emacs Prelude sets
(setq whitespace-style '(face tabs empty trailing lines-tail))
Simply change that to
(setq whitespace-style '(face tabs empty trailing))
If you don't want to directly edit that elisp, but rather override it later with your own code, do something like
(setq whitespace-style (delete 'lines-tail whitespace-style))
Unfortunately, if running Prelude with auto-loaded buffers (using something like Emacs Desktop), the initial setting will take precedence: for each buffer on which you want to see whitespace-style displayed as directed, you must [1]
kill the buffer
re-open the buffer
[1]: Note to OP: if there's another way to reload a buffer, please edit or comment this answer. I was hoping to find something like M-x reload-buffer but am not seeing anything like that with C-h a buffer.
I have a log file that has a lot of tagging information, i.e, "ERROR", "WARNING", "***". I want to show the log info with different color/fonts based on the tagging info.
How can I do that?
Do I have to come up with my own major/minor modes? Is there some elisp code that I can reuse?
You can do this interactively with:
M-s h r regexp <RET> FACE <RET>
or
C-x w h regexp <RET> FACE <RET>
see the documentation for Interactive Highlighting. Note: The second key binding is only available after you've turned on Hi-Lock mode via M-x global-hi-lock-mode.
If you want to set up a minor mode to do this on a regular basis, I'd check out fixme-mode and modify things from there.
It might be useful to read the Faces portion of the manual to understand what is going on.
Generic Mode was designed to ease the creation of simple custom modes for things like this.
You can use a similar function in hooks for modes you care:
(defun add-watchwords ()
(font-lock-add-keywords
nil '(("\\<\\(FIX\\|TODO\\|FIXME\\|HACK\\|REFACTOR\\):"
1 font-lock-warning-face t))))
I use this for coding modes obviously, so you should adjust the items you want highlighted.
I am currently using emacs and auctex to author my latex documents. This is, of course, fantastic. However, I would like to have emacs and/or auctex auto-fill the section label when using C-c C-e to make a new header. It should end up looking like this:
\section{This is a section title}
\label{sec:this-is-a-section-title}
with the label for the header the same as the title, but with no spaces. I don't know lisp or elisp, and I'd have no idea where to start. If anyone could help that would be great!
If you use RefTeX then C-c ( will do what you want (giving you the opportunity to change the label if you wish). Also C-c ) will insert \ref{...}, popping up a buffer to choose which label to use. It also does other stuff including working with bibliographies. You should definitely look into it.
I think it's now part of the AUCTeX distribution so that all you should have to do is add
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (function turn-on-reftex))
(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)
to your .emacs.
Suppose I have a few words I would like to highlight, so I want to change the color of those few words only to, say, green.
Is there an easy way to do this in emacs?
Thank you.
This is what I've done, using font-lock-add-keywords. I wanted to highlight the words TODO:, HACK:, and FIXME: in my code.
(defface todo-face
'((t ()))
"Face for highlighting comments like TODO: and HACK:")
(set-face-background 'todo-face cyan-name)
;; Add keywords we want highlighted
(defun add-todo-to-current-mode ()
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
'(("\\(TODO\\|HACK\\|FIXME\\):" 1 'todo-face prepend))
t))
Use library HighLight. You can use overlays or text properties. You can save the highlighting permanently or let it be temporary. You can highlight in many ways (regexp, mouse-drag,...). Lots of possibilities.
The highlight package has hlt-highlight-regexp-region and hlt-highlight-regexp-to-end, which do exactly what you want.
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/highlight.el
Use the function font-lock-add-keywords to define a new matcher for the string in question, binding that matcher to some face you've defined that will display as green. For example:
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
'("\\<foo\\>" 0 my-green-face))
Note that you can specify a particular mode where I wrote nil above, and the matching forms can take on any of six different styles. See the documentation for the variable font-lock-keywords for the rules and a few examples.
If you want them highlighted only temporarily, I find M-x highlight-regexp command very helpful, it is especially nice for looking through log files of sorts. For example you made yourself a logging class that outputs some tracing info like MyClass::function() > when function is run and MyClass::function() < when it exits (can be especially useful sometimes when debugging multithreading issues) then you just ask emacs to highlight some of them green and other red and then you can see how did the execution go.
I use what Dimitri suggested. In particular, I have the following two lines in my .emacs
(global-hi-lock-mode t)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-M-h") 'highlight-regexp)
Every-time I need to highlight a certain word (or regex) in a buffer, I hit "C-M-h", which then prompts me for the word (or regex) I want to be displayed differently and then for a face to display it in.