I've used auto-complete.el in Emacs for ages. I'm using Emacs a bit more these days and my left pinky is starting to get RSI from hitting TAB and ctrl all the time. I've done some keyboard remapping to alleviate the situation but every few characters I'm generally pressing tab to complete a word. Is there any way to switch auto-complete.el from using TAB for completion to spacebar with my less used and stronger thumbs?
Edit2: I was using a really old version of auto-complete.el which meant that #hd1 suggestion didn't work for me immediately.
Going to the source and scrolling down to line 235 shows that if you set the variable ac-trigger-key you can change the key that's used to trigger completion. You should set this variable in your custom-set-variables block in your .emacs file.
I think ac-complete-mode-map is a keymap used when the auto-complete
menu is shown. How about trying something like this instead (this is
my setting):
(define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "C-SPC") 'auto-complete)
If you don't use evil, you need to find another keymap. Perhaps a
mode-specific map, or even global-map will work.
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In Markdown mode with flyspell enabled, mouse-2 bound to mouse-yank-primary is also bound to flyspell-correct-word, the flyspell function that displays in a menu correction propositions. If the buffer is empty, the menu is displayed, if not, its content is yanked. Grrr.
I spent some time trying to find where to change this second binding but as I'm not an emacs guru, I just got lost. I tried (global-set-key "S-mouse-2" #'flyspell-correct-word) in ~/.emacs.d/init.el but I didn't manage to get anything working properly.
So the question is how and where to bind say S-mouse-2 to that function. A better solution would be to keep both bindings but to prioritize the menu over yanking when the mouse is over a word that needs correction.
On my GNU Emacs 25.2.2 the command (executed from the *scratch* buffer)
(global-set-key "S-mouse-2" #'flyspell-correct-word)
pops up the debugger. However,
(global-set-key [S-mouse-2] #'flyspell-correct-word)
works, as also
(global-set-key [S-mouse-2] 'flyspell-correct-word)
You can check the effect with:
(global-key-binding [S-mouse-2])
I've been working with VIM for decades, and I've become quite proficient in it. I was however sort-of... seduced by Emacs's org-mode, and in order to try it, I installed Emacs and Evil.
Evil satisfies most of my VIM-related muscle memory, so I proceeded with my testing of org-mode - and met my first issue: when I spawn Emacs in its own window (i.e. emacs plan.org) then the TAB key works, opening and closing my plan's sections just fine. However, TAB does nothing when I use Emacs in text mode (i.e inside my XTerms, via "emacs -nw plan.org"). And that's the state that I am mostly interested in, since I usually work from inside screen/tmux over SSH connections.
If it's a conflict with Evil-mode, I don't understand why - I am unaware of any TAB functionality in VIM's normal mode (which is what we're in when opening/closing org-mode sections).
Any Emacs-guru out there with a suggestion on why this happens?
Try
(setq evil-want-C-i-jump nil)
in your ~/.emacs before
(require 'evil)
Evil has, in evil-maps.el
(when evil-want-C-i-jump
(define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "C-i") 'evil-jump-forward))
That should give you org-mode Tab functionality back
I have almost no experience with terminals. However, I know that TAB is equivalent to C-i. Maybe that one would go through the terminal? If that works, you could add some key bindings for every TAB operation?
Try maybe C-h k TAB as well to see if TAB if sent on the wire.
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "M-i") 'evil-jump-forward)
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "M-o") 'evil-jump-backward)
I bind the function to other keys, so it's also work.
I have a really annoying situation; when I'm editing in emacs and the auto-complete box loads up, I find I'm using the escape key to quit out of it when I don't need it. The problem is this has the unwanted behaviour of making the current window the only window. This is really annoying when I've set up a number of windows/frames for various tasks.
I'm using auto-complete.el, with the following options:
(ac-config-default)
(define-key ac-completing-map "\e" 'ac-stop) ; use esc key to exit completion
(global-set-key "\C-f" 'ac-isearch)
Since hitting the ESC key is in my muscle-memory for dismissing UI elements (drop-downs, dialogs, etc), any idea on how I can hit escape without having the current focussed frame take over?
In Mac emacs "ESC ESC ESC" is bound to keyboard-escape-quit by default, which is what you're accidentally invoking. This fixed it for me:
(global-unset-key (kbd "ESC ESC ESC"))
Press C-g instead of escape.ff
I'm trying to teach Emacs standard shortcut keys. I use emacs23-nox version from Debian, often through SSH connection. One of those is CTRL+SHIFT+S for SaveAs. The relevant part of configuration looks like this:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-S") 'write-file)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'save-buffer)
but causes either both CTRL+SHIFT+S and CTRL+S invoke 'save-buffer (or 'write-file, depending on which line comes last). I also tried "C-S-s" instead of "C-S".
No Use of Shift Key section of Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful says it's not possible. I read this answer, but the accepted solution doesn't work for me (C-h k CTRL+SHIFT+S prints C-s).
Is there a way to make Emacs (the no GUI version) differentiate between CTRL+SHIFT+S and CTRL+S?
You can't, there isn't any provision in the character sets for uppercase control characters. The only way you can get shift and control is by going direct to the windowing system, so you need the GUI version.
To clarify a bit: If you are using Emacs with a window manager, then you can bind the key [(control shift ?s)], which is C-S-s (aka C-S, but not written this way in Emacs). This key is definitely different from the ASCII control character C-s, which has no lowercase/uppercase versions.
So the answer is (a) you have to be using a graphics terminal; (b) bind [(control shift ?s)] to get the uppercase version.
I want to override the bad default tabbing scheme in emacs so that it will work like most other editors (eclipse, notepad++). I want to set it so that regardless of mode, tab will insert a tab, and pressing enter will keep me at my current tab depth.
I tried this, but it does nothing:
(global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'tab-to-tab-stop)
(setq default-tab-width 4) ;; 8 is way too many
To make the Enter key take you to the next line and indent it automatically, you can put
(global-set-key (kbd "RET") 'newline-and-indent)
in your .emacs. [Or you can hit C-j instead of Enter.] Once you have that, you'll never need to insert tabs manually, because Emacs automatically indents a new line to extra depth after an opening brace, etc. If you do want to change the indentation, you can hit TAB until it takes you to the right indentation, then start typing from there. [And when you type a closing brace, Emacs is smart enough to take that brace one indentation level backwards.]
You should remove the (global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'tab-to-tab-stop) for this to work.
Many major modes override the TAB binding, for example cc-mode binds TAB to 'c-indent-to-column.
The 'global-set-key that is suggested does nothing as almost every major mode has overridden the TAB.
One trick that might work for you is to copy the approach that 'pabbrev uses, and define a global minor mode that has the TAB bound. You could do that like so:
(defvar just-tab-keymap (make-sparse-keymap) "Keymap for just-tab-mode")
(define-minor-mode just-tab-mode
"Just want the TAB key to be a TAB"
:global t :lighter " TAB" :init-value 0 :keymap just-tab-keymap
(define-key just-tab-keymap (kbd "TAB") 'indent-for-tab-command))
However, this disables all TAB completion. You'll probably get best results by overriding each of the major-modes one by one (so as to avoid mussing up TAB completion).
This bugged me, too, when I first started using Emacs. I've come to love it, though. If I want to indent appropriately, I hit <tab>; if I want to insert a literal tab, I hit M-i (Meta and 'i' or <Alt>-<i> in some parlances) which is bound to tab-to-tab-stop.
I think trey jackson's answer is probably what you want, except possibly use 'self-insert-command instead of 'indent-for-tab-command. I personally prefer emacs' default behavior, but self-insert-command does what it says instead of trying to do anything fancy like make sure your code is well-formatted.
The few times I actually want to insert a tab (not indent) I press M-i.
You may be interested in this minor mode I created at http://github.com/vohrta/regtab.
It makes it so that when you press the tab key either a tab character (if indent-tabs-mod is not nil) or tab-width spaces will be placed at point. The mode is also capable of handling what you may consider regular behavior on a region of selected text and shift-tabbing to remove tabs at the beginning of the line (or set of lines).
You can enable or disable it at any time by pressing M-x regtab-mode.
C-j does the newline + indent functionality that you want out of pressing Enter.