This is basically the question. I've added a new directory, since opening ECB, but the directory buffer isn't updated. How do I force it to update? Tried C-c . s and revert-buffer in the directories buffer to no effect.
EDIT
Sorry, this is weird, I actually found M-x ecb-update-directories-buffer but it won't update it :S... Is this something known to happen? This is just a regular directory I've added except the name is one letter long.
I don't use ECB, but g is the usual Emacs binding for a 'refresh buffer contents' function.
Shift + click on the node you want to refresh.
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Emacs was working fine, a few days ago some basic functions stopped working.
Alt+Ctrl+>, Alt+Ctrl+>
go to start/end buffer used to work but now I get an undefined error.
Alt+g+g goto line. It was worked, now I get an undefined error
I can't paste into the mini buffer on search with Alt+y, instead it paste the character that my cursor is on.
No one touched my .emacs file.
What is going on? I used emacs for along time and never had a problem with basic functions or pasting to the mini buffer.
Update:
Latest update on my problem is that everything is working when I use the Esc key instead of the Alt key. I don't know why or how it changes but it has nothing to do with my .emacs file or CapsLock or key pressing mistakes. Has anybody a clue why it changes and how to change it back?
Some things to check:
Is your .emacs file loading at all? Are any of the settings in your .emacs file taking effect? Alternately, try running emacs --load /path/to/your/.emacs. This will load the lisp code in your emacs file. If your settings get loaded now, then you need to move your .emacs into the right location so Emacs can pick it up.
Is another mode unbinding your keys? To check this, go to (for example) your *scratch* buffer, which should be in lisp-interaction-mode, and try a shortcut.
Is your .emacs file broken somehow? Try opening it, and commenting everything out but one binding. Then restart emacs and see what happens. If it works, keep uncommenting out sections (binary search is the way to go) to see what line breaks loading.
Are you sure you're pressing the right keys? Hit C-h c M-g g to run describe-key-briefly to see what keys you're pressing, and what they're currently bound to.
Is something wrong with the lisp code to bind the keys? I know this isn't likely, since it used to work, but try it anyway. Open up your .emacs and go to the line binding M-g g. Put your cursor after the closing parenthesis, then press C-x C-e to evaluate the s-expression containing the binding. Then, try the keyboard shortcut again. If it works, then something isn't loading your .emacs file correctly.
You can open your dot emacs and Alt-x eval-buffer. See if your dot emacs file works, or if there are any bugs.
After typing C-x r l I get a buffer called *Bookmark List*
In this buffer I see:
Bookmark file:
/tmp/bmkp-temp/19236bkt
If I open help (i.e. press h), I see:
Bookmark file: /tmp/bmkp-temp-19236bkt
Sorted:
Filtering: none
Marked: 0
Omitted: 0
Autosave bookmarks: no
Autosave list display: yes
This is even though I have the following in my .emacs file:
(setq bookmark-file "~/.emacs.d/bookmarks")
(setq bookmark-default-file "~/.emacs.d/bookmarks")
(setq bmkp-default-bookmark-file "~/.emacs.d/bookmarks")
(setq bmkp-last-as-first-bookmark-file nil)
Why is it using a different bookmark file from the one I specified?
I also noticed that when I load Emacs the following happens:
Emptying bookmark file `/tmp/bmkp-temp-23808OMn'...
Saving file /tmp/bmkp-temp-23808OMn...
Wrote /tmp/bmkp-temp-23808OMn
Emptying bookmark file `/tmp/bmkp-temp-23808OMn'...done
...
Helm completion enabled
Emptying bookmark file `/tmp/bmkp-temp-23808bWt'...
Saving file /tmp/bmkp-temp-23808bWt...
Wrote /tmp/bmkp-temp-23808bWt
Emptying bookmark file `/tmp/bmkp-temp-23808bWt'...done
...
Emacs goes on a spree deleting temporary bookmark files. ?
Perhaps you were trying to use "bookmark-file bookmarks"? Or anyways, accidently hit C-x p x?
These are claimed to correspond, at EmacsWiki: Bookmark Plus / Bookmark-File Bookmarks, where they say, "bmkp-set-bookmark-file-bookmark, bound to C-x p x". For my Emacs, this is not true.
By typing C-x p C-h, I can check key-bindings that start with C-x p. I find
C-x p x is bound to bmkp-toggle-autotemp-on-set, and
C-x p y is bound to bmkp-set-bookmark-file-bookmark.
Then, the link should say C-x p y instead.
It looks like something, somewhere (e.g. check your .emacs file) has turned on bmkp-temporary-bookmarking-mode. When that mode is on, any bookmarks you create are for the current session only -- they are not saved to your bookmark file.
And that means that your bookmark-file location settings are ignored. (Note, BTW, that bmkp-default-bookmark-file is a function, not a variable -- it is not something that you set. And you don't need all of those bookmark-file settings; some are redundant: old names from old versions of Emacs bookmarking.)
I don't know why you are getting multiple temporary bookmark-file creations and saves. You didn't provide a complete recipe. You should get only one such. This is all I see in *Messages* in this regard, for instance:
Emptying bookmark file `c:/DOCUME~1/me/LOCALS~1/Temp/bmkp-temp-5348su1'...
Saving file c:/Documents and Settings/me/Local Settings/Temp/bmkp-temp-5348su1...
Wrote c:/Documents and Settings/me/Local Settings/Temp/bmkp-temp-5348su1
Emptying bookmark file `c:/DOCUME~1/me/LOCALS~1/Temp/bmkp-temp-5348su1'...done
It also appears that you have a lot of stuff going on (Helm etc.). When trying to understand or debug a problem, it helps to narrow things down as much as possible. Who can tell what other interactions might be involved here?
All of that said, my advice would be to not start out using the temporary bookmarking mode. I would not suggest you use that until you are quite familiar with Bookmark+. You can use temporary bookmarks without using this mode.
Here is the doc about using temporary bookmarks:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BookmarkPlus#toc55
Finally, as Stefan suggested, please follow up by email. It's a lot easier for debugging/discussing things in detail.
Thx -- Drew
Update 2019-04-21:
I think what might have happened is that you quit Emacs with bmkp-temporary-bookmarking-mode enabled. Although Bookmark+ (correctly) does not save the file of temporary bookmarks it was not preventing the recording of bmkp-last-as-first-bookmark-file from being updated to point to the temporary file. In your next Emacs session that temporary file (if it still existed) was loaded because of bmkp-last-as-first-bookmark-file.
That should be OK now. Enabling bmkp-temporary-bookmarking-mode now resets bmkp-last-as-first-bookmark-file to nil, so if you quit with the temp mode still enabled, then when you load your bookmark file in a new session the file that is read is the value of bookmark-default-file. (The value of bookmark-default-file is never changed, except by your
customizations.)
It's quite an old question, but since I had just the same problem and the other answers didn't help me I'll post my solution:
I'm using desktop files from desktop.el and the temporary mode was set there in the desktop file! Removing that setting from all my desktop files fixed the problem.
This might be handy:
find ~ -name .emacs.desktop -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l bmkp-temporary-bookmarking-mode
In dired mode, how can i open the file fastly in the subfolder? I found that after loading dired+', the key 'j' isdired-goto-file'. But I cannot use it in the emacs 24 + Windows 7.
Is there any convenient key to open/find the file in subfolder fast?
thanks.
Personally, I recommend using isearch when you're finding something in a buffer, including dired. I find that the incremental search really help and efficient after I get familiar with it.
You can take a look at 10 Specific Ways to Improve Your Productivity With Emacs. It's tip 4.
As he said:
"It's difficult to overemphasize how powerful this technique is, once you've mastered it."
Your question is not clear to me.
In Dired (including for Dired+), j prompts you for a file name and moves the cursor to that file name in Dired. Does it not do that for you? You say that you cannot use it in Emacs 24 and Windows 7. I use it in Emacs 24 and Windows 7 (and with Dired+) all the time, with no problem.
Please provide more info. What happens when you use j?. What did you expect to happen, and what really happens?
But you speak about "opening" the file. That is not what j does. It is what RET does, when the cursor is on the file name. Does that not work for you?
Perhaps you just want to open a file after being prompted for its name? For that, just use C-x 4 f or C-x C-f.
Not clear. But depending on what you really want, perhaps the answer is here: j, RET, or C-x 4 f.
I think I can understand the question. The platform should not matter.
Pressing j provides the current directory string in the mini-buffer,
making it convenient to write a file-name and tab-complete it. When that
file-name is a sub-directory of the dired directory, one can find files
in that sub-directory.
Now, if a file in that sub-directory is selected and you press RET,
minibuffer informs that mark set, and point stay foot.
I tried C-x C-SPC (pop-global-mark) to see if I would be jumped to
the file found in another buffer, but not so. The mark was set at point.
So this provides no answer but in best case a clarification of the
original question. I could agree it would be nice to be jumped with point on that file in the sub-directory.
I stumbled into this because I wondered what j does in dired mode,
pressing it by mistake.
even though i don't use dired mode,
i just tried dired and j and the mini buffer prompts me the file to open. I use lusty mode for files and buffers. but you can use
open-dribble-file
to open a file from a location
This is in accordance to question Using Emacs to recursively find and replace in text files not already open. I already tried using find-name-dired and also package findr.el. It did open a file where the matching text found, but... how can I go to another file, not this automatically opened file????
Thank you!
This seems like more than one question.
find-name-dired will create a results buffer listing all the files with matching filenames. Use C-h m to see dired-mode's help, and all its key-bindings. RET will open the file at point, o will open the file at point in another window, and C-o will do the same, but leaves you in the Find window (which is convenient if you want to quickly visit several of those files).
findr-search (which is what it sounds like you're using) appears to work more like a tags mechanism. C-h f findr-search RET says that you can navigate to the next match with M-,. This will cycle through the matches in the current file, and then on to the next file as necessary.
It often occurs that a file buffer is modified (duh!). Before exiting, emacs asks whether to save the changes. Now it would be interesting to know what actually changed. Is there a way to find out?
As of Emacs 22.1 (at least), 'save-buffers-kill-emacs (the default binding for C-x C-c) prompts you for each unsaved buffer that has a file. Type a d when prompted to save and see the diff.
From the help documentation:
Save some modified file-visiting buffers. Asks user about each one.
You can answer `y' to save, `n' not to save, `C-r' to look at the
buffer in question with `view-buffer' before deciding or `d' to
view the differences using `diff-buffer-with-file'.
If you look at the prompt, it should say something like:
Save file /path/to/file.txt? (y, n, !, ., q, C-r, d, or C-h)
Typing C-h gives you a little more verbose description (but d is what you are asking for):
Type SPC or `y' to save the current buffer;
DEL or `n' to skip the current buffer;
RET or `q' to give up on the save (skip all remaining buffers);
C-g to quit (cancel the whole command);
! to save all remaining buffers;
C-r to view this buffer;
d to view changes in this buffer;
or . (period) to save the current buffer and exit.
I use diff-buffer-with-file, and select the file that the buffer came from (which is the default anyway for the command... just hit enter).
You can also use highlight-changes-mode, though this won't track changes until you turn it on, so not so useful if you want to see what changed when you're closing a file that has not been in this mode :-)
You can have highlight-changes-mode enabled. It will display all changes in red. However it won't show you whitespace changes and will mark removals only with an red _. See also http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrackChanges.
I found this post about tracking changes by djcb most helpful regarding tracking changes in Emacs. The trick is to add the following to your .emacs:
;; higlight changes in documents
(global-highlight-changes-mode t)
(setq highlight-changes-visibility-initial-state nil); initially hide
and then toggle highlight-changes-visible-mode when you want to see what has changed.
In this case I type undo to see the last change (usually some stray character which got typed in the wrong window, since I save early and often).
It would be nice if there were some other indication of the current changes, e.g. in the border like quick diff in Eclipse text editors.
I use goto-chg for things like that. It's not perfect, but it always is enough to jog my memory about what change I made and promptly forgot about.