How can I get a tabbed interface in carbon emacs which corresponds to one-tab-per-buffer similar to Aquaemacs(http://aquamacs.org/)?
In fact you can take tabbar.el from Aquaemacs. It is not guaranteed to work with any other emacs variant but I'm lucky for Windows and Mac (Carbon and Cocoa). So it should work for you too.
You can read more at EmacsWiki .
My configuration is simply:
(require 'tabbar)
(tabbar-mode 1)
Additionally I've got some colors modifications. Please read EmacsWiki for more details. (search for tabbar)
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Really new programming student here, and I'm trying to get tabs in emacs (browser style, like Aquamacs has).
So, how do you get tabs in emacs? A strip of labels showing me which buffers I have open, and clicking on one of them selects that buffer.
I have googled this extensively, but not being fluent in elisp makes it really hard to understand. I have installed the tabbar package, but I do not know where to go from here.
What do I want? Just tabs, and a command to open new tabs, for example C-t (or whatever is best).
I have installed the tabbar package, but I do not know where to go from here.
The tabbar library provides a global minor mode named tabbar-mode, so you will want to enable that in your init file. If it's installed somewhere in your load-path then the following will work:
(when (require 'tabbar nil t)
(tabbar-mode 1))
There is lots of documentation in the library's Commentary, which you can visit like so:
M-x find-library RET tabbar RET
Try this, it's called tabbar and should allow you to do what you're looking for.
As the other answers, tabbar is what you're looking for.
You need to copy it to wherever you keep your emacs files (if you don't have such a place - make one, tabbar will not be the last add-on you'll use :) ), load the file and start the tabbar-mode.
In the below code, the emacs files dir is .emacs.files and it is in my home dir.
(setq tabbar-file
(expand-file-name "tabbar.el"
(expand-file-name ".emacs.files" "~")))
(load-file tabbar-file)
(tabbar-mode 1)
(define-key global-map "\M-[" 'tabbar-backward)
(define-key global-map "\M-]" 'tabbar-forward)
In the above code, I also added binding of scrolling through the tabs to Alt-[ and Alt-].
As to opening new tabs - every time you'll open a new file, it will be opened in a new tab, so don't worry...
I use emacs in the console mode. Is there a mode that is like speedbar for browsing functions, classes, or methods?
Thanks
There is SrSpeedbar, which is a
mode [to] make SpeedBar show in [the] Current Frame
(source: emacswiki.org)
SrSpeedbar can be installed via MELPA, or manually using the elisp on EmacsWiki.
Since I updated to emacs 24 I cannot get AUCTeX to load the LaTeX-mode hooks, e.g.
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode)
despite:
C-h m tells me that my major mode is Major mode in AUCTeX for editing LaTeX files.
the AUCTeX mode help states:
Entering LaTeX mode calls the value of `text-mode-hook',
then the value of `TeX-mode-hook', and then the value
of `LaTeX-mode-hook'.
(Indeed, the text-mode hooks are not loaded either.)
Hooks for other modes (e.g. for Markdown or Python) do work.
And, of course, I have tested that manual activation, e.g. M-x visual-line-mode, does work.
Thanks!
This is strange C-hm gives me
Entering Latex mode runs the hook text-mode-hook', then
tex-mode-hook', and finally `latex-mode-hook'.
Notice that it is latex-mode-hook and not LaTeX-mode-hook.
EDIT - I do not have auctex installed maybe that explains why the help messages are different for us, ignore the part above. You can try the below as an alternative
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode)
As is noted in the comments in the other answer, this issue is caused by AucTeX being unable to create XPM images. This occurs when when Emacs is not compiled with the libxpm library, which might be the case when you run Emacs primarily inside your favorite terminal emulator.
Anyways, you can still correct this issue without recompiling Emacs. In fact, the images are only used for the AucTeX toolbar. Thus, disabling it will effectively remove the problem altogether. You can do this by adding:
(unless (image-type-available-p 'xpm)
(setq LaTeX-enable-toolbar nil))
To your .emacs (or .emacs.d/init.el) file.
This snippet simply checks if XPM images are available in the Emacs installation and if not, it disables the toolbar.
The emacs tabbar.el package adds (buffer)tabs to each window and comes standard with aquamacs and can be added to emacs23 with the emacs-goodies-el package.
Are any of you hardcore emacs users actually using tabbar? I'm sort of used to having tabs, but I would like to know if working without them could be more productive, and if there are other ways besides checking your bufferlist (C-x C-b) to get an overview of your current project files.
As a side note, I really like textmate's project drawer (and tabs), but anything similar in emacs looks just plain hideous.
I've tried using it, but I felt it constraint my workflow rather than improve it. There are a lot of excellent Emacs modes to help with the organization of many buffers and I simply don't feel mapping buffers to tabs is one of those ways.
Just think about the most basic scenario - a lot of tabs. How different programs deal with it - limit the maximum tabs(IntelliJ IDEA); enable tabs bar scrolling(Firefox); infinitely reducing the tabs size(Google Chrome); creating rows of tabs(IntelliJ IDEA)... None of this solutions is that great and by not having tabs in Emacs we have one less problem to worry about. At least this is my subjective opinion - others will most certainly disagree... I personally need nothing more than ido and and iswitchb.
A video of ido in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgPNVIMkIE
Ya, I use tabbar, along with sr-speedbar.
I customize tabbar to show files in specific groups, and mod some keybindings to make navigating the files easier.
FWIW, here's the relevant section from my ~/.emacs:
(require 'tabbar)
; turn on the tabbar
(tabbar-mode t)
; define all tabs to be one of 3 possible groups: “Emacs Buffer”, “Dired”,
;“User Buffer”.
(defun tabbar-buffer-groups ()
"Return the list of group names the current buffer belongs to.
This function is a custom function for tabbar-mode's tabbar-buffer-groups.
This function group all buffers into 3 groups:
Those Dired, those user buffer, and those emacs buffer.
Emacs buffer are those starting with “*”."
(list
(cond
((string-equal "*" (substring (buffer-name) 0 1))
"Emacs Buffer"
)
((eq major-mode 'dired-mode)
"Dired"
)
(t
"User Buffer"
)
)))
(setq tabbar-buffer-groups-function 'tabbar-buffer-groups)
(global-set-key [M-s-left] 'tabbar-backward)
(global-set-key [M-s-right] 'tabbar-forward)
There's lot's of other tips on emacswiki:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabBarMode
no.
I use iswitch-b
C-x b "first few letters of buffer", then C-s to rotate to the specific file I want takes me under 2 seconds without me having to move hand to mouse.
No. I could possibly be convinced to try it again with the right customisation, but by default it's pretty useless for me, as I habitually have in excess of 100 buffers open. ibuffer with its filtering and grouping is the best way for managing large numbers of buffers that I've tried.
I like to use speedbar for quick buffer navigation. I have in my .emacs
(speedbar-change-initial-expansion-list "buffers")
(global-set-key [f8] 'speedbar-get-focus)
so when I hit F8, a new frame pops up with a list of open buffers, there you can move point over the buffer you want to select and to activate it. One more F8 goes back to the main frame.
tabs are not reserved for mouse users. look at vim possible workflow: gt to go next tab, or gT to go previous. Say you've one dedicated window for vim: you might easily switch from one buffer to another. Yes, tabs are probably for users with few buffers. if you have hundreds, this won't work.
Quite frankly, you'll find better editors than emacs when speaking of tabs, menus and toolbar. Emacs clearly encourages you to use your keyboard and leave your mouse asleep.
Tabbar or any other tab management tool will have difficulties when you'll have lots of buffers opened. You also don't want to show all your buffers in tabs. Having to remove your hand from the keyboard to grasp the mouse and click on a tab and then remove your hand from the mouse and put it onto the keyboard is clearly a waste of time when a simple keystroke could be used instead.
The best thing you could do to your emacs and to you is to have the following configuration in your .emacs :
(menu-bar-mode -1) ;hide menu-bar
(scroll-bar-mode -1) ;hide scroll-bar
(tool-bar-mode -1) ;hide tool-bar
That will force you to forget the old way of doing things using a mouse (like using tabbar, or menus...), and to use your fingers instead.
Up until now, I haven't tried it, but before I switched back to GNU Emacs from XEmacs, I used the XEmacs tabs very heavily. I found that when I had many source files open, it was one of the fastest ways to jump to the correct file.
Now that I know about tabbar, I am trying it; and so far, I like it.
John
Tabs are really only useful if you use the mouse, and one of the main benefits (to me) of Emacs is that I can avoid the mouse.
So, no, tabbar isn't useful in general.
I did find the tabs useful when I was browsing web pages (using w3m), but I was using the mouse in that case...
Tabbar looks like it is godforsaken
So what about elscreen?
Can be found via http://melpa.milkbox.net/#/elscreen - or installed emacs-elpa (or melpa).
Elscreen is very useful for me.
C-x b<RET> always gives you the last edited buffer. And what do you do with tabs ? Mostly switch back & forth between two files. There you go.
I'm pretty old school sometimes and I like working with Emacs in my terminal. (I work with IDEs all the time. But sometimes, when in the privacy of my own home, I just like a text editor a terminal and a beer)
However, the default Emacs that comes with OS X does not seem to highlight the comments in font-lock-mode. I've seen this behavior in both Python and C mode.
I've already searched some forums and I found one post where the person was having the same problem as me:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=512361
Is is there any way to fix this problem?
I had this exact same problem. The solution is to change the color used for the comment face as follows:
(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-face "red")
Or, if you only want to do this for certain modes:
;;; Only do this for the common C mode (C, C++, Objective-C)
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook #'(lambda () (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-face "red")))
For more information on faces, see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Faces.html.
I'm not sure exactly how to fix it, but I'm fairly certain there's something you can put in the .emacs file. In fact, I think I've done that before. I'll look for my file and let you know what I can find.
I'll try and get you my .emacs file when I get home from work tonight.
[edit] I've looked and looked, and can't find a .emacs file on either system that I use, and on my OS X install (Leopard default), it looks like it does it correctly by default. I did some research here, and it looks like the default installations no longer use .emacs files, because there's folks like me that mess around with them and break things, and they got tired of having to help us fix it. But, there is a set of menus that will let you tweak things. Start by typing "M-x customize RET", where M is the meta character (on my OSX install, this is the esc key. Don't hold it down, just type it like a regular character. That'll get you into a menu of stuff you can change. I didn't poke around too much, so I'm not sure where in the menu you'll find what you're looking for. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
In my experience this is usually related to a unpaired quote (single-, double-, or otherwise) somewhere in an existing comment.
Hunt those occurences down and eradicate them in your source code (or if you are more ambitious, see if you can update the fontlock code in your major modes' emacs source code)
When I have encountered this in editting Perl in emacs, I often switch major modes to cperl-mode as it typically handles parsing the perl better than the default perl-mode.