I'm a new emacs user using emacs for the awesome org-mode. I have links to all my org files at the top of my pages but everytime I click a link it splits my window, so I only have half of the screen estate available. How do I set it so that emacs does not split the window horizontally but rather opens up a new window for my links?
I'm assuming you mean you want to open the link in a new frame. (Emacs terminology is a bit different from other GUI apps, because Emacs predates X11. What would be called a "window" in other apps is called a "frame" in Emacs, because "window" already had a specific meaning in Emacs, and was used in the names of lots of functions.) What's happening now is that you have a frame containing one window, and Emacs is splitting that window to form two windows.
You need to customize org-link-frame-setup to use find-file-other-frame instead of the default find-file-other-window.
You can do this by typing M-x customize-variable <ENTER> org-link-frame-setup <ENTER>. Click the Value Menu next to find-file-other-window and select find-file-other-frame, then click Save for future sessions.
One option is to tell Emacs to never split windows, which can be done like so:
(setq same-window-regexps '("."))
This will keep your window from splitting, and then you use your regular commands to switch buffers to get back to what you were looking at.
This is as opposed to what it sounds like you were asking for, which was new frames, which IMO doesn't really help if you have limited screen real estate because you're now having to switch frames (graphical windows).
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I split a file on Emacs using C-x 2.
When I modify the top window, the bottom window gets modified simultaneously.
How can I modify the top window and not the bottom?
You may have confused the concepts of Windows, buffers and files. Although you split Windows, they show the same buffer and changes are synchronized between the two Windows. If you really want to, you need to create a new buffer or file with the same content.
I use emacs within screen in SSH for most of my work, and would like to be able to copy text from one session to another. I currently use the mouse to select, but this is problematic for three reasons:
Spacing often gets messed up, particularly tabs
I have to get temporarily out of vertical screen split to copy (lest the other half get copied as well)
I can't copy more than one vertical screen's worth of text
And of course, it slows me down by requiring taking my hands off the keyboard. Is there a way to use some command similar to emacs kill-ring buffers to paste between screen sessions with the keyboard?
I have not used screen for years, so I cannot give you a screen based answer, but there is other things you can try:
If emacs are in same machine, use emacs in daemon mode, and emacsclient. Your can have same emacs session across several screen sessions. Since it is the same emacs session, the kill ring is the same and cut and pasting is trivial (your 3 problems are solved). If files are in different hosts, just open them from the same emacs session in one host via ssh (emacs can open remote files using tramp).
Use tmux as a replacement of screen. It is more scriptable and configurable. You can use copy-mode in tmux to copy and paste tmux buffers, that you can select with emacs-like key combos. While those buffers may span across more than one "tmux page", copy-mode is not able to scroll over emacs buffer (it scrolls over tmux buffer). So thos does not solve your #3 problem.
Create a emacs key binding to "paste" a region of file into a temp file (write-region) and another to read from that same file file.
I want to change the icon which is displayed for the emacs window (frame). For two different sessions (gnus and normal emacs editing) I want to have different icons. Any ideas how I can achieve that?
See the Emacs manual, node Icons X. This is what it says about this:
By default, Emacs uses an icon containing the Emacs logo. On
desktop environments such as Gnome, this icon is also displayed in
other contexts, e.g., when switching into an Emacs frame. The `-nbi'
or `--no-bitmap-icon' option tells Emacs to let the window manager
choose what sort of icon to use--usually just a small rectangle
containing the frame's title.
On some window managers or platforms you might need to find another way to do it.
With (menu-bar-mode 0) in my .emacs-file, Emacs (in a terminal) seems to be starting with the menu bar visible, and then within a fraction of a second, the bar disappears.
Is there a way to make Emacs not show the menu bar at all?
No: Emacs first starts by setting up its "frame" (which includes some initial display), then reads the .emacs file. That's why you see this flashing of the menu-bar. Emacs could read the .emacs first, but if the .emacs outputs any message or signals an error, there'd only be stderr to display it, whereas with the current setup, those messages are displayed in the minibuffer and the error can be caught in the "normal" way.
If you're runinng Linux (and I guess any system where Emacs runs in an X server), you can use X resources to tell Emacs you don't want the menu bar. Just put this in your ~/.Xresources file:
emacs.menuBar: off
These resources are used to customize frames appearance and are therefore read by Emacs at the very beginning.
See also:
Emacs manual: Menu Bars
Emacs manual: Table of Resources
man xrdb(1)
I'm using iTerm2 on my mac to ssh into a Linux box and run emacs in the terminal. On a big monitor, I like to split the window to see multiple buffers side-by-side. I'd like to be able to switch to a particular buffer by clicking the mouse in it (rather than doing C-x o).
What seems to be happening is that if I click the mouse anywhere outside the currently active buffer e.g. in the next buffer, on the mode line etc., the click is being interpreted as which is bound to (tmm-menubar-mouse EVENT).
I have disabled the menubar by doing the following in my .emacs_d/init.el:
(menu-bar-mode -1)
This seems to disable the visible display of the menu bar at the top of the window, but the mouse click behavior I described is still happening.
I think what I need is to have the click interpreted as something other than and then bind that to some function that detects which buffer the click happened in and switch to it. But, I don't know how to do that and the searching I've done hasn't yielded any clear answer. Can anyone help?
Alternatively, I looked into using windmove to enable switching between buffers with SHIFT and the arrow keys. I did (windmove-default-keybindings) but emacs then seems to respond to SHIFT left-arrow by inserting "2C" into the buffer and SHIFT-right-arrow by inserting "2D". If anyone has any tips on making this work too, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks
I ran into this problem a while ago, where clicking on column > 95 was interpreted as <menu-bar> <mouse-1>, which invokes tmm-menubar-mouse. It turned out to be a bug:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6594
There hasn't been a formal release since this bug was fixed, but you can get the patch here:
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/emacs-23/revision/100618
If I recall correctly, you should be able to just drop the modified file into your existing emacs installation and byte-compile it (assuming you're running the 23.3.1, the latest release).