In Windows 7 / Emacs 24.5
Copy text e.g. "example" in the kill-ring
M-x
C-y (yank)
Success show text "example" in the minibuffer
But if turn on CUA-mode, the text "example" not yank (paste) by 'C-v' in the minibuffer.
CUA mode makes C-v the yank/paste command.
If you start Emacs with :
emacs -Q
Then turn on CUA mode (M-x cua-mode) you'll see that C-v works as you expect.
Without knowing your setup it's difficult to be sure but it's likely you're using a package which modifies the behavior of M-x (E.g. smex, Ido, ivy, etc.)
It's likely CUA mode won't really have anything to do with this problem. You can verify this by trying to do C-y to yank in the minibuffer too.
Packages which enhance M-x may provide a way to allow you to drop out temporarily, so you can yank text in-place.
Update
From your comments we know you are using Helm, which overrides some bindings in the minibuffer, including C-v which is bound to page down.
Because bindings are applied at different mode (context) scopes, the minibuffer modemap (list of key bindings) will override anything that's applied at a more general context (such as cua mode)
To work around this you'd need to add a binding specifically for cua-paste in the affected mode map. It would need to be applied after Helm has loaded.
In Org-mode it is possible to have links and top open links. As listed by http://orgmode.org/orgcard.txt in Org-mode C-u C-c C-o or mouse-3 forces links to open in another window. How can I do the corresponding for frames, that is, how can I force a link to open in another frame?
What I want is for C-c C-o to work as per default but C-u C-c C-o to force the link to be opened in another frame.
(For the distinction of windows and frames see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Frames.html.)
I am running Org-mode 7.6 in 23.3.1.
I just tested and you can get it to work by wrapping org-open-at-point in a (let ) as a custom function.
In this case I'm just prefixing the current org-link-frame-setup with your desired find-file-other-frame to ensure that if you use the command on another link type it will not fail.
(defun zin/org-open-other-frame ()
"Jump to bookmark in another frame. See `bookmark-jump' for more."
(interactive)
(let ((org-link-frame-setup (acons 'file 'find-file-other-frame org-link-frame-setup)))
(org-open-at-point)))
I suspect you will need to bind it to a key sequence other than C-u C-c C-o, unless Emacs will permit you to bind it to that sequence specifically.
Have a look at the variable org-link-frame-setup (M-x customize-variable RET org-link-frame-setup). The docstring should explain the approach.
I just tested this in a non-customized emacs:
emacs -q
GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-11-30 on MARVIN
Org-mode version 7.7
When running C-c C-o and C-u C-c C-o on a link similar to the following:
file:~/Dropbox/org/test.org::*Test
I end up with a new frame being opened in both cases. C-u C-u C-c C-o opens the test.org file in my active emacsclient session. When changing the link to .../org/test.txt it still opens in a new frame, however it is unable to create the new file (I'm assuming I don't have .txt properly associated on my end, which is possible).
Testing with [mailto:test#test.org][test-mail]] also results in new frames by default.
Edit: The value for org-link-frame-setup is as follows (it is also the default since it is from emacs -q):
Its value is ((vm . vm-visit-folder-other-frame)
(gnus . org-gnus-no-new-news)
(file . find-file-other-window)
(wl . wl-other-frame))
How to disable auto indent in Emacs globally or only for some modes?
I have a number of packages installed for RubyOnRails (ruby, html, js, css).
Let's say I want to disable autoindent for css-mode.
For me, on emacs 24.x, M-xelectric-indent-mode toggled the behavior that I wanted to disable.
FWIW, the behavior was that RET was bound to the command newline which is defined in simple.el... Among other things, the behavior of that command is altered by electric-indent-mode.
You may want to look for variable names containing the word electric. (This is the common Emacs parlance for actions which occur automatically when particular visible characters are typed.)
In this instance, M-x apropos-variable RET electric RET shows me that there is a css-electric-keys variable containing a list of "Self inserting keys which should trigger re-indentation."
You could use M-x customize-variable RET css-electric-keys RET to set this list to nil, or add (setq css-electric-keys nil) to your init file.
Sometimes a minor mode is used to implement electric behaviours, so that you can switch them on and off more easily. Those would likely be found via M-x apropos-command RET electric RET, and you would probably use a major mode hook to ensure that the electric minor mode was disabled, in a similar fashion to this:
(add-hook 'MAJORMODE-mode-hook 'my-MAJORMODE-mode-hook)
(defun my-MAJORMODE-mode-hook ()
(ELECTRICMODE-mode 0))
How can I get Emacs to reload all my definitions that I have updated in .emacs without restarting Emacs?
You can use the command load-file (M-x load-file, and then press Return twice to accept the default filename, which is the current file being edited).
You can also just move the point to the end of any sexp and press C-x, C-e to execute just that sexp. Usually it's not necessary to reload the whole file if you're just changing a line or two.
There is the very convenient
M-x eval-buffer
It immediately evaluates all code in the buffer. It's the quickest method if your .emacs file is idempotent.
You can usually just re-evaluate the changed region. Mark the region of ~/.emacs that you've changed, and then use M-x eval-region RET. This is often safer than re-evaluating the entire file since it's easy to write a .emacs file that doesn't work quite right after being loaded twice.
If you've got your .emacs file open in the currently active buffer:
M-x eval-buffer
Solution
M-: (load user-init-file)
Notes
you type it in Eval: prompt (including the parentheses)
user-init-file is a variable holding the ~/.emacs value (pointing to the configuration file path) by default
(load) is shorter, older, and non-interactive version of (load-file); it is not an Emacs command (to be typed in M-x), but a mere Elisp function
Conclusion
M-: > M-x
M-x load-file
~/.emacs
Others already answered your question as stated, but I find that I usually want to execute the lines that I just wrote.
For that, Ctrl + Alt + X in the Elisp part works just fine.
The following should do it...
M-x load-file
I suggest that you don't do this, initially. Instead, start a new Emacs session and test whatever changes you made to see if they work correctly. The reason to do it this way is to avoid leaving you in a state where you have an inoperable .emacs file, which fails to load or fails to load cleanly. If you do all of your editing in the original session, and all of your testing in a new session, you'll always have something reliable to comment out offending code.
When you are finally happy with your changes, then go ahead and use one of the other answers to reload. My personal preference is to eval just the section you've added/changed, and to do that just highlight the region of added/changed code and call M-x eval-region. Doing that minimizes the code that's evaluated, minimizing any unintentional side-effects, as luapyad points out.
Keyboard shortcut:
(defun reload-init-file ()
(interactive)
(load-file user-init-file))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-l") 'reload-init-file) ; Reload .emacs file
C-x C-e ;; current line
M-x eval-region ;; region
M-x eval-buffer ;; whole buffer
M-x load-file ~/.emacs.d/init.el
Define it in your init file and call by M-x reload-user-init-file
(defun reload-user-init-file()
(interactive)
(load-file user-init-file))
I'm currently on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet); I like to define a key for this.
[M-insert] translates to Alt + Ins on my keyboard.
Put this in your .emacs file:
(global-set-key [M-insert] '(lambda() (interactive) (load-file "~/.emacs")))
Besides commands like M-x eval-buffer or M-x load-file, you can restart a fresh Emacs instance from the command line:
emacs -q --load "init.el"
Usage example: Company backends in GNU Emacs
Here is a quick and easy way to quick test your config. You can also use C-x C-e at the end of specific lisp to execute certain function individually.
C-x C-e runs the command eval-last-sexp (found in global-map), which
is an interactive compiled Lisp function.
It is bound to C-x C-e.
(eval-last-sexp EVAL-LAST-SEXP-ARG-INTERNAL)
Evaluate sexp before point; print value in the echo area.
Interactively, with prefix argument, print output into current buffer.
Normally, this function truncates long output according to the value
of the variables ‘eval-expression-print-length’ and
‘eval-expression-print-level’. With a prefix argument of zero,
however, there is no such truncation. Such a prefix argument also
causes integers to be printed in several additional formats (octal,
hexadecimal, and character).
If ‘eval-expression-debug-on-error’ is non-nil, which is the default,
this command arranges for all errors to enter the debugger.
Although M-x eval-buffer will work, you may run into problems with toggles and other similar things. A better approach might be to "mark" or highlight what’s new in your .emacs file (or even scratch buffer if you're just messing around) and then M-x eval-region.
You can set a key binding for Emacs like this:
;; Reload Emacs configuration
(defun reload-init-file ()
(interactive)
(load-file "~/.emacs"))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c r") 'reload-init-file)
If you happen to have a shell opened inside Emacs, you can also do:
. ~/.emacs
It may save a few key strokes.
I have a text file. Can Emacs select text based on regex and put it in kill-ring, so I can copy it somewhere else? Something like regex-kill-ring-save?
inspired by the already given comments (the Charles answer doesn't work as I would want it), I added a new function to the isearch/isearch-regexp mode map which puts only the matching string into the kill ring (whereas Charles proposal kills from current point to end of matching string):
(defun hack-isearch-kill ()
"Push current matching string into kill ring."
(interactive)
(kill-new (buffer-substring (point) isearch-other-end))
(isearch-done))
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "M-w") 'hack-isearch-kill)
The nice thing about the isearch/isearch-regexp approach (which you can enable with C-s and C-M-s respectively) is that you can see your search string growing and you can copy it with M-w as soon as you are satisfied (and go back to where you have been before with C-u C-Space).
This works for me with Emacs 23.1. Don't know if it will work in all situations. Anyway I hope you find it useful :)
UPDATE: going through the emacswiki I stumbled over KillISearchMatch which suggests more or less the same (plus some more tips ...).
Cheers,
Daniel
I'm not sure if there is such a function already, but what you can do it with a keyboard macro:
Start recording a kbd macro: C-x (
Search for your regexp with search-forward-regexp
Move to the beginning of your match (the text you want to kill) with the various emacs navigation commands, e.g. search or backward-word etc.
Mark: C-spc
Move to the end of your match
Kill the text: C-w
You can then name the keyboard macro with M-x name-last-kbd-macro so that you can execute the macro with a name rather than with C-x e.
If you want to save the macro for future sessions, you can open your .emacs and insert the macro into the buffer with M-x insert-kbd-macro. After than you can bind a key to the macro just like you bind keys to normal emacs functions, e.g. (global-set-key "\C-c m" 'funky-macro-macro).
More about emacs keyboard macros
Isearch+ does this already. It optionally sets the region around the search target. You can use C-SPC C-SPC or M-= C-SPC at any time during Isearch to toggle this.
isearchp-deactivate-region-flag is a variable defined in isearch+.el.
Its value is t
Documentation:
Non-nil means isearching deactivates the region.
See also option isearchp-restrict-to-region-flag.
You can toggle this option using M-= C-SPC during Isearch.
You can customize this variable.