How to find out current font used in my Emacs? Answer In my version of Emacs, I can get the information by entering M-x describe-font. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : qazwsx , Answer Author : choroba
I have tried to parse a file language_data.txt, which is edited by Emacs. The different columns are separated by tab characters. But when I opened the file, I found that each of the tab characters had been replaced by many space characters. For example: en_US shiphrah 02005 book reader no connection en_US shiphrah 02006 user … Read more
How can I turn off Emacs’s auto line wrapping for the current session? I normally need the automatic wrapping, but when editing a email draft, I don’t need that. Is there a way to turn it off for a while? Answer Depending on which flavor of automatic line wrapping you’re using, it’ll be one of … Read more
I have a region of python code selected in emacs. What are the most efficient ways to indent and unindent every line in it by 4 spaces? Ideally I’d like something that’s not context sensitive (eg. it’ll allow me to indent passages within docstrings where the indentation does not relate to python syntax). My mode … Read more
I’m looking for the emacs equivalent of vi’s ^. How can I move my cursor to the first non-whitespace character in a line? Answer The command is back-to-indentation, bound by default to M-m. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Alexander Bird , Answer Author : Sean
Does Org-mode of Emacs support linewrapping? I know in the “regular” mode of Emacs there will just be a little sideways-u-turn on the right and on the left on the line after, and there’s no scrolling necessary. However, there are only arrows pointing left and right. Any ideas? Answer The default mode for org-mode is … Read more
I use Outlook as my email client at work, but I don’t want to use it to manage my tasks and todos. (Instead I use plain text files and Emacs org-mode.) Since many todo items start out as mails in my inbox, I often need to reference these mails. Is there some clever way to … Read more
Is there a way to tell emacs/vi/vim (from the command line) that I want to view the file in view-mode or read-only. I know how to open a file as read only if emacs/vi/vim is already running. Answer For emacs: emacs FILE –eval ‘(setq buffer-read-only t)’ There’s no startup option to force read only. Edit: … Read more
I know how to display line numbers (and columns) in the mode-line, but I’d like emacs to display the line numbers for all the lines on the left-hand side. I’ve seen this done in vim and other text editors. How do I do this for emacs? Answer M-x linum-mode (or global-linum-mode), and put (global-linum-mode t) … Read more
