Can’t use the su method, since I don’t really want to veer from the Ubuntu default too much. ssh is right out (for localhost? I ask you!). It shows a “Waiting for prompts from remote shell”. And that’s it, apparently. Or is it just that incredibly slow? Answer Just upgrade tramp to 2.1.18 (if you … Read more
I have a user who needs emacs (emacs-x11, preferred) on Debian stable. I found the following https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsSnapshotAndDebian which mentions to “packages built directly from Emacs git master here: http://emacs.ganneff.de/” – this sounds like what I need, but I am unsure the commands to install it. We have tried flatpak but found that the window as … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question Steve recommends to run the following code before you start your Emacs stty erase ^\? I get after running it stty: illegal option … Read more
My ~/.emacs start-up file is stored in my AFS home directory. Often when I login to a linux machine I will forget to renew my AFS credentials before attempting to edit a local (non-AFS) file with Emacs. When this happens Emacs will attempt to load ~./emacs but cannot because it is in AFS space where … Read more
I’m currently an emacs user, but thought I would come back and take another look at Vim for fun. My client machine is Ubuntu, and I frequently work on other ubuntu servers within my network, emacs and tramp is really nice in this regard, I can just connect to a file via sftp and then … Read more
I know that this is not directly programming related, but I’m stumped, and since Emacs is my main programming tool… I am trying to set up Tramp to connect to my testing host. I’m invoking it either using /ssh:host:.bashrc or /scp:host:.bashrc but both of these run into the same problem, sooner or later. They get … Read more
I want to replace the command for moving between windows in Emacs to Ctrl-t The command in pseudo-code (global-set-key “\C-moveBetweenWindows” ‘C-t) How can you remap the command for moving between windows in Emacs? Answer In your ~/.emacs file, include the following line: (global-set-key “\C-t” ‘other-window) This will set Ctrl-t (C-t) to move to the next … Read more
I want to update my emacs on CentOS 5.5 to 23 but I can’t find any rpms or yum repos that have it? Answer I spent quite a bit of time trying to build emacs on RHEL5.7, to no avail. Then, back to the google, and I found a repo with emacs23 RPMs for CentOS/RHEL … Read more
BACKGROUND: I’ve downloaded Emacs from Github’s Emacs mirror (commit f92c4be63204ed0bd914). Using Mac OS X 10.6.4, I’m now about to compile and install Emacs.app. MY QUESTION: The nextstep/INSTALLATION doc states nothing about make boostrap. Whereas, at various places on the Internet (following the ./configure –with-ns step but before the make step), I often see that ‘boostrap’ … Read more
I need to add a directory to my PATH variable on Mac OS. I added it in .bash_profile and .profile, and that works for the terminal. But Emacs (http://emacsformacosx.com) still does not use the new PATH variable. (I’m trying to run latex from emacs, but it’s not finding the command in my /usr/local/bin, which I’m … Read more
