elisp

I want to set the destination directory for emacs lisp byte compilation using relative path such as ../foo . I figured out I should use byte-compile-dest-file-function , but do not know how to set it. How can I set it? To set the byte-compile-dest-function variable, you can use either customize-variable interactively, or setq in your init file. Since you'll have to write a function doing the job either way, I would recommand the latter, so that everything is in the same place in your init file. For example: (defun my-dest-function (filename) (concat (file-name-directory filename) "../" (file

I'm trying Emacs. I would like to set colors for Eshell. I tried that first with set-foreground-color. But it affects my other modes too. (add-hook 'eshell-mode-hook (lambda ( default ((t (:foreground "#BD8700")))))) But that's not working either. Or it's affecting the colors on other modes/ scratch too. Have anyone a suggestion? This is not a duplicate question, because the other answers change the colors of other buffers as well. Here is a link to the documentation regarding remapping faces: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Remapping.html (defun my-eshell-mode

Could anyone please give me a hand to briefly pop-up a dired buffer for the purposes of read-file-name : (defun dired-insert-file () (interactive) (setq filename (dired-read-file-name "~/Desktop")) (kill-buffer dired) (get-buffer-create "*foo*") (set-buffer "*foo*") (insert-file filename)) EDIT : Revised example: (require 'dired) (defvar open-with-variable nil) (defvar save-as-variable nil) (defvar save-as-buffer-filename nil) (defun dired-read-file-name (&optional directory) (let* ( output-filename (working-buffer (buffer-name))) (if directory (dired directory) (dired nil)) (if save-as-buffer

I'm trying to use the interactive function name feature. On emacs lisp manual it says: ‘a’ A function name (i.e., a symbol satisfying fboundp). Existing, Completion, Prompt. So I tried it with a small test code: (defun testfun1 () (message "hello, world!")) (defun test (abcd) (interactive "aTheme name: ") (abcd)) Emacs gives an error saying, test: Symbol's function definition is void: abcd I tried to test abcd with fboundp, it returns t. So I'm quite confused about how to use the 'a' option in interactive. Any body can give some hints? seh Your function test receives its argument abcd as a

I am a bit confused by the difference between these two lists in multi-term (by the way where is the official repository hosted?) term-bind-key-alist term-unbind-key-list In my head, there should be two things: The keystrokes that we want Emacs to capture itself and to interpret in a specific way (by binding them to commands) The strokes that Emacs sends directly to the shell ("as is"). How exactly do term-unbind-key-list and term-bind-key-alist define these lists and bindings? Also, does multi-term support line mode and character mode ? If so, how does the mode in which we are alter the way

I'm finally trying to learn elisp but haven't wrapped my head around how to map an unknown list of arguments to variables dynamically. Here's a working function that passes up to three arguments to start-process. But I would like to pass an infinite number of args to the function. (defun create-drush-buffer (command &rest a) (if (locate-dominating-file default-directory "includes/bootstrap.inc") (progn (setq opt1 (car a)) (setq opt2 (cadr a)) (setq opt3 (caddr a)) (setq allopt (concat opt1 " " opt2 " " opt3)) (setq b-name (concat "*drush " command " " allopt "*")) (if (buffer-live-p b-name)