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I'm looking for some assistance, please, further modifying the following already modified excerpt from the highlight-parentheses library: https://github.com/nschum/highlight-parentheses.el [Fn 1.] GOAL : The goal is to use something like mapcar or dolist to automatically replace INSERT-FACE-HERE with a different face from the variable my-parens-faces each time while does a loop . The visual effect will be a rainbow coloring of parentheses based on the level of nesting. I am removing the overlays with a post-command-hook and a function similar to remove-overlays , and then subsequently adding

I'm getting up-list: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses" from this position: (foo "bar|") Snippet from up-list doc: This command assumes point is not in a string or comment. So this is the expected behavior. But I don't care. I just want to go upwards from a list. Could someone suggest an up-list clone that does the proper thing? I'm looking for something better than this naive code: (defun up-list-naive () (interactive) (while (not (ignore-errors (up-list) t)) (forward-char))) Tyler EDIT: incorporated Andreas Rohler's suggestion: This works for me in your test case: (defun my-up-list ()

I need to check if Shift key is pressed. More exactly I would like to set dired switches depending on whether Shift is pressed. (defadvice find-file-noselect (around find-file-noselect-set-switches activate) (let ((switches dired-listing-switches)) ;; check if shift is pressed and set or not an "R" switch (setq dired-listing-switches "-lhRA") ad-do-it (setq dired-listing-switches switches))) Of course, I can have different shortcuts for different dired switches, but I would like to change my switches dynamically during choosing a directory for dired. Trey Jackson Duplicate question (ignoring

I am having trouble in Magit with step number 5 and step number 7 to create a new repository. If they exist, what are the interactive function equivalents (please) for steps 5 and 7? If there are no interactive equivalents, I guess I will need to write my own shell command functions -- unless, of course, someone would like to take a stab at them first. :) CREATE -- COMMAND-LINE RECIPE 1. $ touch README.md 2. $ /usr/local/git/bin/git init 3. $ /usr/local/git/bin/git add . 4. $ /usr/local/git/bin/git commit -m "First commit." 5. $ curl -u 'USERNAME' https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":

Can anybody explain me how eval works with emacs24? From eval description: eval is a built-in function in `C source code'. (eval FORM &optional LEXICAL) Evaluate FORM and return its value. If LEXICAL is t, evaluate using lexical scoping. Does that mean, that something like this should work? (setq lexical-binding t) (let ((myvarr 42)) (eval 'myvarr t)) ; (void-variable myvarr) Update: (setq lexical-binding nil) ;; => nil (let ((myvarr 42)) (eval 'myvarr)) ;; => 42 (#o52, #x2a, ?*) (setq lexical-binding t) ;; => t (let ((myvarr 42)) (eval 'myvarr)) ;; Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable

GOAL : The goal of this thread is to create two (2) mathematical formulas to replace the long-hand solution by @lawlist in the function lawlist-calendar-cursor-to-visible-date (below). STORY PROBLEM There now exists a 12-month calendar in Emacs that scrolls forwards and backwards one month (or more) at a time. The function lawlist-calendar-cursor-to-visible-date is used to mark dates with overlays for designated events (e.g., birthdays, holidays, appointments, etc.); or, to simply move the cursor to a particular date. @lawlist has devised a solution by long-hand, which does not entirely use