elisp

I am making the jump to EMACS, and I can't find what I need to do in my .emacs file to get php-mode AND all other modes to insert 4 spaces instead of a TAB. Help? UPDATE: When I hit tab I still get 8 spaces in a plain file with the given answers. In php-mode I still get 2 spaces. Hitting tab in php mode does nothing, tab in regular EMACS adds 8 spaces. UPDATE2: This is what I have in my .emacs : (require 'color-theme) (color-theme-calm-forest) (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (setq-default tab-width 4) (setq c-basic-offset 4) Still in regular files 8 spaces, and in PHP files the tabbing

How can I get emacs 23 working nicely in multi-tty mode on OS X? I've added (server-start) to my .emacs, and have discovered that running /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient -n ~/myfile.txt will open it in my emacs.app, but it doesn't bring emacs to the front. So, how can I get emacs.app to come to the front when I run emacsclient? (I've considered writing a function that puts the current frame to the front every time a file is opened, or maybe writing an Applescript to do a similar job that could be called at the same time as emacsclient) Is the emacsclient within emacs.app

I'm looking for some help developing what I think should be an easy program. I want something similar to Emacs tags-search command, but I want to collect all search results into a buffer. (I want to see all results of M-,) I'm thinking this python style pseudo code should work, but I have no idea how to do this in emacs lisp? Any help would be greatly appreciated. def myTagsGrep(searchValue): for aFile in the tag list: result = grep aFile seachValue if len(result) > 0: print aFile # to the buffer print result # to the buffer I would like to be able to browse through the buffer with the same

I'd like to make a simple change to Emacs so that the next-buffer and previous-buffer commands (which I have bound to C-x <RIGHT> and C-x <LEFT> will skip over the *Messages* buffer. I'm using Emacs 24 and the Emacs Starter Kit . I've read the following related questions and answers, but they are not what I want: Buffer cycling in Emacs: avoiding scratch and Messages buffer Emacs disable *Messages* buffer Emacs Lisp Buffer out of focus function? Here are some of the reasons why they don't work: I'd like to keep it as simple as possible. Fewer configuration changes are better. I don't want to

I have not found any examples of how to replace the nth element of a list without first adding every element ( one-by-one ) with the function add-to-ordered-list -- e.g., (add-to-ordered-list 'the-list 'a 1) . That requires subsequently deleting the element -- e.g., (delq a the-list) . The third step in the process is to add the new element -- e.g., (add-to-ordered-list 'the-list "HELLO-WORLD!" 1) . As the following function named variable-list-example uses 26 elements, I'm looking for a better way than first adding all 26 elements ( one-by-one ) to essentially assign each element a position

Emacs reindents the current line whenever I type certain things, like ";" or "//". This is pretty annoying, since there are a whole lot of places where it isn't smart enough to indent correctly. How do I disable this feature? I still want to be able to indent the line with TAB, but I don't want any source code I type to cause it to reindent. (I'm using Dylan Moonfire's C# mode, but this probably applies to any cc-mode.) Try running c-toggle-electric-state to turn off the electric action of these characters. You can do this as part of a c-mode-common-hook, or toggle the state manually by

I've tried to write some new align rules for emacs and found this strange and inconsistent behaviour. Current buffer contents: "some thing" like => this hello => world and => again After typing M-x align-regexp RET [[:lower:]]+\(\s-+\)=> RET result looks as desired: "some thing" like => this hello => world and => again But after C-u M-x align-regexp RET [[:lower:]]+\(\s-+\)=> RET 1 RET 1 RET y RET I get this instead: "some thing" like => this hello => world and => again The same (wrong) thing happens if I put this into align-rules-list . How to fix this? I want to get the results like first.