Discussions - gnu.emacs.help

	Interning Symbols
	Is it possible to intern a symbol and make it have a property whose value is a references to a another object like we do with setf()? If I want to copy a symbol along with all its 4 components into another obarray do I have to manually copy (using get and set) the value, function def and property-list?... more » By Nordlöw - 1:47pm - 1 new of 1 message

	Transposing Regular Expression
	Perl provides the transpose operator: =~ tr/abc/xyz/ not really a regular expression, but exchanges 'x' for 'a', 'y' for 'b', and 'z' for 'c' in the source string. My question is how to accomplish this in emacs. When only needing to tranpose 2 characters that need to replace each other, (the equivalent... more » By jrwats - 12:25pm - 3 new of 3 messages

	Saving/Loading a Hash-Table
	How do I most easily save/load a hash-table to from disk? /Nordlöw By Nordlöw - 10:57am - 2 new of 2 messages

Flashing Buffer Region in other Window

I am trying to find a function that temporarily highlight/flash the a buffer region in a window other than the active one (other-window). Neither hl-line-highlight nor highwin works. They require the flashing window to be active. Do I have to create the overlay myself and delete it after a timeout? How does grep and occur solve their flashing? Any... more »

By Nordlöw - 7:20am - 2 new of 2 messages

	emacsclient behaves differently depending on the way the server was started
	Hi! I am using emacs-23.1 build directly from the sources. When i start emacs -nw or emacs i can use umlauts. As far as i can tell this is due to the environment variables (It works since i have set LC_ALL) but if i start the emacs server with emacs --daemon and use the emacsclient with emacsclient /tmp/x... more » By tr...@lavabit.com - Nov 9 - 1 new of 1 message

	Javscript shell in Emacs like REPL enviroment for scheme
	It's like "quack" for scheme. Quack invokes external scheme engine and support several engines, you can one of what you use. Javascript engine includes spidermonkey, tracemonkey, google v8 etc. I prefer v8. By mikeyao - Nov 10 - 2 new of 2 messages

	opening a buffer as read-only as default
	Which is the simplest way to have Emacs opening all files as read-only? That is not only by using C-x C-r but also when selecting a file in a directory buffer. And also preventing C-x C-f from opening a file as writable. I would like it to be possible to toggle the read-only state, though. By rotlas - Nov 10 - 3 new of 3 messages

	Open a info file manually
	I use Emacs 23.1 I want to open a info file somewhere, and Google result is I can use the bind key "c-u c-h i" But I also will know whether there is a function do the same work? By ibear - Nov 9 - 6 new of 6 messages

	set window size on init
	i have, at the end of my .emacs this code: ; set window size to 100x58 chars. (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 100 58) however, it doesn't work. But eval-region the code itself would work. Anyone know why's that? Thanks. Xah ∑ [link] ☄ By Xah Lee - Nov 10 - 6 new of 6 messages

	Fonts not displayed
	Hi All, I'm having a weird font problem on a recent install of Emacs, as shown here: [link] As can be seen, the text in the text area looks like a bar code or something. The fonts in the menus is not affected, but the tool tips are. This is on a Ubuntu 9.10 for PowerPC installation, with Emacs 23.1.1. The... more » By Joost Kremers - Nov 9 - 1 new of 1 message