Customizing your Mode-Line is one step forward on every Emacser’s right of passage. Whether you use the informative yet quiet built-in Mode-Line or the visually stunning doom-modeline: you are finding the right porridge for you. Here is my choice―a simple halfway between those two―simple-modeline.
Its so great that I copied and pasted the options here. Alternately run customize or open simple-modeline-segments.el and occur simple-modeline-segment on it. Yup, that great.
You gotta try out using describe-symbol because it is usually what you really want from describe-function and describe-variable.
The most useful part is that it instantly teaches you when there are both a variable and a function with the same name. Sometimes it is surprising and better to know right away. For example M-x describe-symbol RET emacs-version RET:
emacs-version is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘version.el’. (emacs-version &optional HERE) Display the version of Emacs that is running in this session. With a prefix argument, insert the Emacs version string at point instead of displaying it. If called from Lisp, by default return the version string; but if the optional argument HERE is non-nil, insert the string at point instead. Don’t use this function in programs to choose actions according to the system configuration; look at ‘system-configuration’ instead. Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.20. ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― emacs-version is a variable defined in ‘C source code’. Its value is "28.1" Version numbers of this version of Emacs. This has the form: MAJOR.MINOR[.MICRO], where MAJOR/MINOR/MICRO are integers. MICRO is only present in unreleased development versions, and is not especially meaningful. Prior to Emacs 26.1, an extra final component .BUILD is present. This is now stored separately in ‘emacs-build-number’. Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.20.
When you open read-only files in Emacs, you probably won’t want to attempt to save them. Emacs will warn you if you try and help you deal with it. However, most of the time, it is interruptive to your flow to deal with it—most of the time, we never want to modify read-only files.
In that case, View mode will make it easier for you:
Toggle View mode, a minor mode for viewing text but not editing it.
When View mode is enabled, commands that do not change the buffer contents are available as usual. Kill commands save text but do not delete it from the buffer. Most other commands beep and tell the user that the buffer is read-only.
Enable it automatically with
(setq view-read-only t)
Via EmacsWiki!
Yes. You can do it with server-eval-at instead of emacsclient.
It took days too long for me to understand the solution.
In honor of that effort, in case someone out there can benefit, I wrote down all of my notes here.
Happy Hacking!
Org-Mode uses UTF-8 files. Therefore you can use the full range of Unicode characters in them. As long as you have a font that contains them, then they will show up correctly. However, when you export to a PDF, why don’t they show up in the PDF?
When you try to align your Emacs frame flush on macOS and it just doesn’t quite reach the edge
You can fix it with
(setq frame-resize-pixelwise t)
Via Reddit.
Since its v1.1.0 release on 2019-10-13 there’ve been enough updates that are worth reviewing if you haven’t already:
Ever heard of an integrated writing environment? Me neither.
Here is the WikiPedia entry.
Org mode is an IWE—right?
Here are some pretty good configuration options to copy.
Seriously they are pretty good and very objective. I tried to keep as little subjective preference in there. Although I definitely failed at least partly, there is good stuff in there.
And it is super short anyway.
When non-Emacs users observe Emacs users laboring over their key binding configuration their typical range of reactions include finding it to be interesting, surprising, remarkable, strange, weird, incredible, striking, bizarre, deviant, eccentric, freakish, monstrous, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, unimaginable, and unthinkable. With that range reactions in mind it is self-evident that if you are reading this then you already know why you want to use more of the Emacs’s modifier keys you just want to know how. The purpose of this project is to capture one way of using all of Emacs’s modifier keys.
