There’s also ‘paredit. The cheat sheet shows you all the commands available. happen to like it better than the electric mode suggested in another answer. Though paredit does only apply to (), so it may not meed your needs. But, to be honest, there’s a bunch of packages surrounding parenthesis. The wiki has them all … Read more
If you’re setting $PATH inside your Emacs, you might well be on OS X. GUI applications are not started via your shell, so they see different environment variables. Here’s a trick which I use to ensure the $PATH inside Emacs is the same one I see if I fire up a terminal (but see “update” … Read more
Below are my comments about what I think was a related question: I think both M-x shell-command and M-x compile execute commands in an inferior shell via call-process. Try the following in your .emacs (or just evaluate): (setq shell-file-name “bash”) (setq shell-command-switch “-ic”) I notice that after evaluation of the above, .bashrc aliases are picked … Read more
For w3m, this setting has worked for me: (setq url-proxy-services ‘((“no_proxy” . “work\\.com”) (“http” . “proxy.work.com:911”)))
See some of the suggestions on the Emacs Wiki: Emacs Wiki: Smooth Scrolling (setq scroll-step 1 scroll-conservatively 10000)
Add the following to your $HOME/.emacs: (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) The next time you start Emacs, the welcome screen shouldn’t appear. If you already have Emacs open with the welcome screen, you can kill it with C-x k (Control-x, then k).
As per comments to Aaron Miller’s answer, here is an overview of what happens when a mode function is called (with an explanation of derived modes); how calling a mode manually differs from Emacs calling it automatically; and where after-change-major-mode-hook and hack-local-variables fit into this, in the context of the following suggested code: (add-hook ‘after-change-major-mode-hook … Read more
Trough some time of using Emacs I figured that even though I can alter the basic functionality, it usually doesn’t pay off much in terms of efficiency. In fact, after I did it several times, I came to regret it and undid it. This is not true all of the time, some keybindings are really … Read more
Many unix variants only allow a single argument to the program on the shebang line. Sad, but true. If you use #!/usr/bin/env emacs so as not to depend on the location of the emacs executable, you can’t pass an argument at all. Chaining scripts is a possibility on some systems, but that too is not … Read more
shell-file-name is the variable that controls which shell Emacs uses when it wants to run a shell command. explicit-shell-file-name is the variable that controls which shell M-x shell starts up. Ken’s answer changes both of those, which you may or may not want. You can also have a function that starts a different shell by … Read more