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emacs is a popular text editor, usually characterized by it's extensibility and often described as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Now part of the GNU project, it was originally developed by Richard Stallman in the mid 1970s, and development and ongoing extension of it continues to this day.

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How to upgrade to Emacs 24.1?

Emacs 24.1 was released recently, and I'm wondering what the recommended way of upgrading Precise's Emacs to it is. I know of the snapshot PPA, but I'd like the final, stable version. I've found a suggestion to install it manually, but I'd like to…
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How to install emacs 24.3 on Ubuntu?

This is my first time using Ubuntu and I dont know how I should install a program on it. I tried using cd the directory where it is and then ./configure it but it is not working!
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What libraries do I need to install if I want to compile Emacs?

I am trying to compile emacs on Ubuntu 12.04. This is because I want to use Emacs 24.2. However, I am getting the following error. How can I fix it? checking for long file names... yes checking for X... no checking for X... true configure: error:…
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Add line numbers to GNU Emacs

How can I add line numbers to Emacs? Please explain, I'm an absolute beginner.
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How to install emacs 24.4 on Ubuntu?

Emacs is build from the Launchpad sources, which is based on the Debian emacs-snapshot (which is not maintained any more). The cassou PPA only has 24.3 builds available. Do you know any other ways to install it on Ubuntu? Maybe some PPAs or deb…
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application focus of emacsclient frame

I use emacs24 and I usually start emacs as a daemon at start then use emacsclient frames. But I've encountered a problem: After I created the first frame, then whenever I created a new frame (after the first frame is closed) there would be a system…
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Help identify this Emacs color theme

I found this screenshot here: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Emacs
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Why is the meta key is not working when using Emacs?

Suddenly, I am not able to use any combination of meta keys. The Alt key is not working at all in my emacs. Can anyone help me on this issue?
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Auctex in 12.04 ignores Emacs 24

I just installed Emacs 24 (emacs24 24.1+1-2ubuntu3) in Ubuntu 12.04 but it does not seem to work with Auctex (the current version is 11.86-2ubuntu2). My .emacs file contains a line loading Auctex, so when starting the editor for the first time I…
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How do I remove the shortcut buttons/toolbar from emacs?

After upgrading from Ubuntu 13 -> 14.04 emacs now wastes valuable screen space with silly buttons. How can I go back to a "buttonless" version of emacs?
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How to make emacs minibuffer vertical?

I Want to make the emacs minibuffer (where we type emacs command) vertical. Just the way we open a window by using C-x 3 Is there a way to do this?
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How do I start emacs?

I am trying Linux again after many years, and I have installed Ubuntu 12.10. I have downloaded the full GNU Emacs24 package, but I cannot get it to launch a text editor. Can someone tell me what I have to do to get it to launch? I keep…
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slime-lookup-definition not working with sbcl

One of the nicer things of programming with Common Lisp and the combination of Emacs / Slime is, that you can jump quickly to the source of builtin or your own functions with M+.. I can't get this to work however, for sbcl's builtin functions. I…
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Emacs C IDE / Gnu Global helm-gtags

Hello Ubuntu Community, so first of all I'd like to say that I am quite new to ubuntu (16.10) and linux. I decided to use Windows as little as possible and also wanted to start learning the Programming language C. However, I thought it would be nice…
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Equivalent of OSX "open" in Ubuntu Unity?

I know there is xdg-open, but it does not run in the background. It is not as easy as appending & at the end when calling this command from emacs. I often use ! then open in emacs dired, or C-! and then open filename for emacs shell-command. Is…
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