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I am using prelude as a base Emacs configuration. I have installed lots of packages from the package manager, and I want to use my settings on another machine. I don't want to carry the installed packages and also I don't want to create a list manually. What is the way of saving a list all the installed packages into prelude-package.el or any other file so that when I take this configuration to my other machine, they automatically get installed there on first use? ataylor You can get a list of currently installed packages (excluding built in packages) from the variable package-activated-list .

I have decided to check out Emacs, and I liked it very much. Now, I'm using the Emacs Starter Kit , which sort of provides better defaults and some nice customizations to default install of Emacs. I have customized it a little, added some stuff like yasnippet , color-themes , unbound , and other stuff. I've set up a github repository where I keep all of the customizations so I can access them from multiple places or in case something goes bad and I lose my .emacs.d directory. All of this is very nice, but there is a problem: Emacs takes about 1-2 seconds to load. AFAIK I can compile individual

I'm trying Emacs. I would like to set colors for Eshell. I tried that first with set-foreground-color. But it affects my other modes too. (add-hook 'eshell-mode-hook (lambda ( default ((t (:foreground "#BD8700")))))) But that's not working either. Or it's affecting the colors on other modes/ scratch too. Have anyone a suggestion? This is not a duplicate question, because the other answers change the colors of other buffers as well. Here is a link to the documentation regarding remapping faces: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Remapping.html (defun my-eshell-mode

From a previous post I got Ruby mode working in emacs. This is working great. Setting up .emacs file for mac ruby development Our company uses 4 spaces for indents though instead of the default 2. I am having difficulty getting this to work. Here is my .emacs file (add-to-list 'load-path "~/rdoc-mode.el") (require 'ruby-mode) (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) ; always replace tabs with spaces (setq-default tab-width 4) ; set tab width to 4 for all buffers Does anyone see what I am doing wrong? Thanks! Pär Wieslander The tab-width setting only controls the width of a tab character, i.e. how many

I try to add a button in the tool-bar but that doesn't works. how to do that, i check in Emacs wiki and i find nothing. I used emacs 24.3.1. The toolsbar are displayed but not my new item. I can run it with eval-buffer but not with my .emacs or find another solution to resolve that. When i add it with eval-buffer my button leave my toolbar after a scroll. (defun omar-hotel () "another nonce menu function" (interactive) (message "hotel, motel, holiday inn")) (define-key global-map [tool-bar omar-button] '(menu-item "Hotel" omar-hotel :image (image :type xpm :file "/usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc

When switching files using the minibuffer (C-x C-f), I often use M-Backspace to delete words in the path. Emacs automatically places what I delete into the kill ring. This can be annoying, as sometime I am moving to another file to paste something, and I end up pasting part of the file path. I know there are workarounds, and the other code is still in the kill ring, etc, but I would just like to disable this functionality. Emacs doesn't have a backward-delete-word function, but it's easy enough to define one: (defun backward-delete-word (arg) "Delete characters backward until encountering the

Is there a best practice around lazily loading modes when encountering a relevant file extension? At this point I have roughly 25 different Emacs modes installed, and startup has become slow. For example, although it's great to have clojure-mode at the ready, I rarely use it, and I want to avoid loading it at all unless I open a file with extension .clj. Such a "lazy require" functionality seems like the right way do mode configuration in general.. I found nothing online, so I've taken a crack at it myself. Instead of: (require 'clojure-mode) (require 'tpl-mode) I have this: (defun lazy

I've been searching for how to restore an emacs session, with no luck. I'm looking to restore all previously open buffers, some of which might contain erc, shells, directory listings, files, etc. Every time I open emacs, I spend a considerable amount of time arranging my buffers; splitting them into rows and columns, opening a shell, arranging irc channels. It takes a while to get onto work. I've tried adding the following to my init.el (desktop-save-mode 1) And then using M-x desktop-save . This only seems to restore files that are open, not shells or anything else running within buffers. I