Call the following script “emacs” and put it in your PATH somewhere: #!/bin/sh /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs “$@” That covers #2, #3, and #4. For #1, put this somewhere in your .emacs file: (x-focus-frame nil) The emacsformacosx.com site now has a How-To page, which is where the top snippet came from. There’s more info there about running emacsclient … Read more
You can use the Emacs Desktop library: You can save the desktop manually with the command M-x desktop-save. You can also enable automatic saving of the desktop when you exit Emacs, and automatic restoration of the last saved desktop when Emacs starts: use the Customization buffer (see Easy Customization) to set desktop-save-mode to t for … Read more
See some of the suggestions on the Emacs Wiki: Emacs Wiki: Smooth Scrolling (setq scroll-step 1 scroll-conservatively 10000)
For a more manual approach, you can list all buffers with C-x C-b, mark buffers in the list for deletion with d, and then use x to remove them. I also recommend replacing list-buffers with the more advanced ibuffer: (global-set-key (kbd “C-x C-b”) ‘ibuffer). The above will work with ibuffer, but you could also do … Read more
You can use the C-x0 key combination to delete the current window.
Swapping CTRL and CAPS LOCK Go into System Preferences Enter the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane In the Keyboard tab, click Modifier Keys… Swap the actions for Caps Lock and Control. Using ALT/OPTION as META In the menu bar, click Terminal Click Preferences… Under the Settings tab, go to the Keyboard tab Check the box … Read more
Some variables in Emacs are “buffer-local”, meaning that each buffer is allowed to have a separate value for that variable that overrides the global default. tab-width is a good example of a buffer-local variable. If a variable is buffer-local, then setq sets its local value in the current buffer and setq-default sets the global default … Read more
C-h f (or M-x describe-function) will show you the bindings for a command. You are correct, C-h b (or M-x describe-bindings) will show you all bindings. C-h m (M-x describe-mode) is also handy to list bindings by mode. You might also try C-h k (M-x describe-key) to show what command is bound to a key. … Read more
The system-type variable: system-type is a variable defined in `C source code’. Its value is darwin Documentation: Value is symbol indicating type of operating system you are using. Special values: `gnu’ compiled for a GNU Hurd system. `gnu/linux’ compiled for a GNU/Linux system. `darwin’ compiled for Darwin (GNU-Darwin, Mac OS X, …). `ms-dos’ compiled as … Read more
you may want boundp: returns t if variable (a symbol) is not void; more precisely, if its current binding is not void. It returns nil otherwise. (boundp ‘abracadabra) ; Starts out void. => nil (let ((abracadabra 5)) ; Locally bind it. (boundp ‘abracadabra)) => t (boundp ‘abracadabra) ; Still globally void. => nil (setq abracadabra … Read more