Questions tagged [minibuffer]
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How to get back to an active minibuffer prompt in emacs without the mouse
In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way to make the minibuffer prompt active again is to…
Ryan C. Thompson
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How can I have an 'truly' interactive command in emacs?
How would I implement a bare bones function that 're-evaluates' with every key-press? I mean key-press loosely; I'm looking to emulate the behavior of isearch and friends.
I would be using this to interactively test XPath expressions against an…
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dired-mode: Use modeline for path name
I'd like to keep dired open as a tall pane, separated horizontally from my other windows (like in TextMate). How can I move dired's path name into its modeline?
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In Emacs, Listing Buffers in the minibuffer
I am a college student and am just back from my internship.
There, I extensively used emacs and I had never used Emacs before.
So I am not sure which version of emacs it was.
There was this cheat I don't remember (C-x ???), which would show a list…
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