How are you all pasting into SpaceMacs from other apps?
So I copy say a Hex code from my design software, go to Spacemacs and double click the hex code I want to replace.. then press Command V and… nothing 
AstonJ
OvermindDL1
When ‘into’ spacemacs ‘from’ the system clipboard I just make sure in insert mode and hit Shift+Insert. ^.^
Otherwise if you want to copy or paste into or out of buffers in general, all the usual interaction (and more powerful than traditional copy/paste) hotkeys are listed at (just search copy or paste): spacemacs/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org at master · syl20bnr/spacemacs · GitHub
peerreynders
In Vim mode …
In Emacs mode you use “yank”:
- Ctrl-y (Cmd-y if you have modified your configuration to have Cmd act as Ctrl ‡)
- By default yank doesn’t replace selected text. To change that behavior you need to configure
delete-selection-mode
Look forward to having lots of Cmd-v/Cmd-y confusion in your future.
‡ (setq mac-command-modifier 'control)
AstonJ
Thanks both. Looks like I need this:
2.12 Prevent the visual selection overriding my system clipboard?
On some operating systems, there is only one clipboard for both copied and selected texts. This has the consequence that visual selection – which should normally be saved to the PRIMARY clipboard – overrides the SYSTEM clipboard, where normally goes the copied text. This can be corrected by adding the following code to the dotspacemacs/user-config of your .spacemacs:
(fset 'evil-visual-update-x-selection 'ignore)
voger
How do you repeat the last command? Or even better how do you re-run a task?
I keep mix phoenix.server running but many times I need to restart it. What I do so far is
- find the buffer where the command is running and kill that buffer
, m :to run alchemist-mix- wait for the list of available mix tasks
- select or type
phoenix.server - if error repeat
Is there any better way?
UPDATE: I made some progress with this. looking from alchemist source and trying to understand spacemac’s documentation I came up with this in my user config. It is a shortcut to run “mix phoenix.server”.
(defun alchemist-phoenix-server ()
(interactive)
"Run the Mix task 'phoenix.server'"
(alchemist-mix-execute '("phoenix.server")))
(spacemacs/set-leader-keys-for-minor-mode 'alchemist-phoenix-mode (kbd "n S") 'alchemist-phoenix-server)
Heck, it even restarts the phoenix.server by killing the previous mix task. The problem I have now is that it runs by typing Spc n S instead of C-c a n S like the rest of the phoenix-mode commands.
I try to figure it from the documentation but I don’t understand exactly how to register it there. I tried “C-c n S” but it doesn’t work. It insists on prefixing with space.
aaronjensen
Try:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c a n S") 'alchemist-phoenix-server)
That said, fwiw, most of the alchemist commands are bound under , (assuming vim mode) while in elixir files in spacemacs. You could use spacemacs/set-leader-keys-for-major-mode to put it there, I think.
voughtdq
Have you enabled 256 color mode? This is how my emacs looks when I use a boring 16 color terminal!
If you use PuTTY, then be sure to tick “Allow terminal to use xterm 256-color mode” under Settings → Window → Colours
voger
I did that and now I get
Error in dotspacemacs/user-config: Key sequence C-c a n S starts with non-prefix key C-c a
For now I have settled with these lines
(spacemacs/set-leader-keys-for-minor-mode 'alchemist-phoenix-mode "o p" 'alchemist-phoenix-server)
(spacemacs/set-leader-keys-for-major-mode 'mode-run "o p" 'alchemist-phoenix-server)
and I can run phoenix server when on a phoenix project with -o-p.
aaronjensen
Sorry, I should have tested. This should work:
(with-eval-after-load 'alchemist
(define-key alchemist-mode-keymap (kbd "n S") 'alchemist-phoenix-server))
Two things, you need the with-eval-after-load to ensure that you’re running that code after alchemist is loaded. The second is that you need to add to the alchemist-mode-keymap to get it under C-c a.
voger
Thanks. It works great now.
BTW: This whole keymap thing opened my appetite to learn more about emacs programming. This definitely goes high in my TODO list.