When I try to propose the synonym daemon for emacs-daemon by entering daemon on the synonyms page for 'emacs-daemon, it fails with the following error message: Failed to propose synonym: A synonym from daemon to emacs-daemon exists, chains are not allowed But daemon is not in any exist...

Emacs is not a topic where many people have something to sell. So we don't get topical spam on this site. But as with any website that accepts external contributions, we get generic spam. When you see spam, please flag it as “spam”! Posts are automatically deleted if they receive 6 spam flags. A...

I changed a small piece of text in my previous question. The alteration is an important one and warrants a separate question. However, the system decides that I am posting the same question again and the button "Post your question" does not work. What to do? For the time being I appended a d...

I would like to type S-(left bracket)LEFT (right bracket) inserted as keyboard. How to escape the (bracket)? The problem is seen in question - How to type S-<LEFT> during indent-rigidly? where LEFT for the time being is not enclosed in (brackets). Check @npostavs answer: S-<LEFT> @Gilles ans...

History When submitting questions and answers to the Emacs.SE , I usually write the text in org-syntax which I export into markdown syntax in a buffer and paste into the website forms. On GitHub and GitLab, org-syntax is allowed by default as an alternative to the ubiquitous markdown. Both webs...

What to with an answer that is a direct copy of a previous comment? like this case

Since the last election, the Community Team's noticed that the bulk of the flag handling's been mostly done by two moderators. We have systems in place to remove inactive moderators, but since we always have a minimum of three moderators on the team that removal would be accompanied by an elect...

emacs is scheduled for an election starting next week, September 24th, for 1 slot (based off of the community interest check). In connection with that election, we will be hosting a Q&A here for candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidat...

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In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Due to the submission count, we have selected ...

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The nomination phase of the moderator elections was scheduled to end now. However, in order for the election to proceed, it is necessary to have at least one more candidate running than there are slots. This allows for there to be actual voting phases, so that the community can actually show that...

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Earlier today I asked this question and received an answer in comments. I suggested the commenter post the comment as an answer, and another commenter said not to do that because my question was a duplicate of this not at all obviously related question. And apparently several other questions that...

As suggested in this answer. If so, it would be useful to have that guidance on the ask page, as it's a much stronger norm than most SE sites.

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I have, with help, managed to solve my own question. However, the solution I came up with was short (~15 lines of code) and perhaps more transparent -- at least for someone at my level. Then, I got even more help with a much more elaborate solution which takes into account many other details (s...

In two cases my questions were answered in comments. How to mark these questions as answered? I could copy the comment to an answer and mark the answer as accepted but since the answer is'nt mine this seems strange. In the case of these two questions it would also help to mark them as obsolete...

How can I get an email notification whenever new answers or comments appear to certain questions that I'm interested in?

Case in point being downgrading emacs which sounds to me like a question about the Fedora distribution of GNU/Linux -- but that may well be of interest to other Emacs users who run Fedora. We do have existing tags for particular OSs. As well as the expected [microsoft-windows] and [osx] I can s...

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Is there a new (e.g. grayish) background highlighting for code now? I get the impression that there is and that syntax highlighting does not stand out as well against it as it stood out before. I mean what you get by doing, say, this: <!-- language: lang-el -->

A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday ...

How can I post a block of Emacs Lisp code? How can I post some buffer content including special characters and not have them interpreted as markup?

I asked this question several days ago and the question only has 5 views (probably several, maybe even all of which are me). So I'm wondering if the low views means the question is better off elsewhere, such as on SuperUser as its relation to emacs is too tangential? Should this question be mig...

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