DotEmacs.de
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The very unofficial dotemacs home
Description
Why do I bother you with another site about the Emacs theme ?
I know, there are a lot of sites and pages dealing with Emacs, but there is quite few information about how to set up your own personal Emacs. Sure, this is no problem for the advanced elisp programmer, but there are a lot of Emacs novices (well, this is a good thing, they have discovered the most powerful editor and more - with the exception that it can't give us programmers a real good cup of coffee or tea, but I'm looking forward to this.). For anybody new to Emacs, customization is a topic of interest because on the one hand this is a strength of Emacs but on the other hand this a white spot on the roadmap to using Emacs:
"Well," you argue, "customization can be easily done by using the customization buffers in Emacs 20.xx" Ok, I'll take that, but have you ever seen a full expanded customization buffer (only the topics, not the real customization) ? Give it a try, but be careful, it's a big one :). There are myriards of options you'll never need to know about, but the really (for your special usecase) interesting things are hidden in the packages themself (and yet are not always present in the customization buffer). And worse enough, the customization buffer is only available for the packages which explicitly support it (as far as I've understood it, correct me if I'm wrong), so all these old and no longer maintained or not updated to 20.xx, but still usefull packages are lost in a black hole concernig customization.
And if that's not enough, beeing an Emacs user on OS/2, WinNT and Linux for quite a while I've seen a lot of solutions for particular problems concerning the usability of this powerful editor by snippets of customization files of experienced users. I myself have solved a lot of problems by looking at well documented .emacs files and including parts of them into my own configuration.
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