I'm finally done with the course works and finals (at least this is what I am hoping for!), so I am going to do what I like, the research stuff, 8-5. (8 hours a day, 5 days a week... are you doing it 24-7?! Get a life... joking, I'm lazy! You keep up the spirit ;] )
Since the members of the
group that my advisor work with are all
Emacs gurus, my advisor suggested to do all the programming stuff in Emacs, even though he is a
vi person himself. He said that if you want to be taken seriously, you better have a common language with them, and yes, Emacs is one of them, believe me! I have seen them do fantastic debugging procedures in Emacs that you cannot do in any other environment. Anyway, after 6-7 months of playing with Emacs, I'm feeling it and since I'm terrible at remembering stuffs, I'll put here the things that I think are necessary to remember later or worth referring to.
Emacs tips for
lazy grad students - 1
A good color theme is essential in Emacs (Not using Emacs?! oh, sorry to disturb... go play your game!) Forget making your own color theme from scratch! In other words, if you are geek enough, you are not reading this post or you already have a personalized Emacs color theme carrying with you as a personal identity since you were 12 years old. Anyway, I didn't like the default color theme and the others provided in
emacs-goodies-el package suck. Searching the web, I found bunch of color themes and after a few weeks of testing I settled with
color-theme-subdued. It is a good one! The installation instruction is also included in the link.
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