Getting Started with Emacs: A Basic Setup Guide
This blog post is a guide to installing and initially configuring Emacs, covering both the installation of the Emacs editor itself and basic customizations. It walks through downloading binaries for different operating systems, creating the initial configuration file (init.el), setting up the MELPA package archive (including proxy configuration for users in China), and basic editor settings like encoding, line endings, and appearance. The post details installing the Zenburn theme and Fira Code font, providing links to their respective GitHub repositories. It also covers some common view customizations such as maximizing the frame, toggling the scrollbar, and line numbers. ...