Andreas Santucci
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With full credit to: https://github.com/jhamrick/emacs/blob/master/.emacs
http://blog.smalleycreative.com/tutorials/using-git-and-github-to-manage-your-dotfiles/
Clone Hamrick's repository, linked above, and then run the bootstrap.sh script. This
will copy all of the necessary files to ~/.emacs and
~/.emacs.d.
We use the plugins provided by Hamrick's .emacs file. In addition, we include support for R and ESS. These additions are installed manually. For instructions on installing ESS, see http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Installation.
Here are some issues I or others have run into when installing this configuration.
Ubuntu currently (December, 2015) supports emacs 23. For some of the plug-in's to work, we need emacs 24. This is not yet deemed a "stable" release by Ubuntu, so it's not available through the aptitude repository. For instructions on installing the latest version, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/437255/how-to-install-emacs-24-4-on-ubuntu.
We must install the following version-control systems: hg, git, bzr, and cvs.
I encountered errors automatically installing Auctex, and followed instructions https://github.com/jhamrick/emacs/blob/master/README.md#trouble-building-auctex to work around the issue; see section on
C-h m can be used within a buffer to get help on the current mode. See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/18082/how-do-i-get-the-current-major-mode/18083?newreg=4705c7c853a749d988de016ff2adc1bb.