From c218093e7f421968c15a8f8ca48d5eb354466114 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Gerardo=20Marx=20Ch=C3=A1vez-Campos?= Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:08:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'Readme.md' --- Readme.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 7ec2309..ecde35f 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -1,2 +1,25 @@ # Emacs basic configuration +This is a basic configuration guide to setup Emacs for LaTeX projects. To work along this tutorial please be suro to have installed a minimal LaTeX installation. + +## Emacs + +![](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikiwand.com%2Fen%2FGNU_Emacs&psig=AOvVaw1fFwVpIaI-jxOgwDUwzcdL&ust=1632244459330000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCLiA0tyGjvMCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE) + +According with Wikipedia, GNU Emacs is a free software text editor. It was created by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman. In common with other varieties of Emacs, GNU Emacs is extensible using a Turing complete programming language. GNU Emacs has been called "the most powerful text editor available today". GNU Emacs is sometimes abbreviated as GNUMACS, especially to differentiate it from other EMACS variants. The tag line for GNU Emacs is "the extensible self-documenting text editor". + +We are going to use GNU Emacs and configure it with Vanilla flavoured style theme. + + +## Controlling your emacs configuration + +In order to control your changes into the emacs configuration file, it is recommended to make a symbolic link to this repository. Thus, let us first clone this repository and create a symbolic link by using: + +``` +$ git clone http://gmarxcc.com:8088/mcie-rs101/emacs-configuration.git +$ cd emacs-configuration +$ ln -s /home/user-name/folder/of/emacs-configuration/.emacs /home/user/.emacs +``` + +by doing this, we are going to link both files and register any modification. +