Quick Setup for My Ubuntu Box

Not Again

At this point, I’ve wiped and reformatted my new Ubuntu computer 4 times over the past 4 months. You could say several things, to which I would likely respond:

You: Are you that much of a novice?

Me: Yup, and it appears to be worsening… I’m the Benjamin Button of Computer Science

You: Isn’t there another way to do it?

Me: Probably, I’m all ears…

You: Can’t you have a productive career as a something else,… maybe a shepard?

Me: Good point, I’m actually quite good at making sheep noises.

So this post is really for me to get my Computer up and running again as quickly as possible… the next time I decide to punch myself in the junk.

Setup

1. Git Clone the gnome-terminal-colors-solarized, cd into the folder, and run either:

   $ ./set_dark.sh

   or

   $ ./set_light.sh

2. Get Emacs24:

   $ sudo apt-get emacs24

3. Install Emacs keybindings system-wide

   $  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

4. Get Solarized Themes for Emacs (yes, I have an unhealthy obsession with the Solarized Theme…. I’ve already asked Ethan on several dates, but won’t return my calls

   Clone the emacs-color-theme-solarized repository and follow the straightforward instructions

5. Get auto-complete for Emacs NOTE: The only wayinstall this is by watching the first 20 seconds of this video on YouTube frame by frame (I feel like Dark Helmet ordering them to slow down the ship while I’m watching this, but the end result is worth it)

6. Get yasnippet for Emacs. For this you can actually M-x package-install [RET] yasnippet [RET] and it works fine.

7. Get fill-column-indicator

8. Quick change of the coloring in Terminal

9. Make sure you (require 'ido) in your ~/.emacs file

10. Install org-mode

11. Install markdown-mode for Emacs

12. Install pandoc

    $ sudo apt-get install pandoc

13. Install LaTeX

    $ sudo apt-get install texlive-full

WHEW… and that should do it! Maybe next time instead of taking 6 hours, it’ll take 2… because just like that awkwark silence that ensues when you realize someone is complete d-bag… this will happen again.

My ~/.emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/benjaminmgross/.emacs.d/custom/fill-column-indicator/")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/benjaminmgross/.emacs.d/elpa/yasnippet-0.8.0/")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")

(require 'auto-complete-config)
(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories "~/.emacs.d//ac-dict")
(ac-config-default)

(require 'fill-column-indicator)
(setq fci-rule-color "red")

(require 'yasnippet)
(yas-global-mode 1)

(setq Visual-line 1)
(setq inhibit-startup-message t) 

(require 'color-theme)
(require 'ido)
(ido-mode 't)

(require 'org)
(setq org-log-done t)

(eval-after-load "color-theme"
  '(progn
     (color-theme-initialize)
     (color-theme-hober)))
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "/home/benjaminmgross/dev/emacs-color-theme-solarized")
(load-theme 'solarized-dark t)

(autoload 'markdown-mode "markdown-mode"
   "Major mode for editing Markdown files" t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.text\\'" . markdown-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.markdown\\'" . markdown-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode))
(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:family "Ubuntu Mono" :foundry "unknown" :slant normal :weight normal :height 151 :width normal)))))