Page:Sacha Chua - Emacs Chat with Carsten Dominik.djvu/11

 read your blog. Did I mention that before?

There are some stuff on there that seems great. I think it's called Emacs Rocks! or so that I think is a series of short screencasts which is a lot of fun. It's kind of crazy stuff what he picks there, but he has a great way of showing his stuff off. I love that. That's what I do.

One of the things I sometimes still have trouble with is colors. Right now I've discovered the solarized color scheme. Do you know that for Emacs?

Sacha: That's very popular.

Carsten: I think it's actually pretty. Maybe I'm going to try that out for a while. I love fullscreen-mode actually, which now finally also works with Emacs 24. It seems to work on Mac as well. You never tried that?

Sacha: No, I haven't.

Carsten: That's great. It just makes your Emacs window fullscreen. It puts away menu bar, toolbar, and everything. Fullscreen, so you don't see anything else, and then you can focus on writing. It can be useful.

Sacha: I've had the menu bar, and the tool bar, and all of that stuff disabled for a while now. But we all accumulate these little customizations, and then someone goes off and packages them, which is nice.

You said your Emacs file is not ready for public consumption?

Carsten: I saw you doing one of the other chats, I saw you go through somebody's Emacs file.

Sacha: John shared his and Thomas shared his as well. We can certainly walk through under that. Or on the other hand, if you're like, “It's a total mess and I don't want to show any of this.”

Carsten: I think it's also not so interesting. I think, in the end, my Emacs customization is relatively basic stuff, stuff which you have shown off before. I really think so. I use Emacs the basic way it is, and then mostly extensions which actually I have written myself.

Sacha: That's the difference.