There’s a multitude of starter kits and configurations readily available for the
text editor GNU Emacs. Recently, I’ve started to use the
scimax starter kit by John Kitchen. He and
his research group use it for most of their research and teaching, so I wanted
to give it a shot (again). It’s very easy to install. You just need to move the
content of of their git repository to .emacs.d in your home folder via the
following two commands:
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax.git .emacs.dHowever, on machines which use GNU/Linux with KDE, I had the problem that
sometimes the menus are empty. I found out that the menus can be shown if I type
do M-x menu-bar-open or <f10> (which is the commands shortcut). To solve
this issue programmatically, I added the following code to the user
configuration file under .emacs.d/user/user.el.
(menu-bar-mode -1)
(menu-bar-mode 1)