PLUS is an Emacs configuration for researchers, which is inspired by Aaron Bedra's emacs.d and Bin Chen's emacs.d.

• ~/.emacs.d/init.el is the configuration entrance.
• ~/.emacs.d/custom.el includes user's personal configurations (custom.org also works).
• ~/.emacs.d/sitelisp/ collects the packages that are NOT maintained by package manager ELPA.
• ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ and the other things will be auto-maintained by ELPA or the other packages.

Golang, R, Python, Julia, LaTeX, markdown, orgmode, pandoc, gnuplot, Scala and Kotlin are supported.

1. Backup the current Emacs configuration, e.g., the file ~/.emacs or the folder ~/.emacs.d/.

2. Uninstall all systematic Emacs plugins. All plugins will be placed at ~/.emacs.d from now on.

3. Clone PLUS

   cd ~; git clone https://github.com/ubtc/plus.git ~/.emacs.d; cd -

4. Run the following command to fetch the latest packages from remote package repositories:

   emacs -nw --batch -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el -f package-refresh-contents

External applications are optional, and can be installed through OS package managers, i.e.,

• apt-cyg for Cygwin,
• homebrew for Mac, and
• various Linux package managers (apt for Ubuntu, yum for Redhat, pacman for Arch, emerge for Gentoo, etc.)

• needed by golang-mode
• install through OS package manager

• needed by python-mode
• install through OS package manager or pip/pip3

• needed by ess
• install through OS package manager

• needed by ensime-mode/scala-mode-hook
• install through OS package manager

• needed by kotlin-mode
• install through OS package manager or through sdkman!

• needed by julia-mode and julia-shell
• install through OS package manager

• needed by pandoc-mode
• install through OS package manager

• needed by auctex (for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs)
• install through OS package manager (auctex need to be downloaded manually)

• needed by ebib
• install through OS package manager

• needed by gnuplot-mode
• install through OS package manager

• needed by org-mode to export org file to odt file
• install through OS package manager

• needed by flyspell
• install through OS package manager. aspell usually is a better choice for programmers, whose dictionary has been set to en_US.