emacs-prelude – Tarik Billa

Changing highlight line color in emacs

September 26, 2023 by Tarik

That would be an easy fix if you customize your init file (~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.el, or ~/.emacs.d/init.el) Turn on hl-line: (global-hl-line-mode 1) Set any color as the background face of the current line: (set-face-background ‘hl-line “#3e4446”) To keep syntax highlighting in the current line: (set-face-foreground ‘highlight nil)

How to save a list of all the installed packages in Emacs 24?

April 20, 2023 by Tarik

You can get a list of currently installed packages (excluding built in packages) from the variable package-activated-list. To automatically install them on startup, see this question: how to automatically install emacs packages by specifying a list of package names? More specifically, if you do C-h v package-activated-list, copy the value shown, and insert it as … Read more