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Creating the Perfect Emacs Theme - A Journey Through Design and Development

EmacsConf and Emacs hangouts via YouTube

Overview

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Explore an 11-minute conference talk from EmacsConf 2024 that chronicles a developer's personal quest to develop the ideal Emacs theme. Journey through various theme iterations including Deviant, FlucUI, Lab, and NotInk grayscale, before diving into innovative approaches like random theme generation and Monte Carlo methods. Learn practical techniques for color palette selection and gain insights into the XYZ color space, all while discovering how these elements contribute to creating an optimal Emacs editing environment. The presentation includes detailed demonstrations and explanations of each theme's development process, making it valuable for both Emacs enthusiasts and those interested in color theory in software development.

Syllabus

.140 Introduction
.820 Deviant
.640 FlucUI
.910 Lab
.090 NotInk: grayscale
.930 Random theme
.020 Monte Carlo
.780 How to pick a random color palette
.070 XYZ

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