# Starting afresh with el-get

DevFeed: [Starting afresh with el-get](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/starting-afresh-with-el-get-34403.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2011/01/starting-afresh-with-el-get/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2011-01-11T15:20:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [Emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/emacs.md>), [Lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lisp.md>), [color](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/color.md>)

Tags: [add-ons](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/add-ons.md>), [color](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/color.md>), [emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emacs.md>), [emacs-lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emacs-lisp.md>), [themes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/themes.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes helping a new Emacs user get started with color themes, sensible defaults, and add-ons through a simple 87-line setup using el-get.

## Source excerpt

It so happens that a colleague of mine wanted to start using Emacs but couldn't get to it. He insists on having proper color themes in all applications and some sensible defaults full of nifty add-ons everywhere, and didn't want to have to learn that much about Emacs and Emacs Lisp to get started. I'm not even sure that he will Take the Emacs tour. You would tell me that there's nothing we can do for so unfriendly users. Well, here's what I did: