>>109038036
It's easy to get started. Open up the editor (windowed version to start with, not terminal).
Go to the "Buffers" menu and select *scratch*. This switches your current buffer to the lisp interaction buffer. In this buffer, you can evaluate expressions that modify the life configuration. Expressions that you evaluate here can then be copied into $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el (or whatever it is on windows I don't remember. A long long time ago it used to be C:\_emacs.el but I'd imagine that's no longer the default).
Try copy/pasting this indo the *scratch* buffer:
(set-background-color "dim gray")
(set-foreground-color "medium spring green")
(set-background-color "light gray")
(set-foreground-color "dark slate gray")
Place your cursor at the end of the first line, then type "ctrl+alt+x". This will change the background to a darkish grey. Move to the next line and type "ctrl+alt+x" again. This will make the text green. Evaluate the next two expressions to change to a light-on-dark theme.
Now type "alt-x"
The cursor will move down to the minibuffer at the bottom of the screen. Type in "set-foreground-color" (or just set-fo<tab>) to tab-complete the command. Then press enter. Type in "black" when it says "Foreground Color: ".
Now paste in this to the *scratch* buffer:
(defun my-dark-theme ()
(interactive)
(set-background-color "dim gray")
(set-foreground-color "spring green"))
Place your cursor after the very last paren you typed, and press "ctrl-alt-x". Nothing will happen, except a 't' should show up in the minibuffer.
Now, use "alt-x" to like you did above to run the command except this time start typing "my-<tab>", it should auto-complete to the my-dark-theme function you just defined. Pressing enter should change the theme.
Now you can just use the file menu to create $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el, which runs at startup.
