The ctafconf is the configuration I use on all my box and at school. Configuration files are provided for:

• shell: zsh, bash, ksh, tcsh, screen, top
• text editor: emacs, nano, vim
• windows manager: fluxbox, metacity, enlightenment
• graphical tools: torsmo, conky
• virtual terminal: gnome-terminal, xterm, aterm, Eterm, rxvt
• login manager: startx, xdm, gdm, kdm

It provide you a powerful development environment using zsh, emacs and more. The ctafconf is the most portable as possible, it work on debian, ubuntu, netbsd-epita, cygwin, freebsd, and all POSIX system.

• portable: work on cygwin, linux, bsd, and all posix system
• make, svn and cvs have colored output
• alias are defined for standard compilation command (configure, make, etc..)
• extended emacs configuration

get a tarball from sourceforge, or use the svn:

  svn co https://grk.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/grk grk

untar the tarball in your home directory:

cd ~
tar xvjf ctafconf-date.tar.bz2

launch the setup:

cd .ctafconf
./ctafconf-install

and that all, the ctafconf is installed

I recommand you to use zsh, as it is more powerful than the others. You could change your login shell with chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh login.

some useful keyboard shortcut for zsh:

• tab : completion
• ctrl+w : backspace kill word
• ctrl+a : begin of line
• ctrl+e : end of line
• ctrl+l : clear screen
• ctrl+u : clear the current line
• ctrl+space/alt-w/ctrl-y : copy/paste like in emacs

Some useful alias are defined to help you develop:

• e, ne : launch emacs, and launch a terminal emacs
• a, c : ./autogen.sh, ./configure,
• m, ma : make, make clean all
• gm, gma : gmake, gmake clean all
• fixme, todo : display all FIXMe and TODO found in files of the current directory

Some useful keyboard shortcut for emacs: