ChromeBook HP as full-blown Emacs IDE

A straightforward manual.

It is convenient to use a Dark mode everywhere on your ChromeBook, so: open a new tab in your Chrome by Ctrl+t, and put this address into the address bar: chrome://flags/. Now it is time to find all occurences of word dark on this page: Ctrl+f dark Enter.

You should enable:

• Dark/light mode of system UI
• Force Dark Mode for Web Contents
• WebUI dark mode

Now you are in the Dark Mode far and wide :-))

Easy-peasy:

sudo apt-get install emacs

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
emacs is already the newest version (1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

emacs --version

GNU Emacs 26.1
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

For security purpose several much popular Elpa packages are included in Buster repositories and available to install as trivial Debian packages. But their number is limited and if you wish to use a full-fledged version of termonuclear editor I might suggest not follow that path.

The main config for your Emacs is /etc/emacs/site-stard.d/00debian.el, the additional config for customization need to be initialized in ~/.emacs.d/init.el

Put these directives into the very top of 00debian.el:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
;; and MELPA
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)
(setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3") ;; Bad request fix