title: emacs customization on ubuntu
body: <p>hi im new to ubuntu and very very new to emacs I've installed them and happily editing files and doing all other things except for the emacs doesn't work for me the way it is supposed to. No syntax highlighting and code hinting and the awful color theme  is hurting my eyes please help me configure it have been searching for this on google for about 10-15 hours and ended up instructions like this that i dont even understand :</p>
  
  <pre><code>(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/color-theme.el/file")
  (require 'color-theme)
  (eval-after-load "color-theme"
   '(progn
      (color-theme-initialize)
      (color-theme-hober)))
  </code></pre>