diff --git a/study.org b/study.org
index 08fdd5810595df34f0f0b5a35e6c414cf7c4b381..c33a7ec3d93b0eead61c1ada970d7a030c11881e 100644
--- a/study.org
+++ b/study.org
@@ -193,9 +193,96 @@ in the experimental environment of the study, use the command below.
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC shell
 guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- shell --pure -m manifest.scm -- \
-     emacs --batch --no-init-file study.org
+     emacs -q -l study.org
 #+END_SRC
 
+***** Emacs configuration
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: emacs-el
+:header-args: :tangle emacs.el :eval never
+:END:
+
+For a smoother editing experience in Emacs, we provide here a minimal
+configuration file for the Emacs editor, the =emacs.el= file, to use within the
+experimental software environment of the study.
+
+The first part of the configuration is dedicated to the indentation setup, we
+want to use 2 spaces instead of TAB to indent for every language.
+
+#+begin_src elisp
+(defun set-indent (n)
+  (setq-local c-basic-offset n)
+  (setq-local sh-basic-offset n)
+  (setq-local coffee-tab-width n)
+  (setq-local javascript-indent-level n)
+  (setq-local js-indent-level n)
+  (setq-local js2-basic-offset n)
+  (setq-local web-mode-markup-indent-offset n)
+  (setq-local web-mode-css-indent-offset n)
+  (setq-local web-mode-code-indent-offset n)
+  (setq-local css-indent-offset n)
+  (setq indent-tabs-mode nil))
+(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook (lambda () (set-indent 2)))
+(add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (set-indent 2)))
+#+end_src
+
+We then want to highlight the 80th column an automatically wrap text around the
+latter.
+
+#+begin_src elisp
+(require 'fill-column-indicator)
+(setq fci-rule-column 80)
+(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'turn-on-fci-mode)
+(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-fci-mode)
+(setq-default fill-column 80)
+#+end_src
+
+Follows the Org mode-related setup. After loading the necessary Org packages for
+editing templates and bibliography support,
+
+#+begin_src elisp
+(require 'org-tempo)
+(require 'org-ref)
+#+end_src
+
+we:
+
+- do not want to have to confirm every single source code evaluation,
+  #+begin_src elisp
+(setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)
+  #+end_src
+- want to preserve the indentation on export and tangle actions,
+  #+begin_src elisp
+(setq org-src-preserve-indentation t)
+(setq org-src-tab-acts-natively t)
+  #+end_src
+- allow syntax highlighting,
+  #+begin_src elisp
+(setq org-src-fontify-natively t)
+  #+end_src
+- load R and shell language support for code evaluation,
+  #+begin_src elisp
+(org-babel-do-load-languages
+ 'org-babel-load-languages
+ '((R . t)
+   (shell . t)))
+  #+end_src
+- do not want to hide brackets around URLs.
+  #+begin_src elisp
+(setq org-descriptive-links nil)
+  #+end_src
+
+ Finally, we:
+
+ - set the color of the line highlighting the 80th column,
+   #+begin_src elisp
+(setq fci-rule-color "#3C3D37")
+   #+end_src
+ - disable the start-up screen.
+   #+begin_src elisp
+(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
+   #+end_src
+   
 *** Hardware environment
 :PROPERTIES:
 :CUSTOM_ID: hwe
@@ -305,6 +392,7 @@ Emacs and Texlive packages.
    "emacs-org"
    "emacs-org-ref"
    "emacs-ess"
+   "emacs-fill-column-indicator"
    "texlive-scheme-basic"
    "texlive-hyperref"
    "texlive-geometry"