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What's in your .emacs?

I've started to use Emacs and I've been looking up ways to improve my .emacs file. Some of the stuff goes over my head.

But what I wanted to know is what is in your .emacs file that your couldn't go without.

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(setq visible-bell t)

Nothing irritates me more than that god forsaken beep.

Yuval Adam
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I suggest Steve Yegge's .emacs file with his emacs article.

Serge
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Answering your question tangentially, there is one thing that I try not to put in my .emacs; UI settings. The reason is that usually, these things can be done in your .Xresources file (or Windows registry), which saves quite a bit of time starting up emacs.

Want to disable the tool/menu bar? Set the default fonts? Use a colour theme? All things that can be set as X resources.

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You can find my .emacs at github, all settings are split into separate files (for different programming languages, etc.), located in rc subdirectory

Alex Ott
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Steve Yegge's is my favourite.

And also check this link. http://www.dotemacs.de/

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You may try to my one: http://github.com/crible/emacs