What's in your .emacs?

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Published on 2008-09-30T17:27:08Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 6:13 UTC
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I've switched computers a few times recently, and somewhere along the way I lost my .emacs. I'm trying to build it up again, but while I'm at it, I thought I'd pick up other good configurations that other people use.

So, if you use Emacs, what's in your .emacs?

Mine is pretty barren right now, containing only:

Global font-lock-mode! (global-font-lock-mode 1)
My personal preferences with respect to indentation, tabs, and spaces.
Use cperl-mode instead of perl-mode.
A shortcut for compilation.

What do you think is useful?

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