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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.

Michiel Buddingh' 2009-07-15 11:51:20

This is a cool answer. I do have some UI settings in my .emacs and it is annoying how it visibly changed on start up.

Stephen 2009-07-15 11:55:59

How often do you restart emacs?

jrockway 2009-07-16 21:03:19

Answer 2

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

Serge 2009-07-15 11:52:34

Steve Yegge is the reason I got into emacs :)

Stephen 2009-07-15 11:57:45

Answer 3

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(setq visible-bell t)

Nothing irritates me more than that god forsaken beep.

Yuval A 2009-07-15 11:52:45

Answer 4

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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 2009-07-15 19:19:50

Answer 5

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Steve Yegge's is my favourite.

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

Joyer 2009-07-22 00:55:06

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