What's in your .emacs?

Answer 1

lots of stuff: https://github.com/tavisrudd/emacs.d

el-get has made managing it and dependencies a lot easier: https://github.com/tavisrudd/emacs.d/blob/master/dss-init-el-get.el

Answer 2

For Scala coders

;; Load the ensime lisp code... http://github.com/aemoncannon/ensime
(add-to-list 'load-path "ENSIME_ROOT/elisp/")
(require 'ensime)
;; This step causes the ensime-mode to be started whenever ;; scala-mode is started for a buffer. You may have to customize this step ;; if you're not using the standard scala mode.
(add-hook 'scala-mode-hook 'ensime-scala-mode-hook)
;; MINI HOWTO:  ;; Open .scala file. M-x ensime (once per project)

Answer 3

My .emacs is only 127 lines, here are the most useful little snippets:

;; keep backup files neatly out of the way in .~/
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . ".~")))

This makes the *~ files which I find clutter up the directory go into a special directory, in this case .~

;; uniquify changes conflicting buffer names from file<2> etc
(require 'uniquify)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'reverse)
(setq uniquify-separator "/")
(setq uniquify-after-kill-buffer-p t) ; rename after killing uniquified
(setq uniquify-ignore-buffers-re "^\\*") ; don't muck with special buffers

This sets up uniquify which changes those ugly file<2> etc. buffer names you get when multiple files have the same name into a much neater unambiguous name using as much of the whole path of the file as it has to.

That's about it... the rest is pretty standard stuff that I'm sure everyone knows about.

Answer 4

i use paredit for easy (e)lisp handling and ido-mode minibuffer completions.

Answer 5

I have this to change yes or no prompt to y or n prompts:

(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

I have these to start Emacs without so much "fanfare" which I got from this question.

(setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message t)
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

And Steve Yegge's function to rename a file that you're editing along with its corresponding buffer:

(defun rename-file-and-buffer (new-name)
  "Renames both current buffer and file it's visiting to NEW-NAME."
  (interactive "sNew name: ")
  (let ((name (buffer-name))
 (filename (buffer-file-name)))
    (if (not filename)
 (message "Buffer '%s' is not visiting a file!" name)
      (if (get-buffer new-name)
   (message "A buffer named '%s' already exists!" new-name)
 (progn
   (rename-file name new-name 1)
   (rename-buffer new-name)
   (set-visited-file-name new-name)
   (set-buffer-modified-p nil))))))

Answer 6

You can look here: http://www.dotemacs.de/

And my .emacs is pretty long to put it here as well, so it will make the answer not too readable. Anyway, if you wish I can sent it to you.

Also I would recomend you to read this: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/my-dot-emacs-file