What's in your .emacs?

Answer 1

Here's a couple of my own stuff:

Inserts date in ISO 8601 format:

(defun insertdate ()
  (interactive)
  (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")))

(global-set-key [(f5)] 'insertdate)

For C++ programmers, creates a class skeleton (class's name will be the same as the file name without extension):

(defun createclass ()
  (interactive)
  (setq classname (file-name-sans-extension (file-name-nondirectory   buffer-file-name)))
  (insert 
"/**
  * " classname".h 
  *
  * Author: Your Mom
  * Modified: " (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d") "
  * Licence: GNU GPL
  */
#ifndef "(upcase classname)"
#define "(upcase classname)"

class " classname "
{
  public:
    "classname"();
    ~"classname"();

  private:

};
#endif
"))

Automatically create closing parentheses:

(setq skeleton-pair t)
(setq skeleton-pair-on-word t)
(global-set-key (kbd "[") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
(global-set-key (kbd "(") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)
(global-set-key (kbd "{") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) 
(global-set-key (kbd "<") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe)

Answer 2

One line to amend the load path One line to load my init library One line to load my emacs init files

Of course, the "emacs init files" are quite numerous, one per specific thing, loaded in a deterministic order.

Answer 3

My emacs configuration has grown up pretty big over the years and I have lot of useful stuff for me there but if I have two functions it probably would have been those ones.

Define C-x UP and C-x DOWN to move the current line or down keeping the cursor at the right place :

;Down/UP the current line
(global-set-key '[(control x) (up)] 'my-up-line)
(global-set-key '[(control x) (down)] 'my-down-line)
(defun my-down-line()
  (interactive)
  (let ((col (current-column)))
    (forward-line 1)
    (transpose-lines 1)
    (forward-line -1)
    (forward-char col)
    )
  )

(defun my-up-line()
  (interactive)
  (let ((col (current-column)))
    (transpose-lines 1)
    (forward-line -2)
    (forward-char col)
    )
  )

Answer 4

It's hard to answer this question, because everyone uses Emacs for very different purposes.

Further more, a better practice may be to KISS your dotemacs. Since the Easy Customization Interface is widely supported amongst Emacs' modes, you should store all your customization in your custom-file (which may be a separate place in your dotemacs), and for the dotemacs, put in it only load path settings, package requires, hooks, and key bindings. Once you start using Emacs Starter Kit, a whole useful bunch of settings may removed from your dotemacs, too.

Answer 5

I'm new to emacs, in my .emacs file there are

• indentation configuration
• color theme
• php mode, coffee mode and js2 mode
• ido mode