<p>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.</p>

<p>So, if you use Emacs, what's in <i>your</i> .emacs?</p>

<p>Mine is pretty barren right now, containing only:</p>

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

<p>What do you think is useful?</p>

```
```
(put 'erase-buffer 'disabled nil)
(put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)
(set-variable 'visible-bell t)
(set-variable 'tool-bar-mode nil)
(set-variable 'menu-bar-mode nil)

(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "/usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/emacs") load-path))
 (require 'vc-git)
 (when (featurep 'vc-git) (add-to-list 'vc-handled-backends 'git))
 (require 'git)
 (autoload 'git-blame-mode "git-blame"
           "Minor mode for incremental blame for Git." t)
```
```