several syntax highlighting stuff apart from standard ones, of course. This is super useful to me: (global-set-key [f6] 'linum-mode) (global-set-key [

several syntax highlighting stuff apart from standard ones, of course. This is super useful to me: (global-set-key [f6] 'linum-mode) (global-set-key [f7] 'next-buffer) (global-set-key [f8] 'previous-buffer) I also have yasnippet, but I don't really use it at all (I should). Also, recentf http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/recentf-buffer.el http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/recentf-buffer.el for a recently opened stuff (like dired, but for recent stuff). And most importantly, I setup my font to monaco, tango color scheme and I prefer full screen emacs, so i have a bit of an involved process where I have basically this: (global-set-key [f11] 'ds-darkroom) (global-set-key [f12] 'menu-bar-mode) where F11 puts me in and out of full screen mode and f12 toggles menu bar. F11 uses a small utility written in C# for windows to make this happen. clean darkroom - http://i.imgur.com/LloOY.png http://i.imgur.com/LloOY.png with menu - http://i.imgur.com/yTeUz.png http://i.imgur.com/yTeUz.png I'm trying for years to force myself not to move my right hand to arrows and instead use C-p C-n and C-b C-f, but I can't (well sometimes I do, but not all the time). And various tweaks here and there, I might have forgotten something though.