I have my own preferred color scheme, won't bore you. At bottom, it's GhostWhite on black. I don't like tabs! ;; destroy all tabs (setq-default indent-tab

I have my own preferred color scheme, won't bore you. At bottom, it's GhostWhite on black. I don't like tabs! ;; destroy all tabs (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (defun untab-writable-non-makefiles-and-csv () (if (and (not buffer-read-only) (not (loop for re in '("[Mm]akefile" "\\.mk" "\\.csv" "\\.txt") if (string-match re buffer-file-name) do (return t) finally (return nil)))) (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))) (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'untab-writable-non-makefiles-and-csv) Emacsclient is a real must. ;; use this to start server for emacsclient (if (not (boundp 'server-process)) (server-start)) All my shells run inside of Emacs. So they're named, I get completions, and so on. That includes remote shells, using tramp and ssh-mode. ;; tramp mode... (setq load-path (cons "~/emacs/tramp" load-path)) (require 'tramp) (setq tramp-default-method "ssh") ;; remote shell! Hooray! (require 'ssh) (add-hook 'ssh-mode-hook 'ssh-directory-tracking-mode) Here's what I use for session. ;; back to emacswiki.org/emacs/DeskTop (setq *foo-desktop-dir* (expand-file-name "~/emacs/desktop")) (setq desktop-dir *foo-desktop-dir*) (setq desktop-path (list *foo-desktop-dir*)) (desktop-save-mode 1) ;; Switch on desktop.el (setq *foo-desktop-file* (concatenate 'string desktop-dir "/" desktop-base-file-name)) (setq *foo-desktop-lock* (concatenate 'string desktop-dir "/" desktop-base-lock-name)) (defun desktop-in-use-p () (and (file-exists-p *foo-desktop-file*) (file-exists-p *foo-desktop-lock*))) (defun autosave-desktop () (if (desktop-in-use-p) (desktop-save-in-desktop-dir))) (add-hook 'auto-save-hook 'autosave-desktop)