Very little, my .emacs just loads a whole load of other .el files. There's quite a lot in them though :) Here's a very very useful few lines if you're on X Wind

Very little, my .emacs just loads a whole load of other .el files. There's quite a lot in them though :) Here's a very very useful few lines if you're on X Windows: ; Fix copy-paste between emacs and other x programs (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) (if (functionp 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value) (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value)) All your problems with cut and paste between Emacs and other programs? Gone! The if statement stops it failing when you use it on other platforms. EDIT: I also really really like this bit which I've not seen in other peoples lists: (defun eshell-goto-current-dir (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (let ((dir default-directory)) (eshell arg) (eshell/cd dir))) (global-set-key "\C-cs" 'eshell) (global-set-key "\C-cS" 'eshell-goto-current-dir) That means I can switch to eshell with C-cs or a can switch to eshell and change the current directory to be the same as the file I was viewing with C-cS. It also passes through the argument so I can have multiple shells open and use the numeric argument (M-1, M-2 etc) to select them.