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Some key ones (setq transient-mark-mode t) ; visually show region (setq line-number-mode t) ; show line numbers (setq global-font-lock-mode 1) ; everything s

Some key ones (setq transient-mark-mode t) ; visually show region (setq line-number-mode t) ; show line numbers (setq global-font-lock-mode 1) ; everything should use font (windmove-default-keybindings) ; shift-arrow key moves to window in that direction I set up `webjump' to search online API documentation http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/05/emacs-searching-programming-apis-with.html http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/05/emacs-searchin... I like to send gmail http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/02/sending-mail-with-emacs-in-windows.html http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/02/sending-mail-w... I think this is the most important one (setq visible-bell t) ; annoying beeps off

j_baker 17y ago
I used to set transient-mark-mode to t myself. But being able to set a mark and use C-xC-x to switch the cursor and the mark point is too powerful. It allows you to set a mark, go edit something else, and then go back to where you were. Granted, you could probably do that with transient mark mode, but seeing everything highlighted would be too annoying.
- yummyfajitas 17y ago
  You can do the same thing with bm.el, but you also get multiple bookmarks (visible in the buffer) which you can then cycle through. I find it helpful to have bookmarks and the region decoupled. http://www.nongnu.org/bm/ http://www.nongnu.org/bm/
- technomancy 17y ago
  C-u C-SPC cycles through the mark ring and works with transient-mark. Just use C-g to deactivate the region so everything isn't highlighted.