My .emacs has been more or less the same for the past 10 years. The 4 most critical lines are these: (global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char) (glo

My .emacs has been more or less the same for the past 10 years. The 4 most critical lines are these: (global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char) (global-set-key "\M-^" 'query-replace-regexp) (global-set-key "\C-x:" 'goto-line) (global-set-key "\C-x\C-e" 'compile)