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Cool EMACS tricks

This is a Start | Emacs | Lisp page, written Wed Nov 28 20:57:44 PST 2007.

Here's some nice tricks to add to your $HOME/.emacs

	(xterm-mouse-mode t)             ; make mouse work in text windows
	(transient-mark-mode t)          ; show incremental search results
	(setq scroll-step 1)             ; don't scroll in large jumps
	(setq require-final-newline   t) ; every file has at least one new line
	(setq inhibit-startup-message t) ; disable start up screen
	(global-font-lock-mode t 1)      ; enable syntax highlighting
	(line-number-mode t)             ; show line numbers and time in status line

	; show line numbers and time in status line
	(setq display-time-24hr-format nil)
	(display-time)

Cool EMACS tricks

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