16 Your ‘.emacs’ File ********************* “You don’t have to like Emacs to like it”—this seemingly paradoxical statement is the secret of GNU Emacs. The plain, out-of-the-box Emacs is a generic tool. Most people who use it customize it to suit themselves. GNU Emacs is mostly written in Emacs Lisp; this means that by writing expressions in Emacs Lisp you can change or extend Emacs.
· Default Configuration · Site-wide Init You can write site-wide init files. · defcustom Emacs will write code for you. · Beginning init File How to write a ‘.emacs’ init file. · Text and Auto-fill Automatically wrap lines. · Mail Aliases Use abbreviations for email addresses. · Indent Tabs Mode Don’t use tabs with TeX · Keybindings Create some personal keybindings. · Keymaps More about key binding. · Loading Files Load (i.e., evaluate) files automatically. · Autoload Make functions available. · Simple Extension Define a function; bind it to a key. · X11 Colors Colors in X. · Miscellaneous · Mode Line How to customize your mode line.