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Programming in Emacs Lisp

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.

Emacs' Default Configuration
16.1 Site-wide Initialization Files		You can write site-wide init files.
16.2 Specifying Variables using defcustom		Emacs will write code for you.
16.3 Beginning a `.emacs' File		How to write a .emacs file.
16.4 Text and Auto Fill Mode		Automatically wrap lines.
16.5 Mail Aliases		Use abbreviations for email addresses.
16.6 Indent Tabs Mode		Don't use tabs with TeX
16.7 Some Keybindings		Create some personal keybindings.
16.8 Keymaps		More about key binding.
16.9 Loading Files		Load (i.e., evaluate) files automatically.
16.10 Autoloading		Make functions available.
16.11 A Simple Extension: line-to-top-of-window		Define a function; bind it to a key.
16.12 X11 Colors		Colors in version 19 in X.
16.13 Miscellaneous Settings for a `.emacs' File
16.14 A Modified Mode Line		How to customize your mode line.