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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 a .emacs File: How to write a .emacs 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 version 19 in X.
• Miscellaneous:
• Mode Line: How to customize your mode line.