sane-defaults.el

(require 'ansi-color)
(require 'uniquify)

;; Allow pasting selection outside of Emacs
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

;; Auto refresh buffers
;;(global-auto-revert-mode 1)

;; Also auto refresh dired
;;(setq global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers t)

;; Show keystrokes in progress
(setq echo-keystrokes 0.1)

;; No splash screen please ... jeez
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

;; Move files to trash when deleting
(setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)

;; Real emacs knights don't use shift to mark things
(setq shift-select-mode nil)

;; Transparently open compressed files
(auto-compression-mode t)

;; Enable syntax highlighting for older Emacsen that have it off
(global-font-lock-mode t)

;; Answering just 'y' or 'n' will do
(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

;; UTF-8 please
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

;; Show active region
(transient-mark-mode 1)

;; Remove text in active region if inserting text
(delete-selection-mode nil)

;; Always display line and column numbers
(setq line-number-mode t)
(setq column-number-mode t)

;; Lines should be 80 characters wide, not 72
(setq fill-column 80)

;; Never insert tabs
(set-default 'indent-tabs-mode nil)

;; Show me empty lines after buffer end
(set-default 'indicate-empty-lines t)

;; Allow scrolling with mouse wheel
(when (fboundp 'mouse-wheel-mode) (mouse-wheel-mode t))

;; Don't break lines for me, please
(setq-default truncate-lines t)

;; Keep cursor away from edges when scrolling up/down
(require 'smooth-scrolling)
(setq smooth-scroll t)
(setq smooth-scroll/vscroll-setp-size 3)

;; Add parts of each file's directory to the buffer name if not unique
(require 'uniquify)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward)

(setq gc-cons-threshold 35000000)
(setq garbage-collection-messages nil)

(setq debug-on-error nil)

(defun ignore-last-error ()
  (interactive)
  (add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors "^$")
;;TODO
)
(provide 'sane-defaults)