~/.emacs.d: Hello, Emacs!

No beards after 1 day of real usage and a bit of mucking around before.

So far, it's been fun (especially with clojure).

.emacs.d/better-defaults.el

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;;; better-defaults.el --- Fixing weird quirks and poor defaults
;; Copyright © 2013 Phil Hagelberg
;; Author: Phil Hagelberg
;; URL: https://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults
;; Version: 0.1.2
;; Created: 2013-04-16
;; Keywords: convenience
;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.
;;; Commentary:
;; There are a number of unfortunate facts about the way Emacs works
;; out of the box. While all users will eventually need to learn their
;; way around in order to customize it to their particular tastes,
;; this package attempts to address the most obvious of deficiencies
;; in uncontroversial ways that nearly everyone can agree upon.
;; Obviously there are many further tweaks you could do to improve
;; Emacs, (like those the Starter Kit and similar packages) but this
;; package focuses only on those that have near-universal appeal.
;;; License:
;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;;
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
;;; Code:
;;;###autoload
(progn
  (ido-mode t)
  (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)
  (menu-bar-mode -1)
  (when (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode)
    (tool-bar-mode -1))
  (when (fboundp 'scroll-bar-mode)
    (scroll-bar-mode -1))
  (require 'uniquify)
  (setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward)
  (require 'saveplace)
  (setq-default save-place t)
  (global-set-key (kbd "M-/") 'hippie-expand)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-b") 'ibuffer)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'isearch-forward-regexp)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-r") 'isearch-backward-regexp)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-M-s") 'isearch-forward)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-M-r") 'isearch-backward)
  (show-paren-mode 1)
  (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
  (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t
        x-select-enable-primary t
        save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t
        apropos-do-all t
        mouse-yank-at-point t
        save-place-file (concat user-emacs-directory "places")
        backup-directory-alist `(("." . ,(concat user-emacs-directory
                                                 "backups")))))
(provide 'better-defaults)
;;; better-defaults.el ends here

.emacs.d/init.el

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; Mhh, let's see where this goes. (I hope I don't grow a beard.)
(load "~/.emacs.d/better-defaults")
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
  '("marmalade" .
    "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
(custom-set-variables
 '(initial-buffer-choice (get-buffer "*scratch*")))