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The Emacs Initialization File

The initialization file is ".emacs" and is in your home directory. This file can be used to customize your emacs environment. Here are some good things to have in your ".emacs" file:

(display-time)

(setq-default version-control t)

(setq-default auto-save-interval 50)

* display-time displays the time, system load factor and a flag to indicate unread mail on the mode line (in addition to the other stuff).

* version-control set to true allows for versioning: if you edit the file prog1.c, then you will end up with a previous version, prog1.c. and the current file.

* auto-save-interval saves your file after specified number of keystrokes. (Causes short delays, but I value my work.....)

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