My Current .emacs

.emacs

;; no longer using elpa+el-get, default to el-get only
;;
;;
;; begin: elpa configuration
(when (>= emacs-major-version 24)
  (require 'package)
  (package-initialize)
  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t))
;; end: elpa configuration

;; begin: el-get configuration
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")

(unless (require 'el-get nil 'noerror)
  (with-current-buffer
      (url-retrieve-synchronously
       "https://raw.github.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el")
    (let (el-get-master-branch)
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (eval-print-last-sexp))))
;; end: el-get configuration


;; begin: proper encoding from LANG variable
(prefer-coding-system locale-coding-system)
(when (not window-system)
  (set-keyboard-coding-system locale-coding-system)
  (set-terminal-coding-system locale-coding-system))
;; end: proper encoding from LANG variable

(el-get 'sync)
;; end: el-get configuration

;; begin: tramp configuration
(require 'tramp)
;; end: tramp configuration

;; begin: temp file and autosave configuration
(setq backup-directory-alist
      `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))
;; end: temp file and autosave configuration


;; begin: slime configuration
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/bin/ccl")
;; end: slime configuration

;; begin: geiser configuration
;;
(setq geiser-repl-history-filename "~/.emacs.d/geiser-history")
;; end: geiser configuration

;; begin: theme and color customization
(custom-set-variables
 '(ansi-color-names-vector ["black" "#d55e00" "#009e73" "#f8ec59" "#0072b2" "#cc79a7" "#56b4e9" "white"])
 '(custom-enabled-themes (quote (manoj-dark))))
(custom-set-faces)
;; end: theme and color customization

;; begin: nimrod mode
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/nimrod-mode")
(require 'nimrod-mode)
;; end: nimrod mode

;; begin: java jdee mode
;;(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/jdee-2.4.1/lisp")
;;(load "jde")
;; end: java jdee mode

;; begin: global autocomplete
;; see: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8098380/311888
(require 'auto-complete)
(global-auto-complete-mode t)
;; end: global auto-complete


;; begin: mail mode support for mutt
(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("/tmp/mutt.*" . mail-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
;; end: mail mode for mutt

;; begin: mu4e 
(require 'mu4e)
;; Only needed if your maildir is _not_ ~/Maildir
(setq mu4e-maildir "~/Mail")
;; end: mu4e


;; begin: spell-check
(setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
(setq ispell-list-command "list")
;; end: spell-check

;; begin: switch visible buffers
;;
;; https://stackoverflow.com/a/20843794/311888
;;
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x <up>") 'previous-multiframe-window)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x <down>") 'next-multiframe-window)
;; end: switch visible buffers

;; begin: grammar-mode
(require 'grammar)
;; end: grammar-mode

;; begin: vala-mode
;;(autoload 'vala-mode "vala-mode" "Major mode for editing Vala code." t)
;;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.vala$" . vala-mode))
;;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.vapi$" . vala-mode))
;;(add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist '("\\.vala$" . utf-8))
;;(add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist '("\\.vapi$" . utf-8))
;; end: vala-mode

;; begin: non-geiser schemes
(require 'gambit)
(setq scheme-program-name "gsi -:d-")
;; end: non-geiser schemes 

;; begin: include column numbers
(setq column-number-mode t)
;; end: include column numbers