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+#+TITLE: Starter Kit Misc
+#+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil ^:nil
+
+This is part of the [[file:starter-kit.org][Emacs Starter Kit]].
+
+* Starter Kit Misc
+Things that don't fit anywhere else.
+
+** Color Themes
+Emacs24 has build in support for saving and loading themes.
+
+A Theme builder is available at http://elpa.gnu.org/themes/ along with
+a list of pre-built themes at http://elpa.gnu.org/themes/view.html.
+
+Downloaded themes may be saved to the =themes/= directory in the base
+of the starter kit which ignored by git.  Once downloaded and
+evaluated a theme is activated using the =load-theme= function.
+
+** Window systems
+#+srcname: starter-kit-window-view-stuff
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp 
+(when window-system
+  (setq frame-title-format '(buffer-file-name "%f" ("%b")))
+  (blink-cursor-mode -1))
+
+(mouse-wheel-mode t)
+(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
+(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
+(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
+
+(setq visible-bell t
+      echo-keystrokes 0.1
+      font-lock-maximum-decoration t
+      inhibit-startup-message t
+      transient-mark-mode t
+      color-theme-is-global t
+      delete-by-moving-to-trash t
+      shift-select-mode nil
+      truncate-partial-width-windows nil
+      uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward
+      whitespace-style '(trailing lines space-before-tab
+                                  indentation space-after-tab)
+      whitespace-line-column 100
+      ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain
+      oddmuse-directory (concat starter-kit-dir "oddmuse")
+      xterm-mouse-mode t
+      save-place-file (concat starter-kit-dir "places"))
+#+end_src
+
+** Transparently open compressed files
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(auto-compression-mode t)
+#+end_src
+
+** Save a list of recent files visited.
+#+begin_emacs-lisp 
+(recentf-mode 1)
+#+end_emacs-lisp
+
+** Highlight matching parentheses when the point is on them.
+#+srcname: starter-kit-match-parens
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp 
+(show-paren-mode 1)
+#+end_src
+
+** ido mode
+ido-mode is like magic pixie dust!
+#+srcname: starter-kit-loves-ido-mode
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp 
+(when (> emacs-major-version 21)
+  (ido-mode t)
+  (setq ido-enable-prefix nil
+        ido-enable-flex-matching t
+        ido-create-new-buffer 'always
+        ido-use-filename-at-point t
+        ido-max-prospects 10))
+#+end_src
+
+** Other, spell checking, tabs, imenu and a coding hook
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp 
+  (set-default 'indent-tabs-mode nil)
+  (set-default 'indicate-empty-lines t)
+  (set-default 'imenu-auto-rescan t)
+  
+  (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
+  (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell)
+  
+  (defvar starter-kit-coding-hook nil
+    "Hook that gets run on activation of any programming mode.")
+  
+  (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
+  ;; Seed the random-number generator
+  (random t)
+#+end_src
+
+*** functions for prettier source code
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(defun starter-kit-pretty-lambdas ()
+  (font-lock-add-keywords
+   nil `(("(\\(lambda\\>\\)"
+          (0 (progn (compose-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)
+                                    ,(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 107))
+                    nil))))))
+#+end_src
+
+*** possible issues/resolutions with flyspell
+Most of the solution came from [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlySpell][EmacsWiki-FlySpell]].  Here is one
+possible fix.
+
+**** Emacs set path to aspell
+it's possible aspell isn't in your path
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle no
+   (setq exec-path (append exec-path '("/opt/local/bin")))
+#+end_src
+
+**** Emacs specify spelling program
+- This didn't work at first, possibly because cocoAspell was
+  building its dictionary.  Now it seems to work fine.
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle no
+  (setq ispell-program-name "aspell"
+        ispell-dictionary "english"
+        ispell-dictionary-alist
+        (let ((default '("[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil
+                         ("-B" "-d" "english" "--dict-dir"
+                          "/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0")
+                         nil iso-8859-1)))
+          `((nil ,@default)
+            ("english" ,@default))))
+#+end_src
+
+** Hippie expand: at times perhaps too hip
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(delete 'try-expand-line hippie-expand-try-functions-list)
+(delete 'try-expand-list hippie-expand-try-functions-list)
+#+end_src
+
+** Don't clutter up directories with files~
+Rather than saving backup files scattered all over the file system,
+let them live in the =backups/= directory inside of the starter kit.
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . ,(expand-file-name
+                                        (concat starter-kit-dir "backups")))))
+#+end_src
+
+** Default to unified diffs
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(setq diff-switches "-u")
+#+end_src
+
+** Cosmetics
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(eval-after-load 'diff-mode
+  '(progn
+     (set-face-foreground 'diff-added "green4")
+     (set-face-foreground 'diff-removed "red3")))
+
+(eval-after-load 'magit
+  '(progn
+     (set-face-foreground 'magit-diff-add "green3")
+     (set-face-foreground 'magit-diff-del "red3")))
+#+end_src
+