My .emacs File

(setq load-path (append load-path (list "~/alan/emacs")))
(custom-set-variables
 '(gnuserv-program (concat exec-directory "/gnuserv"))
 '(toolbar-news-reader (quote gnus))
 '(toolbar-mail-reader (quote vm))
 '(nnmail-spool-file "/var/spool/mail/$user")
 '(gnus-nntpserver-file "/etc/nntpserver")
 '(gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "news.direct.ca"))))
(custom-set-faces)
(load "/home/alan/emacs/mutt.el")
(load "/home/alan/emacs/html-helper-mode.el")
(load "/home/alan/emacs/edo-tools.el")
(load "/home/alan/emacs/erc.el")
(autoload 'html-helper-mode "html-helper-mode" "Yay HTML" t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html$" . html-helper-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(add-hook 'html-helper-load-hook '(lambda () (require 'html-font)))

; display the col/row numbers
(setq line-number-mode t)
(setq column-number-mode t)

; in text mode do the word wrap thing
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

; turn on font lock mode
(global-font-lock-mode t)
(setq-default font-lock-maximum-decoration 3)

; tell font lock mode to be lazy for buffers longer than 1000 lines
(setq-default font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
(setq-default lazy-lock-minimum-size 1000)

; tell lazy mode to be intelligent
(setq-default lazy-lock-defer-contexually 1)

; delete key deletes forwad as it should
(custom-set-variables '(delete-key-deletes-forward t))