Even _more_ things you may want to consider for x?emacs (what gates from hell have you opened now TheDamian !!)

;;display the current time (plus a seconds ticker) in the mode bar of 
+the frame
(display-time)
(custom-set-variables
;; syntax highlighter changes background colour of expression from ope
+ning brace to closing brace
 '(paren-mode (quote sexp) nil (paren))
;;indent the line the appropriate amount when the author hits the ';' 
+key (but only in perl code)
 '(cperl-autoindent-on-semi t)
;;show column numbers for all modes
 '(column-number-mode t)
;;show line number in all modes
 '(line-number-mode t)
;; always turn on highlighting for all modes
 '(font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock)))
;; I dont like the default Cperl colours for hashes and comments - you
+ can set them this way. Makes comments really stand out on a grey or 
+black ackground.
(custom-set-faces
 '(cperl-hash-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreground "
+Red" :bold t))))
 '(font-lock-comment-face ((((class color) (background light)) (:foreg
+round "blue4" :background "white")))))
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