;; .emacs

;;; uncomment this line to disable loading of "default.el" at startup
;; (setq inhibit-default-init t)

;; turn on font-lock mode
(global-font-lock-mode t)

;; enable visual feedback on selections
(setq transient-mark-mode t)

;; always end a file with a newline
(setq require-final-newline t)

;;to display time
(display-time)

;;to set the cursor color
(set-cursor-color "red")

;;to set default font
(set-default-font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso10646-1")

;;to set foreground color to white
(set-foreground-color "DarkBlue")

;;to set background color to black
(set-background-color "WhiteSmoke")

;; ========== Enable Line and Column Numbering ==========

;; Show line-number in the mode line
(line-number-mode 1)

;; Show column-number in the mode line
(column-number-mode 1)

;; ========== Support Wheel Mouse Scrolling ==========

(mouse-wheel-mode t)

;; ========== Place Backup Files in Specific Directory ==========

;; Enable backup files.
;; (setq make-backup-files t)

;; Enable versioning with default values (keep five last versions, I think!)
;; (setq version-control t)

;; Save all backup file in this directory.
;; (setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs_backups/"))))

;; My KeyBindings...
;;set the keybinding so that f1 will start help
(global-set-key [f1] 'help)
;;set the keybinding so that f2 will open a buffer
(global-set-key [f2] 'switch-to-buffer)
;;set the keybinding so that f3 will start search forward
(global-set-key [f3] 'tags-search)
;;set the keybinding so that f4 will start query replace
(global-set-key [f4] 'tags-loop-continue)
;;set the keybinding so that you can use f5 for goto line
(global-set-key [f5] 'goto-line)
(global-set-key [f6] 'tags-apropos)
(global-set-key [f7] 'find-tag)
(global-set-key [f8] 'hippie-expand)
(global-set-key [f9] 'shell)
(global-set-key [f10] 'ispell)