initial minimal setup

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+;; Stolen from Magnars, with small mods
+;; https://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d/blob/master/settings/sane-defaults.el
+
+;; Allow pasting selection outside of Emacs
+(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
+
+;; Auto refresh buffers
+(global-auto-revert-mode 1)
+
+;; setup eval elsip
+(define-key global-map (kbd "C-x C-e") 'eval-last-sexp)
+
+;; Also auto refresh dired, but be quiet about it
+(setq global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers t)
+(setq auto-revert-verbose nil)
+
+;; Show keystrokes in progress
+(setq echo-keystrokes 0.1)
+
+;; Move files to trash when deleting
+(setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)
+
+;; Transparently open compressed files
+(auto-compression-mode t)
+
+;; Answering just 'y' or 'n' will do
+(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
+
+;; UTF-8 please
+(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) ; pretty
+(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) ; pretty
+(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) ; pretty
+(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) ; please
+(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) ; with sugar on top
+
+;; Show active region
+(transient-mark-mode 1)
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'transient-mark-mode)
+(put 'transient-mark-mode 'permanent-local t)
+(setq-default transient-mark-mode t)
+
+;; Don't highlight matches with jump-char - it's distracting
+(setq jump-char-lazy-highlight-face nil)
+
+;; Always display line and column numbers
+(setq line-number-mode t)
+(setq column-number-mode t)
+
+;; Lines should be 80 characters wide, not 72
+(setq fill-column 80)
+
+;; Save a list of recent files visited. (open recent file with C-x f)
+(recentf-mode 1)
+(setq recentf-max-saved-items 100) ;; just 20 is too recent
+
+;; Save minibuffer history
+(savehist-mode 1)
+(setq history-length 1000)
+
+;; Allow recursive minibuffers
+(setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)
+
+;; More memory than even Magnars...cause the future keeps happening
+;; 50 MB should be good
+(setq gc-cons-threshold 50000000)
+
+;; warn when opening files bigger than 100MB
+(setq large-file-warning-threshold 100000000)
+
+;; 80 chars is a good width.
+(set-default 'fill-column 80)
+
+;; Add parts of each file's directory to the buffer name if not unique
+(require 'uniquify)
+(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward)
+
+(setq ediff-diff-options "-w")
+(setq ediff-split-window-function 'split-window-horizontally)
+(setq ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain)
+
+
+;; Offer to create parent directories if they do not exist
+;; http://iqbalansari.github.io/blog/2014/12/07/automatically-create-parent-directories-on-visiting-a-new-file-in-emacs/
+(defun my-create-non-existent-directory ()
+  (let ((parent-directory (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)))
+    (when (and (not (file-exists-p parent-directory))
+	       (y-or-n-p (format "Directory `%s' does not exist! Create it?" parent-directory)))
+      (make-directory parent-directory t))))
+
+(add-to-list 'find-file-not-found-functions 'my-create-non-existent-directory)
+
+(provide 'sane-defaults)