Customizing Emacs

(setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")
(load custom-file)

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
 '(keyboard-coding-system (quote utf-8-unix))
 '(tool-bar-mode nil)
 '(color-theme-selection "Subtle Hacker" nil (color-theme))
 '(woman-locale "en_US.UTF-8"))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "darkslategrey" :foreground "wheat" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 122 :width normal :foundry "xos4" :family "Terminus")))))
 
;; Add-Ons
 
;; ===== Turn on Auto Fill mode automatically in all modes =====
;; Auto-fill-mode the the automatic wrapping of lines and insertion of
;; newlines when the cursor goes over the column limit.
;; This should actually turn on auto-fill-mode by default in all major
;; modes. The other way to do this is to turn on the fill for specific modes
;; via hooks.
(setq auto-fill-mode 1)
;; ========== Set the fill column ==========
;; Enable backup files.
(setq-default fill-column 78)
;; ===== Set the highlight current line minor mode =====
;; In every buffer, the line which contains the cursor will be fully
;; highlighted
(global-hl-line-mode 1)
;; ========== Line by line scrolling ==========
;; This makes the buffer scroll by only a single line when the up or
;; down cursor keys push the cursor (tool-bar-mode) outside the
;; buffer. The standard emacs behaviour is to reposition the cursor in
;; the center of the screen, but this can make the scrolling confusing
 
(setq scroll-step 1)
;; ===== Turn off tab character =====
;;
;; Emacs normally uses both tabs and spaces to indent lines. If you
;; prefer, all indentation can be made from spaces only. To request this,
;; set `indent-tabs-mode' to `nil'. This is a per-buffer variable;
;; altering the variable affects only the current buffer, but it can be
;; disabled for all buffers.
 
;;
;; Use (setq ...) to set value locally to a buffer
;; Use (setq-default ...) to set value globally
;;
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) 
;; ========== 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/"))))