;;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 opening 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)) (:foreground "blue4" :background "white")))))