System-wide init:

(tool-bar-mode 0)
(column-number-mode t)
(show-paren-mode 1)
(blink-cursor-mode 0)
(mouse-avoidance-mode 'jump)
(set-scroll-bar-mode nil)
(global-font-lock-mode 1)
(menu-bar-mode 0)
(transient-mark-mode t)
(keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c r") 'replace-regexp)
(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
(icomplete-mode t)
(setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)
(setq tab-width 4)
(setq undo-limit 100000)
(setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
(setq dired-recursive-copies (quote always))
(setq dired-recursive-deletes (quote top))
(setq dired-dwim-target t)

User init:

(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)