When it gets too cold, you can always put on more layers of clothing. But when it gets too hot, after a while you can't take off any more. – RMS This is GNU Emacs: Now let the show begin… Code snippets are for GNU Emacs 24.3 and above. ;; Prevent the cursor from blinking (blink-cursor-mode 0) ;; Don't use messages that you don't read (setq initial-scratch-message "") (setq inhibit-startup-message