A Good Orgmode Configuration

At the behest of teammates at Minus who like my Emacs Orgmode setup, I share my configuration. The following eLisp optimizes Emacs for my use cases: engineering design, project planning and blogging. Pasting this into your Emacs init.el should be sufficient to incorporate these customizations into your Emacs experience.

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;; My Emacs Orgmode Configuration.
;;
;; Authored by Carl Hu 2012
;; Copyright 2012 Carl Hu
;;
;; This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
;;
;; This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
;; (at your option) any later version.
;;
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;
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;; along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
(require 'org)
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (modify-syntax-entry (string-to-char "\u25bc") "w"))) ; Down arrow for collapsed drawer.
(setq org-startup-indented t)
(setq org-hide-leading-stars t)
(setq org-odd-level-only nil) 
(setq org-insert-heading-respect-content nil)
(setq org-M-RET-may-split-line '((item) (default . t)))
(setq org-special-ctrl-a/e t)
(setq org-return-follows-link nil)
(setq org-use-speed-commands t)
(setq org-startup-align-all-tables nil)
(setq org-log-into-drawer nil)
(setq org-tags-column 1)
(setq org-ellipsis " \u25bc" )
(setq org-speed-commands-user nil)
(setq org-blank-before-new-entry '((heading . nil) (plain-list-item . nil)))
(setq org-completion-use-ido t)
(setq org-indent-mode t)
(setq org-startup-truncated nil)
(setq auto-fill-mode -1)
(setq-default fill-column 99999)
(setq fill-column 99999)
(global-auto-revert-mode t)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(cua-mode t) ;; keep the cut and paste shortcut keys people are used to.
(setq cua-auto-tabify-rectangles nil) ;; Don't tabify after rectangle commands
(transient-mark-mode nil)               ;; No region when it is not highlighted
(setq cua-keep-region-after-copy t) 
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;; python
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)    ; use only spaces and no tabs
(setq default-tab-width 4)
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;; a sample of how to call shell or python program from emacs.
(defun todo-export ()
  (interactive)
  (save-buffer)
  (save-some-buffers t)
  (call-process-shell-command "/bin/bash -c \"cd ~/Desktop/personal; git pull; git commit -am '-'; git push;\"" nil 0 ))
(global-set-key (kbd "") 'todo-export)
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;; i like pressing f3 to switch to my todo list from wherever i am.
(defun switch-to-personal-todo ()
  (interactive)
  (find-file "path-to-file"))
(global-set-key (kbd "") 'todo-export)
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;; i like pageup page down for buffer changes.
(global-set-key [(control next)] 'next-buffer) 
(global-set-key [(control prior)] 'previous-buffer)
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;; Add copy a whole line to clipboard to Emacs, bound to meta-c.
(defun quick-copy-line ()
  "Copy the whole line that point is on and move to the beginning of the next line.
    Consecutive calls to this command append each line to the
    kill-ring."
  (interactive)
  (let ((beg (line-beginning-position 1))
        (end (line-beginning-position 2)))
    (if (eq last-command 'quick-copy-line)
        (kill-append (buffer-substring beg end) (< end beg))
      (kill-new (buffer-substring beg end))))
  (beginning-of-line 2)
  (message "Line appended to kill-ring."))
(define-key global-map (kbd "M-c") 'quick-copy-line)
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;; Add inserting current date time.
(defun my-insert-date (prefix)
    "Insert the current date. With prefix-argument, use ISO format. With
   two prefix arguments, write out the day and month name."
    (interactive "P")
    (let ((format (cond
                   ((not prefix) "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") 
                   ((equal prefix '(4)) "%Y-%m-%d")
                   ((equal prefix '(16)) "%A, %d. %B %Y")))
          )
      (insert (format-time-string format))))
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-M-d") 'my-insert-date)