I've never version-controleld my Emacs configuration and have lost it often so it's not much to look at right now.
- Symlink
.emacs
to~/.emacs
- Symlink
lib
to~/.emacs.d/lib
- Symlink
.Xresources
to~/.Xresources
- Download Monaco for Linux if you need it.
- Run
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
- gist.el
- Make it more portable by allowing an environment variable to impact load-path.