emacs-starter-kit as a base, then I've added.. vimpulse.el, whitespace.el, yasnippet, textmate.el and newsticker.el.
In my ~/.emacs.d/$USERNAME.el (dbr.el) file:
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat dotfiles-dir "/vendor/"))
;; Snippets
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/vendor/yasnippet/")
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas/initialize)
(yas/load-directory "~/.emacs.d/vendor/yasnippet/snippets")
;; TextMate module
(require 'textmate)
(textmate-mode 'on)
;; Whitespace module
(require 'whitespace)
(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook 'whitespace-mode)
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'whitespace-mode)
;; Misc
(flyspell-mode 'on)
(setq viper-mode t)
(require 'viper)
(require 'vimpulse)
;; IM
(eval-after-load 'rcirc '(require 'rcirc-color))
(setq rcirc-default-nick "_dbr")
(setq rcirc-default-user-name "_dbr")
(setq rcirc-default-user-full-name "_dbr")
(require 'jabber)
;;; Google Talk account
(custom-set-variables
'(jabber-connection-type (quote ssl))
'(jabber-network-server "talk.google.com")
'(jabber-port 5223)
'(jabber-server "mysite.tld")
'(jabber-username "myusername"))
;; Theme
(color-theme-zenburn)
;; Key bindings
(global-set-key (kbd "M-z") 'undo)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-s") 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-S-z") 'redo)
