Here's some nice tricks to add to your $HOME/.emacs.
They do many things, including making mouse clicking work in text windows.
(xterm-mouse-mode t) ; make mouse work in text windows (transient-mark-mode t) ; show incremental search results (setq scroll-step 1) ; don't scroll in large jumps (setq require-final-newline t) ; every file has at least one new line (setq inhibit-startup-message t) ; disable start up screen (global-font-lock-mode t 1) ; enable syntax highlighting (line-number-mode t) ; show line numbers & time in status line ; show line numbers and time in status line (setq display-time-24hr-format nil) (display-time)