Move Emacs backup and autosave files in emacs.d.
Ignore Emacs autosave files.
Install Emacs config by linking emacs.d dir.

Don't link files individually.
Backup files section makes more sense.
Rename autosave to auto-save.

To match Emacs docs and variable names.
Emacs uses regexp searching by default.
Emacs defers loading of yasnippets.

yasnippets was causing startup times to increase.
Emacs key binding to dismiss the current buffer.

Trying to save keystrokes for a very common occurence (e.g. browsing
help docs). I'm in a split window situation, and I want to switch to
the other buffer, and maximize it. This was (kbd "C-x o C-x 1"), which
is four keystrokes, now down to two (kbd "C-x d").