Add .gitignore entries for ELPA generated files
Don't grep inside quilt's .pc directories
Add highlight-symbol to prog-mode and f5 bindings
Add whitespace-cleanup-mode
Add ws-butler for auto ws cleanup of edited lines

Diminish highlight-changes-mode.
Remove the desktop.el override

I had added it, expecting to need to customize it, but never did.
The changes I wanted to effect were accomplished via customization
settings instead.  So, revert to using the one that ships with Emacs,
which has been greatly updated in newer (24.4) versions of Emacs.
Add a reminder to look at smartparens
Create softer-dark-theme with my face settings
Allow new customize to prettify settings
Remove an old Mac keyboard customization
Add a note to setup shoes-off as an IRC bouncer
Add shoes-off and its dependencies

This still needs to be configured.
Omit Linux kernel build byproducts in dired
Diminish hide-ifdef-mode