My current .emacs on my Mac OS X laptop

.emacs

;; These are the settings I'm using for Emacs on my Mac laptop.


;; Turn off the splash screen.
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)

;; Set the Command key to work like meta.
;; http://superuser.com/questions/297259/set-emacs-meta-key-to-be-the-mac-key
(setq mac-option-key-is-meta nil
      mac-command-key-is-meta t
      mac-command-modifier 'meta
      mac-option-modifier 'none)

;; Setting the PATH to one that we'll get from the shell.
;; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc5
(if (not (getenv "TERM_PROGRAM"))
    (let ((path (shell-command-to-string
  	 "$SHELL -cl \"printf %s \\\"\\\$PATH\\\"\"")))
      (setenv "PATH" path)))