Ok and a few nice things, too.
I wanted to keep this as simple as possible to it is a 1-file config that is split by comments. 95% of the config I would consider essential and the other 5% is by taste.
For the nice things I've put everything below the ;; Being improvements
comment. This consists of a nice window management package called "ace-window", a package called "smex" for sorting the M-x menu, and "evil-mode" commented out at the bottom (if you miss the vim keybindinds, uncomment that to enable them in emacs) because I am a sinner.
git clone https://github.com/shaneikennedy/emacs-light ~/emacs-light
ln -s ~/emacs-light/init.el ~/.emacs
To see my full config with all the bells and whistles check it out here