What is this?

This is my emacs config.
There are many like it but this one is mine.
My emacs config is my best friend. 
It is my life.
I must master it as I must master my life. 
Without me, my emacs config is useless. 
Without my emacs config I am useless. 
Before God I swear this creed: 
my emacs config and myself are defenders of my computer.

Okay, that was sweet but really, can you explain more?

My emacs config uses v2 of the emacs-starter-kit. The emacs starter kit and other packages are loaded from marmalade/elpa repositories. The sexiness in form of smooth-scrolling, auto-complete and highlighting is borrowed (read: stolen) from ghoseb’s emacs config.

On the whole its a rather simple process which goes like:

1. Packages defined (my-packages) in init.el are loaded from the package repositories when not already installed and in that Order
2. When ESK loads along with my-packages it loads files from USER.el or USER/*el
3. ~/.emacs.d/non-elpa directory is scanned to load packages that are not available using package.el yet.
4. ~/.emacs.d/pkg-configs is scanned and loaded for package customizations

Credits

Thanks Phil, BG & Sam Aaron.