Deleted some items in open ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Hi, I was trying to edit this file as my cursor was acting slow in terminal and vim apps and I saw that you could edit this file to fix that. I hit the minus sign on a few items and I thought it would collapse the group instead it looks like it deleted items. What can I do to restore this? Will this effect me the next time I logout / in? I have used linux for several years but am a mac newbie running OS X mountain lion on a mac book pro.

BTW, if you want to make changes to plist files, instead of editing the plist, better to use defaults. (see: man defaults)
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