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| _| | '_ ` _ \ / _` |/ __/ __| | |_) | '__/ _ \ | | | |/ _` |/ _ \
| |___| | | | | | (_| | (__\__ \ | __/| | | __/ | |_| | (_| | __/
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Emacs is probably the best text editor in the world. However, the process of coming up with a useful Emacs configuration is long and difficult. It's this process that separates you from truly taking advantage of Emacs's power. I like to refer to this process as the Prelude. Prelude has the goal to ease the initial Emacs setup process and to provide you with a much more powerful and productive experience than that you get out of the box. By using Prelude you're basically getting a "Get me out of the Prelude, I just want to use Emacs" card.
Prelude is compatible ONLY with GNU Emacs 24. While Emacs 24 is not yet officially released it's a rock solid piece of software more than suitable for everyday work. There is no good excuse not to use Emacs 24!
Assuming you're using an Unix-like OS (*BSD, GNU/Linux, OS X, Solaris,
etc), you already have Emacs 24 installed, as well as git & curl you
can skip the whole manual and just type in your favorite shell the
following command:
curl -L https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/raw/master/utils/installer.sh | sh
You can now power up your Emacs, sit back and enjoy Prelude.
Check out the Prelude's project page.
Check out the project's issue list a list of unresolved issues. By the way - feel free to fix any of them and sent me a pull request. :-)
Here's a list of all the people who have contributed to the development of Emacs Prelude.
Bug reports and suggestions for improvements are always welcome. github pull requests are even better! :-)
I'd like to include a nice variety of Emacs 24 themes into Prelude - so if you've developed (or simply found) one - give me a shout and I'll take a look at it.
Cheers,
Bozhidar