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@ -41,9 +41,8 @@ first. Here's a few tips on doing so:
Obtaining Emacs 24 on OS X is really simple. There are two popular
ways to do it. The first is to simply download a pretest (or a nightly
build) from [Emacs for OSX](http://emacsformacosx.com). My personal
recommendation would be to get the latest pretest (which is ironically
the first pretest as well) from
[here](http://emacsformacosx.com/emacs-builds/Emacs-pretest-24.0.90-universal-10.6.7.dmg).
recommendation would be to get the latest pretest from
[here](http://emacsformacosx.com/builds).
That was really easy, right?
@ -88,9 +87,9 @@ That said, few distributions include in their primary repositories
builds of Emacs 24. Luckily there are some unofficial repos that come
to the rescue.
Debian/Ubuntu users should look no further than the amazing
Debian users should look no further than the amazing
[emacs-snapshot APT repo](http://emacs.naquadah.org/). You'll find
installation instructions there for all the relevant Debian and Ubuntu
installation instructions there for all the relevant Debian
versions out there. High quality, highly recommended builds! After
you've added the repo you can install Emacs 24 with the following
command:
@ -99,6 +98,13 @@ command:
$ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
```
Ubuntu users have easy access to Emacs 24 as well:
```bash
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
$ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
```
Gentoo users have even less to do, since Emacs 24 can be obtained via
the emacs-vcs package in portage, as noted in the official
[Emacs on Gentoo page](http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/emacs.xml).
@ -293,11 +299,22 @@ under the **personal** directory in `prelude-dir`. They will be loaded
automatically be Prelude on startup.
Avoid modifying the Prelude config itself (unless you're not
intimidated to maintain a personal fork on GitHub)- this will make it
intimidated to maintain a personal fork on GitHub) - this will make it
hard for you to receive automatic updates in the future.
## Caveats & Pitfalls
### Ugly colors in the terminal Emacs version
If your Emacs looks considerably uglier in a terminal (compared to the
GUI version) try adding this to your `.bashrc` or `.zshrc`:
```bash
export TERM=xterm-256color
```
Source the `.bashrc` file and start Emacs again.
### Marmalade error on initial startup
If you get some http connection error related to the Marmalade repo
@ -325,7 +342,10 @@ time. This situation will probably improve over time.
## Known issues
Check out the project's [issue list](https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-prelude/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=open) for that. :-)
Check out the project's
[issue list](https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-prelude/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=open)
a list of unresolved issues. By the way - feel free to fix any of them
and sent me a pull request. :-)
## Contributors