```
 _____                            ____           _           _
| ____|_ __ ___   __ _  ___ ___  |  _ \ _ __ ___| |_   _  __| | ___
|  _| | '_ ` _ \ / _` |/ __/ __| | |_) | '__/ _ \ | | | |/ _` |/ _ \
| |___| | | | | | (_| | (__\__ \ |  __/| | |  __/ | |_| | (_| |  __/
|_____|_| |_| |_|\__,_|\___|___/ |_|   |_|  \___|_|\__,_|\__,_|\___|
```

## Prelude

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**. The **Emacs 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 **Emacs
Prelude** you're basically getting a "Get me out of the Prelude, I
just want to use Emacs" card.

Emacs 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!

## Fast Forward

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/emacs-prelude/raw/master/utils/installer.sh
| sh`

You can now power up your Emacs, sit back and enjoy Prelude.

## Would you like to know more?

Check out the [Prelude's project page](http://batsov.com/emacs-prelude).

## Known issues

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

Here's a [list](https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-prelude/contributors) of all the people who have contributed to the
development of Emacs Prelude.

## Bugs & Improvements

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,<br>
Bozhidar