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

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!

## 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/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/prelude) for
all the gory details.

If you're looking for more info on Emacs in general - consult
[WikEmacs](http://wikemacs.org).

## More goodies

The [Prelude Modules](https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude-modules)
project contains a lot of additional packages for Prelude
(install-able via the `package-list-packages` command) - enhanced programming
mode configs, latex config, erc config, etc.

## Known issues

Check out the project's
[issue list](https://github.com/bbatsov/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/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! :-)

Cheers,<br>
Bozhidar