Emacs Prelude

Prelude

Emacs is probably the best text edtitor 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 moreful and productive experience 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!

Emacs Prelude is not the only reusable Emacs config out there - the Emacs Starter Kit is fairly popular and there is the Emacs Dev Kit that I used to maintain. I've decided to abandon the Emacs Dev Kit for the Emacs Prelude for two reasons - the unfortunate choice a name (too similar to Emacs Starter Kit) and the totally new philosophy I have in store for the Prelude.

Enhanced language support

Additional programming languages support

• Clojure
• CoffeeScript
• Haskell

Additional markup languages support

• Markdown
• Sass
• Haml
• Yaml

Misc

Emacs Prelude uses by default the Zenburn color theme (a personal preference of me and many other hackers), but you can easily disable (or replace) it.

Installation

git clone git://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-prelude.git path/to/local/repo
ln -s path/to/local/repo ~/.emacs.d

Running

Nothing fancy here. Just start Emacs as usual. Personally I run Emacs in daemon mode:

emacs --daemon

Afterwards I connect to the server with either a terminal or a GUI client like this:

emacsclient -t
emacsclient -c

Known issues

None so far.

Bugs & Improvements

Bug reports and suggestions for improvements are always welcome. github pull request are even better! ;-)

Bozhidar