Troubleshooting

Updating bundled packages

Generally it's a good idea to do a package update before running updating Prelude, since the latest Prelude code might depend on newer versions of the bundled packages than you would currently have installed.

If you're doing manual Prelude updates you should always do a package update first.

M-x package-list-packages RET U x

That's not necessary if you're using M-x prelude-update, since it will automatically update the installed packages.

Problems with flyspell-mode

Prelude makes heavy use of the flyspell-mode package for spell checking of various things. The proper operation of flyspell depends on the presence of the aspell program and an en dictionary on your system. You can install aspell and the dictionary on macOS with homebrew like this:

brew install aspell --with-lang=en

On Linux distros - just use your distro's package manager.

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:

export TERM=xterm-256color

Source the .bashrc file and start Emacs again.

MELPA error on initial startup

If you get some http connection error related to the MELPA repo just do a manual M-x package-refresh-contents and restart Emacs afterwards.

This is not a bug - it's a feature! I firmly believe that the one true way to use Emacs is by using it the way it was intended to be used (as far as navigation is concerned at least).

If you'd like to be take this a step further and disable the arrow key navigation completely put this in your personal config:

(setq guru-warn-only nil)

To disable guru-mode completely add the following snippet to your personal Emacs config:

(setq prelude-guru nil)

Customized C-a behavior

Prelude overrides C-a to behave as described here. If you don't like that simply add this to your personal config:

(global-set-key [remap move-beginning-of-line]
                'move-beginning-of-line)

Poor ido matching performance on large datasets

Prelude's ido module swaps the default ido flex matching with the more powerful ido-flx.

The sorting algorithm flx uses is more complex, but yields better results.

On slower machines, it may be necessary to lower flx-ido-threshold to ensure a smooth experience.

(setq flx-ido-threshold 1000)

You can always disable the improved sorting algorithm all together like this:

(flx-ido-mode -1)

Windows compatibility

While everything in Prelude should work fine in Windows, I test it only with GNU/Linux & macOS, so there might be Windows-specific problems from time to time. This situation will probably improve over time.

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