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Installation
Installing Emacs
Obviously to use the Emacs Prelude you have to install Emacs first. Have a look at the WikEmacs articles on installing Emacs.
Installation
Automated
You can install Emacs Prelude via the command line with either curl or
wget. Naturally git is also required.
Via Curl
If you're using curl type the following command:
curl -L https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/raw/master/utils/installer.sh | sh
Via Wget
If you're using wget type:
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/raw/master/utils/installer.sh -O - | sh
Manual
Make sure you do not have any ~/.emacs file present.
git clone git://github.com/bbatsov/prelude.git path/to/local/repo
ln -s path/to/local/repo ~/.emacs.d
cd ~/.emacs.d
If you are using Windows, you should check what Emacs thinks the ~ directory is by running Emacs and typing C-x d ~/<RET>, and then adjust the command appropriately.
Updating Prelude
Manual update
The update procedure is fairly straightforward and consists of 3 steps:
Update all bundled packages
Just run M-x package-list-packages RET U x.
Update Prelude's code
cd path/to/prelude/installation
git pull
The path/to/prelude/installation is usually ~/.emacs.d (at least
on Unix systems).
Restart Prelude
It's generally a good idea to stop Emacs after you do the update. The next time Prelude starts it will install any new dependencies (if there are such).
Automatic update
Simply run M-x prelude-update from Emacs itself and restart Emacs afterwards.
Pinning packages
By default, Prelude will install packages from the MELPA and GNU ELPA package
repositories. Occasionally package integration can break when upgrading packages,
as the packages in the MELPA repository are all snapshot builds.
This can be avoided by pinning packages to stable versions in other repositories (e.g. MELPA Stable).
To do so, copy prelude-pinned-packages.el from the sample directory to
Prelude's root directory and adjust the variables
inside accordingly.
Enabling additional modules
By default most of the modules that ship with Prelude are not loaded. For more information on the functionality provided by these modules visit the docs.
;;; Uncomment the modules you'd like to use and restart Prelude afterwards
(require 'prelude-c)
;; (require 'prelude-clojure)
;; (require 'prelude-coffee)
;; (require 'prelude-common-lisp)
;; (require 'prelude-css)
(require 'prelude-emacs-lisp)
(require 'prelude-erc)
;; (require 'prelude-erlang)
;; (require 'prelude-elixir)
;; (require 'prelude-haskell)
(require 'prelude-js)
;; (require 'prelude-latex)
(require 'prelude-lisp)
(require 'prelude-org)
(require 'prelude-perl)
;; (require 'prelude-python)
;; (require 'prelude-ruby)
;; (require 'prelude-scala)
(require 'prelude-scheme)
;; (require 'prelude-scss)
;; (require 'prelude-web)
(require 'prelude-xml)
You'll need to adjust your prelude-modules.el file once the installation is done.
In case of an automated installation, you'll find this file in the personal directory of your Emacs installation.
If you are doing a manual install then you first
need to copy the prelude-modules.el available in the sample
directory to the root of path/to/prelude/installation and then
adjust that one.
After you've uncommented a module you should either restart Emacs or evaluate the module
require expression with C-x C-e.