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@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ process of coming up with a useful Emacs configuration is long and |
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difficult. It's this process that separates you from truly taking |
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advantage of Emacs's power. I like to refer to this process as the |
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**Prelude**. The **Emacs Prelude** has the goal to ease the initial |
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Emacs setup process and to provide you with a much more moreful and |
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productive experience that you get out of the box. By using **Emacs |
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Emacs setup process and to provide you with a much more powerful and |
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productive experience than that you get out of the box. By using **Emacs |
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Prelude** you're basically getting a "Get me out of the Prelude, I |
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just want to use Emacs" card. |
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@ -22,28 +22,131 @@ Emacs Starter Kit is fairly popular and there is the Emacs Dev Kit |
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that I used to maintain. I've decided to abandon the Emacs Dev Kit for |
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the Emacs Prelude for two reasons - the unfortunate choice a name (too |
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similar to Emacs Starter Kit) and the totally new philosophy I have in |
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store for the Prelude. |
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store for the Prelude (easy to update, easy to personalize, easy to |
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extend, highly modular, highly comprehensible). |
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## Enhanced language support |
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## Getting Emacs 24 |
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## Additional programming languages support |
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Obviously to use the Emacs Prelude you have to install Emacs 24 |
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first. Here's a few tips on doing so: |
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### OS X |
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Obtaining Emacs 24 on OS X is really simple. There are two popular |
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ways to do it. The first is to simply download a pretest (or a nightly |
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build) from [Emacs for OSX](http://emacsformacosx.com). My personal |
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recommendation would be to get the latest pretest (which is ironically |
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the first pretest as well) from |
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[here](http://emacsformacosx.com/emacs-builds/Emacs-pretest-24.0.90-universal-10.6.7.dmg). |
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That was really easy, right? |
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The second easy way to obtain Emacs 24 is via |
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[homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). Just type the following |
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incantation in your shell and you're done: |
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``` |
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$ brew install emacs --cocoa --use-git-head --HEAD |
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$ cp -r /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/Emacs.app /Applications/ |
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``` |
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The second step is optional, but it's recommended if you like to start |
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Emacs from the launchpad or from Spotlight. Personally I prefer to |
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start Emacs in daemon mode (emacs --daemon), so that I could share a |
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single Emacs instance between several Emacs clients (emacsclient |
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-c/t). |
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That's all folk! You may now proceed to the configuration section. |
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### Linux |
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Given that Linux is more or less the home os of Emacs it presents us |
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with the most installation options. Of course, we can build Emacs from |
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[source](https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs) on every distribution |
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out there, but I rarely bother to do so. Using the distribution's |
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package manager is a better idea for many reasons - you don't need to |
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install a build chain and lots of dev libraries, you get updated |
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versions when they are released and you get automated dependency |
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manager, just to name a few. |
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That said, few distributions include in their primary repositories |
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builds of Emacs 24. Luckily there are some unofficial repos that come |
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to the rescue. |
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Debian/Ubuntu users should look no further than the amazing |
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[emacs-snapshot APT repo](http://emacs.naquadah.org/). You'll find |
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installation instructions there for all the relevant Debian and Ubuntu |
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versions out there. High quality, highly recommended builds! |
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Gentoo users have even less to do, since Emacs 24 can be obtained via |
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the emacs-vcs package in portage, as noted in the official |
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[Emacs on Gentoo page](http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/emacs.xml). |
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Unfortunately I wasn't able to find prebuilt Emacs 24 packages for any |
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of the RPM distros (Fedora, SUSE, Mandriva, etc). Since, I'm Debian |
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user I have to admit that I didn't look that far, but the source |
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installation is not particularly hard and is always an option. |
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### Windows |
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There are several ways to obtain precompiled Emacs 24 binaries if |
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you're a Windows users. The most popular are |
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[EmacsW32](http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl), |
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[Emacs for Windows](http://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/) and |
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of course the official |
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[Emacs Windows builds](http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/). I've |
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,personally, never used any builds other than the official ones. The |
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unofficial builds usually include installers and various patches that |
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might be of use to some users. |
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Since I rarely use Windows I cannot give you any more advice on the |
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choice of a binary vendor. |
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## Enhanced programming experience |
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The following list will be expanded greatly in the future. |
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### Additional programming languages support |
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* Clojure |
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* CoffeeScript |
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* Haskell |
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## Additional markup languages support |
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### Additional markup languages support |
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* Markdown |
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* Sass |
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* Haml |
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* Yaml |
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## Misc |
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**Emacs Prelude** uses by default the Zenburn color theme (a personal |
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preference of me and many other hackers), but you can easily disable |
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(or replace) it. |
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* LaTeX |
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### Enhanced configuration |
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* C |
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* Common Lisp |
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* Ruby |
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* Scheme |
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## Enhanced productivity |
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## Bundled packages |
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* auctex (LaTeX editing) |
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* clojure-mode |
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* coffee-mode |
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* deft (note taking) |
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* gist (snippet sharing on github.com) |
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* haml-mode |
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* haskell-mode |
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* magit (enhanced git integration) |
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* markdown-mode |
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* paredit |
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* projectile (project management mode) |
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* sass-mode |
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* scss-mode |
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* yaml-mode |
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* yari (ri frontend) |
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* yasnippet |
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## Installation |
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emacsclient -t |
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emacsclient -c |
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## Personalizing |
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If you'd like to change some of the setting in Prelude (or simply add |
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more) the proper way to do so would be to create Emacs Lisp files |
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under the **personal** directory in ~/.emacs.d. They will be loaded |
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automatically be Prelude on startup. |
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Avoid modifying the Prelude config itself - this will make it hard for |
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you to receive automatic updates in the future. |
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## Caveats & Pitfall |
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### No arrow navigation in editor buffers |
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This is not a bug - it's a feature! I firmly believe that the one true |
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way to use Emacs is by using it the way it was intended to be used (as |
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far as navigation is concerned at least). That's why I've disabled all |
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movement commands with arrows - to prevent you from being tempted to |
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use them. |
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### What is this terrible default theme? |
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It's called Zenburn and I (and lots of hackers around) the world find it |
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pretty neat (I also happen to be the maintainer of its Emacs port). I |
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find the default theme pretty tiresome for the eyes, that's why I took |
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that "controversial" decision to replace it. You can, of course, |
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easily go back to the default (or select another theme entirely). |
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## Known issues |
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None so far. |
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## Bugs & Improvements |
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Bug reports and suggestions for improvements are always welcome. github pull request are even better! ;-) |
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Bug reports and suggestions for improvements are always |
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welcome. github pull requests are even better! ;-) |
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I'd like to include a nice variety of Emacs 24 themes into Prelude - |
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so if you've developed (or simply found) one - give me a shout and |
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I'll take a look at it. |
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Bozhidar Batsov
14 years ago