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+# 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