Prelude is an easy to use "all-in-one" Emacs distribution with many additional packages and its own core library. Extra functionalities are provided through modules, including C, Clojure, Common-Lisp, Erlang, among others.
Questions tagged [emacs-prelude]
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Emacs - require-final-newline local value overrides global value
I want to set the require-final-newline for every buffer to nil.
In my config file, I have :
(setq require-final-newline nil)
(setq-default require-final-newline nil)
It appears to set the global value correctly. However in every buffer that I…

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How to change word wrap highlighting in emacs
I am new to emacs and using prelude. I want to completely disable the syntax highlighting that happens after the word wrap bounds and have everything use the normal syntax highlighting. How do I do this?
Here is a screen shot of what I am talking…

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Separating Line Numbers from Text in Terminal: Emacs
When I run emacs in Terminal mode and have the global-linum-mode option enabled , the line numbers are very close to my text and it is really irritating for the eyes. Is there a way to separate the line numbers from the text in Emacs?

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Emacs colors. why it is gray on current line? zenburn theme
I installed Prelude on my emacs24. I'm using ubuntu 12.04
It worked perfectly the first time I used it, but all the next times it doesn't.
On my current line the font color is gray so it's hard to see what I write. Previously it was a Bold case,…

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How to copy Zsh aliases to Eshell
I'm trying to copy using the command provided in here. That is,
alias | sed -E "s/^alias ([^=]+)='(.*)'$/alias \1 \2 \$*/g; s/'\\\''/'/g;" >~/.emacs.d/eshell/alias
This worked with Bash, I was using Emacs-Starter-Kit; but not working with Zsh --…

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How to scroll horizontally in emacs?
I can't get emacs to scroll horizontally!
To replicate the problem:
Open the *scratch* buffer.
Write a long line.
Make the long line exceed the window width with M-xtoggle-truncate-lines. The left hand text (column 0) will now be off the left of…

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how to install Emacs Prelude system-wide on windows/MinGW?
I am trying to install emacs prelude into emacs. The only thing I found after googling is this page, which tells me to clone prelude into
C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\.emacs.d
But I need to have prelude in the emacs system folder…

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How do I override a prelude module hook on coffee-mode?
I have been using prelude for about a year and have developed a nice setup. I started writing coffee-script and tried to use the prelude-coffee module. This contains the line:
(setq coffee-command "~/dev/coffee")
which is incorrect on my machine. I…

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Emacs Prelude: Background Color
I installed the Emacs Prelude as suggested in https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude . I find the background-color grey of the Zenburn theme to be disturbing. I wish to change the background-color to black. I tried (set-background-color "black") ,but it…

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file-error "https://melpa.org/packages/archive-contents" "Bad Request" during emacs 25.2 startup with Prelude initialization
New job, new emacs setup. I've used emacs for years but never did much customization. Running CentOS Linux 7.7 and emacs 25.2. I wanted to try the Prelude "starter kit" so I installed it. On emacs starup the Prelude init.el file (~/.emacs.d/init.el)…

Frank P
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Shifted command ignored when unshifted version exists
I have the following bindings:
M-q => fill-paragraph
M-S-q => unfill-paragraph
But either key combo results in the first: fill-paragraph, so it
appears that the Shift and thus
unfill is ignored. I set the
second myself:
(prelude-require-package…

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emacs: seq-1.11 not found while booting with prelude
I'm new to emacs, and I'm getting started with prelude configuration. While invoking emacs, I've got a message: error "Package 'seq-1.11' is unavailable". It might be the dependency of beacon package according to the --debug-init log. Although it…

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check if the theme is available before loading it
I am using emacs with the prelude configuration.
I changed the theme and it works fine, and I added it in the preload directory like so :
;; preload color theme
(setq prelude-theme 'my-theme)
I installed the theme via prelude-require-packages, but…

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I use Emacs with Prelude and want to re/write git-autocommit-mode
Where inside .emacs.d should I put the source code? How should I publish my changes? This is my first attempt at writing an Emacs mode. What are the current commendations?
proggress
I'm not sure if I did it properly but I have added following to…

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Emacs parenthesis match colors styling
I'm using prelude emacs with solarized theme and parenthesis highlights are hardly visible and looking very ugly. I've tried disabling show-smartparen-mode also show-paren-mode but nothing seems to disable it. I'm not sure, which mode is making…

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