Prelude is an Emacs distribution that enhances the standard Emacs experience while remaining relatively close to traditional Emacs conventions.
It supplies sensible defaults, a curated collection of additional packages and a modular configuration system. Most optional functionality is provided through modules, letting users add programming-language support and other features without loading everything by default.
Prelude 2 modernised the distribution around functionality available in Emacs 29, including tree-sitter, Eglot and use-package. It requires Emacs 29.1 or later.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Improved defaults while retaining the traditional Emacs workflow.
- Simple modular architecture with most additional modules opt-in.
- Automatically installs many programming modes when required.
- Curated collection of third-party packages.
- Built around modern Emacs functionality including use-package.
- Tree-sitter support for languages including C, C++, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Elixir, Shell, YAML and CSS.
- Automatically uses tree-sitter modes when the appropriate grammar is available.
- LSP support with Eglot by default, with lsp-mode available as an alternative.
- Programming modules for a wide range of languages.
- Vertico available for minibuffer completion.
- Designed as a foundation which users can understand, extend and customise.
- Can be tested separately from an existing configuration using Emacs’
--init-diroption. - Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: prelude.emacsredux.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Bozhidar Batsov and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Prelude is written in Emacs Lisp. Learn Lisp with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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