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+# jimeh's .emacs.d Config Folder #
+
+This is my personal Emacs configuration. Having been primarily a TextMate user
+previously, my setup might also work nicely for other TM users who are curious
+about Emacs.
+
+That said, this is not some form of an Emacs starter kit, it's simply my
+personal config with any quirks, oddities, bugs, and man-eating errors I live
+with on a daily basis.
+
+
+## Requirements ##
+
+My config uses Emacs 24's new package system, and also the awesome [el-get][]
+package manager. The latest stable version of Emacs is currently 23, so you'll
+need to get ahold of a nightly build somehow.
+
+[el-get]: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
+
+
+### Mac OS X ###
+
+Personally I use [Homebrew][] to install Emacs from the latest source,
+specially since Homebrew includes a few OSX specific patches, like full-screen
+support.
+
+[homebrew]: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
+
+To install with Homebrew:
+
+    brew install emacs -HEAD --cocoa
+
+Or if you prefer to not compile it yourself, and you can live without
+full-screen, you can download the latest nightly from:
+[emacsformacosx.com][].
+
+[emacsformacosx.com]: http://emacsformacosx.com/builds
+
+
+### Linux, Windows ###
+
+I'm afraid you'll have to figure out how to get Emacs 24 yourself. Like I
+said, this is not a starter kit.
+
+
+## Installation ##
+
+Simply clone my config repo to `~/.emacs.d` update git submodules, and launch
+Emacs:
+
+    git clone git://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d.git ~/.emacs.d
+    cd ~/.emacs.d
+    git submodule update
+
+Once you launch Emacs, it'll load in the config and the list of packages to
+use, automatically installing any packages which are not installed. This means
+your first launch can take as long as 5-10 minutes, and also display some
+ruby-related errors. On subsequent launches it's fast and error free.
+
+*Remember how I said you'll have to live with the bugs too if you wanna use my
+config? ;)*
+
+
+## Notes ##
+
+* Theme-wise I use a slightly tweaked version of [Joe Bergantine][]'s [Birds of
+  Paradise][] theme, which I've made available [here][my-theme]. The original
+  Emacs port was created by Paul M. Rodriguez, and I can't remember or find
+  where I got it from originally, so I posted it to [this][ori-theme] Gist.
+* I've customized keyboard shortcuts a decent bit, which you can overview in
+  [keybindings.el][].
+* Flyspell is set to use `aspell` instead of the default `ispell` command.
+* For those who want a project tree view, there's `M-x dirtree`.
+* Most language specific tweaks are in the respective files in the
+  [languages][] folder.
+* There's a lot of stuff in here, dig through the config files manually :)
+
+[Joe Bergantine]: http://joebergantine.com/
+[Birds of Paradise]: http://joebergantine.com/werkstatt/birds-of-paradise
+[my-theme]: https://github.com/jimeh/birds-of-paradise-plus-theme.el
+[ori-theme]: https://gist.github.com/1130343
+[keybindings.el]: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d/blob/master/keybindings.el
+[languages]: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d/tree/master/languages
+
+
+## Todo ##
+
+* Improve ReadMe.
+* Come up with more todos.