So I have spent the last two weeks or so ripping parts out of Prelude and learning about minor mode creation and pretty much all the things I never never got around to checking out. I think perhaps most of it was fear, and a little bit of lazy / lack of need / want. A large part of this was due to Prelude and how it just worked, and still works. It just had fulfilled its purpose in being an introduction to the way things could be in Emacs.
Basically I had gotten tired of throwing stuff in my personal directory and had a growing file of things to work around features of prelude or adding funcitnality. One day it was too much and I set about figuring what parts of prelude did what and why. Much was learned about
I'm sure there is much more, and that future posts will go into greater details. For now though. Phew…..