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Adds better personal configurations to Prelude #1389

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With this change prelude-personal-dir now is decoupled from prelude-dir which allows one to manage them independently.

One should be able to install Prelude with the following command setting different paths for prelude itself and for the user personal configuration.

if [ ! -d "/some/dir/.emacs.prelude" ]; then
	export PRELUDE_INSTALL_DIR="/my_home_dir/.emacs.prelude" &&
		export PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR="/my_personal_dotfiles/prelude" &&
		curl -L https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/raw/master/utils/installer.sh | sh
fi

Alternatively, just git clone ... should also work for the installation step!

After that, Prelude will start loading the configuration from the new path, for example, with https://github.com/plexus/chemacs2

(
    ("prelude" . ((user-emacs-directory . "/my_home_dir/.emacs.prelude")
                     (custom-file . "/my_personal_dotfiles/prelude/custom.el")
                     (env . (("PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR" . "/my_personal_dotfiles/prelude"))))))

In this way prelude-personal-dir can live and be managed by the user own dotfiles without interfering with Prelude itself.

This was stolen from Crafted Emacs (https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs) which may or may not be legal :)


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With this change `prelude-personal-dir` now is decoupled from `prelude-dir` which allows one to manage them independently.

One should be able to install Prelude with the following command setting different paths for prelude itself and for the user
personal configuration.
```
if [ ! -d "/some/dir/.emacs.prelude" ]; then
	export PRELUDE_INSTALL_DIR="/my_home_dir/.emacs.prelude" &&
		export PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR="/my_personal_dotfiles/prelude" &&
		curl -L https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/raw/master/utils/installer.sh | sh
fi
```
Alternatively, just `git clone ...` should also work for the installation step!

After that, Prelude will start loading the configuration from the new path, for example, with https://github.com/plexus/chemacs2
```
(
    ("prelude" . ((user-emacs-directory . "/my_home_dir/.emacs.prelude")
                     (custom-file . "/my_personal_dotfiles/prelude/custom.el")
                     (env . (("PRELUDE_PERSONAL_DIR" . "/my_personal_dotfiles/prelude"))))))
```

In this way `prelude-personal-dir` can live and be managed by the user own dotfiles without interfering with Prelude itself.

This was stolen from Crafted Emacs (https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs) which may or may not be legal :)
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bbatsov commented Nov 26, 2022

I'm fine with the proposed changes, but this has to be documented - e.g. somewhere in the setup instructions.

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Agree but, can you point me in the right direction? I'm pretty new to Prelude, so far only read the Readme.md file and I can only find one mention as a note where this could be relevant as shown below:

**Important:** Don't forget to adjust your `prelude-modules.el` file in your personal directory
once the installation is done. By default most of the modules
that ship with Prelude are **not** loaded.

Please, if you can point me in the right direction on where to write some documentation for this it would be very helpful!

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bbatsov commented Nov 28, 2022

I was thinking of adding something to https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/blob/master/docs/installation.md

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This was stolen from Crafted Emacs (https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs) which may or may not be legal :)

From the Crafted Emacs readme:

This code is licensed under the MIT License. Why? So you can copy the code from this configuration!

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bbatsov commented Dec 14, 2022

@jvillasante Ping :-)

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