ELPA stands for Emacs Lisp Package Archive a simple package manager for Emacs, and a repository of pre-packed Emacs Lisp code.
Just out of curiosity, I wanted to try emacs + evil. Here's what I've done so far: Installed emacs 24 on Windows 7 …
emacs elpaI'm now installing as much as I can through MELPA and Marmalade, and I manage my ~/.emacs.d using git. …
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