Removing emacs prelude package

Question

I installed prelude with curl before realizing that the OSX version of emacs is too old for prelude. Now I can't find any documentation on how to remove it and I'm hesitant to just start deleting files in my emacs folder that have the word 'prelude' in them. Is there a command to remove this?

Answer 1

The simplest way is to ask prelude where it is installed. Try this (even if emacs does not fully load all prelude):

ESC-x describe-variable prelude-dir

It will tell you where prelude is being loaded from.

Answer 2

I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and solved this problem this morning. Here what I do:

1. cd home/yourusrname

2. find .emacs and .emacs.d, if not. press Cril + h.

3. You will also see 2 files named like .emacs-pre-prelude.. and .emacs- pre-prelude.tgz .These are your .emacs and .emacs.d before you install prelude.

4. del .emacs and .emacs.d

5. rename .emacs-pre-prelude as .emacs

6. tar .emacs.d-pre-prelude.tgz find the .emacs.d in it and mv it to your /home/yourusrname/. restart emacs.