This video will step you through setting up Emacs to use MELPA for packages.

We configured emacs by creating a folder named .emacs.d and creating a file within it named init.el.

Here's the contents of that file:

(setq inhibit - startup - message t) (require 'package) (setq package - enable - at - startup nil) (add - to - list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")) (package - initialize) ;; Bootstrap ` use - package ' (unless (package - installed - p 'use-package) (package - refresh - contents) (package - install 'use-package)) (use - package try :ensure t) (use - package which - key :ensure t :config (which - key - mode))

The last two inituse-package clauses install two helpful packages:

try : let's you try packages without installing them.

which-key: brings up help on key combinations.

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