Add a welcome screen on startup#1457
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New core prelude-welcome buffer (on by default via the prelude-welcome-screen option, skipped when Emacs opens files) with an ASCII banner, getting-started links, recent files, projects, bookmarks and a tip. Reopen with M-x prelude-welcome.
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Prelude now greets you with a proper welcome screen instead of only flashing a tip in the echo area. It's aimed at making Prelude more approachable, especially for newcomers, and graduates the existing
prelude-tipsmechanism into something you actually see.It shows an ASCII banner, then the things people most need up front: where their personal config lives, how to enable modules, and a link to the manual, plus quick access to recent files, known projects and bookmarks, and a rotating tip. Everything is clickable, TAB/S-TAB move between links,
grefreshes,qburies it.On by default, but skipped automatically when Emacs is launched to open specific files (
emacs foo.rb), and controlled by a newprelude-welcome-screenoption. Reopen it any time withM-x prelude-welcome.