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Welcome to the emacs-purpose wiki!

Insallation and setup

Purpose is available at MELPA, so you should install it with Emacs' package manager. To turn on Purpose manually, open Emacs and type the command M-x purpose-mode.
To turn on Purpose automatically when Emacs starts, add the following line to your init file:

(purpose-mode)

If you prefer to download Purpose straight from GitHub, add this to your init file (before calling purpose-mode):

(add-to-list `load-path "/path/to/purpose")
(require 'purpose)

Usage

Purpose makes Emacs aware of purposes when deciding where to display a buffer, and provides a handful of useful commands. See Usage.

Configuration

You can configure what purposes Purpose recognizes. See Purpose Configuraion.

Extensions

Purpose is designed to be easily extended, both for the benefit of users and in the hope of enabling flexible window management for IDE-like packages. See Extensions.