diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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/elpa/archives/
/elpa/gnupg/
/semanticdb/
+/elpa/*-readme.txt
diff --git a/elpa/company-readme.txt b/elpa/company-readme.txt
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-Company is a modular completion mechanism. Modules for retrieving completion
-candidates are called back-ends, modules for displaying them are front-ends.
-
-Company comes with many back-ends, e.g. `company-elisp'. These are
-distributed in separate files and can be used individually.
-
-Place company.el and the back-ends you want to use in a directory and add the
-following to your .emacs:
-(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/company")
-(autoload 'company-mode "company" nil t)
-
-Enable company-mode with M-x company-mode. For further information look at
-the documentation for `company-mode' (C-h f company-mode RET)
-
-If you want to start a specific back-end, call it interactively or use
-`company-begin-backend'. For example:
-M-x company-abbrev will prompt for and insert an abbrev.
-
-To write your own back-end, look at the documentation for `company-backends'.
-Here is a simple example completing "foo":
-
-(defun company-my-backend (command &optional arg &rest ignored)
- (pcase command
- (`prefix (when (looking-back "foo\\>")
- (match-string 0)))
- (`candidates (list "foobar" "foobaz" "foobarbaz"))
- (`meta (format "This value is named %s" arg))))
-
-Sometimes it is a good idea to mix several back-ends together, for example to
-enrich gtags with dabbrev-code results (to emulate local variables).
-To do this, add a list with both back-ends as an element in company-backends.
-
-Known Issues:
-When point is at the very end of the buffer, the pseudo-tooltip appears very
-wrong, unless company is allowed to temporarily insert a fake newline.
-This behavior is enabled by `company-end-of-buffer-workaround'.
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diff --git a/elpa/magit-topgit-readme.txt b/elpa/magit-topgit-readme.txt
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-This package provides very basic support for TopGit.
-
- TopGit is a patch queue manager that aims to make handling
- of large amounts of interdependent topic branches easier.
-
-For information about TopGit see https://github.com/greenrd/topgit.
-
-When `magit-topgit-mode' is turned on then the list of TopGit
-topics is displayed in the status buffer. While point is on such
-a topic it can checked out using `RET' and discarded using `k'.
-Other TopGit commands are available from the TopGit popup on `T'.
-
-To enable the mode in a particular repository use:
-
- cd /path/to/repository
- git config --add magit.extension topgit
-
-To enable the mode for all repositories use:
-
- git config --global --add magit.extension topgit
-
-To enable the mode globally without dropping to a shell:
-
- (add-hook 'magit-mode-hook 'magit-topgit-mode)
diff --git a/elpa/markdown-mode-readme.txt b/elpa/markdown-mode-readme.txt
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-
-
-
-
-
-marmalade-repo - for all your EmacsLisp needs
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/elpa/minimap-readme.txt b/elpa/minimap-readme.txt
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-This file is an implementation of a minimap sidebar, i.e., a
-smaller display of the current buffer on the left side. It
-highlights the currently shown region and updates its position
-automatically. You can navigate in the minibar by dragging the
-active region with the mouse, which will scroll the corresponding
-edit buffer. Additionally, you can overlay information from the
-tags gathered by CEDET's semantic analyzer.
-
-Simply use M-x minimap-mode to toggle activation of the minimap.
-Use 'M-x customize-group RET minimap RET' to adapt minimap to your
-needs.
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