Merge pull request #46 from jamescherti/develop

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README.md

@@ -1072,14 +1072,20 @@ Add the following to your `~/.emacs.d/pre-early-init.el` file:
 
 ### How to use MELPA stable?
 
-To add MELPA Stable for accessing stable package versions, you can adjust the `package-archive-priorities` variable in your `~/.emacs.d/post-early-init.el` file.
+**IMPORTANT: Many of the MELPA stable packages are outdated.**
+
+Add the following configuration to `~/.emacs.d/post-early-init.el` to give MELPA Stable a higher priority than MELPA, ensuring that packages are fetched from MELPA Stable first:
 
 ```elisp
-(push '("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/") package-archives)
+;; This change increases MELPA Stable priority to 70, above MELPA,
+;; ensuring that MELPA is preferred for package installations
+;; over MELPA Stable.
+(customize-set-variable 'package-archive-priorities '(("gnu"    . 99)
+                                                      ("nongnu" . 80)
+                                                      ("melpa-stable" . 70)
+                                                      ("melpa"  . 0)))
 ```
 
-However, the packages can sometimes be outdated.
-
 ### How to load a local lisp file for machine-specific configurations?
 
 Add the following line to the end of your `post-init.el` file:

early-init.el

@@ -382,11 +382,12 @@ this stage of initialization."
 (setq use-package-enable-imenu-support t)
 (setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
                          ("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
+                         ("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/")
                          ("nongnu" . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/")))
 (customize-set-variable 'package-archive-priorities '(("gnu"    . 99)
                                                       ("nongnu" . 80)
-                                                      ("melpa-stable" . 70)
-                                                      ("melpa"  . 0)))
+                                                      ("melpa"  . 70)
+                                                      ("melpa-stable" . 0)))
 
 ;;; Load post-early-init.el
 (minimal-emacs-load-user-init "post-early-init")

init.el

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-;;; init.el --- Init -*- no-byte-compile: t; lexical-binding: t; -*-
+;;; init.el --- Init -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
 
 ;; Author: James Cherti
 ;; URL: https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d