From ec8586616f63c7f0233e88054c50a2c7610ee4bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bozhidar Batsov <bbatsov@Bozhidars-Mac-mini.local>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:33:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about --init-dir

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 README.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f6d8b295c3..857134cd4c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ or back up your existing `.emacs.d` directory manually.
 once the installation is done. By default most of the modules
 that ship with Prelude are **not** loaded.
 
+### Try Before You "Buy"
+
+If you're using Emacs 29+ there's a simple way to try Prelude (or any other Emacs distro for that matter).
+Just clone Prelude's repo somewhere and do the following:
+
+```shellsession
+$ emacs --init-dir ~/path/to/prelude
+```
+
 ## Philosophy
 
 Prelude's philosophy is quite simple: