Entry point for Emacsvox. The simplest and most basic way to start emacsvox is: emacs -q -l <emacsvox-dir>/lisp/emacsvox-setup.el The above starts a vanilla Emacs with just Emacsvox loaded. Loading this source file also detects newer startup sources that would otherwise be hidden by stale byte-code and temporarily prefers those sources. Rebuild a changed checkout rather than relying on that fallback. Once the above has been verified to work, You can add (load-library "emacsvox-setup") To your .emacs file when using an installed, already-built copy. See tvr/emacs-startup.el in the Emacsvox Git repository for my setup.