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+# Collin Doering dotfiles (configuration)
+
+## Features
+
+- xmonad as window manager with xmobar as status bar
+- a pretty large emacs configuration for many programming languages, email (via mu4e),
+  yasnippet, completion, etc..
+- conkeror used as main web browser
+- bash and zsh configs
+- other stuff...
+