My minimalist Emacs workflow optimized for writing prose in Markdown and CSS.
Linux:
sudo apt-get install emacs
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cask/cask/master/go | python
cask install
OSX:
brew install emacs --cocoa --srgb brew linkapps Emacs
brew install cask
cask install
Clone this repo into ~/.emacs.d and start Emacs. If all goes well your emacs is good to go.