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-> :warning: **Doom Emacs won't be participating in Hacktoberfest 2021.** I'm not
-> in the best of health, my hands are already full with its current PR load, and
-> large sections of the project are undergoing a rewrite where I'm not accepting
-> PRs, such as our docs (a popular target for hacktoberfesters) and CLI.
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 # Doom Emacs