From: "John Wiegley" <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
"Philip Kaludercic" <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org,
relekarpayas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: What does use-package do?
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:50:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22a29477-d649-40e7-baac-58a76cbce816@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ogw7t-0007yb-Om@fencepost.gnu.org>
It allows the user to declaratively configure a required package. There are several “best practices” when writing startup config that will load quickly and efficiently, and use-package effectively abstracts these practices for the user.
I originally wrote it to eliminate a lot of boilerplate and duplication in my own high efficiency unit.el file (with hundreds of packages configured, but less than one second Emacs load time).
John
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, at 6:47 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> Can someone send me a self-contained description of the job
> use-package does, from a user's perspective?
>
> I'm not asking about how it does that job, or how it works.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-08 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-24 12:56 Progress on merging use-package? Payas Relekar
2022-09-24 14:08 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-24 14:22 ` Payas Relekar
2022-09-24 14:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-24 14:36 ` Payas Relekar
2022-09-24 15:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-24 20:24 ` John Wiegley
2022-09-25 2:34 ` Payas Relekar
2022-09-25 2:45 ` Payas Relekar
2022-09-25 8:09 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-25 8:39 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-28 22:57 ` chad
2022-09-29 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 8:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-07 22:47 ` What does use-package do? Richard Stallman
2022-10-08 4:50 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2022-09-24 15:42 ` Progress on merging use-package? Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-10-08 4:38 What does use-package do? Payas Relekar
2022-10-08 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-08 22:34 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-08 12:46 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-08 23:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-09 12:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-09 20:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-11 4:46 ` Naoya Yamashita
2022-10-11 5:13 ` John Wiegley
2022-10-11 6:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-11 6:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-11 9:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-11 15:21 ` John Wiegley
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