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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary
	<jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:28:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fda8eb4c-6db1-474c-a93d-3e955ab94ca5@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18BA1545-091A-454E-B459-DEB96071D048@traduction-libre.org>

> I'm actually surprised that nothing from the pre-package area was left
> in the manual. I suppose there was something before package to indicate
> how to install external code, wasn't there ?
> 
> Actually I'm checking the 21 manual here...
> And I'm not finding much. Am I missing something ?

Yes, there was more mention of `require' in the Elisp
manual before package.el was added.  Search for "(require".

Currently, there is still `i require', which takes
you to node `Named Features', where `require' is
covered.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-10 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-09 15:02 "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-09 15:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-09 16:47   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10  2:19     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 14:17       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 15:05         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 16:49           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 17:13             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 19:28               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-05-11  1:02                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-10 19:35               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11  1:08                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-11  1:51                   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11  3:26                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11  4:23                       ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11  4:40                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11  6:57                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-11 15:09                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 15:23                               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-12  0:59                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12  3:21                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12  3:50                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12 15:46                                     ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13  1:43                                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-13  2:05                                         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13  2:27                                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-13  2:33                                             ` Drew Adams
2020-05-13  2:46                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-13  3:02                                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-16 10:23                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 12:39                                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-16 14:38                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 15:20                                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-12 15:46                                 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 15:13                             ` Drew Adams
2020-05-12  3:18                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-11  3:23                   ` Stefan Monnier

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