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From: Sam Halliday <devnull@example.com>
Subject: alternative to (require ...)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:32:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040224163251.5739e4cd@deasker> (raw)

hi there,

most of the 3rd party packages i have for emacs (such as color-theme, php-mode,
htmlize) are loaded in my ~/.emacs file by statements such as

  (require 'htmlize)

but if this package is not installed on the system, emacs bails on loading the
rest of my ~/.emacs file. this is quite annoying as i like to maintain a single
~/.emacs file and use it wherever i am using emacs.

is there an alternative command i can use, which doesn't result in emacs crying
if it can't find the package? or at least if there is an "if exists" check i
could do and incorporate into a wrapper function, say called (requests ...)

cheers,
Sam
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             reply	other threads:[~2004-02-24 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24 16:32 Sam Halliday [this message]
2004-02-24 17:19 ` alternative to (require ...) Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-24 17:21 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-24 17:36   ` Reiner Steib
2004-02-24 17:40 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-24 18:47 ` Ole Laursen
2004-02-24 21:12 ` Jason Rumney
2004-02-24 22:41   ` Sam Halliday

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