From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Halliday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alternative to (require ...) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040224224138.53dbecdf.email@example.com> References: <20040224163251.5739e4cd@deasker> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077663072 26626 80.91.224.253 (24 Feb 2004 22:51:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 23:51:05 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AvlOL-0006Qu-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:51:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AvlNR-00071h-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:50:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!skynet.be!landlord!demorgan.zen.co.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!newsr2.u-net.net!news-peer0-test!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: host217-43-57-81.range217-43.btcentralplus.com Original-X-Trace: titan.btinternet.com 1077662496 11046 217.43.57.81 (24 Feb 2004 22:41:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:41:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a-gtk2-20040109 (GTK+ 2.2.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:42:01 GMT (newsr2.u-net.net) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121225 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17176 Jason Rumney wrote: > (if (require 'htmlize nil t) > (progn > ;; htmlize specific settings here > )) thanks to everyone who has responded to this thread, you have all been a great help! this answer seems to be the most practical; i am away to update my ~/.emacs and see if i can make an equivalent if statement for the (autoload...) packages :-)