From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alternative to (require ...) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:21:48 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <403B882C.7030204@yahoo.com> References: <20040224163251.5739e4cd@deasker> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077644067 16565 80.91.224.253 (24 Feb 2004 17:34:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:34:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 18:34:16 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 1AvgRk-0005lr-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:34:16 +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 1AvgRA-0008Qo-Sv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:33:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077643305 51093346 I 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121202 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:17153 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17153 Sam Halliday wrote: > 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 ...) (condition-case nil (require 'foo) (error nil)) -- Kevin Rodgers