From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using use-package Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 22:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6d1f1d5c-b438-4e83-9a54-16904c7949ef@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438752920 25970 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2015 05:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 05:35:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 07:35:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMrMF-0003uP-Ih for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 07:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMrME-0006O6-Li for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 01:35:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.140.196.73 with SMTP id r70mr6643501qha.3.1438752905077; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:35:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.22.67 with SMTP id b3mr493324igf.1.1438752905031; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!69no3951577qgl.1!news-out.google.com!o13ni7095igw.0!nntp.google.com!f3no7691618igg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.2.48.80; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.2.48.80 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 05:35:05 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213955 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106240 Archived-At: On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 8:31:52 PM UTC+5:30, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am having great difficulty in getting "use-package" to work > successfully. Just adding one more voice here: use-package seems like a wonderful tool to clean up one's init. But we need many more recipes. I find something like that here https://github.com/edvorg/req-package which seems to have gone further than use-package but has its own limitations. Also it would be good to have something like these in emacs-core --- Please! I will be teaching programming again. I would really appreciate if I can 'hand-out' pieces of config that are shorter, neater, less-interdependent than my higgledy-piggledy init-mess