Re: using Xresources for geometry

[Baloff <washdc@wash.edu>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>     I got the doremi-frm.el from
>     http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/doremi-frm.el by
>     clicking on the download, which opened a new page with the file in it,
>     then I copy and past into the scratch buffer, saved it in
>     /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/doremi-frm.el, put (require 'doremi-frm)
>      in the first line of my .emacs
> 
>     M-x load-file ~/.emacs cann't open load file: doremi
>     did I do something wrong?
> 
> No, you did everything right. But not enough. Emacs-Lisp libraries often
> require other libraries. In this case, `doremi-frm.el' requires `doremi.el'.
> In fact, it also requires other libraries, besides `doremi.el'.
> 
> You will see this comment in doremi-frm.el:
> 
> ;;  Library `doremi-frm' requires these libraries:
> ;;
> ;;    `avoid', `doremi', `faces', `faces+', `frame-cmds', `frame-fns',
> ;;    `hexrgb', `icomplete', `icomplete+', `misc-fns', `mwheel', `ring',
> ;;    `ring+', `strings', `thingatpt', `thingatpt+'.
> 
> Not all of those libraries are absolutely required, however. To determine
> what you absolutely need:
> 
>  - Look for `(require...)' in doremi-frm.el.
>  - Load those files.
>  - Look in those files for `(require...)'.
>  - Etc.
> 
> Any `(require...)' of this form: (require 'something nil t) is *optional* -
> the library is not absolutely required. It is the third arg `t' that signals
> this.
> 
> In `doremi-frm.el', for example you see this:
> 
>  (require 'doremi)
>  (require 'hexrgb)
>  (require 'ring+)
>  (require 'frame-fns)
>  (require 'faces+)
> 
>  (require 'frame-cmds nil t)
>  (unless (fboundp 'read-number)(require 'strings nil t))
> 
>  (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
> 
> The first group of `require's are mandatory, for `doremi-frm.el' to work.
> 
> The second group (frame-cmds, strings) are optional.
> 
> Both of these groups are my libraries - they are not included with standard
> Emacs. So, you will need to download all libraries in the first group, for
> `doremi-frm.el' to work. (And some of those libraries might require you to
> download other libraries.) You do not need to download `frame-cmds.el' or
> `strings.el'.
> 
> The last `require' is a compile-time-only require, and library `cl.el' is a
> standard Emacs library, so you do not need to download anything for this
> dependency.
> 
> HTH.

thanks, 
is there a way to automate the handling of all those dependencies so
that I don't have to do it by hand?