From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elpa package loading problem?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:09:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e099714a-bd26-4e7b-aab4-14383b6eac27@d6g2000pbt.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d445ca1b-d47b-46bf-ac16-f46742bcb449@googlegroups.com
On Jun 4, 1:58 am, José A. Romero L. <escherdra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> W dniu sobota, 2 czerwca 2012 18:44:29 UTC+2 użytkownik Xah Lee napisał:
>
> > does anyone have problems with emacs package system?
>
> > recently, installed several packages with it: {“rainbow-mode”,
> > “bookmark+”, “smex”, “expand-region”}.
> (...)
> > apps key, i get: “Symbol's function definition is void: smex”. If i
> (...)
> > Any insight on this?
>
> AFAIK, ELPA relies heavily on correctly declared autoload cookies,
> especially if you really want to avoid loading whole packages at
> startup. From my own experience adapting SC to ELPA I know this is
> not easy to get right from the beginning -- you, as a user, may end
> needing to add the missing autoloads to the xxx-autoloads.el file
> automatically generated by ELPA (this sucks big time, because your
> added code is ditched away with every upgrade of the package). ELPA
> works wonderfully well, but only if the authors of the packages you
> happen to use did make that extra effort to get things right from the
> start.
>
> > for emacs 24, is this the way things are?
>
> Yep, that's just the way it is. I'm afraid you'll have to submit a
> few bug reports before things start working properly for you.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> José A. Romero L.
> escherdragon at gmail
> "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
> (Quarry worker's creed)
Thanks a lot Jose. Very informative.
Xah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-02 16:44 elpa package loading problem? Xah Lee
2012-06-04 8:58 ` José A. Romero L.
2012-06-04 19:18 ` José A. Romero L.
2012-06-04 23:09 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2012-11-29 7:09 ` Easior
2012-11-30 4:18 ` Jude DaShiell
[not found] ` <mailman.14118.1354247749.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-11-30 4:53 ` Xah Lee
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