From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>
Subject: Re: alternative to (require ...)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:36:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9y8qss7l1.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 403B882C.7030204@yahoo.com
On Tue, Feb 24 2004, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> 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)
Often you can `autoload' some functions instead of requiring the whole
package.
> (condition-case nil
> (require 'foo)
> (error nil))
What's wrong with (require 'foo nil t)?
,----[ C-h f require RET ]
| require is a built-in function.
| (require FEATURE &optional FILENAME NOERROR)
|
| [...]
| If the optional third argument NOERROR is non-nil,
| then return nil if the file is not found instead of signaling an error.
`----
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 16:32 alternative to (require ...) Sam Halliday
2004-02-24 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-24 17:21 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-24 17:36 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2004-02-24 17:40 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-24 18:47 ` Ole Laursen
2004-02-24 21:12 ` Jason Rumney
2004-02-24 22:41 ` Sam Halliday
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