From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alternative to (require ...) Date: 24 Feb 2004 18:40:46 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040224163251.5739e4cd@deasker> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077650980 2035 80.91.224.253 (24 Feb 2004 19:29:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 20:29:31 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 1AviFH-00077U-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:29:31 +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 1Avgh7-0004Mm-FE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:50:09 -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!p3ee20bb9.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee20bb9.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.11.185) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077644446 51371535 I 62.226.11.185 ([198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121206 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:17162 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17162 Sam Halliday writes: > 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 'htmlize) (error (message "Skipping load of htmlize"))) -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum