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From: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: document package.el
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:12:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C772D34.7050004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj7t3qj7.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

On 8/26/2010 5:27 PM, Juri Linkov wrote:

> I guess we need something like `require',
> e.g. (package-require FEATURE&optional FILENAME NOERROR).
>
> So you could put in your .emacs:
>
>    (package-require 'company)
>    (package-require 'js2-mode)
>    (package-require 'rainbow-mode)
>
> and it will take care of installing and activating
> your preferred packages on a new installation.

Interesting. On each subsequent startup, after installing, it could then 
check if a new version is available and prompt for update. Of course 
that could be optional for people who don't want to be bothered with 
updating on startup.

Christoph



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-27  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06 22:42 document package.el Tom Tromey
2010-08-06 23:48 ` Phil Hagelberg
2010-08-09 16:22   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-07  1:43 ` Christoph
2010-08-07  8:57   ` Geralt
2010-08-09 16:23   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-26 23:27   ` Juri Linkov
2010-08-26 23:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-27  3:14       ` Christoph
2010-08-27  5:51         ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-27  3:12     ` Christoph [this message]
2010-08-27  7:07     ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-27 21:40       ` Phil Hagelberg
2010-08-28 17:34         ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-27  6:43   ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-27 15:51     ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-27 16:17     ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-27 21:43     ` Richard Stallman
2010-08-27 22:58       ` Christoph
2010-08-28  7:25         ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-07  7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-08 22:39   ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-09 16:24     ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-21 18:22   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-21 18:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-22  1:40       ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-08 23:06 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-09 21:13   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-21 18:37   ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-25 17:24     ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-25 17:34       ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-25 17:35         ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-17 14:37 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-08-17 15:57   ` Tom Tromey

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