From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: porting crufty old init.el to package management Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7e02df2b-b971-4f01-b465-97a25c70c654@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395805511 10342 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2014 03:45:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:45:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 26 04:45:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSemG-0002KI-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:45:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSemG-0008Or-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:45:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.241.8 with SMTP id we8mr705401pac.16.1395805339886; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:42:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.17.34 with SMTP id l2mr624541igd.0.1395805339782; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l13no11336129iga.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni434igc.0!nntp.google.com!ur14no13993848igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.1.63; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.1.63 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:42:19 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204494 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96763 Archived-At: On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:07:26 AM UTC+5:30, Tom Roche wrote: > I've been using emacs for ~20 years, during which I have > 1. accumulated a functional but aesthetically- and maintenance-challenged > collection of {init.el, files it calls} > 2. regularly bemoaned the lack of emacs package management > The latter problem has been solved (non-uniquely :-) for awhile now, > and I'm setting up a new box, so I really should port my emacs > configuration to the new millenium. I'm wondering, would anyone care > to recommend especially worthy docs for this process (guides, > howto's, tutorials)? esp how best to accommodate snippets of elisp > (gists?) Im also an old geezer looking to changing to the new package system The first thing I see is that there are a lot of package repos: elpa (2 of them), melpa, marmalade... Which/how to choose??