From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Hagelberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Autoloading M-x package-refresh-contents Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:36:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319819823 18114 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2011 16:37:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs discussions To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 18:36:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJpQQ-0004XH-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:36:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53813 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJpQP-0003mf-CO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJpQM-0003mM-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJpQL-0005py-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:52321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJpQL-0005pl-0U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:36:53 -0400 Original-Received: by eye4 with SMTP id 4so4184365eye.0 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.182.51.103 with SMTP id j7mr795891obo.36.1319819811260; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.182.42.35 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:36:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145720 Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> If you haven't already required package.el then M-x >> package-refresh-contents will not be visible. > > I think the intention is to use it via `r' in after M-x list-packages. That's one way to do it, but I personally find it more convenient to use M-x package-install if I already know the name of the package. I only use M-x list-packages when I'm browsing or I've forgotten what a certain package is called. In this case it's pretty common to want to refresh first. -Phil