On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 11:49 PM Milan Glacier <news@milanglacier.com>
wrote:

>
> >I'm afraid mode options will make this even more
> >complicated.  And what's with that defvar?
>
> use-package is really a magic. But nobody uses a blank `(use-package
> foo)`, usually a simple and pracctical use-package call would be
> something like this:
>
>      (use-package foo
>      :config (setq foo-1 nil)
>      :init (setq foo-2 nil)
>      :hook ((python-mode emacs-lisp-mode) . foo-mode))
>
> which specifies the code to be evaluated before foo is loaded (:init
> part), the code to be evaluated after foo is loaded (:config part), and
> the hook related to this package, which expands to:
>

My expansion of that same form is larger and harder to read,
with condition-case and variables and stuff.  But it would seem
that the fluff overhead is constant, which is good.

So I get your point: with enough practice, it's easy to see the
primitives in use.


> (I personally am not a fan of use-package, I don't think it brings any
> thing new. Often I need to expand it to see if its behavior is expected,
> then why shouldn't I just write plain setq, add-hook stuffs directly?)
>

Exactly.

João