From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jpkotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: porting crufty old init.el to package management Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7e02df2b-b971-4f01-b465-97a25c70c654@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395856810 5743 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2014 18:00:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:00:10 +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 19:00:21 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 1WSs7g-0004hG-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:00:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49431 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSs7g-0002no-DT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:00:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.66.73 with SMTP id d9mr29273645obt.8.1395856557501; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:55:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.94.211 with SMTP id g77mr252101qge.5.1395856557473; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!ur14no14304919igb.0!news-out.google.com!bw18ni23786qab.1!nntp.google.com!w5no8919510qac.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <7e02df2b-b971-4f01-b465-97a25c70c654@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.164.9.2; posting-account=EwI0QQoAAADdqmqX_mVfawBNtwyks2YE Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.164.9.2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:55:57 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204501 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:96770 Archived-At: On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:42:19 PM UTC-5, Rusi wrote: > 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?? I have an answer on SO about this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14836958/updating-packages-in-emacs/14838150#14838150