From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Quick installation of Emacs modules? Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337117420 22701 80.91.229.3 (15 May 2012 21:30:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:30:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 23:30:18 2012 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 1SUPJs-0005ju-I6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 23:30:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUPJr-0005vt-SQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 17:30:11 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1337117111 21928 166.84.1.3 (15 May 2012 21:25:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:25:11 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192432 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:84839 Archived-At: Suppose that you get wind of an intriguing extension toocool.el, and you'd like to take it for a spin right away, in your current Emacs session. Is there some handy extension (e.g.) that would let you run something like (get-me-right-now "toocool") to locate toocool.el (through channels suitably vetted to avoid unsavory code), download/install it it, and finally load toocool? (As a bonus, the details of this process would be cached in a way that would facilitate reproducing the current repertoire of additions in a different system, for example, or restoring the current one if necessary.) I have not found anything this powerful yet. The best I've found is Stefan Monnier's install.el, but it "only" installs a previously downloaded *.el file (I write "only" because I'm sure that there are plenty of corner-cases and subtleties that install.el must handle correctly). Is there a shorter distance between wish and reality here? Thanks!