From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:17:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <11437E00-8970-4908-A900-0438A248428D@traduction-libre.org> <75254771-9303-4982-AB60-F92AF7AC6454@traduction-libre.org> <11AC1ECE-C120-4CBE-93C7-6FD82AF12299@traduction-libre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="111483"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs developers To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 16:18:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmmU-000SuZ-GB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 16:18:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38444 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmmT-00040t-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmlb-0002sG-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:46811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmlY-0008Tc-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id A440D450B6B; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id E9A244508DD; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:17:13 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1589120233; bh=/6R5W+pEnugf4zqkySI1NLOnVakz8tOQfzcZpmLpmp4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=g2JJlR5/KxZV3Y9Re85DpF1X5h4bXNnQlWXEUDFNQByHvoMJHhdtfX4Fg+LlhD62j TBxW9tI6unAK6bK5xahT5Nl6CdAbe6WtYMLU4KPzh4ZYrjppMh4NR/d32+Z6M/ZsVa 572Z7vkQJDgmEdoaL2vGTAGdB3b8feHexRZmenkfb7yNME5fbglHgMeyuTM+Sf9x+F 3GKIaJEn8m+Ve4eZsmWI9Xx7ezGA515YKrHxTpw4jf9QNFDNO9JBC0GPrd02njZP8X tc8k7jOIH50oN3iHucAwNFHqi27E1bIc7Em6YlchvQH76t4mKWZMCGrBYLp3lBzK9k BtkDgE04QM13Q== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.3.202]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A683D12023D; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:17:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <11AC1ECE-C120-4CBE-93C7-6FD82AF12299@traduction-libre.org> (Jean-Christophe Helary's message of "Sun, 10 May 2020 11:19:47 +0900") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/10 08:44:47 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249662 Archived-At: > 2) add a reference to "require" in the Features section of the manual in building.texi > > To automatically load code that you have installed in the load path, > you can use `require' in your init file. *Note Features: > (elisp)Features. For example, here's how to automatically load the > features provided by file `feature.el' installed in your load path: > > (require 'feature) While it can be useful to `require` a file from `.emacs` in particular cases, it's *usually* a bad idea which will just slow down your startup. So I don't think we should promote this. Most packages installed "the old way" have a little blurb in their `;;; Commentary:` section (or `INSTALL` file or somewhere) which shows what to add to your `.emacs`. Stefan