From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neal Becker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: porting crufty old init.el to package management Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:22:28 -0400 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395832983 13597 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2014 11:23:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:23:03 +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 12:23:12 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 1WSlvL-0003yR-Cf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:23:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSlvK-0006z7-Vk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSlux-0006nb-U3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSluq-0006y8-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSluq-0006uu-CK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSluo-0003NS-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:22:38 +0100 Original-Received: from exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com ([139.85.223.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:22:38 +0100 Original-Received: from ndbecker2 by exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:22:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com User-Agent: KNode/4.12.3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:96765 Archived-At: 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 use: (require 'felineherd)