From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: An alternative to a monolithic ~/.emacs init file
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:13:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lk96m3as.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194697099.703581.205890@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (rustom's message of "Sat\, 10 Nov 2007 12\:18\:19 -0000")
>>>>> ">" == rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>> This way the .emacs can be nothing more than the two lines
>> (load-loaddefs-from-directory "~/elisp/lib")
>> (load-customizations-from-directory "~/elisp/lib")
>> And there are no superfluous file traversals at emacs startup time
>> Knowing emacs and its community I guess this functionality is already
>> available!
>> Question is what is it called :-)
ELPA works this way, more or less. It isn't as simple as "drop in
some elisp and work", since it provides some other features that
require a bit more metadata. But, the basic idea is the same: extract
autoloads and byte-compile at package install time; and read the
minimal number of files and only evaluate autoloads at package
evaluation time.
For more info:
http://tromey.com/elpa/
There are some other, more minimal, elisp install packages. They are
listed on the wiki.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 17:13 UTC|newest]
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2007-11-07 17:13 ` An alternative to a monolithic ~/.emacs init file rustom
2007-11-08 13:08 ` Sebastian Tennant
[not found] ` <mailman.3126.1194527313.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-08 19:53 ` rustom
2007-11-09 14:18 ` Sebastian Tennant
[not found] ` <mailman.3180.1194617919.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-10 12:18 ` rustom
2007-11-10 17:13 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3247.1194750639.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-11 15:29 ` rustom
2007-11-12 21:56 ` Tim X
2007-11-13 4:21 ` rustom
2007-11-13 9:26 ` Tim X
2007-11-14 3:52 ` rustom
2007-11-13 1:22 ` rustom
2007-11-11 0:09 ` Francisco Miguel Colaço
2007-10-30 15:04 Sebastian Tennant
2007-10-30 20:30 ` Sebastian Tennant
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