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how to list emacs package dependencies

Posted on May 16, 2014 by

Table of Contents 1. how to see one-level dependencies of a package 2. how to programmatically collect the names of all the required packages for a given set of packages For now there is no command or function that recursively … Continue reading →

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How to choose Emacs Lisp package namespace prefix

Posted on September 22, 2013 by

1. background Since Emacs Lisp doesn’t provide namespaces yet, Emacs Lisp packages use prefixes as substitute for namespaces. For example, the cl-lib library uses cl as its common prefix for all of its function names (and variable names), the rx … Continue reading →

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how to install just one package from MELPA and not others

Posted on August 24, 2013 by

Table of Contents 1. background 2. installing or updating one package from MELPA 3. checking if the package is installed correctly 1. background There are two well known Emacs package archives: GNU ELPA and MELPA (well, there’s also Marmalade). The … Continue reading →

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how to install autopair from emacs package system

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Table of Contents 1 how to install autopair 2 how to enable autopair without using require 3 how to disable autopair in some modes while keeping autopair globally on 4 further customization of autopair how to install autopair autopair is … Continue reading →

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how to know which archive an emacs ELPA package is from

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

The buffer from M-x list-packages doesn’t display which archive each package is from. M-x describe-package doesn’t either. But there is a function for it. The function is package-archive-base. For example, I use two additional ELPA archives: (require ‘package) (add-to-list ‘package-archives … Continue reading →

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