Questions tagged [autoload]
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How to programatically detect if a unbound symbol is part of an autoloaded file and what file that is?
Given a variable or a function symbol not currently bound, what would be the variable that holds the auto-loading association I could use to search for the symbol and find out what file would get ...
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How start Emacs only with specific packages?
Linux Mint 20,
Emacs 27.1
In my init.el file I loaded many packages.
But sometime I need to load only some specific packages.
E.g.
emacs -Q and only vertico+marginalia+theme
The question is: How I ...
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Who or what decides what gets put into `loaddefs.el`?
For context, I'm writing an extension.
I need to check if a particular symbol is an autoload symbol, such that autoloadp = t.
After doing some digging I found that the defined autoloads in loaddefs.el ...
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For convenience, how should I load a package whenever a specific other package loads?
I have a package that enhances the functionality of another package. To save the user the effort of any additional configurating, I would like my package to load automatically if the larger package ...
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Add autoloading use-package keywords to a fork of general.el
I have forked general.el to add a few autoloaded keywords of my own, by using the :general keyword use-package functions as a template. However, this bit of code, originally used for :general, is not ...
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How to autoload a non-elpa package such as help-fns+.el?
I read from some posts (require vs. package-initialize?, and here) that Emacs can autoload packages installed via ELPA/MELPA, which avoids using require on packages and speeds up loading during ...
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How to use package-generate-autoloads
I am teaching myself autoloads for "home-made" packages.
Official Docs
suggest to use update-file-autoloads or update-directory-autoloads on the related package file or directory, which ...
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Verify autoloads?
In order to speed up start-up I am using (autoload FUNCTION "LIBRARY") instead of (require 'library) in my .emacs file. However, this can result in delayed detection of mistakes, causing ...
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Package autoloading and use-package
I'm a beginner on emacs and I don't understand packages autoloading and use-package.
I see a lot of configs online which use 'use-package' and recommends installing packages with package manager (...
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Autoloading of evil fails: failed to define function evil
I get the error:
run-hooks: Autoloading file /home/xxxx/.emacs.d/elpa/evil-collection-20210203.811/modes/unimpaired/evil-collection-unimpaired.elc failed to define function evil at startup.
Here is ...
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Autoloaded variable overrides the one from the init file
I added the following line to my init file to replace ruby-mode with enh-ruby-mode:
(setq auto-mode-alist
(mapcar
(lambda (x)
(if (eq (cdr x) 'ruby-mode)
(cons (car ...
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How to postpone loading a file until it's function is called?
Say I have foobar_utility.el that defines an interactive function foobar_utility.
How can I postpone loading foobar_utility.el until foobar_utility is called?
Example usage:
(load (concat user-...
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Why is cl-loop autoloaded on byte-compilation?
This question is motivated by a question about the "void function" error on cl-loop in the init file.
The following test shows that (require 'cl-lib) is not needed for byte-compilation:
Assume ...
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use-package: autoload function outside the main package file
I am trying to install simplenote2 to read my org files on my phone.
The official setup method is:
(require 'simplenote2)
(setq simplenote2-email "email@example.com")
(setq simplenote2-password "...
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Cannot open load file: Not a directory, notmuch [closed]
Does anyone see what's wrong in my attempt to run notmuch in emacs?
My attempt to run notmuch
helm-M-x notmuch: Cannot open load file: Not a directory, notmuch
My .spacemacs
(autoload 'notmuch "...
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`use-package` errors with "failed to define function" message when loading a local copy of a package
I'm trying to modify the package ediprolog, which was installed and working before, with use-package, from ELPA. I copied the file from the elpa folder to a folder called ediprolog.el and used:
(use-...
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Redfining autoloaded function
I discovered that auctex's texmathp-match-switch does not check whether or not dollar signs are commented out or not, therefore i get wrong results when i all M-x `texmathp' in very specific contexts. ...
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autoload-do-load: Wrong type argument: consp, nil
I've encountered a problem after upgrading Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) from MELPA today to ess-20180926.54.
When I try to start an R session under Emacs with M-x R I'm informed...
autoload-do-load:...
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Confusing defcustom usage in info.el
I was trying to read the info.el code when I ran across this strange use of defcustom:
;; This is a defcustom largely so that we can get the benefit
;; of custom-initialize-delay. Perhaps it would ...
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How can I improve startup time despite many packages?
TL;DR I have such a huge amount of packages that it's hurting my startup time. If you don't believe that could be the case, read on.
My Emacs startup time is quite small. I don't use use-package, I ...
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How should I test that autoloads work properly with package.el?
I've added some autoloads to PACKAGE with the ;;;###autoload cookie and I've run M-x update-directory-autoloads which generated PACKAGE-autoloads.el. I have the following form in my init:
(package-...
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Adding advice to an autoloaded function
I want to add advice to an alias to a function in an internal elisp package at work, gating the logic on a variable.
Both the function and the alias is marked autoload.
Conceptually:
;;;###autoload ...
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Can't build org autoloads -- Cannot open load file: cl-lib
Because of ongoing difficulties with configuring org-mode, I am trying to run org-mode using the development source code repo rather than through the emacs package. I tried the simplest thing I could ...
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autoload of general.el not working in spacemacs?
I have this in my personal spacemacs layer's packages.el:
(setq mylayer-packages
'(general
(mylayer :location local)
evil-org
))
Then later in the same file:
(defun ...
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Is it possible to lazy-load language mode packages?
Most of the packages I currently use are major modes for various languages that are only included in the off-chance I load a file of that type.
Is there a way to postpone loading them at startup in ...
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How to autoload a package without requiring in the init file?
When you install clojure-mode via package-install, you can then open any .clj file and automatically enter the mode.
And this works for every subsequent Emacs launch ; Yet, no (require 'clojure-mode) ...
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How to generate and activate autoloads for local packages?
It is clear that not all local/custom/personal packages should be officially released, and it would be silly to do so just to benefit from built-in package management support. I'm wondering how to ...
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Autoloading defcustoms: good practice or not?
In my init file, I often find myself trying to set a customizable variable before the file (usually a mode of some sort) is loaded. This, of course, results in an error.
While this problem could be ...
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Use-package doesn't find autoload
I expect the package to be require'd as soon as mdi-insert is called but I get:
Error (use-package): spaceline :config: Symbol’s function definition is void: mdi-insert
~/.emacs.d/init.el
(let ((...
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cl-lib isn't loaded the first time an autoloaded function is used from it
I'm trying to use cl-lib early in my init.el. The function I'm using (cl-some) is autoloaded, so I expect that don't need an explicit require, yet I get a void-function error if I don't explicitly ...
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Autoloads for "generated" functions?
I have a file that I want to turn into a (local) package containing (inter alia) the code:
(defun tl-sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end)
"Extended sort function."
(...
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How to know which function triggered an autoload of a library
How can I monitor when Emacs loads a library because of an autoloaded function, and also know the name of that function?
EXAMPLE: I type M-x eval-buffer in a buffer where one of the functions uses ...
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How to load personal prolog.el only if system's one is outdated?
I need to use a version of prolog.el not older than 1.25, so I defined the function maybe-reload-prolog-el:
(defun maybe-reload-prolog-el ()
(when (version< prolog-mode-version "1.25")
(add-...
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How to stop a minor mode from auto-loading in Spacemacs?
The smartparens minor mode is quite annoying to me, so I want to have it disabled on default. However, I don't want to uninstall it, in case I need it someday.
Can I disable a minor mode without ...
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How to lazy load init files to speedup Emacs startup?
My ~/.emacs.d/init.el file looks like this:
(package-initialize)
(require 'init-my-emacs-settings)
(require 'init-my-emacs-performance)
(require 'init-my-emacs-font)
(require 'init-my-emacs-color-...
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lazily activate an ELPA package?
I'd like a way to lazily activate certain ~/.emacs.d/elpa packages. I notice some of them have so many autoloads (which require other packages recursively from their *-autoloads.el), that you might as ...
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loading tramp overrides tramp-remote-path customization back to default value
I have customized tramp-remote-path in my .emacs.d/init.el with
(custom-set-variables '(tramp-remote-path
(quote
(tramp-own-remote-path))))
but when tramp is loaded the value of tramp-...
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are there conflicts between use-package and a package's autoloads?
Do I have to worry about a package's built-in autoloads somehow conflicting with those implicitly defined by use-package? For example if I do :commands some-cmd but the package already had an autoload ...
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use-package :defer t and add-hook
If I have something like:
(use-package X
:defer t
(add-hook 'some-mode 'package-x-function))
Will that work as expected given that I set :defer t and the package doesn't have any "built-in" ...
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use-package :defer t and autoloads
My understanding is if that I use any of :commands, :bind, :bind*, :bind-keymap, :bind-keymap*, :mode, or :interpreter, then it will create a corresponding autoload and defer loading of the package ...
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Dependent functions: eval or autoload?
I have a situation where I have a function that depends on other functions. So
(defun a ()
(something))
and
(defun b ()
(something-else))
are used by
(defun c ()
(something-calling (a) (...
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How to autoload a custom group?
I put my custom js setting into zwb-js group in zwb-js.el, I want to use use-package to load it, it seems that zwb-js.el has been loaded, but the functions defined in zwb-js.el seems not be called ...
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How to load self package with use-package?
I use Prelude, and I want to use use-package for loading and configuring my personal config files.
In ~/.emacs.d/personal/load-private-config.el, my code is below: (like https://github.com/jwiegley/...
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projectile-switch-project not working with autoload
When I attempt to autoload projectile like so
(autoload 'projectile-global-mode "projectile" " t nil)
And then open Emacs I cannot use projectile-switch-project (Symbol's function definition is void:...
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Ghost code in Emacs configuration, how to find it?
I use the package vimish-fold.
The package contains, for example, two functions, called as:
Function 1
Function 2
There is a new commit to the package vimish-fold on Github, which will add the new ...
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Why isn't magit-version available?
I have Git 2.5.3 installed and am using GNU Emacs 24.4.1 on Ubuntu. I just installed Magit from MELPA:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(...
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Autoloads and variables
I understand what autoload does for functions (register file to load when
such function is called or its documentation string is retrieved). However,
it's not clear how to use autoload facility in ...
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When should I use autoload instead of require?
From what I understand require is used to load large chunks of code (something like modules) although it can also load individual functions.
Autoload on the other side, only registers functions and ...
