Questions tagged [use-package]
use-package is a macro package to isolate Emacs configuration lines in the init file. By isolating related lines, the configuration performs better and is easier to maintain.
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Using package.el to install and update but use-package for loading and configuring
After recently learning about use-package I decided to port my configuration to it but found myself reluctant to give up the convenience of using package.el to install packages and keep them updated. ...
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How to use use-package with built-in packages?
For the sake of tidiness, I'd like to group setq(s) under single, related banner.
Let's say I want to set the value of compilation-scroll-output in "compilation" unit like this:
(use-package ...
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What is the standard way to install an elisp package?
I'm interested in trying out the features of the htmlize.el package that I read about here. The article does not explain how I can import it into emacs. What is the best way to do this?
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How to bind your keys to keymaps that aren't loaded yet?
I use use-package to manage installed packages and bind-key to assign actions to custom keys that I like.
I override most of the default Emacs keybinding (e.g. C-n becomes M-k, C-p becomes M-i), but ...
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Install packages automatically [duplicate]
I'm new to Emacs, and I'm storing my Emacs configuration in a GitHub repo. Whenever I move to a new computer, I want Emacs to install all packages I specify if they do not present on this computer. ...
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Difference between init and config in use-package
I have a configuration like this:
(use-package html-mode
:mode "\\.html\\'"
:config
(progn
(add-hook 'html-mode-hook 'turn-off-auto-fill)))
Now when I go and visit an HTML file, I observe ...
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Conditional ensure in use-package
Basically, I want to ensure that the elfeed package is available and load it with use-package, but only on one computer, so I wrote something like this:
(unless (string= system-name "here-elfeed-...
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How can I defer loading elpy using use-package?
I've been updating all my use-package calls now that :idle is no longer a decent way to defer stuff. At the moment one of the biggest hits on my load time is elpy which loads a whole bunch of ...
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Use normal delete-region with backspace in markdown-mode
I would like to use the "normal" behaviour for <backspace> in markdown-mode. That is, instead of calling markdown-exdent-or-delete, I would like to call cua-delete-region. So I tried this ...
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Could not load package flyspell with use-package
I have configured flyspell mode with use-package like this:
(use-package flyspell-mode
:init
(progn
(flyspell-mode 1))
:config
(progn
(setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
(setq ...
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Managing packages using use-package
I have read that using use-package, one can manage installation of the packages from the init.el file. Is there any specific command for that ?
Background: I'm planning to port my existing init.el to ...
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Interaction between package, use-package, and quelpa
I am testing quelpa with my use-package configuration. My question is: Is quelpa meant to complement use-package, or rather to replace it?
I have the following code in my init file:
(require '...
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org-plus-contrib and org with `require` or `use-package`
How can I ensure I'm downloading and using org-plus-contrib from the org-mode repository using require or use-package? Package.el downloads the package, compiles everything and then says it can't load ...
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How do I edebug a function defined in a use-package block?
Here is a minimum working example to demonstrate the problem, you will need to have the use-package package installed:
(use-package ido
:config
(progn
(defun dummy/function ()
(...
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use-package syntax: how to set-face-attribute?
I'm trying to set helm using use-package. The set-face-atttribute doesn't work within use-package:
(use-package helm-config
:config
(progn
(helm-mode 1)
;; other config ......
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Is it possible to figure out which package/script takes most of the startup time?
I used to run Emacs on Linux using Emacsclient, it is really easy and great experience:
emacs --daemon
emacsclient
When I work on a Windows machine, Emacs starts very slow. It seems there's no ...
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Bind f-key in use-package
How can I bind an f-key using jwiegley's use-package package? Any of these combinations produces an error:
:bind ("f11" . multi-term)
:bind (<f11> . multi-term)
:bind ([f11] . multi-term)
(...
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Stop Yasnippet from autoloading
Is there a way to stop Yasnippet from autoloading? I installed it from melpa (v.20141102.1554), and have no reference to it in my init files. However, keeps up autoloading whenever I run emacs. I only ...
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void-function when loading ido-mode in Emacs24
I'm using Emacs 24.4.1 from Debian unstable and have added the lines from question "How do I switch buffers quickly?". However this results in an error message and I found no way to resolve it.
I can ...
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