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How to update packages installed with use-package
I just do this manually: run list-packages hit Uto mark available upgrades, then review to decide if there are any I don't want to pick up. Then x to upgrade. I do this pretty regularly, and often ...
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Difference between init and config in use-package
They are different if the package is deferred, i.e. not loaded until it is needed. In that case :init will be executed at the time your emacs file is first read, but :config will be executed at the ...
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`use-package` with :config to set variables
The below would work. For the sake of clarity, I am using :ensure org-plus-contrib which deviates a bit from the example in your question.
(use-package org
:mode (("\\.org$" . org-mode))
:ensure ...
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How to bind your keys to keymaps that aren't loaded yet?
You can use with-eval-after-load to defer the key binding until after a certain module has been loaded (and thus defined the keymap):
(with-eval-after-load "helm"
(bind-key "M-Y" #'helm-end-of-...
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Use multiple `:mode` arguments with use-package
The right way to do it would be
(use-package markdown-mode
:mode ("\\.markdown\\'" "\\.md\\'"))
or
(use-package markdown-mode
:mode (("\\.markdown\\'" . markdown-mode)
("\\.md\\'" ...
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org-plus-contrib and org with `require` or `use-package`
The correct way to do this with use-package is as follows:
(use-package org
:ensure org-plus-contrib
...
The first argument makes sure that it is the org.el file being sourced. The :ensure ...
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Unbinding key using use-package
If you C-h f and enter unbind-key, the help says:
unbind-key is an autoloaded Lisp macro in `bind-key.el'.
(unbind-key KEY-NAME &optional KEYMAP)
Not documented.
The second argument ...
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use-package - :init or :config
Is there any rule by which the user can determine whether the package configuration requires :init or :config?
There is no general rule which applies to all settings and packages; you just need to ...
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How to update packages installed with use-package
You can use auto-package-update to automatically update packages.
Copied from my other post (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/31903/9972)
(use-package auto-package-update
:ensure t
:config
...
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When to specify a package name in use-package's :ensure tag?
But for some packages that doesn't work. Such as auctex.
The reason (use-package tex :ensure t) doesn't work for auctex is because auctex names a GNU ELPA package (see (emacs) Packages), whereas tex ...
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How to associate more than one file extension with a given mode in `use-package`
The following should work:
(use-package js2-mode
:mode (("\\.js\\'" . js2-mode)
("\\.jsx\\'" . js2-mode))
...
:ensure t)
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Getting started `use-package` question
Do I need (package-initialize) before these lines?
If your version of Emacs (M-xemacs-versionRET) is older than 27, and you are using the built-in package manager, then you indeed need to call (...
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How to use use-package with built-in packages?
The package's name is compile.
Below should work.
(use-package compile
:init
(progn
(setq compilation-scroll-output t)))
It would be worthwhile to note @JordonBiondo's comment on how to ...
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What is the standard way to install an elisp package?
You can use the package manager to install a package and keep it up to date. htmlize isn't in the default archive, but you can easily add new ones (Marmalade and MELPA are the two most popular):
(add-...
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Difference between init and config in use-package
This example made me much easy to understand the difference between :init and :config. Let's take an example of ace-window package (but this can be any package). Put this in your init.el file:
(use-...
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Does use-package keep packages automatically updated?
I use auto-package-update to automatically update packages.
(use-package auto-package-update
:ensure t
:config
(setq auto-package-update-delete-old-versions t
auto-package-update-...
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error: Package `use-package-' is unavailable
This particular error happens if Emacs failed looking up the latest version of a package, like if there's no package-archives file containing that information. Before installing packages, make sure ...
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How to avail of `:hook` using use-package?
As others said I think https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#hooks
is pretty clear. :hook replaces add-hook and creates autoloads for
you. Your example with :hook would be:
(use-package web-mode
:...
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Is it possible to load Dired+ automatically with use-package?
dired+ has left MELPA repository, and now you have to download it manually from EmacsWiki. You can still use use-package with a downloaded package, like this:
(use-package dired+
:load-path "~/....
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Bind f-key in use-package
You need to quote "<f11>", like this:
:bind ("<f11>" . multi-term)
And here's a full example, with ace-jump-mode:
(use-package ace-jump-mode
:commands ace-jump-mode
:...
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Using package.el to install and update but use-package for loading and configuring
IIUC what you want to do is:
(package-initialize t)
Note the t argument, which is the key to your happiness here since it will (or should, at least) initialize package.el without activating all the ...
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Activate global minor modes from use-package
I don't know why company-mode is getting diminished, but I think I know what's going on with whitespace-mode. Your block
(use-package whitespace
:ensure t ;; I also tried without this line
:...
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How to bind your keys to keymaps that aren't loaded yet?
Solution
In order to execute stuff after a given package is loaded, you need to put that after :config in use-package.
Here's an example using the snippet in your question:
Snippet # 1
(use-...
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How do I edebug a function defined in a use-package block?
When you call edebug-defun it debugs the top-level form, which in this case is (use-package ...).
You can use debug-on-entry to debug a named function.
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void-function when loading ido-mode in Emacs24
use-package is not part of standard Emacs. It's an extension you can install via the package manager from Melpa or download direct and as such you will need to:
(require 'use-package)
before you can ...
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Interaction between package, use-package, and quelpa
While quelpa and use-package have no direct relation with each other, there now is a package, quelpa-use-package, which adds a quelpa handler to use-package. This allows one to use use-package with a ...
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Use-package for a mode
As the README will tell you, the :mode keyword allows you to define a deferred binding (i.e. on-demand), which will load the package when visiting a buffer which filename matches the expression you ...
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How to associate more than one file extension with a given mode in `use-package`
Use
:mode "\\.jsx?\\'"
Remember: all those backslashes are there because it's a regexp, so you really want to take advantage of it when you can, otherwise you're just suffering through those ...
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