Hi Caleb, 2016-07-27 17:51 GMT+02:00 Caleb Rottman <crott...@sci.utah.edu>: > Here are my two cents as a somewhat average emacs user (then I'll butt out > and let you all decide what you want to do). > > I have around 30 packages that I install through ELPA. Since this is pretty > unwieldy, I have these all configured using the "use-package" macro, which > will automatically download missing packages and `require' them as > necessary. This makes installations on new machines really simple. > > However, since AUCTeX doesn't have any (require 'auctex) line, use-package > will fail and AUCTeX won't install. That means that out of the 30 packages I > have, I am required to install AUCTeX manually. Now that I know that AUCTeX > will work when you just install it, it is indeed not too hard to get AUCTeX > working. However, my main hangup in this whole issue is that I expected > AUCTeX to work like all the other packages I use. > > So it's not that AUCTeX is hard to install per se, it's just that it's > different than all the other 30 packages that I use. This, in my experience, > has always made AUCTeX confusing to me in the past.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I understand your position, but the "problem" with the use of `require' is that loading in this way many packages sensibly slows down startup of Emacs. Ok, one should never close at all Emacs, but sometimes happens :-) Instead, a smarter approach to load packages is to call them when they're needed, for this purpose one can use `autoload' combined with `eval-after-load` (or the recent `with-eval-after-load'). I don't have use-package, I wrote my init file by myself, and I have few packages that are actually `require'd, the others are autloaded. I find this way very effective, because not of all packages I set up in my init file are actually used in all Emacs sessions I fire up. Maybe use-package allows you to do something similar for other packages. Bye, Mosè _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel