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woah, I've been using Emacs for years and never heard of Elpa. I always managed my .emacs by hand ... ELPA may be worth looking into though. Anyone have any f

by smanek 17y ago

woah, I've been using Emacs for years and never heard of Elpa. I always managed my .emacs by hand ... ELPA may be worth looking into though. Anyone have any first hand experience?

mahmud 17y ago
ever seen a .emacs file after a savage CUSTOMIZE attack? well, ime, emacs and its packages are best managed by hand.
- smanek 17y ago
  In my experience, customize is usually pretty good about only adding code to the bottom of my .emacs in a separate section (although, I rarely use it)
  - rmaccloy 17y ago
    (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/custom.el"))
justinweiss 17y ago
ELPA's pretty nice, I've only got two minor issues with it: * It doesn't have everything in it yet, so about half the packages I use I still have to manage manually. (Someday I'll have to figure out how to submit stuff to ELPA...) * If you take your .emacs with you across multiple machines, you still need a way of keeping your packages in sync. I like the way the emacs-starter-kit deals with this problem: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/blob/b5d0aa78b87bde5866c4f834c61ecee3d1fdbc0c/starter-kit-elpa.el http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/blob/b5d0aa7... It's especially good for trying out packages that you're not sure you'll use on a regular basis.