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Quick installation of Emacs modules?
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kj |
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Quick installation of Emacs modules? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 May 2012 21:25:11 +0000 (UTC) |
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nn/6.7.3 |
Suppose that you get wind of an intriguing extension toocool.el,
and you'd like to take it for a spin right away, in your current
Emacs session. Is there some handy extension (e.g.) that would
let you run something like
(get-me-right-now "toocool")
to locate toocool.el (through channels suitably vetted to avoid
unsavory code), download/install it it, and finally load toocool?
(As a bonus, the details of this process would be cached in a way
that would facilitate reproducing the current repertoire of additions
in a different system, for example, or restoring the current one
if necessary.)
I have not found anything this powerful yet. The best I've found
is Stefan Monnier's install.el, but it "only" installs a previously
downloaded *.el file (I write "only" because I'm sure that there
are plenty of corner-cases and subtleties that install.el must
handle correctly).
Is there a shorter distance between wish and reality here?
Thanks!
- Quick installation of Emacs modules?,
kj <=
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, Jason Earl, 2012/05/15
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, kj, 2012/05/15
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, Duncan Oag, 2012/05/15
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, Jason Earl, 2012/05/15
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, Stefan Monnier, 2012/05/15
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, Duncan Oag, 2012/05/15
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, kj, 2012/05/18
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, Stefan Monnier, 2012/05/20
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, kj, 2012/05/22
- Re: Quick installation of Emacs modules?, Mark Skilbeck, 2012/05/22