Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization

[chad]

On 20 Apr 2015, at 11:38, Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> wrote:

> I do wonder if all of this can be avoided by teaching users to
> insert `use-package lines/snippets/etc into their .emacs, instead
> of `require. It would also address some slow-start issues at the
> same time.

I started this thread because I was tired of telling people to add package-initialize to their init file, and you want to teach them to use use-package? :-)

Thats fair, but (in case its not clear), Im suggesting that we try

to move everyone away from ever saying Add this line to .emacs:

(require, and *instead* get them to say the very similar Add this

line to .emacs: (use-package.

The hope (unsupported by actual evidence, of course) is that its a

simple enough change that its not as difficult as telling people

how to find the right point in their init file to put package-initialize

w.r.t. the various `require lines, which move around. As an additional

benefit, emacs will start faster, and the users init file will

naturally tell them where to customize that package. (In a potential

future, we could even have customize or a replacement add the options

to the use-package statement directly - but thats down the road).

The point is that users shouldn't run into trouble for doing such basic configurations. If they have to ask for help on this then I we've already failed.

Agreed. My hope was to get people to suggest an equally-simple but

better alternative to `require in .emacs (which is already something

that wed like to avoid).

Hope that helps. Sorry to add to the noise if not. Thanks!

~Chad