Re: alternative to (require ...)

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sam Halliday wrote:

> most of the 3rd party packages i have for emacs (such as color-theme, php-mode,
> htmlize) are loaded in my ~/.emacs file by statements such as
>
>   (require 'htmlize)
>
> but if this package is not installed on the system, emacs bails on loading the
> rest of my ~/.emacs file. this is quite annoying as i like to maintain a single
> ~/.emacs file and use it wherever i am using emacs.
>
> is there an alternative command i can use, which doesn't result in emacs crying
> if it can't find the package? or at least if there is an "if exists" check i
> could do and incorporate into a wrapper function, say called (requests ...)

(condition-case nil
   (require 'foo)
 (error nil))


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Kevin Rodgers