Re: Execute code in use-package

[John Mastro]

Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> wrote:
>> This should work:
>>
>> (use-package mds
>>   :config (mds))
>>
> Alas, that doesn't work.  The server does not start and now the mds command
> is not assigned so I cannot manually start it.
>
> What I found that does work is changing :config to :init, that is,
>
> (use-package mds
>   :commands (mds)
>   :init (mds))
>
> On reflection that might make sense.  What confuses me is that :init runs
> code before the package is loaded.  However, I assume that :commands (mds)
> ensures that mds is auto-loaded, so the call to (mds) then auto-loads and
> runs mds.

Right - it's essentially equivalent to what you had before
`use-package':

    (autoload 'mds "mds")
    (mds)

However, (use-package mds :config (mds)) really should work too, because
other than some complications for error handling it's morally equivalent
to:

    (require 'mds)
    (mds)

So I'm not sure what's going on there.

        John