Re: Issues with major-mode-remap-defaults

[Arash Esbati]

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

> Sorry to butt in, but what happens when a user uses only the git
> repository for AUCTeX and not a ELPA package? Can AUCTeX be similarly
> suppressed?

No, the recipe provided by Keita is a package.el thing:

,----[ C-h v package-load-list RET ]
| package-load-list is a variable defined in ‘package.el’.
| 
| Its value is (all)
| 
| List of packages for ‘package-activate-all’ to make available.
| Each element in this list should be a list (NAME VERSION), or the
| symbol ‘all’.  The symbol ‘all’ says to make available the latest
| installed versions of all packages not specified by other
| elements.
| 
| For an element (NAME VERSION), NAME is a package name (a symbol).
| VERSION should be t, a string, or nil.
| If VERSION is t, the most recent version is made available.
| If VERSION is a string, only that version is ever made available.
|  Any other version, even if newer, is silently ignored.
|  Hence, the package is "held" at that version.
| If VERSION is nil, the package is not made available (it is "disabled"). 
`----

If you're using AUCTeX from a local repo, you have to remove the init
code for AUCTeX from your .emacs.

> I for one never use packages from ELPA and its friends.

IMO, unless you're hacking on a package, there is no reason to do that.

Best, Arash