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Re: Best practice for tracking current release?
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Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
Re: Best practice for tracking current release? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:11:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Ben Hyde" <address@hidden> writes:
> My init file has this form in it to set up el-get
>
> (cond
> ((file-exists-p (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/el-get"))
> (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name
> "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get"))
> (require 'el-get))
> (t
> (url-retrieve
> "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el"
> (lambda (s)
> (goto-char (point-max))
> (eval-print-last-sexp)))))
>
> which doesn’t look right to me … but I took the quick choice.
>
> There is a comment in that file about how the install from melpa
> didn’t work for me because
> the recipe I wanted (the one for pymacs) wasn’t included.
>
> For me I didn’t install el-get until I encountered something essoteric
> that I was struggling with installing,
> that might have been pymacs … which I still haven’t got working to my
> satisfaction.
I was considering to add a note to the Tramp manual, how to use el-get
for easy installation. But this doesn't look more easy than what is
described already.
> - ben
Best regards, Michael.