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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? |
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Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:14:13 -0500 |
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> I think things already work the way users expect. Let's look at
> Python. When you install a package using 'pip', the package files are
> placed on Python's search path. Thereafter, 'import <package>' works
> without any further "activation" step. The package is automatically
> made available in future sessions, although it is not loaded until
> requested.
In Python, once a package is on the search path, the user needs to
give a specific command to make it callable from a given module.
I think Emacs should work the same way.
If I understood correctly, it is currently NOT the same, because in
Emacs the package doesn't require any command to make the package
callable. Simply getting it from ELPA makes it callable _all the time_.
The change I have asked for would make Emacs do like Python.
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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stefan Monnier, 2018/02/01
Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?,
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- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/03
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/02/04
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Tim Cross, 2018/02/04
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/02/05
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Tim Cross, 2018/02/05
Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/04
Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/02/04
Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/05
Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/10