Questions tagged [load]
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How do you reload a dynamic module?
If I have required a dynamic module in emacs, and then modify the source and rebuild it, how do I get emacs to reload the new module? I have not been able to just require it again. The only thing that works so far is to give the module a new…
John Kitchin
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How do you recompile an .el source file and make it active in my current session
I have been writing some elisp code, current i have to open the file edit quit and reload emacs seems there must be a better way ?
I know i can recompile the current file but that does not seem to make my changes active with in emacs until i restart…
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use-package: load all defined packages
I use use-package to defer package loading.
This is useful in emacs standalone mode.
I additional run emacs in daemon mode (emacs --daemon), then this behavior is not desired.
Is there a way to load all, in my init files defined, packages?
In a way…
jue
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reload emacs package in current session after .el source recompilation
I have an emacs package installed from elpa in my ${HOME}/.emacs.d/elpa/ directory, and I am trying to fiddle with its .el source file. I would like to
recompile after modification
have those changes take effect in the current emacs session,…
grobber
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Should I use "require" or "load" when writing my own configuration?
I am following this tutorial, and the author is doing something like this:
~/.emacs.d/init.el
;; add your modules path
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/custom/")
;; load your modules
(require 'setup-foo)
(require…
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How to re-load a package?
The situation I have is this. First, I run
(require 'prolog)
...which loads the system's default version of prolog.el, and makes the variable prolog-mode-version available. It has value "1.22".
Now, I know that my personal copy of this package,…
kjo
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Obviate the need to specify every folder for a manual setup
I run all my Emacs packages manually without any package manager. My setup is a simple init.el file with this kind of direction:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/packages/ace-window")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/packages/dired+")
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Edman
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emacs-custom file get overwritten
In my init.el, I have the following line
(setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory))
which is supposed to set the file custom.el into .emacs.d config folder for getting all customization tidy. Over the years, emacs…
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How to make all variables and functions of a mode visible without activating the mode
Let's say I want to customize a keybind for a mode that hasn't been loaded yet like so:
(define-key eshell-mode-map (kbd "C-M-i") 'eshell-previous-input)
But the problem is if I haven't yet loaded eshell I get this error:
Debugger entered--Lisp…
John DeBord
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How to load an Idris file that depends on a package?
Working in Spacemacs (on Linux Mint, if that is relevant), using the Idris layer, one of my major mode commands is SPC m-r (Vim-style keybindings): idris-load-file. This causes Spacemacs to load up an Idris REPL instance and use it to type check the…
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Loading and executing .el file if it exists on startup
I am having trouble telling Emacs to load and evaluate an additional .el file which only contains some lisp code to load an org file
;; keep my personal settings not in the .emacs file
;; http://www.mygooglest.com/fni/dot-emacs.html
;; load it if it…
Uwe Ziegenhagen
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Function load raises error on loading an existing file
I started getting an error on loading theme files and tracked it down to the (load) function being called by (load-theme). I tried to isolate the problem with the following test function and am still puzzled:
(defun test-load ()
(let ((file…
Daniel Doherty
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SICSTus Emacs Interface - Installation
I am currently trying to install the SICSTus Emacs Interface on Ubuntu to use Emacs to program in Prolog, but it seems that I am too stupid to do…
Sven Madson
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Is it possible to see if a library is loaded after another one?
I am trying to find out if a library has been loaded after another one. For example has the ox-bibtex library been loaded after the org-ref library. I know you can look at fboundp, featurep, but I need to know the order of loading.
I thought I coudl…
John Kitchin
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Command to Run (Eval) "Hello World" in ELISP on Eshell?
I am new to Emacs and ELISP
A file (message "Hello World") saved as hello.el.
Now, how to run (evaluate) this file on Eshell?
~/Documents $ ....... hello.el
Tom
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