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Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2011-01-06 · latest 2020-09-27

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  1. ….com/jwiegley/use-package#use-package-ensure-s... Historically, el-get e.g.: (el-get-bundle ace-link) https://github.com/dimitri/el-get#el-get-elpa-and-packageel
    comment by d0mine · 2020-09-27 · in Toward a “modern” Emacs
  2. …and can install/manage packages from a wide variety of sources, sort of like Arch's AUR. It's at https://github.com/dimitri/el-get .
    comment by lorenzhs · 2017-07-21 · in Emacs and Magit
  3. …for Emacs packages) is really an order of magnitude better than dealing with raw ELPA et al: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
    comment by msbarnett · 2014-06-17 · in The Sorry State of Emacs Lisp Package Archives
  4. …simpler and easier to back on than it was before. [1]: https://github.com/peterkeen/dotfiles [2]: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
    comment by zrail · 2012-07-21 · in Emacs packages for programmers
  5. …able to install them, update them and remove them, but more importantly it will init them for you." https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
    comment by ndrake · 2012-06-11 · in GNU Emacs 24.1 released
  6. …I haven't tried creating uploading anything to Marmalade yet, so I can't compare the ease of use. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/blob/master/recipes/evil.r... One last note: You may find that el-get lowers the barrier for contributing…
    comment by nyellin · 2011-12-06 · in The single most useful Emacs feature
  7. …Emacs, but no Emacs user should go without installing el-get, the meta-package-manager for Emacs. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get El-get can install and update elisp from git, svn, http, and EmacsWiki. (It also wraps ELPA and apt-get…
    comment by nyellin · 2011-12-06 · in The single most useful Emacs feature
  8. …allows you to install them very easily and update them with just one command, among other things. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
    comment by cksk · 2011-11-20 · in Why Emacs?
  9. And Dave Abrahams is now actively developing el-get, which I prefer to ELPA. http://github.com/dimitri/el-get
    comment by pandakar · 2011-05-27 · in Let's just use Emacs
  10. This requires a bit more work but is also more flexible: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get It helps you manage emacs packages and elisp that are not packaged.
    comment by naner · 2011-01-06 · in Phil Hagelberg on Emacs new package manager.