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use-package
Emacs Lisp2013–2024
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use-package

A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

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22Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.5KGitHub stars
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A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:36:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year22 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-10-28 14:32:23 UTC to 2024-11-16 03:18:12 UTC.

0123452013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Here's what I have so far: * I installed Emacs 26.3 using `sudo apt install emacs` * I installed Melpa by following https://github.com/melpa/melpa/blob/master/README.md#usage * I installed use-package using `M-x package-install use-package` Now I'm trying to make sense of your instructions while reading https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#readme. I don't see a bind-key*, but I do see: - bind-key - bind-keymap - bind-keymap* Should I try one of those instead? They all seem to be in the context of a `(use-package ...)` declaration. Edit: Never mind, I do see it now at https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/blob/master/bind-key... Edit 2: I just tried it and it didn't work. Turns out I've tried this approach in the past: https://lobste.rs/s/whaez0/emacs_everywhere#c_l6ez9w (edit 2 there, heh) Wait, the suggestion at the top of that comm
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ent now works for me on a few different file extensions! (setq-default tab-width 2) (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) ; to insert a tab anyway: C-q TAB (define-key global-map [tab] (lambda () (interactive) (insert-tab))) Thank you!
In Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing
On Windows, probably the easiest way is to use Scoop [0]. You can then install org-mode with `M-x package-install org-plus-contrib` If you want to set it up in your `~/.emacs.d/init.el` config, you can use something like `use-package` [1] to make the installation easier : ```elisp (add-to-list 'package-archives '("Org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/")) (use-package org :ensure org-plus-contrib :mode ("\\.org\\'" . org-mode) ) ``` [0]: https://jrhawley.ca/2020/03/08/emacs [1]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
In Org Mode 9.5
I tried Rudel a little while ago, and I just had some troubles. Probably my fault. I wasn't nearly as well-versed with Emacs back then. I just tried crdt.el[^1] and holy crap that's cool. I love that it's all built in Emacs, like, there's no special server I have to run to get this to work. I'm blown away. I use straight.el[^2] and use-package[^3] for package management; if you want to give crdt.el a whirl, just use this: (use-package crdt :straight (crdt :type git :repo "https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el")) A fun alternative if you're in the terminal is tmate[^4], which is a fork of tmux. That one uses a central server to negotiate the connection though, I believe. [^1]: https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el [^2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el [^3]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package [^4]: https://tmate.io
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