On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Greg Hendershott <greghendersh...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Just saw this now. Alex, thanks for helping! > > For Emacs packages that I'm not actively hacking on, I'm a fan of > using Emacs' package manager to install them their dependencies. > Yeah, I tried that. The package system wasn't working properly and rather than spend a lot of time yak shaving on why I just installed the code directly. At least, I think. I know I tried getting racket via package manager, and I know that the PM isn't working properly for me at the moment. Not sure if it was at the time, though. Probably. > For example with racket-mode: > > https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode#install > > > p.s. I also love the `use-package` package. That's the only package I > install with `package-install`: > > ;;; use-package > > (require 'package) > (setq package-enable-at-startup nil) ;; for `use-package' :defer > (setq package-archives '(("elpa" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";) > ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/";))) > (package-initialize) > (unless (package-installed-p 'use-package) > (message "use-package not installed. Trying to install") > (package-refresh-contents) > (package-install 'use-package)) > (require 'use-package) > (require 'bind-key) > > Then rest of my init file is `use-package` macros that take care of > installing and configuring the dozens of packages I use. As one > example: > > (use-package expand-region > :ensure t > :bind (("M-SPC" . er/expand-region))) > > The `:ensure t` installs it if necessary. > > This also means I can plop my init.el on a new machine, start Emacs, > and everything installs. > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 5:42 PM, David Storrs <david.sto...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > *blink* > > > > It did not even occur to me that someone would give their library a > > one-character name -- I'd been assuming that it was mis-parsing the name > of > > whatever it was trying to load. I should have checked that before > asking. > > Thanks. > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Alex Harsanyi <alexharsa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 5:30:06 AM UTC+8, David K. Storrs wrote: > >> > I'm sending this to the list because I suspect I'm not the only one > who > >> > will ever have this issue and the next person should now be able to > google > >> > for it. > >> > > >> > GNU Emacs 24.5.1 > >> > Darwin MacBook-Pro.lan 15.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.5.0: Tue Apr 19 > >> > 18:36:36 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.50.21~8/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 > >> > > >> > I've been using racket-mode for a while now and enjoying it. I'm not > >> > sure what changed, but suddenly it is causing my .emacs to not load. > These > >> > are the first two lines in my .emacs: > >> > > >> > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/racket-mode-20161101.1859/") > >> > (require 'racket-mode) > >> > > >> > > >> > I don't recall how I installed racket-mode -- whether it was elpa, > >> > directly download, etc. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > When Emacs starts it throws up an error buffer saying: > >> > ------- > >> > Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading > >> > `/Users/dstorrs/.emacs': > >> > > >> > File error: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, s > >> > > >> > To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the > >> > cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with > >> > the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace. > >> > ------- > >> > > >> > I've commented out everything else in the .emacs file so I know it's > >> > racket mode that is causing the issue. The error happens on the > require > >> > line. I've attached the full output of the debug-init dump. > >> > > >> > > >> > I never shut Emacs down, so it's possible that I had this issue > sometime > >> > long ago, resolved it for the current session, and then didn't see it > again > >> > until today I decided that I would procrastinate by debugging this. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Removing the (add-to-list 'load-path > >> > "~/.emacs.d/elpa/racket-mode-20161101.1859/") line and moving > (require > >> > 'racket-mode) to the end of the .emacs file means that I still get the > >> > initialization error, but all of my customization has already been > processed > >> > and everything including racket-mode is working fine. > >> > > >> > > >> > I have no idea what is up with this. > >> > > >> > Any thoughts on how to fix it? > >> > >> racket-mode depends on a library named "s", it looks like this library > is > >> missing on your machine. See https://github.com/magnars/s.el, or > install it > >> via the emacs package manager. > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> Alex. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Racket Users" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. 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