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Emacs, portable self-installing configuration with “use-package” and “straight”

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1 Emacs, use-package and straight in short. 2 What is configuration exportability? 3 Beyond exportability: “straight”. 4 Configuring “straight”. 5 Configuration of “use-package”. 6 Little example with little analysis. 7 List of applications in my configuration file. 8 And now? 1 Emacs, use-package and straight in short. Emacs uses the GNU ELPA (Emacs Lisp Package Archive) for updating installed packages. MELPA (Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive) is, on the other hand, an unofficial manager with numerous other packages and must be installed by following the directions on this page . The original methods for installing packages are as follows: M-x package-install <RET> package-name <RET> M-x package-list-packages <RET> followed by i on the desired packages and x for the actual installation of the selected packages. To update packages you open the package-list above...