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emacs noob here.

I'm rewriting my init.el file from scratch using use-package macro. In my existing init file I use require to configure MELPA package archive.

(require 'package)

(add-to-list 'package-archives '("MELPA" . "http://melpa.org/packages/"))

(package-initialize)

Can I rewrite this using use-package macro?

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[–] mekeor@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I don't use use-package myself, but maybe you could write:

(use-package package
  :init
  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("MELPA" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")))

I'd expect it to understand that you are referring to package.el, where package-archives variable is defined.

[–] thetemp_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You can use the `setopt' macro, which is also new in Emacs 29.1.

(setopt package-archives
        '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
          ("nongnu" . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/")
          ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")))