easy-after-load

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easy-after-load

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Easily manage the 9,000 eval-after-load calls scattered throughout your ~/.emacs.d directory.

Installation

Use MELPA: M-x package-install easy-after-load.

Call easy-after-load at some point in your emacs initialization:

(easy-after-load)

If you have the file after-loads/after-ruby-mode.el, that file will be loaded immediately after Emacs loads ruby-mode.el. You can then add to your ruby-mode-hook, or setq some things, whatever you want:

; after-loads/after-ruby-mode.el
(add-hook 'ruby-mode 'yard-mode) ; shameless plug: https://github.com/pd/yard-mode.el
(add-hook 'ruby-mode 'eldoc-mode)

Additionally, a function easy-auto-mode makes maintaining your auto-mode-alist entries much simpler:

(easy-auto-mode
  '((ruby-mode "\\.rake$" "Rakefile$" "Guardfile$" "Gemfile$"
               "\\.gemspec$" "\\.?irbrc$" "\\.rabl$" "\\.ru$")
    (markdown-mode "\\.md$" "\\.markdown$")))

Customization

By default, easy-after-load looks for files matching after-*.el in the directory <user-emacs-directory>/after-loads. You can alter this behavior in the following ways:

;; Load from a different directory
(setq easy-after-load-directory (expand-file-name "package-configs/" user-emacs-directory)

;; Alternatively, ignore the easy-after-load-directory variable entirely:
(easy-after-load (expand-file-name "package-configs/" user-emacs-directory))

;; Recognize a different pattern
; The first subexpression should match the name of the feature to run after;
; this will load "init-yard-mode.el" after "yard-mode" is loaded.
(setq easy-after-load-pattern "^init-\\(.+\\).el$")

;; Completely change how to guess what to load.
; This function is given the name of every "*.el" file in easy-after-load-directory;
; it should return the name of the feature that the file should be loaded after.
(setq easy-after-load-function (lambda (file)
                                 ; Given that I am completely insane, I store my
                                 ; after-load file for "ruby-mode.el" in "le.edom-ybur"
                                 (concat (nreverse (string-to-list file)))))

Credits

I totally stole this idea from el-get. But then I stopped using el-get, so I reimplemented it in a more generic fashion.