evil-surround and evil-leader are available through el-get

Wed Nov 2 09:24:09 CET 2011

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 01:42:19PM +0200, Natan Yellin wrote:
> Hi all,
> evil-surround and evil-leader are now available through el-get, the awesome
> meta package manager for emacs <https://github.com/dimitri/el-get>.
> 
> The recipes are available on master. For those new to el-get, you can easily
> install a package with:

I've just tested evil from el-get and it seems that el-get does not
byte-compile all files (at least on my machine). Perhaps something like

:build `(,(concat "make EMACS=" el-get-emacs))

should be added to the recipe?

Furthermore during testing the following strange thing occurred, but
I'm not sure of this is a problem with the recipe or with el-get
itself, but you're the expert:

With a minimal .emacs file only loading el-get and not requesting any
other package do the following:

1. M-x el-get-install RET evil RET
2. M-x el-get-remove RET evil RET
3. restart Emacs (this is important)
4. M-x el-get-install RET evil RET
   nothing happens. Instead the following message pops up:
   "el-get: `undo-tree' package is already installed"
5. M-x el-get-remove RET undo-tree RET
6. M-x el-get-install RET evil RET
   both undo-tree and evil are installed

Alternatively executing (el-get 'sync 'undo-tree) after requesting the
installation of evil (i.e. after step 4.) starts the installation of
evil, too. It seems as if it is not enough do have undo-tree installed
but it must also be loaded in order to install evil. I would expect
el-get to load undo-tree automatically if required.

Frank