Re: Any cool uses of Lentic?

[York Zhao]

> it will involve manually installing the dependencies of lentic also.

I thought those dependencies have been installed by cask. So do you mean
that
one still have to manually "require" all these dependencies? If so, what's
the
point of using cask? I don't know much about cask, so please correct me if
I'm
wrong.

> Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use a package
installation?

What I've always been doing is to clone the git repositories. If the
Makefile
supports, I do "make && sudo make install", otherwise, I manually require
it,
along with all the dependencies. This works well if a package doesn't have a
bunch of dependencies that I haven't installed yet. However, I'm tired of
having
to go getting /cloning each dependencies, and then manually "require" them
in my
.emacs. I thought maybe cask would do something about this. But it seems
all it
does is to just grab the dependencies for me right?

The reason I always use my git clones is that it's convenient to make
changes
this way, if I need. I would love to hear your suggestions on this if
there's a
way of installing packages from MELPA/Marmalade while at the same time,
still be
easy to make changes in my git clone, and maybe contribute back to upstream.

Thanks,\\
York

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
wrote:

>
> I can do, but it will involve manually installing the dependencies of
> lentic also.
>
> Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use a package
> installation?
>
> Phil
>
> York Zhao <gtdplatform@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This looks pretty interesting, so I decided to give it a go. I then
> > cloned the git repo, and ran "$ make". I could see that a .cask
> > directory has been created, and the dependencies has been installed in
> > it. I then read the comment in lentic.el. However, it only mentions
> > the usage when installing through MELPA/Marmalade which is not my
> > case. Would you please also add usage notes for manual installation,
> > like what I'm doing so that I can have everything up and running in 15
> > minutes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Phillip Lord <
> phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:32:58PM +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
> >> >> "Tory S. Anderson" <torys.anderson@gmail.com> writes:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Looking at Lentic[1] it seems like something that has been thought
> >> out and
> >> >> > well developed,
> >> >>
> >> >> Thank you!
> >> >
> >> > FWIW, a while ago in the Org mode mailing list somebody wanted to
> >> > edit their message buffers as Org mode (and later make Mime messages
> >> > out of them containing the Org and an HTML version, courtesy of
> >> > org-mime-htmlize).
> >> >
> >> > Lentic was proposed to offer the alternative views (message/org).
> >> >
> >> > But I'm out of my depth somehow, so take with some amount of salt.
> >>
> >>
> >> I haven't tried that yet, but it sounds fun. I shall give it a go.
> >>
> >> Phil
> >>
> >>
>