Re: Activating tabbar after installation via elpa on emacs 24.2.1

[Joost Kremers]

Rainer M Krug wrote:
> I just decided to install some standard packages via elpa, and I am running 
> into problems with two
> packages: tabbar and color-theme
>
> I would like to acivate them in .emacs.d/emacs.el and start the tabbar-mode 
> and set color-theme-hober
>
> I tried
>   (eval-after-load "tabbar"
>       '(tabbar-mode)
>     )
>
> but this activates the tabbar mode, but does not show them. I have to disable 
> it and enable it
> again and then can I see the tabbar.

see what happens when you ditch the eval-after-load completely. i
suspect that installing tabbar-mode through elpa already activates it,
so what you're doing with the eval-after-load call is deactivating it
again...

> I get a similar error for
>
> (eval-after-load "color-theme"
>   'progn(

this is wrong. it should be:

    '(progn

>          (color-theme-initialize)
>          (color-theme-hober)
>          )
>   )

note: the common way to write lisp is to not put the closing parens on a
separate line. just write:

(eval-after-load "color-theme"
  '(progn
     (color-theme-initialize)
     (color-theme-hober)))

looks much cleaner. (the parens are just there for the computer. as a
human, you should ignore them and look at the indentation.)
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function (color-theme-initialize))
>   ((color-theme-initialize) (color-theme-hober))

this is telling you that (color-theme-initialize) cannot be a function
(nor name one). which is correct, because it's a list. a list can only
be a function if its first element is the symbol `lambda'.

the reason why emacs thinks (color-theme-initialize) is a function is
because you've misplaced the paren with progn.

use the code snippet i gave above, it should (hopefully ;-) work.

HTH


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