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Kungsgeten / hypothesis

Import data from hypothes.is into Emacs
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noob setup problem #6

Closed falematte closed 3 years ago

falematte commented 3 years ago

I tried to modify the .el file like this: (defvar hypothesis-username "example") (defvar hypothesis-token "66354345") (defvar hypothesis-archive (expand-file-name "hypothesis.org" org-directory)

Where of course in place of "example" i put my username... Then I M-x and load the file. Then if I try to launch hypothesis-to-org i get the following error:

user-error: ‘hypothesis-token’ and ‘hypothesis-username’ needs to be set

Am I missing something?

Best!

Kungsgeten commented 3 years ago

Did you modify the hypothesis.el file itself, or did you add these changes to your init.el (or similar) before loading hypothesis? I'm not 100% sure, but if you tried the latter I'd suggest trying setq instead of defvar.

falematte commented 3 years ago

I saved hypothesis.el, than modifies it in the way that I shown and finally M-x load file. Thanks for your prompt feedback!

Kungsgeten commented 3 years ago

Okay, I don't see why it shouldn't work (even though it isn't the standard way of configuring Emacs). Have you tried loading the package first, and then this:

(setq hypothesis-username "example")
(setq hypothesis-token "66354345")
(setq hypothesis-archive (expand-file-name "hypothesis.org" org-directory)
falematte commented 3 years ago

What would be the standard way? Usually I use use-package and, therefore I don't mess up with my .emacs file :)

Kungsgeten commented 3 years ago

The standard way would be to load the directory in which you downloaded the .el-file into your load-path. Then you would put something like (require 'hypothesis) into your .emacs and then you can configure the package with setq etc as described above.

When using use-package you could do something like this:

(use-package hypothesis
  :load-path "lispcode"
  :config
  (setq hypothesis-username "example")
  (setq hypothesis-token "66354345")
  (setq hypothesis-archive (expand-file-name "hypothesis.org" org-directory)))

Now lispcode should be a directory inside your ~/.emacs.d directory, and that's where you put hypothesis.el. See here: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#extending-the-load-path

falematte commented 3 years ago

Thank you, it is working perfectly!

Kungsgeten commented 3 years ago

You're welcome!