02 May 2026

Follow-up on switching to eglot

Jan G sent me a two-part comment.

Part one

I was under the impression that when using elpaca you needed to disable use-package, and that when using elpaca-use-package, you were redefining the macro. I’m not 100% sure about this, but the documentation has an example of use-package and how it actually expands to an elpaca command.

I wouldn't know. All I can say is that it would be nice if package managers that hook into, or completely redefines use-package, would document if they deviate from the behaviour of "vanilla use-package" in some way.

Part two

Given that, use-package’s documentation is always going to be a little off, since elpaca is doing everything async. The only way I’ve found to reliably manage some dependencies is to use the elpaca-after-init hook, so they don’t even try to run until elpaca is finished loading everything.

I'd say it sometimes seems like the documentation for use-package is a little off for use-package itself 🙂

The README for Elpaca says that

Add configuration which relies on after-init-hook, emacs-startup-hook, etc to elpaca-after-init-hook so it runs after Elpaca has activated all queued packages.

but that seems like a very big hammer and as I understand it I'd have to move the whole :init block for python-mode into the hook in that case. Playing around with the various blocks for use-package isn't too time consuming and I think it's a good first thing to try.

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