John Wiegley on organizing your Emacs configuration with use-package

Posted on April 1st, 2015 by Sacha Chua
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In this video, John Wiegley talks about use-package, how he uses it to get ridiculously fast Emacs bootup times, and how you can use it too. =)

For more info about use-package, see https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package.

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