How to add extend the functionality

[vsr625]

I know it's a bit silly to post the question here, but I would like to know how to extend the feature of the existing modules, I understood the use of map! macro, it saves a lot of headaches, its brilliant.
And also the package! is also useful for installing any packages and keeping everything neat.

But I've not been able to figure out how to load the package using (def-package!) macro. I know it's essentially an alias to the use-package, but then too using similar example to what is shown in the use-package repo. I can't get it to work.

I've been trying to add ace-jump-mode to the evil feature module, I've added package! ace-jump-mode in the packages.el of evil, and in the config.el I've added (def-package! ace-jump-mode), then too ace-jump package isn't getting loaded. Is there anything else that I should be doing here? I didn't map any keybindings for this as of now, just trying to figure of using M-x, but can't find ace-jump-mode command itself. Your map! macro rocks. Thanks

[gilbertw1]

You probably want to autoload the functions your planning on invoking using the :commands key. Something like this:

(def-package! ace-jump-mode
  :commands (ace-jump-mode))

In the above block, the function ace-jump-mode will be autoloaded and will be available. Since the package is lazy loaded it won't be loaded until a command listed in the :commands list is invoked.

Normally, you'll want to include any commands you'd like to call in this :commands list, so they'll be autoloaded and available. Your other option is to use :demand t, which will force the package to be loaded automatically at startup, however this will slow your startup time down a bit.

Hope that helps!

[gilbertw1]

I'll also throw out there, that avy (which is very similar) is already included in this emacs config. You may want to try it out:

https://github.com/abo-abo/avy

[vsr625]

Thanks for replying, both :command and :demand t worked fine and solved my issue, I sure will do look into avy as well.
One last question though, in org mode, is there any way to change the checklist status to partially completed using a keybinding?

[hlissner]

One last question though, in org mode, is there any way to change the checklist status to partially completed using a keybinding?

@vsr625 I just pushed one I've kept to myself for a while (I have a lot of org-mode changes in the pipeline).

+org/dwim-at-point (currently bound to RET in normal mode) now cycles between the three states ([ ] => [-] => [X]).

Also, to expand on what gilbertw1 was saying: use-package-always-defer is set to t in my config (the default is nil in use-package), so packages won't be automatically loaded (without :demand t or being autoloaded, as mentioned above).