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Long time emacs user here with a .emacs which is highly customized and is updated by me frequently. I recently added (not sure what took me so long) code to automatically install packages which are missing (for instance, if I'm starting emacs on a new system).

Love all lisps, including elisp.

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If you use use-package, you can add ":ensure t" to the configs to accomplish this same thing. If you're not using use-package, you should be :) . Example use:

    (use-package unfill
      :ensure t
      :defer t
      :commands (unfill-region unfill-paragraph unfill-toggle)
      :bind ("M-q" . unfill-toggle))

I'd recommend counting how many of your use-package forms have :ensure t and how many don't. If more have it than not, instead (setq use-package-always-ensure t).

Hey thanks, I didn't know about use-package-always-ensure.

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