Re: How to make Emacs use ELPA version of `compat'?

On 5/11/26 11:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> What is your evidence that Emacs is loading the built-in
> (older) version of ‘compat’ instead of the newer version
> that you installed with the package manager?

Pretty simple---I cannot open minibuffer (plus anything that Vertico can 
complete, really) due to `set-local' function being undefined. As far as 
I remember, this function will be introduced in Emacs 31 and older 
versions of Emacs can acccess this function via `compat'.

> Try:
> 
>     1. emacs -Q
>     2. C-h v load-path RET
>        Confirm that ‘load-path’ contains only the Emacs
>        predefined directories.
>     3. M-x package-initialize RET
>     4. C-h v load-path RET
>        Confirm that ‘load-path’ contains the directories of
>        your installed packages before the predefined
>        directories
>     5. Perform whatever test it is that you are using for
>        ‘compat’.  If Emacs is still failing to find the newer
>        version of ‘compat’, then report your test(s) and
>        results to this mailing list.

Hmm, odd. When I manually run the steps above, Emacs seems to load the 
correct version. But when I load my init.el (which uses `use-package' to 
configure packages, FYI), Emacs suddenly falls back to the built-in version.

Now, I suspect the load order is being messed up. Does `use-package' 
re-arrange the load order based on package dependency?

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