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I'm using Emacs on Windows 10. I want to override key bindings, so after reading How to override major mode bindings, I installed use-package with the built-in package manager (via M-x package-install RET use-package RET). The package came from the package archive at http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/.

When I write (require 'bind-key) in my .emacs I get the error:

File is missing: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, bind-key

Which makes I can't use the commands bind-key*, bind-keys* etc. What should I do to be able to use bind-key?

user19551
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  • How did you install use-package? If you used the built-in package manager package.el, e.g. via M-x package-install RET use-package RET, then it should have installed bind-key along with use-package. If you installed use-package manually, then you need to install bind-key separately as well. – Basil Jun 14 '18 at 21:15
  • @Basil I used the built-in package manager. I added that to my question. The value of package-activated-list is (auctex auto-complete popup use-package bind-key) – user19551 Jun 14 '18 at 21:24
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    Do you call (package-initialize) in your user-init-file before trying to (require 'bind-key)? Also, why the milkbox URL? Why not "http(s)://melpa.org/packages/"? – Basil Jun 14 '18 at 21:28
  • @Basil Thank you! With (package-initialize) at the first line of my init file, everything works! The URL is one I found at http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_package_system.html when I was looking for how to install MELPA packages. – user19551 Jun 14 '18 at 21:33
  • Ah, it looks a bit outdated; I recommend sticking with melpa.org. – Basil Jun 14 '18 at 21:36

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