Is there an Emacs alternative to Pathogen from Vim?

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I am trying to move from Vim to Emacs and have had some "translation" issues. For example the extension or add on managing. So I was wondering if there was something like pathogen for Emacs although I am very suspicious of the fact that perhaps there isn't one because the way Emacs handles it's extensions it is not needed. I think this has been my only quirk with the editor so far. Other than that I can notice the different approaches of both tools and realize that they excel in what they are supposed to do. Thanks!

EDIT: Right. What pathogen does is manage Vim extensions by loading them as "Bundles" instead of having each file on a different folder inside your .vim folder. You have it centralized and autoloaded by pathogen itself.

For those in the audience who are familiar with Emacs but not with Vim, what does Pathogen do? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Jun 25 '11 at 15:03
It's plugin which helps you organize and manage other plugins — Matteo Riva, Jun 25 '11 at 15:15
See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454259/what-do-you-expect-from-a-package-manager-for-emacs — Luke Girvin, Jun 25 '11 at 15:18

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '11 at 15:12

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ELPA, the Emacs Lisp Package Archive:

http://tromey.com/elpa/

answered Jun 25 '11 at 15:12

Luke Girvin

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And note that http://marmalade-repo.org/ is now the primary non-GNU source of packages for use with ELPA. – sanityinc Jun 25 '11 at 19:15
elpa is a package archive. This is not in any way shape or form comparable to pathogen, which is as the OP says a vim plugin that helps you manage your vim plugins as bundles. – James Polley Sep 24 '14 at 03:37

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '11 at 15:59

From emacswiki,

package.el (from ELPA) will be added to vanilla GnuEmacs, version 24. As of 2010-06-18, package.el has been merged with the development version of Emacs, and an ELPA repository has been set up at http://elpa.gnu.org/.

el-get is another option.

Is there an Emacs alternative to Pathogen from Vim?

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