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# Try
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Try is a package that allows you to try out Emacs packages without installing
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them. If you pass a URL to a plain text `.el`-file it evaluates the content,
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without storing the file.
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Packages from ELPA will be stored in a temporary directory by default.
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## Installation
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You can install Try using elpa.
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It's available on [marmalade](http://marmalade-repo.org/) and
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[melpa](http://melpa.milkbox.net/):
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<kbd> M-x package-install try </kbd>
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## Usage
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To try out a package you can run
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<kbd> M-x try RET some-package </kbd>
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Or if you want to try out some package from the web, just paste in the URL
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<kbd> M-x try RET https://url.com/to/some/file.el </kbd>
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### Example
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If you for instance have [melpa](http://melpa.org/) in your `package-archives`
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you can try [multiple cursors](https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el)
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by running:
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<kbd> M-x try RET multiple-cursors RET </kbd>
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If you on the other hand want to test out a single `.el`-file from somewhere
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you can simply insert an URL. Trying out
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[Leuven-theme](https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme) can be done by
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running:
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<kbd> M-x try RET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme/master/leuven-theme.el RET </kbd>
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Unfortunately, you won't be able to try Try with <kbd> M-x try RET try </kbd>.
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