# el-get and dim-switch-window status update

DevFeed: [el-get and dim-switch-window status update](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/el-get-and-dim-switch-window-status-update-34380.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2010/08/el-get-and-dim-switch-window-status-update/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2010-08-09T13:35:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [Emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/emacs.md>), [Lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lisp.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [version](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/version.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [apt](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apt.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>)

Tags: [apt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apt.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emacs.md>), [emacs-lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emacs-lisp.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>), [utilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/utilities.md>), [version](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/version.md>)

## AI overview

This status update reports bug fixes and new releases for the Emacs Lisp utilities el-get and dim-switch-window. It describes asynchronous support changes in el-get, including apt-get, fink, elpa, and HTTP-related fixes, and a display adjustment in dim-switch-window for small windows.

## Source excerpt

Thanks to you readers of Planet Emacsen taking the time to try those pieces of emacs lisp found in my blog, and also the time to comment on them, some bugs have been fixed, and new releases appeared. el-get had some typo kind of bug in its support for apt-get and fink packages, and I managed to break the elpa and http support when going all asynchronous by forgetting to update the call convention I'm using. Fixing that, I also switched to using url-retrieve so that the http support also is asynchronous. That makes the version 0.5, available on emacswiki el-get page.