I followed install instructions here http://tkf.github.com/emacs-ipython-notebook/. Used el-get to install ein and that seemed to work fine.

I put your minimal setup:

(require 'ein)

into an init file described by el-get docs:

~/.emacs.d/el-get-init-files/init-ein.el

and that seems to have been effective as I do get auto-completion in the

M-x

command buffer for

ein:

commands like

ein:notebooklist-open

, but when I execute that command as in your docs, I get the following error message in the Messages buffer:

#eval-buffer: Cannot open load file: request

Also tried (just to be sure) putting your minimal setup into my init file where I know other instructions are being executed and I don't have to rely on correct behavior by el-get, but still get same ein behavior.

I tried to turn on logging with

M-: (ein:log-set-level 'debug) RET

and although I got no error message after doing so, I also got no log buffer

_ein:log-all

in my buffer list, so unfortunately cannot post anything more informative than what I'm seeing in the emacs Messages buffer which is just a one-line message in title/subject of issue.

I got the same error when I attempted to do

M-x ein:dev-bug-report-template

I used to use emacs all the time every day, but it's been awhile for me now, and so I may have forgotten some fundamentals and I may be doing something silly to cause the problem myself.