[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs does not like el-get

Ned Ludd edwardludd at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 15:56:12 EDT 2011


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:09 PM, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Aquamacs does not like Dimitri Fontaine's "el-get" package
>> (https://github.com/dimitri/el-get).  Particularly the recipe format.
>
>> Does Aquamacs try to load all .el files recursively?  I see the
>> "el-get/recipes" is on my load-path.
>
> No, it does not load them automatically, but all subdirectories are added to the load path.
>
>> Is there any way to stop this from happening?
>
>
> Yes, easy.  From the manual:
>
>
>> Disabling a plug-in or a load-path
>> If an (emtpy) file named .ignore exists in a specific path, Aquamacs does not load any site-start and site-prestartsource files in this or descending paths and does not add that or subsequent paths to the load-path.
>
> Hope that helps.
>

Thanks David, good to know.  In this case it only seems to work from
the parent directory of el-get.  If ".ignore" is in the "el-get"
directory, I still have the error, and "el-get" and its subdirectories
are added to the load path.

Tim



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