[OS X Emacs] Where do I put a file of my customizations (newbie) (Arjay)-reply

Wed Aug 8 16:29:08 EDT 2018

The answer I expected-read the manual. OK.

Manual states the following paths are the load paths and placing site-start.el in them will provide automatic loading (I could call a custom myconfig.el file from site-start.el ).

/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/
/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/

I  installed Aquamacs in the normal Mac fashion. I see it in my Launchpad and taskbar.

The directories listed above do not include a "Aquamacs Emacs". Hmm.

I find Aquamacs in Applications as Aquamacs.app. Googling how to look inside a .app, I find site-start.el at this path:

/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/aquamacs/site-start.el

So is this the directory I should place my custom config file in?

Why do I not have the same load paths as the manual? Did I not load it correctly?
Do I have to create them?

Thanks, arjay

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    From: Arjay <rjlilko at randing.ca>
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    High Sierra/Mac Air:

    I am just switching over from PC to Mac emacs and I am trying to add a customization file ?myconfig.el? to be called by Aquamacs. However I am a bit lost in the Mac file system and don?t know where I can put this or in which file I can put the ?(load-file..? call. I have searched for site-start.el but it does not come up (this is a new installation). Can someone give me a tip as to what directories I should look in and whether I am supposes to create site-start.el and where it should go? I checked the fax and wiki but did not find my answer. Too simple I think. Thanks

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    Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 10:07:03 -0400
    From: Erik Husby <mhusby at broadinstitute.org>
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    Aquamacs has a manual accessed from the menu Help > Aquamacs Manual.

    It will tell you how to customize it.

    On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:46 AM Arjay <rjlilko at randing.ca> wrote:

    > High Sierra/Mac Air:
    >
    > I am just switching over from PC to Mac emacs and I am trying to add a
    > customization file ?myconfig.el? to be called by Aquamacs. However I am a
    > bit lost in the Mac file system and don?t know where I can put this or in
    > which file I can put the ?(load-file..? call. I have searched for
    > site-start.el but it does not come up (this is a new installation). Can
    > someone give me a tip as to what directories I should look in and whether I
    > am supposes to create site-start.el and where it should go? I checked the
    > fax and wiki but did not find my answer. Too simple I think. Thanks
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