<div dir="ltr">Hi Arjay,<div>It seems that tilde (~) characters are lost/missing in the Apple Help version of the manual. In the PDF manual (in the .dmg disk image you downloaded containing Aquamacs.app), you will see that some of the load-path directories begin with</div><div>~/Library (where ~ indicates your home directory, i.e. /Users/arjay/Library) instead of just</div><div>/Library</div><div><br></div><div>Once you have launched Aquamacs.app, I think</div><div><div>~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/</div><div>~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/</div></div><div>will be automatically created for you. Place your .el files and/or site-start.el in one of those. You can safely create these (or other Aquamacs Load Path folders) yourself if they don't already exist.</div><div><br></div><div>Aquamacs's equivalent of a .emacs file (personal configuration) is</div><div>~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el<br></div><div>so if you like you can put your configuration settings in there instead of in a separate myconfig.el</div><div><br></div><div><b>Don't</b> put any config settings inside the Aquamacs.app bundle, or they will be wiped out when you upgrade to a new version of Aquamacs down the road.</div><div><br></div><div>Nathaniel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Arjay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjlilko@randing.ca" target="_blank">rjlilko@randing.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The answer I expected-read the manual. OK.<br>
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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 ).<br>
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/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/<br>
/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/<br>
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I installed Aquamacs in the normal Mac fashion. I see it in my Launchpad and taskbar.<br>
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The directories listed above do not include a "Aquamacs Emacs". Hmm.<br>
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I find Aquamacs in Applications as Aquamacs.app. Googling how to look inside a .app, I find site-start.el at this path:<br>
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/Applications/Aquamacs.app/<wbr>Contents/Resources/lisp/<wbr>aquamacs/site-start.el<br>
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So is this the directory I should place my custom config file in?<br>
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Why do I not have the same load paths as the manual? Did I not load it correctly?<br>
Do I have to create them?<br>
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Thanks, arjay<br>
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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<br>
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Aquamacs has a manual accessed from the menu Help > Aquamacs Manual.<br>
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It will tell you how to customize it.<br>
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On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:46 AM Arjay <<a href="mailto:rjlilko@randing.ca">rjlilko@randing.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I am just switching over from PC to Mac emacs and I am trying to add a<br>
> customization file ?myconfig.el? to be called by Aquamacs. However I am a<br>
> bit lost in the Mac file system and don?t know where I can put this or in<br>
> which file I can put the ?(load-file..? call. I have searched for<br>
> site-start.el but it does not come up (this is a new installation). Can<br>
> someone give me a tip as to what directories I should look in and whether I<br>
> am supposes to create site-start.el and where it should go? I checked the<br>
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