elget
is a command line interface for El-Get. You can
install/update packages by running commands as you do M-x el-get-install
or M-x el-get-update
on Emacs. It also supports
package version locks provided by el-get-lock
.
cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/tarao/el-get-cli .el-get-cli
export PATH="$HOME/.el-get-cli/bin:$PATH"
To use the following commands, you need El-Get to be installed and initialized in your Emacs init file.
elget OPTIONS install [PACKAGES ...]
Install specified packages. Without packages, it runs an ordinary install sequence according to instructions in your Emacs init file.
elget OPTIONS update [PACKAGES ...]
Update specified packages to the latest versions of their remote source. Without packages, it updates all the installed packages.
To use the following commands, you need el-get-lock
to be installed and initialized in your Emacs init file.
elget OPTIONS lock [PACKAGES ...]
Lock specified packages. Without packages, it resets the lock status to lock the all installed packages.
elget OPTIONS unlock [PACKAGES ...]
Unlock specified packages. Without packages, it resets the lock status to unlock the all installed packages.
elget OPTIONS checkout [PACKAGES ...]
Checkout the locked versions of specified packages. Without packages, it checks out all the installed packages.
-f <file>
Specify an Emacs init file.
EMACS
Specify the location of Emacs binary.
By -f
option, you can specify an Emacs init file to initialize
El-Get. This helps you to try elget
with a local Emacs init
file other than the default ~/.emacs.d/init.el
but the El-Get
package installation directory is still ~/.emacs.d/el-get
by
default.
To get the El-Get installation directory isolated from the default one, put the following code in your (local) Emacs init file (before the initialization of El-Get).
(when load-file-name
(setq user-emacs-directory (file-name-directory load-file-name)))
This changes the user Emacs directory (~/.emacs.d
by default) to the
directory where the (local) Emacs init file is located so that
El-Get will chooose the package directory under this directory.
For example, if you (local) Emacs init file is
~/el-get-test/init.el
, then the El-Get package directory will be
~/el-get-test/el-get
.
Actually, setting user-emacs-directory
at the beginning of the user
Emacs file will maintain all the well-written Emacs Lisp packages that
use the user Emacs directory. So you should always do this to make
you init file portable.
To run your Emacs with the local Emacs init file, run the following command.
emacs -q -l YOUR-LOCAL-INIT-FILE.el