spacemacs/private/local/README.md

Private directory for local packages

The content of this directory is ignored by Git.

This is the place to store the local packages that you define in the dotspacemacs-additional-packages variable of your dotfile.

Additional packages can be added using the same recipe as for adding packages to layers i.e.:

• For a local package:

  • Load the file explicitly, using the full path to the file, by placing a (load "~/.emacs.d/private/local/package-name") within the body of the dotspacemacs/user-config function of your dotspacemacs file.
  • Alternatively create a directory with the name of the package in the .emacs.d/private/local directory, and add that directory to the load-path variable by adding (some-package :location local) to the list dotspacemacs-additional-packages within the dotspacemacs/layers function of your dotspacemacs file. After placing your package file into this package-directory the file can be loaded, without requiring the full path, by placing a (require 'package-name) within the body of the dotspacemacs/user-config function of your dotspacemacs file.

• If the package is on (M)ELPA simply add the package name to the list dotspacemacs-additional-packages in your dotspacemacs file

• For a package hosted on github the recipe for github packages can be used i.e. add

(some-package :location (recipe
                         :fetcher github
                         :repo "some/repo"))

to the list dotspacemacs-additional-packages in your dotspacemacs file.