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I run all my Emacs packages manually without any package manager. My setup is a simple init.el file with this kind of direction:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/packages/ace-window")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/packages/dired+")
(require 'ace-window)
(require 'dired+)
Is there a way simply to specify the ~/.emacs.d/packages/ directory without having to spell out all the folders in separate lines as above. I.e. simply point Emacs to treat all subfolders as packages.
(defvar my-packages-dir "~/.emacs.d/packages")
(let ((default-directory my-packages-dir))
(normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path))
(defvar my-packages-directory "~/.emacs.d/packages")
(dolist (package-directory
(directory-files my-packages-directory :absolute))
(add-to-list 'load-path package-directory))
Warning (initialization): Your ‘load-path’ seems to contain your ‘.emacs.d’ directory: c:/red/.emacs.d/packages/.. This is likely to cause problems... Consider using a subdirectory instead, e.g.: c:/red/.emacs.d/lisp. The error persisted after I made a lips directory in .emacs.d, but went once I made a lisp directory off my home folder.