Yes, that’s another el-get related entry. It seems to take a lot of my attention these days. After having setup the git repository so that you can update el-get from within itself (so that it’s self-contained), the next logical step is providing recipes.

By that I mean that el-get-sources entries will certainly look a lot alike between a user and another. Let’s take the el-get entry itself:

(:name el-get
       :type git
       :url "git://github.com/dimitri/el-get.git"
       :features "el-get")

I guess all el-get users will have just the same 4 lines in their el-get-sources. So let’s call that a recipe, and have el-get look for yours into the el-get-recipe-path directories. A recipe is found looking in those directories in order, and must be named package.el. Now, el-get already contains a handful of them, as you can see:

ELISP> (directory-files "~/dev/emacs/el-get/recipes/" nil "[^.]$")
("auctex.el" "bbdb.el" "cssh.el" "el-get.el" "emms.el" "erc-track-score.el"
 "escreen.el" "google-maps.el" "haskell-mode.el" "hl-sexp.el" "magit.el"
 "muse-blog.el" "nxhtml.el" "psvn.el" "rainbow-mode.el" "rcirc-groups.el"
 "vkill.el" "xcscope.el" "xml-rpc-el.el" "yasnippet.el")

Please note that you can have your own local recipes by adding directories to el-get-recipe-path. So now your minimalistic el-get-sources list will look like '(el-get cssh screen), say. And if you want to override a recipe, for instance to use the default one but still have a personal :after function containing your own setup, then simply have your el-get-source entry a partial entry. Missing :type and el-get will merge your local overrides atop the default one.

Finally, the way to share your recipes is by sending me an email with the file, or to do the same over the github interface, I guess I’ll still receive a mail then.