1.2 Installation

There are two ways to install standoff mode:

• By using the Emacs package system (recommended).
• By using standoff mode’s git repository.

Using the Emacs package system

standoff mode is on the Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive (MELPA), what makes it very easy to install.

If MELPA is not already in your list of package repositories add the following line to your init file:

(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))

On windows you may run into problems using the https location. Use http instead.

Then make the packages from melpa available using package-refresh-contents and call package-install:

M-x package-refresh-contents RET
M-x package-install RET standoff-mode RET

Alternatively you can use the menu for installing packages:

M-x package-list-packages RET

Then search standoff-mode, use i to mark it for installation and x to install the marked package(s).

Using standoff mode’s git repository

You can clone the git repository like this:

cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/lueck/standoff-mode
make package

This makes a package file standoff-mode-<VERSION>.tar. Now, install it:

M-x package-install-file RET ~/src/standoff-mode/standoff-mode-<VERSION>.tar

You could also add ~src/standoff-mode/ to Emacs’ load-path. Then it’s not required to use package at all.