1.1 Installation

rec-mode is implemented in a self-contained elisp file called rec-mode.el. It can be obtained in several ways:

• - From GNU ELPA using the built-in Emacs package manager.
• - As part of the source tree cloned from the development git repository of rec-mode. rec-mode.el can be found in the root directory of the recutils sources tree.
• - As a single file downloaded form some other location in internet.
• - It may be already installed as part of a binary package in some distribution.

In the second case you need to tell Emacs where to locate the rec-mode.el file and to load it. Add the following to your .emacs file.

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/recmode/")
(require 'rec-mode)

If rec-mode.el was installed as part of a binary package in a distribution then you usually don’t have to touch the load-path variable. Depending on the specific case you may have to require the package.