minimum emacs setup for Emacs plugin testing

.emacs

;; A minimum .emacs to test Emacs plugins
(show-paren-mode 1)
(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))

;; test elisps download from internet here
(setq test-elisp-dir "~/test-elisp/")
(unless (file-exists-p (expand-file-name test-elisp-dir))
    (make-directory (expand-file-name test-elisp-dir)))

(setq load-path
      (append
        (loop for dir in (directory-files test-elisp-dir)
              unless (string-match "^\\." dir)
              collecting (expand-file-name (concat test-elisp-dir dir)))
        load-path))

;; package repositories
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)

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