Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > At Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:43:17 -1000, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > >> Have you seen the emacs starter kits? I've found Eric Schulte's >> starter kit to be very handy. After struggling with emacs >> configuration for decades I now have at least the illusion of >> control. The configuration is held in a series of org files that hold >> emacs-lisp code blocks, which are tangled to produce the .el file that >> emacs expects. Each of my code chunks resides under its own org-mode >> heading, replete with notes, links, etc. It is kind of like a >> literate .emacs program. > > Argghhh! > > I hate org-mode sometimes [1]: just when I think I'm reaching a stable > system, somebody comes along and makes me realise how much better > (easier to manage/understand) my system would be if I put yet more > under org-mode control! > > Time to go through my .emacs etc files -- if you don't hear from me > for several months, you'll know why! > > eric > > Footnotes: > [1] As always, thanks to Carsten et al. for such a wonderful and > useful tool which has, without exaggeration, transformed by life in > both dramatic and subtle ways.
Amazing isn't it? I just blew a day by moving to org-babel for my init file and managed to miss the "+" in my "#+end_src" marker ... but now its working its all smiles despite another day configuring rather than doing ;) It's an emacs problem in general. A shame there are no jobs "configuring your editor" .... -- Google Talk : rileyrg...@googlemail.com http://www.google.com/talk ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML email X & vCards / \ _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
