Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> If you are using the starter-kit, then Org-mode is required as the first
>>> step of your Emacs initialization. This is necessary so that the
>>> `org-babel-load-file' function can be used to load your customization
>>> from .org files. In this case the best (only) way to ensure that the
>>> most recent version of Org-mode is loaded is to add the path to your
>>> Org-mode install to the emacs command line with something like the
>>> following.
>>>
>>> emacs --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \"~/src/org-mode/lisp/\")"
>>>
>>> This may be simplified with a command line alias like the following.
>>>
>>> alias emacs="emacs --eval '(add-to-list (quote load-path)
>>> \"~/src/org-mode/lisp/\")'"
>>>
>>> When I find time I plan to add this to the starter-kit documentation.
>>
>> That would be a good idea, I remember having exactly that problem in the
>> past using the starter-kit, but I worked it out somehow.
>>
>> At the moment I seem to have a more basic problem, since starting with
>> emacs -Q the system knows about the org directory:
>>
>> M-x locate-library RET org.el:
>> Library is file /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/org/lisp/org.el
>>
>
> Org-mode is built into Emacs, so there will be an Org-mode in the load
> path from the moment Emacs starts. This is not a problem in and of
> itself.
I do have my bad experiences with mixed installations, so the first
thing I do when I install or update Emacs is to trash the Org-mode that
comes with Emacs and replace it with a symlink to the git version.
> The important thing is to put the path to the Org-mode you want to use
> on the front of the load path (either with the command line flag above
> or with an `add-to-list' in your config) *before* the first time
> Org-mode is required with a (require 'org). That should be sufficient.
Now I started Emacs with:
$ emacs --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \"~/gitclone/org-mode/lisp/\")"
and the load-path looks like this:
load-path
("~/gitclone/org-mode/lisp/" "/home/tj/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.86/"...)
but nevertheless, opening an .org file gives me:
File mode specification error:
(void-function org-define-obsolete-function-alias)
So this seems to be a different problem, maybe related to this recent
message from Paul Sexton:
From: Paul Sexton <psexton...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fixes for org-capture-templates-contexts
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:21:20 +0000 (UTC) (13 hours, 8 minutes ago)
(...)
Also, very important. I updated to master in order to make the patch and found
the current orgmode does not compile or even load. This is because
ob-eval.el uses 'declare-function' which is undefined (it is defined in
org-macs.el but ob-eval.el does not require that file).
(...)
--
cheers,
Thorsten
