Hello!
As an experiment, I moved my .emacs and all my personal packages into an
org-file and now load it with 'org-babel-load-file. This works fine
enough: the source code blocks can handle several thousand lines of code
(for later splitting) without any quirks, tough editing in the org-file
sure gets slow.
A couple of observations:
1. `org-babel-load-file' doesn't seem to be in the org docu. The
instructions on worg are obsolete (mentions `org-install') and
needlessly complicated. Just putting
(package-initialize) ;; only if you use the newest org
(require 'ob-tangle)
(org-babel-load-file "/path/to/your/org-init-file.org")
into your .emacs (no need for .emacs.d/init.el) seems to suffice.
2. Unless you are only setting variables, you want your functions to be
byte-compiled. I modified `org-babel-load-file' to do that. Any reason
not to?
3. While it saves some keystrokes not to have to write "tangle: yes", it
seems to be at odds with `org-tangle-file (though it does respect
"tangle: no").
4. When I babel-load "my-package.org", all emacs sees is the tangled
"my-package.el", which of course is right. The problem, however, is that
I often search for one of my functions, change it … and loose the
changes the next time I start emacs (I already got zapped a couple of
times). Integrating org-tangle with the emacs documentation would be
tough I guess. But how about setting a read-only file locale variable to
block the most stupid mistakes?
Overall, very nice. Thank you.
--
Florian Beck
