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. 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. -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
