Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-17 Thread Bastien
Hi all, Achim Gratz writes: > David Masterson writes: >> What does this mean? > > What I said: don't load any part of Org until you have installed the > ELPA package. This usually means not to run any startup scripts. I've know made this clearer in the manual. Nicolas Richard writes: >> The

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-16 Thread Achim Gratz
David Masterson writes: > Hmmm. I would think that this process might work as well: > > 1. Start with "emacs -Q" This fails with some older versions of Emacs since these had a bug where parts of the init scripts were processed even when you said explicitly that they shouldn't be read. > 2. Bring

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-15 Thread David Masterson
t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: > David Masterson writes: > >> Achim Gratz writes: >> >>> David Masterson writes: Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like something doesn't mat

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-14 Thread adam
Thank you for this discussion, John, David and others. When installing a new distro, it sure seems wise to not include the Org options at Emacs install time (Ubuntu installers I use). And to set up the Org location and Git system soonest.

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-14 Thread Achim Gratz
David Masterson writes: > What does this mean? What I said: don't load any part of Org until you have installed the ELPA package. This usually means not to run any startup scripts. > Does this mean you expect people to build Emacs > from scratch just to ensure they do not have Org built-in? I d

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-13 Thread Thomas S. Dye
David Masterson writes: > Achim Gratz writes: > >> David Masterson writes: >>> Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in >>> understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like >>> something doesn't match up -- particularly with the Org package: >>> >

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-13 Thread David Masterson
Achim Gratz writes: > David Masterson writes: >> Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in >> understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like >> something doesn't match up -- particularly with the Org package: >> >> 1. Most modern Emacs have Org pr

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-13 Thread Nicolas Richard
Achim Gratz writes: >> 1. Most modern Emacs have Org pre-installed. >> 2. Unfortunately, that Org is not up-to-date (24.3 has 7.9.3f). >> 3. Therefore, installing the latest Org package seems natural. > > The pitfall here is that you _must_ do the first install of the Org > package from an Emacs t

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-13 Thread Achim Gratz
David Masterson writes: > I still need more understanding of the Emacs packaging system. That's a question you better ask of the Emacs developers, after you've read the documentation. > Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in > understanding how its supposed to work. Wh

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-12 Thread Grant Rettke
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:32 PM, David Masterson wrote: > Do you see where I'm heading? Yes. As stated above, Worg has nice instructions. My experience has been that once you start using org you end up wanting different lots of different packages, and some that are very up to date. I ended up usi

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-12 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:10 PM, David Masterson wrote: > John Hendy writes: > >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:32 PM, David Masterson wrote: > >>> I still need more understanding of the Emacs packaging system. >>> Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in >>> understanding ho

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-11 Thread Jacek Generowicz
David Masterson writes: > [ELPA's] minus is that it moves the package setup *somewhat* out of > .emacs and into the after-init area. This point is recognized and addressed by el-get: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-11 Thread David Masterson
John Hendy writes: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:32 PM, David Masterson wrote: >> I still need more understanding of the Emacs packaging system. >> Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in >> understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like >> someth

Re: [O] The Org Package

2014-04-11 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:32 PM, David Masterson wrote: > I still need more understanding of the Emacs packaging system. > Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in > understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like > something doesn't match up -- pa

[O] The Org Package

2014-04-11 Thread David Masterson
I still need more understanding of the Emacs packaging system. Something doesn't seem right and I'm sure I'm missing some key in understanding how its supposed to work. What I see right now seems like something doesn't match up -- particularly with the Org package: 1. Most modern Emacs have Org p