By the way, all of these are called from .emacs.el . Another point, I
have elected not to byte-compile the loaded elisp files in
~/WorkBench/Emacs , so they will load ok on multiple versions of emacs.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My setup, while far from ideal, is working pretty well. It does require a
> modicum of manual oversight.
>
> I have a directory, ~/WorkBench , in which all of my going work is
> located. Dozens of subdirectories including every project I have worked on
> or am working on, with PDFs, etc. In ~/WorkBench/org are some setup files:
>
> org-init-settings.el
> org-local-init-settings.el (included in .gitignore)
> emacs-common-settings.el (all machines)
> emacs-local-settings.el (local machine --- included in
> .gitignore)
> emacs-frame-setup-magic.el
>
> The directory ~/WorkBench and all subdirectories are under git
> supervision, so long as it stays smaller than about 3 GB. In that case, it
> can be carried around on an 8GB flash drive, and cloned on other machines,
> though I've had to delete and reclone, once the repo got too large. It
> could be cloned to Dropbox if I wanted to spend money on it, and trusted
> it.
>
> I really like this setup, the use of git. However, I am using git at the
> most trivial level, and perhaps there are more direct ways to do this.
>
> The next step is to encrypt the whole thing. I have encrypted a couple of
> sensitive files using bcrypt.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> wrote:
>
>> * Yu <yu_...@gmx.at> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I was wondering if there is a possibility to make org-files fully
>> > portable in behaviour (especially when exporting) between different
>> > emacs installations.
>>
>> The Tread has turned into BIND and local variables only. I wanted
>> to add my current solution which uses a different approach.
>>
>> My ~/.emacs is a symlink to ~/hosts/${HOSTNAME}/emacs where
>> host-specific or platform-specific configuration is stored. The
>> directory ~/hosts is synchronized[1] on all of my machines and
>> accounts.
>>
>> In ~/hosts/all/emacs.d/* I have got myorgmode.el, mycommon.el,
>> myauctex.el, myedit-server.el, mypython.el, and so forth.
>>
>> As you can imagine, the ~/hosts/${HOSTNAME}/emacs contains a load
>> command for mycommon.el which refers to all the other el files.
>>
>> Therefore mycommon.el and all the others are identical on all my
>> machines whereas ~/.emacs contains (only few) platform-specific
>> things.
>>
>> Maybe this is a possible attempt to overcome your problems when
>> using Org-mode on different machines.
>>
>> 1. I am currently using Unison File Synchronizer[2] in combination
>> with crond/LaunchCtl but git or something like dvcs-autosync[3]
>> or even Dropbox will work too.
>> 2. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
>> 3. http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/dvcs-autosync
>> --
>> Karl Voit
>>
>>
>>
>
