Hi, if I have a project based on org which require some special settings (not only in lisp) I use a babel block and execute it after loading the file. I did this e.g. to set my Java environment correct
If I remember correctly, we discussed once an autoload feature for org-babel, but security concerns overruled that idea. If some autoload feature should ever land in the repro, one would have to make sure that the code can't be manipulated e.g. by an external editor. This would come close to creating org-babel-viruses ;) One possible idea which jumps just to my mind, how about a combination of a babel blocks and org-encrypt? Encrypted babel blocks with a certain tag could be considered save for execution immediately after the user authentication during loading a certain buffer. I guess most of the functionality (tag, encryption, block-execution) is there already, it just would need some glue to put it together and a hook into opening of org-mode files Hmmm..... I think I put Eric CC :) Other then this I have a .init.el which simply loads many other lisp files, one of them is init_org.el If you frighten that emacs start-up might be to much delayed you might want to check the daemon / emcasclient feature of emacs. All the best Torsten On 13 March 2013 23:38, Charles Berry <ccbe...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > Lawrence Bottorff <galaxybeinglambda <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > I see on the org-hacks.html page lots of interesting elisp code. > > > If I wanted to use some of this (lots of this) it seems wrong to shove it > > all in my .emacs file. My first guess would be to put what I want into > > separate .el files, go to my .org file and do a load-file on the .el file > > of hacks. But I really loath doing something that's not "best practice." > > What's the best practice for enabling org-mode elisp hacks? And what if > > I want to use just one hack for one project? With usual elisp-ing you can > > simply evaluate region. Is that possible in conjunction with a .org > file? > > > Yes. But you might like to look at > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#sec-8-2-1 > > which discusses "Emacs Initialization with Babel" for a comprehensive > approach. > > For a single project, you can but a src_block in the master that loads > whatever is needed or use a file local variables block to load up the > requisites. > See: Specifying File Variables in the emacs manual. > > > >
