Have you migrated your init files into .org file(s)? What's your setup?
Below is my first setup for fellow newbs, or for the interested
developer. And please let me know if I'm missing some logic or
conventions/practices.
In the short history of my Emacs init file evolution (~ oct '13), I had
considered packages like dot-emacs.org, but for some reason had not
succeeded (I thought it had demanded Emacs 24.3.50+, but I don't see
that in the description now).
So when I recently felt motivated to try such a .org Literation of my
init files (my project of making agenda custom commands and capture
templates was starting to topple), I tried let's say a more basic approach.
I worked mostly from the tutorial in
Babel: Introduction / Emacs Initialization with Babel
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#emacs-initialization
It took just a little wrestling with a clean tty2 Emacs, but here is my
interpretation of a "minimal" setup for initializing via org babel
tangling:
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/
;;;; make sure org has been installed in an "emacs -q"
(require 'package)
(package-initialize)
(require 'org)
;; declare org indentation before we might manually open org to tangle
(setq org-startup-indented t)
(setq org-hide-block-startup t)
;; declare source indentation before we might manually open org to tangle
(setq org-src-fontify-natively t)
(setq org-edit-src-content-indentation 0)
;; default I/O in windows is undecided-dos/unix for de/encoding respectively
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
;; load org initialization files
(require 'ob-tangle)
(org-babel-load-file "/e/emacs-config/dot-emacs-test.org")
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Some of those aren't necessary but for aesthetics before manually
stepping through lines for testing the initialization (starting emacs -q
tangling and/or executing one-by-one).
The character encoding is there as I have some utf-8 Fahrenheit symbols
in my (.org) init file.
Initially (while troubleshooting) I had some dired customizations
(vertical omit, horizontal hide), font family and color-theming in this
code block, as I have a hard time looking at plain Emacs for too long.
You may also want to toggle some tangles in your (first ever) init file,
this can be done per file, subtree or source block, via
#+PROPERTY: header-args :tangle yes
or
:PROPERTIES:
:header-args: :tangle no
:END:
or
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle no
And the latter take precendence.
TWIMC, HTH
Brady
