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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Config best practices?
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:01:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mpezepx.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86a8z6y9ec.fsf@example.com

Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
writes:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> On 2015-03-21, at 04:05, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, but why do you do that? What are you trying to accomplish? What
>>> does "keeping the configuration in order" mean?
>>
>> I have that org-one-to-many utility, which splits the Org file at
>> (selected) headings, effectively making them separate Org files.  If
>> I e.g. use LaTeX macro definitions, or custom (per-file) TODO keywords
>> in that file, it makes sense to put the same configs in the files split
>> from the main one.  Putting them into their own headline may be the
>> simplest way to tell org-one-to-many what to copy to each generated
>> file.
>>
>> I don't like putting them at the top; while #+TITLE or #+AUTHOR do make
>> sense there (and don't in the split files!), cluttering the first few
>> screens with e.g. LaTeX definitions is not my favorite way of using
>> Org-mode.
>
> As I wrote, you could choose for an ARCHIVE'd heading (one that's
> always collapsed) or for a SETUPFILE?
>

The SETUPFILE sounds to me like the best solution, assuming that the
different files are sharing configuration.

-- 
Nick

      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-21 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-20  0:14 Config best practices? Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-20  9:07 ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-03-20 23:18   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-20 23:27     ` Rasmus
2015-03-21  3:05     ` Nick Dokos
2015-03-21  8:09       ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-03-21 12:56         ` Nick Dokos
2015-03-21  9:15       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-21  9:42         ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-03-21 13:01           ` Nick Dokos [this message]

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