From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Florian Beck <fb@miszellen.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some Experiences with org-babel-load-file
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:52:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ip88mpxa.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 50C66343.2010202@miszellen.de
Florian Beck <fb@miszellen.de> writes:
> Hello!
>
> As an experiment, I moved my .emacs and all my personal packages into
> an org-file and now load it with 'org-babel-load-file. This works fine
> enough: the source code blocks can handle several thousand lines of
> code (for later splitting) without any quirks, tough editing in the
> org-file sure gets slow.
>
> A couple of observations:
>
> 1. `org-babel-load-file' doesn't seem to be in the org docu. The
> instructions on worg are obsolete (mentions `org-install') and
> needlessly complicated. Just putting
>
> (package-initialize) ;; only if you use the newest org
> (require 'ob-tangle)
> (org-babel-load-file "/path/to/your/org-init-file.org")
>
> into your .emacs (no need for .emacs.d/init.el) seems to suffice.
>
Please go ahead and update the information on worg. Note that Emacs24
users need only do
(require 'org)
(org-babel-load-file "/path/to/your/org-init-file.org")
while users of lesser Emacs will have to load a new version of Org-mode
before calling org-babel-load-file.
>
> 2. Unless you are only setting variables, you want your functions to
> be byte-compiled. I modified `org-babel-load-file' to do that. Any
> reason not to?
>
I disagree, I don't find a noticeable performance difference between
compiled and un-compiled code. If this does pose a problem for you,
perhaps an optional extra argument to be added to org-babel-load-file to
enable compilation.
>
> 3. While it saves some keystrokes not to have to write "tangle: yes",
> it seems to be at odds with `org-tangle-file (though it does respect
> "tangle: no").
>
The `org-babel-load-file' function calls `org-tangle-file' so they are
definitely working in concert. When a target file is passed to
`org-tangle-file' then that is used as the value of the ":tangle" header
argument, so the default behavior is to tangle.
>
> 4. When I babel-load "my-package.org", all emacs sees is the tangled
> "my-package.el", which of course is right. The problem, however, is
> that I often search for one of my functions, change it … and loose the
> changes the next time I start emacs (I already got zapped a couple of
> times). Integrating org-tangle with the emacs documentation would be
> tough I guess. But how about setting a read-only file locale variable
> to block the most stupid mistakes?
>
Great idea. I don't have time to work on this right now, but it is
definitely on my stack. I suppose this should be the default behavior
for all tangled files (not just those written by org-babel-load-file).
Thanks,
>
> Overall, very nice. Thank you.
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-11 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-10 22:33 Some Experiences with org-babel-load-file Florian Beck
2012-12-11 14:52 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2012-12-11 19:52 ` Florian Beck
2012-12-12 3:35 ` Eric Schulte
2012-12-11 17:01 ` Memnon Anon
2012-12-11 17:36 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
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