From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffer local alias?
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:51:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r489tyoq.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lhyigld9.fsf@poto.westell.com> (Thomas S. Dye's message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:05:38 -1000")
> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
[...]
>> I know that this problem is a problem of balancing backward
>> compatibility with new features, better design, etc and cannot be
>> solved. And I see the win in (most of) the breaking changes.
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment expressed here. Despite the
difficulties I have had resurrecting some LP org documents recently, the
benefits of the continual developments to org + babel are clear.
[...]
"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
> Perhaps one way to deal with this is to have the Org mode literate
> programming (reproducible research) file choose which version of
> Org-mode to use. Something like the following?
>
> #+name: org-mode-version
> #+begin_src sh
> cd path/to/org-mode-git-repo
> git checkout rev
> #+end_src
>
> # Local Variables:
> # eval: (and (fboundp 'org-sbe) (not (fboundp 'sbe)) (fset 'sbe 'org-sbe))
> # eval: (sbe "org-mode-version")
> # eval: (org-reload t)
> # End:
>
> I haven't the faintest idea if this is a "good idea" or a snake pit of
> potential problems. Is the idea worth experimenting with?
Very much so. One of my recent fights with org was due to finally
getting back reviewers' comments on a paper I had submitted almost a
year ago. If I had had an automatic link to the correct version of org,
the one that matched my document, it would have made things much
easier. Obviously, I could have done this manually and probably should
have.
However, I think it may be quite difficult to automate what you are
proposing...
--
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.1, Org release_8.2.4-322-gece429
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 19:00 Buffer local alias? Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-14 19:39 ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-14 19:44 ` Bastien
2014-01-14 20:12 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-14 21:49 ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-15 0:05 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-15 8:41 ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-15 8:51 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2014-01-15 9:33 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-01-15 9:50 ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-15 19:59 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-15 20:40 ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-16 16:44 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-16 16:54 ` Rick Frankel
2014-01-16 17:51 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-15 9:30 ` Sebastien Vauban
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