Re: Plans for synching with Emacs dev sources?

[Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>]

On 13/04/10 22:57, Jan Böcker wrote:
> On 13.04.2010 22:15, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> Currently I'm using 6.33x, which is the version that comes with Emacs
>> dev source code. I'll like to use a more recent version of org-mode, and
>> so I ask if there are plans for upgrading Emacs' org-mode sources with
>> the current release. If not, I'll use org-mode git sources, although
>> this would complicate a bit the deployment across several machines.
>
> AFAIK that happens whenever a new major version of emacs is released,
> which is very infrequently.
>
> Even if the next version of emacs would be just around the corner, you'd
> just find yourself in the situation of using a very outdated version
> again within a few weeks.
>
> However, deployment across several machines can be easy with git. My
> ~/.emacs.d is a git repository which contains all my emacs configuration
> and elisp library files. I have added org-mode as a submodule here, so
> after running git pull&&  git submodule update on another machine,
> everything is in sync again.
>
> I use the org-babel approach to emacs configuration. In my startup.org,
> the first toplevel subtree contains code that finds out what machine it
> is running on by looking at the hostname and sets the variable
> jb/system. I have one toplevel subtree for common configuration and two
> for settings specific to one of my two machines.
>

If you dont need machine specific configuration, you can use Dropbox. 
Like Jan I use org-babel and put all my configuration in .emacs.d in my 
Dropbox folder. I create a symink from ~/.emacs.d to ~/Dropbox/.emacs.d 
and my org setup is maintained all the computers where I have Dropbox 
installed. YoU can do the same thing with Ubuntu One.

Ian.