Re: [org-babel] [PATCH] Improve ditta.jar finding heuristics

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

>> Org-mode has *many* customization variables, and for most problems a
>> variable will exist to solve the problem,
>
> I understand where you're coming from. True, it is not possible to
> handle all obscure and arcane cases, that's what all these variables are
> for, but I don't think that a situation where user installs ditaa and
> later emacs, both via the package management system and find themselves
> unable to draw awesome ditaa diagrams without looking a variable up in
> documentation, adding appropriate code to his configuration file and
> hitting C-x C-e is some sort of a fringe use-case. If only
> myself and maybe another person has ever hit that roadblock, than I
> agree, it is not worth adding any additional code, and I rest my case.
>

I would agree the above situation is not desirable.  It is hard to tell
how many people have run into this issue, as it is probably more trouble
to post to this list than it is to find the appropriate variable and set
it to an appropriate value.

I don't know how the Emacs apt-get package is maintained, but it seems
to me that the variable should be set by the apt-get package
maintainers.  I assume the Emacs packages already have to set a number
of customization variables perhaps the best approach would be to find
out how to add org-ditaa-jar-path to their list.

Best -- Eric

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Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/