From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: Using Org/babel for Emacs config files Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:04:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87vcanfl1k.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <2013-01-21T12-04-57@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <2013-01-23T15-20-19@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyBFd-0003fC-KU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:05:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyBFc-0003Td-9O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:05:09 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyBFc-0003SG-32 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:05:08 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TyBFr-0008R7-F1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:05:23 +0100 Received: from e178060047.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.60.47]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:05:23 +0100 Received: from tjolitz by e178060047.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:05:23 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Karl Voit writes: Hi, > I am not completely convinced to convert my config to org/babel but > I am not oppose either. Not sure, if there are that many advantages, > that it is worth my effort, that's all. its a bit like writing with LaTeX - in some simpler but common cases its just great to write your stuff in Org and simply press a few keys for the LaTeX export. But dealing with LaTeX AND Org-mode when writing a big complex document might not be such a good idea, there will be enough problems with LaTeX only. I must admit I went back from Org-based multi-file config to a single big .el init file because of two reasons: - I frequently found myself looking for stuff in the tangled .el files instead of the .org files, because I was only interested in the lisp code and did not want to see all those comments in the .org files. - after figuring out that I can have full outline functionality in .el files too, the (in my eyes) main advantage of an org-based config was gone. Otherwise I really liked the org based starter-kit, it was well organized and definitely better than what I had before. -- cheers, Thorsten