From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendy Subject: Re: Begginer using orgmode Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:38:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0F2397E5-B7B1-4BFB-A0D5-FBA091BB32EA@radford.edu> <20110416013231.13e3a0ef@bhishma.homelinux.net> <98E677DA-C9CB-4AED-9A86-5EE98C62721A@RADFORD.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEZ6v-0008H5-9J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:38:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEZ6t-0004dL-SG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:38:49 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:57168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEZ6t-0004dH-M2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:38:47 -0400 Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so239083bwz.0 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:38:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: "Arnold, Travis" Cc: "Urs Rau (UK)" , Jude DaShiell , "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Arnold, Travis wrot= e: > > On 25 Apr, 2011, at 8:21 PM, John Hendy wrote: > >> I'd just recommend installing whatever version of emacs you want and >> then install org from git. Dead simple, no confusion about being up to >> date, etc. >> >> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#keeping-current-with-Org-mode-devel= opment >> >> > > Ok, looking through =C2=A0that, it seems slightly more complicated then I= am currently comfortable with, does this require me to have some sort of s= erver running, or is it a client-server thing, with my mac as the client ge= tting whatever it needs from the repository? Apperently I the other .emacs = file someone posted does not work for whatever reason with the defualt emac= s in Mac OS X, it lost all formatting, stars, TODO's etc. Am playing around= in Aquaemacs for now and the org buttons, are rather nice I admit. > -Travis Probably just the wording scaring you a bit. Git is simply a protocol for sharing code. Those who are programming org-mode can work together on all of the little files that make org-mode work. These files live on a server, and those of use who use org-mode "pull" (or clone) from that server. In this way, you can keep your version up to date with what the coders are doing. You don't have to have anything running. There's a server that keeps all of the org-mode program living on it. We, the users, use "git" (a small program) to interact with that server and download a fresh copy. Git is smart, though, and after the first long download, every time you run it afterwards, it only pulls down files that have changed so that it's much faster afterwards. Sound good? John > >