On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Johannes Rainer <johannes.rainer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > hi all!
> >
> > is there a "clean" way to disable the built in org from emacs? I'm
> > loading org mode from git externally, but newer emacs always come with
> > org mode included. would just deleting the org folder in the emacs (am
> > using Emacs.app on mac) installation help?
> >
> > thanks in advance!
>
> Using the git version too, I had lots of trouble with mixed installs.
> Therefore the first thing I do is deleting the org folder in the emacs
> installation, although I have been told on this list this would be a
> recipe for desaster (since autoloads will be messed up or so ...).
> But desaster never happened, in fact I did not have any misterious
> problems with (multiple) org-mode(s) on my machine anymore since then.
>
> I just replace the installation org-mode folder with a symlink to the
> git folder and add a 'subdirs.el' to the git folder, then it works.
>
> hm, that's an option.
based on your suggestion I created now my own little makefile to install
the git org-mode and directly over-write the one located in
/Applications/Emacs.app/Resources/lisp/org . actually, I first delete all
files in this org directory and install the one from git into the dir again.

thanks!


> --
> cheers,
> Thorsten
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