Re: mixed orgmode installation

[adam <ahcnz@orcon.net.nz>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [O] mixed orgmode installation
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:07:49 +0200
> 
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:52:34PM +0200, Johannes Rainer wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This can actually cause difficult to diagnose problems sometimes.  The
> simplest way to do it right is to setup your load-path early in your
> init file.  To get an idea, you can take a look at my setup.
> 
>   <https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/init.el>
> 
> Look at the first 18 lines; after this I can customise, load, do
> whatever I want with org.  You will notice I load a kill-old-org.el.
> That line is experimental and optional, and you may skip it.
> 
> Hope this helps, 
 
Very interesting thread. 

Being a novice, I grab the tgz snapshot, unarchive into a 
folder, and simply have that folder in the load-path early 
in .emacs. 

I don't  'make && make install'  so perhaps I am missing some 
things as a result. I just leave the old version Emacs-supplied 
Org as-is.