Re: Emacs, Org Mode, and Exporting to The Command Line Troubles

[Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>]

See this section of the org-mode manual for example:

http://orgmode.org/manual/Batch-execution.html#Batch-execution

Erik Iverson wrote:
> Colin,
> 
> If you don't receive an answer here, you might want to follow-up on
> the emacs-orgmode mailing list.  You may have to load orgmode in your
> progn before using its functions?
> 
> --Erik
> 
> Colin Grey wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to write a shell script that will automatically change a 
>> bunch of my org-mode files into HTML files.  But am running into some 
>> problems.  The structure, as best I understand it, should like 
>> something like this:
>>
>> emacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file "test.org.txt") 
>> (org-export-as-html "test.html"))'
>>
>> However, when I run that, it gives the output:
>>
>> Loading 00fink-vars...
>> Exporting...
>> Exporting...
>> Exporting...
>> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>>
>>
>> Oddly, I've noticed that if I don't use my custom extension (.org.txt) 
>> but just use .org like so:
>>
>> emacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file "test.org <http://test.org>") 
>> (org-export-as-html "test.html"))'
>>
>> It will run, but will always spit out a blank HTML file, no matter the 
>> contents of test.org <http://test.org>
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help,
>>
>> Colin Grey
>>
>> www.CGPGrey.com <http://www.CGPGrey.com>
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>>
>