Re: Org-mode: need install/config help on org-plus-contrib-20161102

[Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Mr. Google says org mode in Emacs can work. I'll try that! (I said on
>> Wednesday).   For 2 days I've been fighting with the install &
>> configuration.  I am pretty sure I'm caught in a Bermuda triangle
>> configuration, where org-mode that comes with Emacs is too old,  but
>> the new one from ELPA results in a fail because its pieces are not
>> finding what they want.
>
> See (info "(org) Installation")
>
> In particular,
>
>   Important: you need to do this in a session where no ‘.org’ file has
>   been visited, i.e., where no Org built-in function have been loaded.
>   Otherwise autoload Org functions will mess up the installation.
>
>
That's a soul crusher.  Thanks for explaining.

I found another way to get this wrong.  Switch between version 24.5 and 25.1.

pj


> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou



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