From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Impossible to set org mode variable Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:58:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389981617 4030 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 18:00:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:00:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 17 19:00:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4DiO-0001Ke-7p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:00:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4DiN-0007aR-Jb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:00:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.182.33.6 with SMTP id n6mr1239388obi.6.1389981486542; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:58:06 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.82.33 with SMTP id f1mr100910igy.0.1389981486323; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:58:06 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!p15no19566112qaj.0!news-out.google.com!fv6ni4421qab.1!nntp.google.com!6no15229529qao.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.2.134; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.2.134 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:58:06 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203189 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95458 Archived-At: There is a variable org-odt-data-dir that I am trying to set for the org-mode exporter to work. However I seem to be completely unable to make a setq or defvar or whatever do what it should. Heres the scenario emacs 23 C-h v --------------- org-odt-data-dir is a variable defined in `org-version.el'. Its value is "~/pdsw/org-mode/etc" Documentation: The location of ODT styles. ------------------ So far so good. This is what Ive set and what I want Now emacs 24 C-h v ------------------ org-odt-data-dir is a variable defined in `org-version.el'. Its value is "/usr/share/emacs/etc/org" Documentation: The location of ODT styles. The even weirder thing is if I click the org-version link, I see ;;;###autoload (defvar org-odt-data-dir "~/pdsw/org-mode/etc" "The location of ODT styles.") Can someone explain whats going on