allow loading initialization from .org file -- would be breaking change

allow loading initialization from .org file -- would be breaking change

[Eric Schulte]

Hi,

It is now possible to load a user's initialization from emacs-lisp code
blocks embedded in Org-mode files using the `org-babel-load-file'
command.  Currently users of this setup must still have an elisp init.el
function which loads up their .org files.  See for example this fairly
widely used configuration [1] which uses this init file [2].

Would it make sense to begin loading .init.org and .emacs.org files by
default.  This would be a breaking change for any users who have both
.init.el and .init.org, and what's worse it would overwrite the .init.el
file when the embedded elisp is tangled out of the Org-mode file.

Best -- Eric

Footnotes: 
[1]  

[2]  

Re: allow loading initialization from .org file -- would be breaking change

[Eric Schulte]

Apologies for the incomplete email, it was accidentally sent from my
gnus nndraft:drafts Group.

But I suppose now is as good a time as any for asking this question.
I've just fleshed out the two previously missing footnote links below.

-- Eric

"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> It is now possible to load a user's initialization from emacs-lisp code
> blocks embedded in Org-mode files using the `org-babel-load-file'
> command.  Currently users of this setup must still have an elisp init.el
> function which loads up their .org files.  See for example this fairly
> widely used configuration [1] which uses this init file [2].
>
> Would it make sense to begin loading .init.org and .emacs.org files by
> default.  This would be a breaking change for any users who have both
> .init.el and .init.org, and what's worse it would overwrite the .init.el
> file when the embedded elisp is tangled out of the Org-mode file.
>
> Best -- Eric
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  http://eschulte.github.com/emacs-starter-kit/
>
> [2]  https://github.com/eschulte/emacs-starter-kit/blob/master/init.el

Re: allow loading initialization from .org file -- would be breaking change

[Stefan Monnier]

> It is now possible to load a user's initialization from emacs-lisp code
> blocks embedded in Org-mode files using the `org-babel-load-file'
> command.  Currently users of this setup must still have an elisp init.el
> function which loads up their .org files.  See for example this fairly
> widely used configuration [1] which uses this init file [2].
> 
> Would it make sense to begin loading .init.org and .emacs.org files by
> default.  This would be a breaking change for any users who have both
> .init.el and .init.org, and what's worse it would overwrite the .init.el
> file when the embedded elisp is tangled out of the Org-mode file.

I don't think we want to hook Org so deeply in the startup code.
And note that org-babel-load-file is autoloaded, so the init.el file can
be reduced down to just:

   (org-babel-load-file (locate-user-emacs-file "init.org"))


        Stefan