Re: Org-mode and koma-script

[gmx <fredstev@gmx.fr>]

Thank you very much for that very complete answer and advice. This will 
allow me to learn better how to use emacs (and org-mode).

Frédéric


Le 29/08/2018 à 00:38, Tim Cross a écrit :
> Just a few comments. While none will solve your immediate issue, they
> may help track it down.
>
> - it looks like your running as root! This is a very bad idea,
>    especially if your inexperienced and still trying to work things
>    out. Highly recommend you create a normal account (possibly with
>    appropriate permissions to run sudo and perform administration tasks).
>
> - Those lines look like your system is installing quite a few ELPA
>    packages - this normally only happens once or after you do an upgrade
>    of the elpa packages.
>
> Most of those packages are not standard parts of Emacs and while very
> useful, can severely complicate working out problems. Installing lots of
> them at once also makes configuration much harder. Given you appear to
> only have limited Emacs experience, I would highly recommend avoiding
> the temptation to install lots of interesting packages all at once. A
> far better approach is to get to know basic Emacs and then, as you gain
> familiarity, look at what packages are available and then install and
> try out ones which look like they might actually be useful. At the
> moment, you have lots of packages which I suspect your not even using or
> know about.
>
> My recommendation would be to start again. Create a user account and
> just run emacs without installing any packages. Focus on configuring
> basic Emacs (which comes with org 'built-in'). Ensure you are using a
> current version of Emacs (preferably Emacs 26.1 or Emacs 25.3). Get
> basic Org working - don't worry about Korma Script initially, just use
> basic Latex and verify that is all working first). Once the basics are
> all working, then start tweaking to suit your needs, but do it
> incrementally.
>
> Another popular alternative, but not one I recommend, is to use one of
> the pre-defined Emacs setups, such as spacemacs, prelude, Purcell's
> .emacs etc. This will get you up and runining with an emacs config
> defined by someone else and force you to work following their workflows,
> but it is quick. Problem is, when you run into problems, you will be
> lost and need others to help you out rather than being able to help
> yourself.