activate contrib packages

activate contrib packages

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 18/02/13 16:23, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> On 18/02/13 15:42, David Bremner wrote:
>>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> By the way, the library org-notmuch distributed with org-mode should make it easy to
>>>>> link into notmuch.
>>>> 
>>>> Then I probably haven't loaded org-notmuch properly? What do I have to put into my
>>>> .emacs file to load it properly?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I put what I know at
>>> 
>>> http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#index24h2
>> 
>> Thanks - got it working under Ubuntu. One thing: in my org from git, org-notmuch is in 
>> .../org-mode/contrib/lisp and not .../lisp
> 
> My following comment is probably OT, but still ...
> 
> If you install org-mode from git following the instructions from the Makefile, then you should
> be putting something like the following in your local.mk.
> 
> # Define if you want to include some (or all) files from contrib/lisp # just the filename
> please (no path prefix, no .el suffix), maybe with # globbing ORG_ADD_CONTRIB = org-notmuch
> 
> If you do that, then David's instructions are accurate.

Ok - what is the advantage of doing so?

I usually prefer to have all my config in one file (here emacs.org) so I don't have to remember
what I have to change where?

Rainer


> 
> Hope this helps,
> 

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Re: activate contrib packages

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:39:35PM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 18/02/13 16:23, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> >> On 18/02/13 15:42, David Bremner wrote:
> >>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> By the way, the library org-notmuch distributed with org-mode should make it easy to
> >>>>> link into notmuch.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Then I probably haven't loaded org-notmuch properly? What do I have to put into my
> >>>> .emacs file to load it properly?
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> I put what I know at
> >>> 
> >>> http://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#index24h2
> >> 
> >> Thanks - got it working under Ubuntu. One thing: in my org from git, org-notmuch is in 
> >> .../org-mode/contrib/lisp and not .../lisp
> > 
> > My following comment is probably OT, but still ...
> > 
> > If you install org-mode from git following the instructions from the Makefile, then you should
> > be putting something like the following in your local.mk.
> > 
> > # Define if you want to include some (or all) files from contrib/lisp # just the filename
> > please (no path prefix, no .el suffix), maybe with # globbing ORG_ADD_CONTRIB = org-notmuch
> > 
> > If you do that, then David's instructions are accurate.
> 
> Ok - what is the advantage of doing so?
> 
> I usually prefer to have all my config in one file (here emacs.org) so I don't have to remember
> what I have to change where?
> 

This way make knows about it and compiles the contrib libraries you
use.  Also you do not have unnecessary libraries in your load-path.

Since Achim is the expert, he will be able to tell you more.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.