From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Install warning for org-7 for forgetful users Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:51:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1281221383-20101-1-git-send-email-bernt@norang.ca> <4C601BE7.4030507@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44934 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiYNV-0007TP-6z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:51:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiYNR-0003S0-34 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:51:18 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:51565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiYNQ-0003Ru-T8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:51:17 -0400 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so3943892ewy.0 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:51:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Cc: Robert Horn , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, the installation instructions for Org tell you that you need make the autoload file org-install.el by typing make. If you do not do this, autoloading will be broken. If you do, I do not see what would go wrong. - Carsten On Aug 9, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > Yeah, this is a big issue and I haven't seen it being mentioned on the > org manual. Emacs has org integrated, which is good for casual users, > and for org of course, but creates some headaches if you want to stay > on the bleeding edge of development. I also did what you have done, in > my case, on OSX, cd'ed into Emacs.app and removed org manually, then > it started loading my version of org. The details should be in a > previous post of mine in this list. > > Marcelo. > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Robert Horn wrote: >> I ran into this, so I'll warn others. It might belong in the notes >> for >> org-7.01. >> >> If you have a newer version of emacs that has org already integrated, >> you get some, but not all, of the org-7.01 features functioning if >> you >> have org-7.01 set as the auto-load directory. I had been using org >> by >> having the lines: >> >> (setq load-path (cons "~/org-6.xxx/lisp" load-path)) >> (require 'org-install) >> >> in my .emacs. I forgot that I had upgraded emacs and org was now >> integrated into emacs. I just changed org-6.xxx to org-7.01g to try >> out >> the new version. Odd things resulted. It actually worked well >> enough >> to do some work, but then I found occasional stuff that did not >> work. I >> used the brute force fix of just moving all the org-* files into a >> temporary directory, thus slowing down the startup but ensuring >> that I >> could test the new version without having headaches if I wanted to >> revert. >> >> There might be a better method than this. It's probably worth >> mentioning in the release notes. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten