Re: [O] back to a multiple-file configuration

[Andrea Crotti]

On 12/12/2011 07:43 AM, Gustav Wikström wrote:

I've also had this problem, but this related to the use of multiple computers and more than one OS that all needed some specific tweaks to be able to run. I'm also using org-babel for my init. A section from my init.org follows below (warning for wall of text). Maybe this relates to your thoughts and if so lets hope it adds some value.

Thanks for sharing..
Well my conclusion is that is just a bad idea.
Literate programming is great but for other things, as for example scientific work very dense
of hard to grasp concepts.

If I need many lines to explain some elisp function it normally means that it's really badly written,
and I just need to rewrite it better.
One thing which is much harder with the single org file is to have different kind of profiles.

The only way would be to actually tangle to some files and load them on demand when needed,
but then there is no point in using org-babel in the first place..
And then it's really hard to debug, because since they are not separate modules is was
almost impossible to understand what was going on, now that I switched to many smaller
files I solved all my latent problems..