Re: [O] OT: Learning ELISP

[Jonathan Arkell]

I am a huge advocate of using org files and literate programming in your
config files.

A few reasons why:
  - Makes it easy to logically group sections of your init and
configuration
  - Agenda tags search on your initialization file?  Yes please!
Extremely useful for those "cross-cutting" bits.  I have tags like
"keybinding", "osx" and "linux", and working on others as appropriate.
  - Add TODOs to your init file.

Here is my example, but I stand on the shoulders of giants:

https://github.com/jonnay/emagicians-starter-kit



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On 21/01/13 4:39 AM, "Karl Voit" <address@hidden> wrote:

>* Memnon Anon <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Two days later, no reply so far. I'll give it a shot.
>> Karl, if you are still fiddling to make it work, ignore this posting
>> and keep trying. :)
>
>Well, the hook in combination with the ARCHIVE tag did resolve my
>current issue quite nicely. However, I follow ELISP lessons with
>great pleasure independent of my current issues :-) But thanks to my
>time budget, it's low priority for now. :-(
>
>I did accomplish some advancement in the last weeks. I could fix
>some if/when issues in my configuration and I do get the feeling
>that meanwhile, I am able to judge the quality or the side-effects
>of ELISP snippets I copy/copied from other people. Even this limited
>knowledge gives me way more power over my Emacs than before.
>
>The core of ELISP is not that huge at all. So far, I tend to think
>that one key aspect of programming in ELISP is knowing, what
>functions are out there, waiting to be used to accomplish a task.
>And learning/finding all these handy functions is not trivial to me.
>Especially in such a huge project like Org-mode.
>
>
>Even more off-topic: I cleaned out some very old things and
>summarized my Emacs config in (currently) two files.[1] And I am
>thinking of moving it to Emacs initialization with babel[2] but so
>far, I am not sure, if there are that many advantages over the
>current situation.
>
>  1. https://github.com/novoid/dot-emacs
>  2.
>http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#literate-programming
>--
>Karl Voit
>
>


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