Re: [O] Emacs+org-mode in a Docker?

[John Kitchin]

This sounds a lot like what I have in mind. Have you tried doing this yet?

Grant Rettke writes:

> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:07 PM, John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Thanks for all the notes! It looks like a not too trivial exercise that
>> might have to be a summer project for me.
>
> For the past year, I've been curious about how to make my Emacs
> environment available to me and anyone else, easily. Goal is to make
> working on a Linux, Windows, or OSX GUI a one-click setup. For me,
> Vagrant is the obvious solution here. Vagrant and Packer,
> specifically.
>
> The benefit of using Packer to build a Vagrant image is that the user
> doesn't have to wait for the download and installation of big stuff
> like TeXLive. That get's me curious if we (all Emacs/Org users) might
> want to build a base-image that includes all the stuff out there.
> Might make it easy for users to try out lots of different configs
> without having to deal with all of the software requirements. While
> that isn't a "big deal", it is just easier for them so they can focus
> on doing stuff with Org.

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