#+TITLE: Literate emacs init

A little while back I saw [[http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/05/where-i-am-in-terms-of-emacs/][Sacha Chua]] mention using ~org-mode~ for
literate programming. I'd heard of literate programming, but its use
escaped me. Still, reading that and looking at what ~noweb~ is I
started thinking that it would indeed be a great way of documenting
code, especially something my emacs init file, since that is not a
serious software project ans some weird stuff goes on in there.

I still didn't really get the hang of it. It seemed like a lot of work
to get into it and how exactly it fit together with using ~org-mode~
didn't really hit me so I pushed it aside for the moment.

Today I see her [[http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/06/literate-programming-emacs-configuration-file/][presenting]] her new literately programming init file
with some links to other resources and I just had to try it too.

I haven't gotten very far yet, but what I have so far I have put
[[http://ryuslash.org/inittest.html][here]]. It's just the generated HTML file, no org source, and I'm still
messing around with the colors and stuff, but it's fun to see the
result already.

I don't know if I'm actually going to use it, since my init file's
sloc count is 1038 and its total line count is 1280 lines I fear that
adding even more documentation (= lines) would make my init file
*very* bulky. It is still fun to see and experiment with, though.