40 lines
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Org Mode
40 lines
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#+TITLE: New config project
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After [[http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/06/literate-programming-emacs-configuration-file/][reading]] that it was very easy to use [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming][Literate Programming]] for
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one's emacs init file and discovering that it's also a lot of fun to
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do, I was thinking that I could easily use this for all my
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configuration files.
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Of course, not all programs have [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/][~org-babel~]], so they can't all have
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something like this in their init file:
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#+begin_src emacs-lisp
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(require 'org)
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(require 'ob-tangle)
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(org-babel-load-file "~/.emacs.d/rinit.org")
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#+end_src
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Which, for emacs, tangles (extracts the code) and then loads the
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generated file. So something else has to be done.
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On the other side of things, I, fairly recently, had a run-in with
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some Makefiles, which got me thinking that ~make~ is a very interesting
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tool and that it could be used to help with a lot of other tasks as
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well, much like I perceive Rake does. I just wasn't able to find where
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exactly it would fit (other than, of course, as compilation
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instructions for my projects).
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Now, yesterday I got the idea of using ~org-mode~ to literate-program
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all my configuration files and then use ~make~ to tangle and install
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them. This would mean that I could easily keep documentation about
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decisions in configuration files and such in an easy to read format,
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easily export these files to somewhere on the web and practice my ~make~
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skills to make everything easy.
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[[http://code.ryuslash.org/?p=newdot.git;a=tree][Here]] is the result. I'm still working on it, as you can see my emacs
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init file still has a long way to go, my focus is on getting it in
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~org-mode~ first and actually get it well-documented later. I've
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published it [[http://org.ryuslash.org/dotfiles/][here]], what I have at least, in case you would like to
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read about my mostly uninteresting configuration files.
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