diff --git a/posts/Literate_emacs_init.mdwn b/posts/Literate_emacs_init.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dda5080 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/Literate_emacs_init.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +A little while back I saw +[Sacha Chua](http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/05/where-i-am-in-terms-of-emacs/) +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 like my emacs +init file, since that is not a serious software project and 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 +[presenting](http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/06/literate-programming-emacs-configuration-file/) +her new literately programmed 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 +[here](http://ryuslash.org/inittest.html). 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. + +[[!meta date="2012-06-09 01:19:00"]] +[[!tag emacs literate_programming org-mode]]