From d0486e35d5f6c85dc987ab29ba8dd426752b13d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:35:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add "New config project" archive page --- posts/New_config_project.mdwn | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/New_config_project.mdwn diff --git a/posts/New_config_project.mdwn b/posts/New_config_project.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8994f94 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/New_config_project.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +After +[reading](http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/06/literate-programming-emacs-configuration-file/) +that it was very easy to use +[Literate Programming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming) +for one's emacs init file and discovering that it's also a lot of fun +to do, I was thinking that I could easily use this for all my +configuration files. + +Of course, not all programs have +[org-babel](http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/), so they can't +all have something like this in their init file: + +[[!format el """ +(require 'org) +(require 'ob-tangle) + +(org-babel-load-file "~/.emacs.d/rinit.org") +"""]] + +Which, for emacs, tangles (extracts the code) and then loads the +generated file. So something else has to be done. + +On the other side of things, I, fairly recently, had a run-in with +some Makefiles, which got me thinking that `make` is a very +interesting tool and that it could be used to help with a lot of other +tasks as well, much like I perceive Rake does. I just wasn't able to +find where exactly it would fit (other than, of course, as compilation +instructions for my projects). + +Now, yesterday I got the idea of using `org-mode` to literate-program +all my configuration files and then use `make` to tangle and install +them. This would mean that I could easily keep documentation about +decisions in configuration files and such in an easy to read format, +easily export these files to somewhere on the web and practice my +`make` skills to make everything easy. + +[Here](http://code.ryuslash.org/?p=newdot.git;a=tree) is the +result. I'm still working on it, as you can see my emacs init file +still has a long way to go, my focus is on getting it in `org-mode` +first and actually get it well-documented later. I've published it +[here](http://ryuslash.org/dotfiles/), what I have at least, in case +you would like to read about my mostly uninteresting configuration +files. + +[[!meta date="2012-06-28 21:28:00"]] +[[!tag org-mode literate_programming dotfiles project]]