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From: Tom Willemsen
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:35:02 +0100
Subject: Add "New config project" archive page

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+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]]
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