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Re: [O] Buffer local alias?
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Thomas S. Dye |
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Re: [O] Buffer local alias? |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:05:38 -1000 |
Aloha Andreas,
Andreas Leha <address@hidden> writes:
> I am not as organized as Tom is. So the chances to use my up-to-date
> orgmode and successfully export any of my org documents from a year ago
> (they are almost all 'Literate Programming' documents and, thus, maybe
> more fragile?) are slim. I do not have numbers, but it seems like I'll
> need to adapt such documents all the time.
>
> I know that this problem is a problem of balancing backward
> compatibility with new features, better design, etc and cannot be
> solved. And I see the win in (most of) the breaking changes.
>
> But let me just express my vote for even more awareness of people like
> me, who do not read all release notes, forget most of the messages from
> the mailing list and as a result need 2 hours to export some document
> from last year again today.
>
> A change like this one (renaming sbe to org-sbe) is a small change and
> will only be an annoyance in one years time. The drop of the implicit
> naming of call lines, for example, was (and still will be for some of my
> files) a bigger issue.
I fully agree that it is challenging to prepare an Org mode file that
can be "moth-balled" for a while, then resuscitated to full
functionality without a lot of work.
Perhaps one way to deal with this is to have the Org mode literate
programming (reproducible research) file choose which version of
Org-mode to use. Something like the following?
#+name: org-mode-version
#+begin_src sh
cd path/to/org-mode-git-repo
git checkout rev
#+end_src
# Local Variables:
# eval: (and (fboundp 'org-sbe) (not (fboundp 'sbe)) (fset 'sbe 'org-sbe))
# eval: (sbe "org-mode-version")
# eval: (org-reload t)
# End:
I haven't the faintest idea if this is a "good idea" or a snake pit of
potential problems. Is the idea worth experimenting with?
Pleased to appear well-organized,
Tom
--
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
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- Re: [O] Buffer local alias?, Achim Gratz, 2014/01/16
- Re: [O] Buffer local alias?, Rick Frankel, 2014/01/16
- Re: [O] Buffer local alias?, Thomas S. Dye, 2014/01/16
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