Re: [Orgmode] HTML Export Issue

[Carsten Dominik]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:04 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Greetings:
> >
> > This is a small issue. I've just installed Org-6.21b, upgrading  
> > from Org-6.09 (yes, I'm behind). At the top of an org file I export  
> > to html, I have the "-*- mode: org; -*-" line even though I really  
> > don't need it. When I exported to html using 6.09, this line was  
> > ignored. When I export to html using 6.21b, this line is exported  
> > as a paragraph which appears at the top of html page:
> >
> > <p>-*- mode: org; -*-
> > </p>
> >
> > Being a minor annoyance, I could just delete the line in question,  
> > but I recall there is some reason for me to keep this line. Is  
> > there any way to fix this?
>
>
> Hi Scot,
>
> this may be due to the fact that the default value
> of `org-export-skip-text-before-first-heading' changed
> from t to nil at some point.


In fact, I was wrong, there was a bug, also persistently
reported by Giovanni, thanks for that!

Fixed now.

- Carsten

>  It seems that I have not
> documented this change in Changes.org... :-(
>
>   Bernt, or any other git guru, how can I find
>   out when I changed that default?  I am sure there
>   is a clever way to do this?
>
> So you could configure this back to to t.  However,
> the better solution is to make the line you are
> talking about a comment.
>
>     # -*- mode: org; -*-
>
> This line is a way to enforce that Emacs will open the file
> in Org-mode.
> However, if you file has a .org extension and you have set up
> auto-mode-alist to recognize .org files as explained in the manual
> in the activation instructions, then this line is actually not
> needed at all.
>
> HTH
>
> - Carsten