Re: [O] Org Mode dedicated app on OS X

[Stefan Vollmar]

Dear Ken,

On 05.07.2011, at 16:48, Ken Mankoff wrote:

> Thanks for the tips. Most already done.

Excellent!

> [...]
> I also have copied Aquamacs.app, renamed it OrgMode.app, and have the unicorn 
> as the icon. I'm a bit stuck on the last step you suggest.
> 
>> If you are thinking about a distribution-like approach (so it works 
>> "out-of-the-box" for others) you would probably need to copy your changes to 
>> a
>> 
>> /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp
>> 
>> directory.
> 
> I don't need it to distribute it to 3rd parties, but I'm not opposed to 
> setting it up like that. What files should I put in the directory? And what 
> contents? And how do I get emacs to auto-load them?

I have a half-finished project that uses a slightly different approach: we did 
a course teaching some principles of computer programming and imaging to 
children, http://www.nf.mpg.de/kinderuni/kinderuni_en.html, where Aquamacs was 
customized for easy Python programming and I added some Org-mode specific stuff 
while I was at it. Here, we used a wrapper-type "application" (a Python script 
turned into a Mac-type program by Platypus, http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus) 
that starts an unmodified version of Aquamacs with

EMACS = "/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/aquamacs"
os.system("open -a " + EMACS + " --args -l " + el_file + " -eval '(message 
\"KinderUni - happy coding!\")' &")

where el_file sets up some special menus (with nice and large icons) and 
settings for python and Org-mode. I might have some time over the next six 
weeks to polish and release this.

Warm regards,
 Stefan


> I'm still figuring out a workflow so please let me know if this makes sense, 
> but I'm picturing something like this:
> 
> * I launch my OrgMode.app
> 
> * It opens and (via its internal site-lisp magic) loads 
> ~/Dropbox/Org/index.org
> 
> * index.org is a file I'll maintain manually that links to my other org files 
> so I can access them using the inter-linking ability in org-mode
> 
> * If something like index.org can be automated that would be OK, but I don't 
> mind maintaning it as my meta-org file. Perhaps based on something like I 
> have now in my .emacs:
> 
> (setq org-agenda-files (list "~/Dropbox/org/foo.org"
>                             "~/Dropbox/org/bar.org))
> 
> 
>  -k.

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