Re: [O] Installing from git

[John Hendy]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Achim Gratz <address@hidden> wrote:
> John Hendy writes:
>> Did you search around a bit? There's lots of posts with people's
>> setups. You certainly *can* install over the top of the Org that came
>> with your version of Emacs (pointing it to install to
>> /usr/local/share, I suppose), though I've never gone that route.
>
> In any case, this doesn't do what I think you believe this is doing.
> The default install method installs into site-lisp, not into the Emacs
> install directory.  The reason I keep advocating that method is that
> conveniently the buil-in load-path is already set up to do the right
> thing from the very beginning (you only need to remember to require
> org-loaddefs from your .emacs) and you can fall back easily to the
> built-in Org from Emacs itself if needed.  Also the build directory can
> be used for whatever experimentation you desire without disrupting any
> serious work.

Gotcha. I probably shouldn't have said anything about that method -- I
don't use it, and you're correct that I don't have a good grasp on
what it does. Sorry for that, and thanks for the clarification.

John

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> Regards,
> Achim.
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