Re: [O] ox-freemind.el / org-freemind.el

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Felix Natter <address@hidden> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Felix Natter <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I am working on org-freeplane.el, a fork of org-freemind.el [1].
>>>
>>> [1] FreeMind and Freeplane are mind mapping programs and can thus
>>> be used to organize tree-structured information like org-mode does.
>>> Freeplane is a FreeMind fork, org-freeplane.el was necessary because
>>> users want to use the features of Freeplane.
>>>
>>> Can someone please point me to the code for converting node text to
>>> HTML in org-mode?
>>
>> org-freemind is derived from ox-html:
>>
>> ,----
>> | ;;; Define Back-End
>> | (org-export-define-derived-backend 'freemind 'html ...)
>> `----
>>
>> so if org-freeplane derives from org-freemind, you have all the
>> html-exporting functionality at your fingertips already, if I'm not
>> mistaken. 
>
> hi Thorsten,
>
> thanks for the hint, seems my org-mode is hopelessly outdated (from
> emacs 24.3). 
> However, I cannot find any *-freemind.el in
> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git, is that because it's non-free?
> (in git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git, it is included as
> contrib/lisp/ox-freemind.el, does the 'contrib' indicate non-free as
> well...?)

for me its in:

,----
| /org-mode/contrib/lisp/ox-freemind.el
`----

> Is ox-freemind.el derived (forked/copied) from org-freemind.el?
> Is anyone currently actively developing ox-freemind.el?

Does org-freemind.el exist at all? exporters a usually prefixed with
'ox-'. I have no idea about its state, did not even know about
freemind. 

> Also: In order to build on the latest org-mode, can I just put
> contrib/lisp and lisp/ from git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git master branch
> in my load-path?

There exists a dedicate Worg article about this topic, but I don't know
the URL.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten