Re: [O] Org-mode: need install/config help on org-plus-contrib-20161102

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Paul Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

> Mr. Google says org mode in Emacs can work. I'll try that! (I said on
> Wednesday).   For 2 days I've been fighting with the install &
> configuration.  I am pretty sure I'm caught in a Bermuda triangle
> configuration, where org-mode that comes with Emacs is too old,  but
> the new one from ELPA results in a fail because its pieces are not
> finding what they want.

See (info "(org) Installation")

In particular,

  Important: you need to do this in a session where no ‘.org’ file has
  been visited, i.e., where no Org built-in function have been loaded.
  Otherwise autoload Org functions will mess up the installation.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou