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Re: [O] Experiences with "literate elisp" and ob-tangle?
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Eric Schulte |
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Re: [O] Experiences with "literate elisp" and ob-tangle? |
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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:09:17 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi John,
John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all, I'm considering switching my lengthy .emacs over to a literate Org
> file, using ob-tangle, and as I was wondering if others had any experience
> with this, and if so, does it slow down startup much?
The first load after a .org file is changed will require re-tangling of
the file, but in most cases the .el files are loaded directly and there
should be no slowdown. I've been using this for over a year now with no
noticable slowdown. For an example of a large config structured using
.org files and based on Emacs24 see [1].
> Is there a way to get ob-tangle to compile the resulting Elisp file?
Yes, see the makefile in the repo I pointed to above [2].
>
> I'm guessing it does not regenerate the .el file if no changes have
> been made to the .org, right?
>
That is correct, the `org-babel-load-file' function compares the
modification dates of the .el and .org file to see if re-tangling is
required.
Best of luck -- Eric
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
Footnotes:
[1] https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit
[2] https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/blob/master/Makefile
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/