[OS X Emacs] Installing newer version of org-mode

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Stefan,

Thanks for the recipe.  Even someone with my limited technical skills  
can cook with it.  Magically, org-version = 6.28trans.

All the best,
Tom

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On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:

> Dear Tom,
>
> On 05.07.2009, at 18:39, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
>> I've been using org-mode quite a bit lately, enough to discover  
>> that I'd like to use features added recently.  The org-mode in  
>> Aquamacs is 5.23a; the current org-mode release is 6.28.   What is  
>> the best way to install a new org-mode so it works with Aquamacs?
>
>
> The following recipe works very well for me:
>
> This is what needs to be done once:
>
> (1) do an initial
> git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
> of the latest version.
>
> (2) Change into that directory and edit the Makefile (assuming  
> Aquamacs has been installed in /Applications):
> # Name of your emacs binary
> EMACS="/Applications/Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs Emacs"
>
> (3) Adapt your .emacs-file (the git part is in "~/devel/org-mode" in  
> my setup):
>
> (defvar org-sys-directory "~/devel/org-mode/lisp"
>  "The directory containing the org distribution.")
> (setq load-path (cons org-sys-directory load-path))
>
> Now everytime you want to get the latest org-version do a
>
> (4) make update
>
> in your org-directory. In Aquamacs do a
>
> (5) M-x org-reload
>
> then a
>
> M-x org-version
>
> to make sure everything works as expected.
> Warm regards,
> Stefan
> -- 
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