{"id":4635,"date":"2015-10-09T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2015-10-09T07:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:47:37","slug":"video-on-using-org-mode-for-your-init-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4635","title":{"rendered":"Video on Using Org Mode for Your Init File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Daniel Mai has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VIuOwIBL-ZU\">nice video<\/a> on how he uses Org mode to organize his Emacs init file. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2804\">written about this before<\/a> but some of you may prefer, or at least enjoy, watching a video on the subject. <\/p>\n<p> This appears to be the first of several videos on the subject so Mai restricts himself to showing how he organizes the Org file and how he uses the <code>use-package<\/code> package to install and configure his packages. He promises to go into some of the details in future videos. <\/p>\n<p> If you&#8217;ve reached the point where you&#8217;re thinking, \u201cI really should refactor my init file\u201d you should consider organizing it as an Org file. Doing that makes it easy to add commentary on why your doing things a particular way or what a custom function is for. One of the big benefits, I think, is that Org mode&#8217;s outline paradigm makes it natural to organize your init file in a reasonable way. That, in turn, makes it easy to find things either by just looking at the headings or using one of the excellent Org mode search functions. <\/p>\n<p> In any event, the video is enjoyable and only 12 minutes long so it should be easy to fit it into your schedule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Mai has a nice video on how he uses Org mode to organize his Emacs init file. I&#8217;ve written about this before but some of you may prefer, or at least enjoy, watching a video on the subject. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-4635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}