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| author | Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> | 2014-04-17 13:38:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> | 2014-04-17 13:38:29 +0200 |
| commit | 4315658419ebd22a0b54878029824c3adbe9d510 (patch) | |
| tree | e89bd7f4934a0aa819f39a86ac7f5ff400c0cb07 | |
| parent | a937366e8ae306ed5ff7bed31fd1d0d54bc8d5de (diff) | |
| download | org-mode-4315658419ebd22a0b54878029824c3adbe9d510.tar.gz | |
org.texi (Installation): Fix documentation bug
* org.texi (Installation): Be more clear on why installing Org
through ELPA should be done without loading any Org file.
This is a very common pitfall that needs to be considered a
documentation bug.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/org.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi index c1a19ed..115da51 100644 --- a/doc/org.texi +++ b/doc/org.texi @@ -878,7 +878,11 @@ We @b{strongly recommend} to stick to a single installation method. Recent Emacs distributions include a packaging system which lets you install Elisp libraries. You can install Org with @kbd{M-x package-install RET org}. -You need to do this in a session where no @code{.org} file has been visited. + +@noindent @b{Important}: you need to do this in a session where no @code{.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. + Then, to make sure your Org configuration is taken into account, initialize the package system with @code{(package-initialize)} in your @file{.emacs} before setting any Org option. If you want to use Org's package repository, |