Re: Can't activate orgmode after the installation of its git master version.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 10:12 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:34:18PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > On Ubuntu 20.10, I compiled the latest git master version of emacs,
> > but I can't activate the org-mode command from within it. So I try to 
> > install
> > the orgmode using its git repository according to the official guidance [1] 
> > as
> > shown below.
> >
> > $ git clone https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git
> > Public/repo/code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git
> > $ cd code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git
> > $ make autoloads
> >
> > Then add the following lines into ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
> >
> > (add-to-list 'load-path 
> > "~/Public/repo/code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git/lisp")
> > (add-to-list 'load-path
> > "~/Public/repo/code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git/contrib/lisp" t)
> >
> > But after I started emacs and issue the instructions 'M-x org-mode RET', I
> > see the following information in the minibuffer:
> >
> > M-x org-mode [No match]
>
> My guess is that org-mode isn't arranged to autoload
> the org library.
>
> Before doing "M-x org-mode" try doing "M-x load-library <RET> org <RET>".
>
> If that works, then autoload is your problem.

Yes. It does the trick.

>
> (Background: Emacs doesn't load all available libraries: this would
> make startup times too long for things you are probably not going to
> need. Instead, it has a mapping of commands to libraries, to help it
> load the right library whenever that command is seen the first time).
>
> Once we know whether your problem is autoload, we can refine the
> quest.

Then how should I revise my ~/.emacs.d/init.el to load org library
automatically before enable org-mode?

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China