Re: frustrations

[Eric S Fraga]

Hello Jan,

I've extracted the org relevant bit from your post.

On Wednesday,  1 Dec 2021 at 13:21, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> How do you configure your emacs using current versions like org 9.5 but
> at the same time avoiding problems with incompatible packages or newly
> introduced bugs?

Well, first of all, I ensure that my load path is set before anything
else is done so that anything that might need org will cause org to be
loaded from the right place.  I have this line as the first line in my
.emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/org-mode/lisp")

where I have downloaded the most recent version of org into
~/git/org-mode.

Avoiding problems with incompatible packages or new bugs is impossible,
however.  The solution is to avoid upgrade-itis and only upgrade when
necessary.  Although I track org from git, I don't update all the time
and only do so when I know I will have some time to deal with any
repercussions.  (like today where I upgraded both Emacs and org because
I know I have no immediate deadlines)

Most other packages, I seldom upgrade if ever.

HTH,
eric

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: Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.1-231-g6766c4 in Emacs 29.0.50
: Latest paper written in org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05096