Let’s say that I am supposed to be writing a blog post. Not this one, another one. I have spent a lot of time learning about Org mode, and I’m not ready to leave it just yet. There’s a problem, though. The blog that I’m supposed to be contributing to looks a bit like Jekyll. Specifically, it uses Markdown formatting. That’s nice, but I really like Org mode formatting this week.
No problem!
According to the Org Markdown export
page, C-c C-e
opens an
Export view. m m
then triggers (org-md-export-to-markdown)
, which
produces post.md
from post.org
.
Except that C-c C-e m m
just exported the post to a FreeMind mind
map. Cool,
but not Markdown. org-md-export-to-markdown
isn’t even available.
Problem.
Apparently I have org-mode
7.9.3f installed. The documentation on the
Org Mode site is for the newest version: 8.2.6. How do I get the new
version? The installation
instructions suggest it
can be done with package-install
before you’ve loaded any org files.
package-install RET org
And now I have 8.2.6.
No problem. Except now I’m getting an error with C-c C-e m
. Oh, I see
the problem. There are only a few export
backends
enabled by default.
- ascii
- html
- icalendar
- latex
I need to set org-export-backends
. The documentation specifies that I
should use the Emacs customization interface. All righty.
C-h v org-export-backends
I end up with this in my .init.el
(custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(org-export-backends (quote (ascii html icalendar latex md))))
The export interface is better, but now I get a different error.
org-refresh-category-properties: Invalid function: org-with-silent-modifications
This Markdown Export on
Aquamacs
post by Benjamin M. Gross was particularly helpful. He suggests you use
the package manager to remove and reinstall the org
package.
So I did. There was a confusing moment where the package manager didn’t seem to realize that a Org Mode was installed. Just turns out that a newer version was available. I installed the newer version and restarted emacs.
Trying C-c C-e m m
one more time before I give up for now.
# Exporting From Org to Markdown
Let's say that I am supposed to be writing a blog post. Not thisone, another one. I have spent a lot of time learning about[Org mode](http://orgmode.org), and I'm not ready to leave it just yet.There's a problem, though. The blog that I'm supposed to be contributingto looks a bit like [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). Specifically, it uses[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)formatting. That's nice, but I *really* like `org-mode` formattingthis week.
See? No problem!
Now I just need to write the post. Not this one. The other one.