dotfiles VS clojure-small-pieces

Heh, I recently did a "clean sweep" of my .emacs files (inspired by the new support for `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/config/emacs/init.el` in 27.1) and something like 90% of it was workarounds (some dating back to the late 1990s, for example a "vertical-motion-fix" for something that was fixed in emacs 19.29)

I definitely recommend doing some form of "dotfile bankruptcy" every 20 years or so :-)

(I also ended up doing a crude "load-file-literate" so that now most of my elisp is actually markdown, inspired by https://github.com/skx/dotfiles )

I keep meaning to explore using org-mode for this. At the moment I have a trivial init.el which loads a literate markdown file init.md.

I keep meaning to experiment with bable/tangle in Emacs.

I setup a simple literate configuration of my init file via markdown, which worked out really well, but doing it "properly" in org-mode would be a nice evolution.

With markdown I just search for code-blocks, write them all sequentially to a temporary buffer and evaluate once done. So it is very simplistic, but also being able to write and group things is useful:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

~/.emacs.d/init.el the helper, which loads/executes it.

I've been writing literate programs for years

Here is a video showing a literate form of Clojure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlzE9yy1mk

The literate program creates a new PDF and a working version of Clojure, including running a test suite. If you change the literate code and type 'make' it re-makes the PDF with the new changes and rebuilds/retests Clojure.

and here is the source:

https://github.com/robleyhall/clojure-small-pieces