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Making Org Publish config neater

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Previously I had a huge config file for org-publish, most of it was just repeateddeclaration. I didn't know Emacs Lisp so I just added more on new projects but I've been trying to learn E-Lisp & made my config neater.

This is how I generate my Project's webpages. All my projects are in ~/projects/ directory, projects is a list of my projects name & this iterates over it to add my projects to org-publish-project-alist.

(require 'cl-lib)
(setq projects
      '("pavo" "orion" "grus" "cetus" "lyra" "lynx" "hydra" "pyxis"
        "indus" "perseus" "pictor" "ara" "crux" "leo"))

(setq org-publish-project-alist
      (append org-publish-project-alist
              (cl-loop for project in projects
                    collect
                    (list project
                          :base-directory (concat "~/projects/" project)
                          :base-extension "org"
                          :publishing-directory (concat "~/public_html/" (car projects))
                          :publishing-function (quote org-html-publish-to-html)))))

So I used to copy-paste the same thing for all my projects earlier. Also, #emacs@freenode is very helpful.

2020-09-15

That piece of code was producing unexpected results. I had (car projects) in there which meant that all my projects were being exported to the first project name in list which was pavo.

:publishing-directory (concat "~/public_html/" (car projects))

Replacing that line with this fixed it:

:publishing-directory (concat "~/public_html/" project)

2021-02-12

cl was depreciated, I replaced it with cl-lib. I just had to change loop to cl-loop & it worked fine.

Andinus / 2020-09-01 / Modified: 2021-02-12 Fri 23:09 Emacs 27.2 (Org mode 9.4.4)