Emacs initialization as org file: how can I get the right version of org-mode?

Question

I\'ve been experimenting with the org-babel tutorial that describes how to put the bulk of your emacs init.el file into an org file. However, I would like to use org-mode 8 (mai

Answer 1

Though already solved and only somewhat related, I thought I would offer this for those who don't use package-based solutions but need to unload things like org and cedet/semantic, etc. without restarting emacs.

In general for unloading a set of features based on a starting name regexp, I would do something like this - which seems more complete than the hardcoded version from Andreas' answer, which doesn't seem to cover all loaded org features (at least in my case).

load-history is a massive assoc list of files -> reqs,provides,defuns,...

(mapc
 #'(lambda (f) (and (featurep f) (unload-feature f t)))
 (loop for file-syms in load-history
       for prov = (assoc 'provide file-syms)
       with features
       if (and prov (string-match "^org" (symbol-name (cdr prov)))) 
       collect (cdr prov) into features
       finally return features))

Replace the regexp "^org" to suit your needs, or go wild and make it a defun.

This could also be modified to grab all loaded org features from load-history, unload them, add the new load-path, and reload those same features from the new location.