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

I configure package repositories in an org-based configuration file as well, so, to adjust the load path I have this in my init.el prior to loading org:

;; remove org-mode shipped with emacs from the load-path
(setq custom-org-path (car (file-expand-wildcards
                            (concat my-init-dir "elpa/org-plus-contrib-20*")))) 
(when custom-org-path 
  (setq load-path (remove-if (lambda (x) (string-match-p "org$" x)) load-path))

  (add-to-list 'load-path custom-org-path))