Markdown Export on Aquamacs

Aquamacs 3.0

The new release of Aquamacs came out today, which I was pretty excited about. I’ve been a little disappointed because the Aquamacs functionality hadn’t yet updated to include much of the new functionality of Emacs 24.

After installing and updating the new Aquamacs (with a simple Ctrl + H + U), my Org Mode still wasn’t exporting to Markdown (a bit of a frustrating experience, because I also couldn’t get pandoc to stick the landing either, going from org to .html to .md.

After installing the new Aquamacs, these are the steps (and kinks) that I ran into, but now have a clean org-md-export-to-markdown functionality.

Steps to Functionality

1. Install the newest Org-Mode using package install

   1. M-x list-packages Enter
   2. Ctrl+s org Enter
   3. Click the “Install Button”
      

2. Shutdown and reopen Aquamacs and you should now have org-mode 8.2

3. For some of you, this may be the end of the road, and if you open one of your org files, and type M-x org-md-export... you should have the following two options:

   1. org-md-export-to-markdown which saves a .md file with the same name or
   2. org-md-export-as-markdown which exports to a new buffer in .md format

4. However, I had a bit of a hiccup and got the errors:

   “Invalid Function” org-with-silent-modifications

   After a little Google-ing I found that uninstalling org-mode worked for a couple of people, so my next step was to un-install / delete Org-mode and then reinstall it.

5. Delete Org-Mode (there isn’t an “Uninstall Command”).

   1. M-x package-list Enter
   2. Ctrl+s org enter
   3. Type the letter d (a letter ‘D’ shows up next to the package, like the image below)
   4. Then press x, you will get a prompt to delete org-mode.
   5. Confirm and press y.
      

6. Then simply restart Aquamacs, reinstall Org-mode as in steps 1-2, and you should then have markdown export functionality. Ligget-Se!