Instructions for legacy code don't work on my .emacs

[WorldsEndless]

To get started with Lentic (emacs 24.4, from the repo) I've tried to follow the instructions at

https://github.com/phillord/lentic/blob/master/lenticular.org#converting-legacy-source

However, it didn't work, although the example with lentic.el did. First, I followed the directions to add comented syntax. Then I created a .dir-local.el and it didn't seem to do anything at all. Then, I instead copied the .dir-locals.el from the source directory and at least now it would properly C-c , c and C-c , b but the resulting buffer, though it's called emacs.org, is still in emacs lisp mode. Does this have to do with the fact that the base file is ".emacs" and not a .el file? And possibly that the file begins with

; -*-emacs-lisp-*-

? For the .emacs file, I'm guessing there are some natural configs that I'm missing.

MORE DETAILS Okay, added details needed for the resolution:

• my .emacs is a symlink to a folder monitored by my ownCloud so I can sink to multiple computers.

[WorldsEndless]

FIXED

With my setup, I had to make the following changes:

• use .emacs.el rather than .emacs, and then strip out the mode-mandate from the first line of the file (remove ; -*-emacs-lisp-*-).
• Since .emacs.el is sym-linked to my home dir, I also need to symlink .dir-locals.el to the same place.

[phillord]

I would use the lentic-el-org-init in preference to lentic-orgel-org-init -- the latter is designed for Emacs lisp packages. You don't really need things like the first line transformation, nor the special treatment of top level headers in a .emacs file. The el-org transformation is much simpler (and therefore more robust).

I'll add something to the manual.