1.3 Activation

Add the following lines to your .emacs file. The last two lines define global keys for the commands org-store-link and org-agenda - please choose suitable keys yourself.

     ;; The following lines are always needed.  Choose your own keys.
     (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
     (define-key global-map "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
     (define-key global-map "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)

Furthermore, you must activate font-lock-mode in org-mode buffers, because significant functionality depends on font-locking being active. You can do this with either one of the following two lines (XEmacs user must use the second option):

     (global-font-lock-mode 1)                     ; for all buffers
     (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)  ; org-mode buffers only

With this setup, all files with extension `.org' will be put into Org-mode. As an alternative, make the first line of a file look like this:

     MY PROJECTS    -*- mode: org; -*-

which will select Org-mode for this buffer no matter what the file's name is. See also the variable org-insert-mode-line-in-empty-file.