From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>,
Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: org-babel - utility to ease chopping src chunks into smaller org entries
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:35:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C98C2A8.1080709@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871v8nfd2i.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi Eric,
Great, thanks.
Christian
On 9/21/10 3:04 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> I agree generalizing this function over all block types would be very
> useful. When I find the time I will make this change.
>
> Thanks -- Eric
>
> Christian Moe<mail@christianmoe.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm late to this discussion, but just a lateral thought:
>>
>> Would you consider rewriting this as `org-demarcate-block' or similar,
>> to operate on all #+begin_...end blocks, not just src?
>>
>> If generalized this function could be equally useful for non-src
>> blocks as well. Example blocks come immediately to mind, but there are
>> non-coding applications too.
>>
>> For instance, I store many notes with quotes from various texts,
>> sometimes in fairly long =#+begin_quote= blocks, which I then need to
>> split up when I want to write an extended discussion of a passage,
>> quoting a few lines at a time.
>>
>> For those who use verse blocks (I all too seldom have the need...), it
>> may be even more useful.
>>
>> For personal use, I already have a little org-insert-block utility
>> function to insert/wrap [q]uote, [s]rc, e[x]ample, [v]erse or [o]ther
>> blocks at a keystroke. This works for me since I use at least the
>> first two more or less equally often. A generalized demarcate-block
>> function would be a nice complement.
>>
>> Yours,
>> CM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> I've just added this to the org-mode repo.
>>>>
>>>>> Not in the babel key map - in the org key map (I use it most in normal
>>>>> non src org entries to mark a block of elisp as src for samples/examples).
>>>>
>>>> For now it still lives in the babel keymap behind (C-c C-v d) since it
>>>> is fundamentally code-block related,
>>>
>>> For me, "fundamentally code-block related", in the absence of
>>> execution-related functionality, points to org-src.el rather than
>>> org-babel, so I suggest naming this function
>>> org-src-demarcate-block. The babel keymap is still a good place for a
>>> binding -- I think it's reasonable for the babel keymap to accomodate
>>> pure code block stuff in addition to execution/tangling stuff.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
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>
--
Christian Moe
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Website: http://christianmoe.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-19 1:48 org-babel - utility to ease chopping src chunks into smaller org entries Richard Riley
2010-09-19 18:21 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-19 22:03 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-19 23:20 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-20 3:41 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-20 5:18 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-20 14:30 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-20 15:15 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-20 22:21 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-21 12:46 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-21 13:49 ` Dan Davison
2010-09-21 14:37 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-21 12:44 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-21 15:19 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-20 20:09 ` Dan Davison
2010-09-21 7:58 ` Christian Moe
2010-09-21 11:17 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-21 13:04 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-21 14:35 ` Christian Moe [this message]
2010-09-21 14:50 ` Dan Davison
2010-09-21 15:35 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-24 13:24 ` Requests about the code demarcation Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-27 13:18 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-27 13:47 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-27 14:36 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-27 14:58 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-30 18:17 ` Achim Gratz
2010-09-30 22:19 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-01 19:28 ` Achim Gratz
2010-10-17 11:53 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-21 6:33 ` org-babel - utility to ease chopping src chunks into smaller org entries Achim Gratz
2010-09-21 13:01 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-21 17:03 ` Achim Gratz
2010-09-19 21:24 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-09-19 21:44 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-19 21:52 ` Sébastien Vauban
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