From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Announcement] Org-babel initial release
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:15:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab0waukq.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2my4w9jpv.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:54:36 -0600")
"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks, I hope fellow Orgers find it useful
Sure they do!
Make Emacs+Org-mode the `killer-application' :)
>> I wonder how complicated it would be to add more languages. Especially
>> PHP, JavaScript (e.g. per rhino) and Perl.
...
>> Hmmm - maybe `org-babel-sh.el' is a good starting point.
>>
>
> Yes, currently the best way to get a feel for how to add languages would
> be to start with an existing language file (I'd suggest
> org-babel-python.el or org-babel-ruby.el, or for simpler less
> comprehensive language support look at org-babel-ditaa or
> org-babel-haskell) and make changes from there. I agree that a brief
> tutorial for adding language support would be helpful.
A skeleton maybe?
And just a few comments describing the I/O of the basic functions
(and/or the global vars/containers that take the results).
> Basically Org-babel expects any new language file to define two
> functions...
>
> - org-babel-execute:lang-name (body params) :: which executes the code
> in body according to the header arguments in params, and
>
> - org-babel-prep-session:ruby (session params) :: which starts an
> interactive session in session setting any variables from params
OK. I'll look at those...
> There are two key language specific features which keep us from treating
> all interpreted languages identically.
> 1) Org-babel collects the last value of a source-code block to be
> returned (see [1]) and this value needs to be collected and
> potentially converted into elisp in a language specific manner
> 2) Org-babel has support for evaluation in a session allowing
> persistence of state between different blocks which use the same
> session. I now notice that the :session header argument is not
> currently documented on the Worg page. I'll try to add this
> documentation soon. The sessions are handled through Emacs comint
> buffers which are very language specific.
Ahhh, I now comprehend. You're library makes all kinds of source blocks
work together as a whole. Great! I now understand your intention! Make
that old joke become true: "Emacs is a great OS, it's just missing a
good editor" :-D
..... Nachtigall ick hör dir trappsen ...
Seriously: There's not that much code to write in the language
files. The features seem more than worth it. I just had little snippets
in mind... hrm, sorry.
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#results
>
> [2] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#languages
OK - not _really_ RTFM :-D
I remember I stared at those sections last night - seems I was half
asleep already.
Best wishes
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 13:44 [Announcement] Org-babel initial release Eric Schulte
2009-09-15 8:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-15 13:31 ` Miguel Fernando Cabrera
2009-09-15 14:49 ` Eric Schulte
2009-09-15 15:10 ` Eric Schulte
2009-09-15 17:26 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-09-15 17:54 ` Eric Schulte
2009-09-15 19:15 ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2009-09-15 20:03 ` Eric Schulte
2009-09-15 20:53 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-09-15 17:56 ` Rick Moynihan
2009-09-15 20:07 ` Eric Schulte
2009-09-15 22:02 ` Eric Schulte
2009-10-09 16:38 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-09 12:54 ` Org-babel for jython? Eric S Fraga
2009-10-09 15:34 ` Dan Davison
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