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[Dashamir Hoxha]

Hello,

I am using org-mode for technical documentation (server
configurations etc.) I use extensively the preformatted
text to show a bunch of commands or pieces of configuration
files. While #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE and #+END_EXAMPLE is OK,
it looks a bit awkward and a bit inconsistent with the
rest of the light and beautiful markup of org-mode.

I have no idea about how easy or difficult would be to
implement it, but I think that it would be nice to have
some markup like these:
--8<--
-->8--
instead of
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
#+END_EXAMPLE

Just wanted to let you know about this idea, maybe somebody
can pick it up.

Have a nice day,
Dashamir

Re: Preformatted text

[Tassilo Horn]

Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Dashamir,

> I have no idea about how easy or difficult would be to
> implement it, but I think that it would be nice to have
> some markup like these:
> --8<--
> -->8--
> instead of
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> #+END_EXAMPLE

You could prefix your snippets with ":", e.g., this is also a
preformatted snippet.

: /dev/sda1	/boot		ext2		noauto,noatime          1 2
: /dev/sda3	/		ext4		noatime,user_xattr	0 1
: /dev/sda2	none		swap		sw		        0 0
: /dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	auto		noauto,ro	        0 0
: debugfs	/sys/kernel/debug    debugfs	defaults	        0 0

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: Preformatted text

[Neuwirth Erich]

And if you just avoid too much typing

<e TAB

will insert
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
#+END_EXAMPLE

On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi Dashamir,
> 
>> I have no idea about how easy or difficult would be to
>> implement it, but I think that it would be nice to have
>> some markup like these:
>> --8<--
>> -->8--
>> instead of
>> 
>> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>> #+END_EXAMPLE
> 
> You could prefix your snippets with ":", e.g., this is also a
> preformatted snippet.
> 
> : /dev/sda1	/boot		ext2		noauto,noatime          1 2
> : /dev/sda3	/		ext4		noatime,user_xattr	0 1
> : /dev/sda2	none		swap		sw		        0 0
> : /dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	auto		noauto,ro	        0 0
> : debugfs	/sys/kernel/debug    debugfs	defaults	        0 0
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> 
>