From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Programmatically handling org files
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:22:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sht4dd92.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fup5f07e.fsf@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 12 2016, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> by "non-org Emacs packages" you mean Emacs packages written in Elisp,
> but not part of Org-mode?
Yes, exactly. My wording wasn't entirely clear, I admit.
> The org-mode parser converts an Org document into a nested list and
> provides many convenience functions to work on this parse tree. So
> org-element.el (and maybe ox.el too) is the core library for converting
> an Org text document into an Elisp data structure and working with that,
So IIUC org-element.el is mainly for getting the contents of an org
buffer in such a way that a program can work with it, but not really for
modifying the contents of the buffer itself in such a way that it's
still a valid org document, right?
> If you feel you don't need the whole parse tree, but rather want to act
> locally on the Org element at point,
Yes. :-)
> you might want to look at
> org-dp.el
Cool, I will do that!
> with just two core functions (create and rewire an Org
> element) and a mapping functions (plus quite a few utilities in
> org-dp.el and org-dp-lib.el):
[snip example]
> Using this system, creating or rewiring an Org Element from Elisp
> requires only to define the values of the interpreted parameters, all
> the low level stuff (actually creating and inserting the new/modified
> element in text form) is left to the interpreters (from org-element.el).
>
> You just declare what you want and don't worry anymore how it is done
> (=> dp stands for declarative programming, in this context at least ;-)
That sounds pretty cool, thanks!
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 11:44 Programmatically handling org files Joost Kremers
2016-09-12 13:47 ` John Kitchin
2016-09-12 21:59 ` Joost Kremers
2016-09-12 18:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-09-12 18:30 ` John Kitchin
2016-09-12 21:37 ` Joost Kremers
2016-09-12 21:22 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-09-12 22:10 ` Nick Dokos
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