Re: [babel] Editing 'quote' source blocks in artist mode

[Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Gustav Wikström <gustav.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi!
>> >> 
>> >> Just tried this and I can confirm both your bugs.
>> >> 
>> >> calling org-edit-special on the following line gives artist-mode (or whatever it is called..):
>> >> 
>> >> : some text
>> >> 
>> >
>> > That's a feature, not a bug:
>> 
>> 
>> A quote might be a fixed-width-region inside an org document, but who
>> wants to edit a textual quote in picture/artitst mode?
>> 
>
> Nobody - I was just pointing out that we (at least, Gustav and I do) get
> this behavior and that's consistent with the code.  OTOH, we *don't* all
> get the same behavior with #+begin/end_quote and the behavior you get is
> inconsistent with the code: you get picture mode, Gustav and I get
> (confusing) questions about opening a file with ffap.
>
>> Quotes are almost always text imho. 
>> 
>
> Not sure what the "best" solution is: sometimes they are ascii art and
> having picture mode on is helpful, sometimes they are text and some kind
> of text mode would be more appropriate. But they could really be anything
> so *any* choice is bound to disappoint at some point/time and I'm not sure
> org can be prescient enough TDRT all the time.

I seem to remember that before my shift to emacs24 I just used
quote-blocks and they were in text mode and I thought that was allright
as default behaviour. Actually, I did not even notice what mode I was
in, because it felt so natural to edit the quote as text. 

I'm not really into this, its a bit strange, and might be just a special
problem with my emacs installation/configuration. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten