From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: emacs build command for org-files
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:10:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ51ETokC59t5r=DcXw4kCoPPU-FB8ZTOoxckJ3QGV9bDLE9qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi everyone,
This is only semi-on-topic. I am looking for something like M-x compile for
my org-files, but I don't want it to necessarily use Makefiles. I am
looking for suggestions of existing solutions to this, or thoughts on how
to implement this.
Actually, if it was possible to get M-x compile to run an elisp function
instead of a make file, it might be all I need, but it looks like it runs
shell commands.
For most of my files, simple exporting is totally adequate. But, some files
are more complicated, and what I usually do in these cases is write an
elisp code block in a section that is tagged :noexport: and then I run that
block to build the result. A recent example was a proposal where I needed a
pdf of the body, and separate pdf of the references.
I have separate elisp functions that generate these, and then I added some
custom cleanup code in the block to delete some intermediate directories. I
don't want to put these in a makefile because they are specific to this
document. While this works, in a large document I find it a little
inconvenient to make a small change say at the top, and then to jump to the
bottom to run the build block to see how it changed. What I would prefer is
to just run a command like M-x org-compile that would know about this build
block and run it. That block could of course be a shell block that runs a
makefile, but it would most often be an elisp block. I could even imagine
that there is a makefile block that is tangled before running a shell block
that runs a make command.
What I do in a function now is something like this in a save-excursion:
(when (not (stringp (org-babel-goto-named-src-block "build")))
(org-babel-execute-src-block))
I don't use this in these projects, but they highlight some of the
complexities I am trying to simplify. These are book like projects with
special formatting needs, and multiple outputs.
In this project (
https://github.com/jkitchin/pycse/blob/master/pycse.org#L15096), I have
multiple output targets that I would run.
In this project (
https://github.com/jkitchin/dft-book/blob/master/dft.org#build) I use some
temporary filters to save the src blocks to files, and to embed them in the
pdf so they can be opened.
Anyway, it feels like I am reinventing something here, and that there might
be some better approach already out there. Maybe some elisp equivalent of a
makefile or something?
Thoughts?
John
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-26 18:10 John Kitchin [this message]
2020-01-26 19:38 ` emacs build command for org-files briangpowell .
2020-01-26 20:05 ` John Kitchin
2020-01-26 21:13 ` briangpowell .
2020-01-27 15:53 ` John Kitchin
2020-01-27 17:38 ` Jack Kamm
2020-01-27 19:13 ` John Kitchin
2020-01-27 8:16 ` Stefan Nobis
2020-01-27 13:33 ` John Kitchin
2020-01-27 12:40 ` Neil Jerram
2020-01-27 13:16 ` John Kitchin
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