From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: export regions of a org files to other formats (most likely only to a buffer).
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 16:08:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8sG1aNdaL3qXcSHMQqWejop6KN4NkE04T=kF8ebDBjBsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czg06c9z.fsf@localhost>
i would say that respecting narrowing is expected in emacs, as a kind
of pseudo-buffer bob/eob, so it would be surprising to find that it
might not be so in a part of org. lack of it should be mentioned, but
might be a bug.
On 5/25/22, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>>> Could you please clarify which part of the function docstring was not
>>> clear?
>>
>> Well
>> | org-export-dispatch is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
>> | ‘ox.el’.
>> |
>> | (org-export-dispatch &optional ARG)
>> ...
>>
>> Does not mention, that a selected region gets exported.
>
> Fair enough.
> Ironically, it is not even wrong. Looking at the source code, respecting
> region is merely a convention coming from most of backends calling
> `org-export-as'.
>
> As one possibility, we can add something like the following to the
> docstring:
>
> "Usually, exporting respects current narrowing and active region, though
> individual export backends might not follow the convention. See
> `org-export-as' for more details."
>
> Alternatively, we can modify `org-export-define-backend' to change the
> docstring with links to individual backend exporters.
>
> Or we may modify the dispatcher menu to indicate active region. Though
> it is not guaranteed to be obeyed by the backends.
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-26 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-25 14:35 export regions of a org files to other formats (most likely only to a buffer) Uwe Brauer
2022-05-25 15:19 ` William Denton
2022-05-25 15:36 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-05-26 2:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-26 5:48 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-05-26 6:25 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-26 20:00 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-05-26 23:08 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2022-05-26 23:28 ` Samuel Wales
2022-05-27 4:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-25 15:21 ` Kaushal Modi
2022-05-25 15:26 ` Eric S Fraga
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