Re: export regions of a org files to other formats (most likely only to a buffer).

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

[i realized there is a footnote to my comment about narrowing.  of
course there might be questions about what org will do if there are
things that refer to outside the region, like links or macro
definitions.]


On 5/26/22, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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