Re: Capitalisation and good taste ?

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Leo Alekseyev <dnquark@gmail.com> writes:

>> A long time ago all capitals was the only way these keywords were
>> supported.  Since then they have become case insensitive and I use all
>> lowercase for most of my keywords now (#+begin_src:, #+begin_example:
>> etc)
>>
>> With fontification these stand out enough now and the capitalization can
>> be removed.
>
> So I'm kind of late to this party, but like Bernt, I've been favoring
> lowercase #+ keywords; I believe it looks cleaner and easier on the
> eyes.  However, if functions that autogenerate keywords (e.g.
> #+results from code blocks and easy templates) default to a particular
> case, forcing a different case as a user becomes unappealing
> (consistency trumps aesthetics).
>
> If we want to keep org truly keyword-case-agnostic, then there should
> be a user-customized variable that easy templates and org-babel result
> blocks would follow.

I added the following to my .emacs to keep lowercase.

(setq org-babel-results-keyword "results")

(setq org-structure-template-alist
      (quote (("s" "#+begin_src ?\n\n#+end_src" "<src lang=\"?\">\n\n</src>")
	      ("e" "#+begin_example\n?\n#+end_example" "<example>\n?\n</example>")
	      ("q" "#+begin_quote\n?\n#+end_quote" "<quote>\n?\n</quote>")
	      ("v" "#+begin_verse\n?\n#+end_verse" "<verse>\n?\n/verse>")
	      ("c" "#+begin_center\n?\n#+end_center" "<center>\n?\n/center>")
	      ("l" "#+begin_latex\n?\n#+end_latex" "<literal style=\"latex\">\n?\n</literal>")
	      ("L" "#+latex: " "<literal style=\"latex\">?</literal>")
	      ("h" "#+begin_html\n?\n#+end_html" "<literal style=\"html\">\n?\n</literal>")
	      ("H" "#+html: " "<literal style=\"html\">?</literal>")
	      ("a" "#+begin_ascii\n?\n#+end_ascii")
	      ("A" "#+ascii: ")
	      ("i" "#+index: ?" "#+index: ?")
	      ("I" "#+include %file ?" "<include file=%file markup=\"?\">"))))

-Bernt