Re: inline source code blocks

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

> I'm finding that Org would work well as a literate programming system 
> for C++, if the code block starts and ends didn't get in the way so much 
> during frequent switching between code and prose.
>
>  > I use the following to make code block syntax less intrusive
>
> Thanks, that was helpful, didn't know about compose-region.
> Still, it does not reduce the number of lines used, so a short list of 
> declarations interspersed with comments quickly ends up taking a lot of 
> vertical space.   When coding it helps to be able to see many things at 
> once, and having many extra lines (even mostly-blank ones) makes that 
> difficult.
>

I agree that maximizing code per vertical space is important.  However,
keeping Org-mode parseable and editable is also important.  How about
the following alternative to my previous suggestion, which will
eliminate the extra lines.

    (defun prettier-org-code-blocks ()
      (interactive)
      (font-lock-add-keywords nil
        '(("\\(^[[:space:]]*#\\+begin_src .*[\r\n]\\)"
           (0 (progn (compose-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1) "")
                     nil)))
          ("\\(^[[:space:]]*#\\+end_src[\r\n]\\)"
           (0 (progn (compose-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1) "")
                     nil))))))

Best,

>
> ilya
>
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