From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:31:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <0F3A5DC4-D191-472D-BCA6-7978CEB308F9@uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOpXa-0001i6-Ri for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:31:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOpXZ-0001gu-3a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:31:26 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47256 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOpXY-0001gj-Sv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:31:24 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:26473) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOpXY-0005Z0-Dq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:31:24 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOpXX-0005Vl-Ab for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:31:23 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 36so240964uga.17 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:31:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ulf Stegemann Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote: > Hi Carsten, > > Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote: >> >>> Is it worth thinking about an example block that will be exported >>> to a >>> "

" structure in HTML export? >>> >>> I was recently playing around with org for online documentation. The >>> documents contained lots of literal examples that can be directly >>> copied >>> and pasted e.g. into a terminal emu. While example- and src blocks >>> work >>> fine, I think that putting this kind of information into a textarea >>> would be even better. >> >> Hi Ulf, so far I fail to see what the big advantage would be. Can >> you try again to explain? > > of course. Generally, selecting text is a bit easier inside an input > box > but the very real advantage is that you can edit inside inputs. This > allows to give literal examples with "variables" that can be changed > directly inside the page before being copied and pasted. Hmmm, but why would you want to edit them in the text window, if you will paste them into an editor anyway, where you probably can edit them a lot easier? Or are you talking about pasting examples directly into an interpreter input stream? - Carsten