Re: Re: New beamer support

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:

> Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> PS- An idea: wouldn't it be good (*iff* easily feasible) to load
>>>> org-beamer-mode when opening an Org file whose LaTeX class is  
>>>> beamer?
>>>
>>> That could be done, but you can also set the startup option.
>>> But yes, it is one more think to remember...
>>
>> I remember now why I did it like this.
>>
>> 1. If the global LaTeX class is not beamer, you still want to be  
>> able to
>>  turn the mode on, because you might have a subtree that will be  
>> exported
>>  as beamer presentation
>
> Right.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Org-Beamer minor mode (indicator Bm):
> Special support for editing Org-mode files made to export to beamer.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Wouldn't it be better to rename the function to be called as `M-x
> org-beamer-minor-mode'. Many minor modes are called that way, even  
> if a quick
> overview of the functions show that it does not seem to be enforced.

No, I think putting minor into the name is a mistake.  The only place
where this makes sense is something like outline-minor-mode, i.e. where
a major mode of the same name exists.

- Carsten

>
>
>> 2. If you are not missing the `C-c C-b' key, you can just turn on
>>  org-beamer-mode in every org-mode by setting
>>  org-startup-with-beamer-mode.
>
> Right. Not a problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Seb
>
> -- 
> Sébastien Vauban
>
>
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- Carsten