Re: [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea

[Ulf Stegemann <ulf-news@zeitform.de>]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> 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
>> "<p><textarea ...>...</textarea></p>" 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.

Ulf