Re: [O] Programmatically insert source-blocks
Hi Thorsten and Eric, Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.com writes: I don't see that Org-mode itself will ever want to programatically and non-interactively insert a code block in an Org-mode file (if fact that sounds rather dangerous to me), so I would vote against adding such a function to the core. FWIW +1 here too. -- Bastien
Re: [O] Programmatically insert source-blocks
So here is my FEATURE REQUEST: either modify `org-babel-demarcate-block' so that it can be used to insert a language-specific code-block (with args?) non-interactively, or add something like `org-insert-block' to Org-mode's core. I would prefer signature ,-- | (defun org-insert-block (lang rest args)...) `-- to be able to specify the src-block headline exactly in a program that uses this function. This function may be easily written outside of Org-mode by anyone who needs it. I don't see that Org-mode itself will ever want to programatically and non-interactively insert a code block in an Org-mode file (if fact that sounds rather dangerous to me), so I would vote against adding such a function to the core. -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
[O] Programmatically insert source-blocks
Hi List, it probably a command everybody knows, but I looked for it several times and just missed it: 'insert a source-block'. I know about Chap. 15.2. of the manual (Easy Templates), thats not what I mean. To reformulate my question: Why doesn't (the most relevant function I have found) ,-- | (org-babel-demarcate-block optional ARG) `-- have a few more optional arguments, e.g. like this ,-- | (org-babel-demarcate-block optional LANG ARG rest args) `-- so that it can be called (e.g.) like this ,-- | (org-babel-demarcate-block optional emacs-lisp nil :results output) `-- without asking the user for input (inserting a new src-block around point or region)? There are so many functions that deal with source-blocks, but the most basic one - insert a new src-block for language xyz with args u v w - is not there. At least not for non-interactive use. At least I did not find it ;) -- cheers, Thorsten
Re: [O] Programmatically insert source-blocks
Hi, Thorsten, Here's one way, and pointers to more: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-04/msg00406.html Yours, Christian Thorsten Jolitz writes: Hi List, it probably a command everybody knows, but I looked for it several times and just missed it: 'insert a source-block'. I know about Chap. 15.2. of the manual (Easy Templates), thats not what I mean. To reformulate my question: Why doesn't (the most relevant function I have found) ,-- | (org-babel-demarcate-block optional ARG) `-- have a few more optional arguments, e.g. like this ,-- | (org-babel-demarcate-block optional LANG ARG rest args) `-- so that it can be called (e.g.) like this ,-- | (org-babel-demarcate-block optional emacs-lisp nil :results output) `-- without asking the user for input (inserting a new src-block around point or region)? There are so many functions that deal with source-blocks, but the most basic one - insert a new src-block for language xyz with args u v w - is not there. At least not for non-interactive use. At least I did not find it ;)
Re: [O] Programmatically insert source-blocks
Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: Hi Christian, Here's one way, and pointers to more: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-04/msg00406.html thanks for the links. I mean, it is not t difficult to write a function like ,-- | (defun org-insert-block (lang) |(interactive Mlanguage: ) |(insert (format #+begin_src %s\n \n#+end_src lang)) |(goto-char (- (point) 10))) `-- or to write insert statements like ,--- | (insert (format #+begin_src %s\n \n#+end_src lang)) `--- in a program - but I find it strange that this is not part of core Org-mode functionality. There are dozens of functions that deal with existing code-blocks, but none (non-interactive) that creates/inserts a code-block. So here is my FEATURE REQUEST: either modify `org-babel-demarcate-block' so that it can be used to insert a language-specific code-block (with args?) non-interactively, or add something like `org-insert-block' to Org-mode's core. I would prefer signature ,-- | (defun org-insert-block (lang rest args)...) `-- to be able to specify the src-block headline exactly in a program that uses this function. -- cheers, Thorsten
