Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > >> On the other hand, there are times when I am working on a document that has >> a lot of short code blocks, e.g. for lecture notes or blog posts, where it >> is sufficiently tedious to me to switch in and out of the special edit mode >> that I wanted to try this solution out, and it became clear you can't >> really try it out without modifying the core org code that does the >> font-locking on a block. > > Are you sure about it? There are two hooks related to fontification: > `org-font-lock-set-keywords-hook' and `org-font-lock-hook'. I'm > surprised none can help you in this case.
You are totally right on this. I can use org-font-lock-hook to take care of this. Thanks for the pointer. > >> I don't think we have to go so far as to say we make multiple major mode >> keybindings available, so much as context specific keybindings available >> where there is value in it. We already have this in org-speed keys for >> example, and even these can be context specific to do different things on >> headings (even different things on headings with specific properties) and >> blocks ( >> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/12/22/Context-specific-org-mode-speed-keys/ >> ). > > Neat hack. Thanks! > >> If there was a change to org to enable this, I wouldn't expect the core to >> change behavior for anyone, it would just make it possible for users to >> change this if they wanted to. The same way they can customize the face of >> a code block for different languages. > > Fair enough. Would you want to provide a proper patch? With the hook I don't think it is necessary. Thanks for all the discussion though (everyone) it was helpful to think it through. > > Thank you. > > > Regards, -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
