Dear Org-Mode Developers, I was missing convert-region functions in the ox-ascii export back-end as are provided by the HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, and MarkDown back-ends [1], and hence crafted my own (copied below) to go into my init file. My use case is composing emails using notmuch-message-mode.
[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Export-in-foreign-buffers.html I though this feature might be useful to others, too, and would likely also seem a low hanging fruit to implement? ;-)) It would be awesome to see this new feature in one of the next releases of ox-ascii. Many thanks in advance and cheers, --alexander ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (defun org-ascii-convert-region-to-ascii () "Assume the current region has org-mode syntax, and convert it to plain ASCII. This can be used in any buffer. For example, you could write an itemized list in org-mode syntax in a Mail buffer and then use this command to convert it." (interactive) (let ((my/org-ascii-charset org-ascii-charset)) (setq org-ascii-charset 'ascii) (org-export-replace-region-by 'ascii) (setq org-ascii-charset my/org-ascii-charset))) (defun org-ascii-convert-region-to-utf8 () "Assume the current region has org-mode syntax, and convert it to UTF-8. This can be used in any buffer. For example, you could write an itemized list in org-mode syntax in a Mail buffer and then use this command to convert it." (interactive) (let ((my/org-ascii-charset org-ascii-charset)) (setq org-ascii-charset 'utf-8) (org-export-replace-region-by 'ascii) (setq org-ascii-charset my/org-ascii-charset))) ----------------------------------------------------------------------