[O] babel, executing code in background process

2012-02-29 Thread Erik Garrison
Hi,

I'm just starting to use org-mode and babel to structure exploratory data
analysis which I do for my work.

One issue that I've run into is that many of the queries I have to issue
will take a very long time to complete.

Is there any method I could use to execute them in a background process?

Thanks,
Erik


Re: [O] babel, executing code in background process

2012-02-29 Thread Erik Garrison
Hi Eric,

Thanks for the background.  It looks like ob-screen may be very limited in
that it doesn't

It seems to me that a decent method would behave similarly to the way to
M-x compile works--- another buffer opens in which the compilation
progresses.  Is there any reason why this might not be applicable to the
way babel works?

Erik

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Eric Schulte eric.schu...@gmx.com wrote:

 Hi Erik,

 Currently there is not (to my knowledge) any support for asynchronous
 code block evaluation.  The one possible exception could be ob-screen
 which I mention only because I don't really know anything about it.

 This would certainly be a worthwhile feature to add to Org-mode code
 blocks, however a good implementation (easy to use, robust and
 cross-language) will be non-trivial to implement.

 Best,

 Erik Garrison erik.garri...@gmail.com writes:

  Hi,
 
  I'm just starting to use org-mode and babel to structure exploratory data
  analysis which I do for my work.
 
  One issue that I've run into is that many of the queries I have to issue
  will take a very long time to complete.
 
  Is there any method I could use to execute them in a background process?
 
  Thanks,
  Erik

 --
 Eric Schulte
 http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/