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

2012-03-05 Thread Yu
Hello! The trick would be in setting up the post-execution code block handling > (namely results parsing and insertion) to run after external evaluation > has completed. I don't think this is a high priority necessarily. When executing e.g. gnuplot or octave source code blocks for the sake of pl

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

2012-03-01 Thread Eric Schulte
Erik Garrison writes: > 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 t

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

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

2012-02-29 Thread Eric Schulte
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, how

[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?