I am pretty sure this is not directly possible right now. Some approaches that resemble it could be: 1. write a src block that will be tangled to a script. 2. tangle the block 3. Run the script in a shell src block with an & so it runs non-blocking.
or, use an elisp block like: (org-babel-tangle) (async-shell-command "your script" some-output-buffer) I don't know a way to get continuous updated output in an org-buffer though. I do things like this by making code blocks that submit scripts to a queue system if needed, and then raising an exception. If not needed, the scripts read data files and return the answer I want. You might find a way to use the async module (https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async) to achieve something like this too but I suspect it still involves tangling, or calling the named block asynchronously. Tom writes: > When I run Python code in a session from Org mode and the execution takes a > while, the cursor changes to a wait cursor. In addition, the session window > doesn't display any intermediate output until the execution has finished. > > Is there any way of changing this behavior? I would like to start > long-running functions from within org-mode and see the progress of the > computation as it happens. > > Tom -- 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
