Hi Greg, > On Apr 16, 2021, at 8:27 AM, Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> wrote: > > Rama, > > one other comment/suggestion. > >> I haven’t been able to fully work with Donald Knuth’s suggestion of >> writing a Literate Program directly in a tool like orgmode/noweb since >> it is a nuisance to keep having to type C-c ' to go into the editing >> mode of the language concerned. > > while i have not much experience with it, you might look at the emacs > packages polymode, poly-org, and poly-whatever-other-languages-you-use. > it seems as if they might give you [C-c ']-like behavior when editing > source blocks in line in an org mode buffer. > > (others who use polymode: does this make sense?)
I have tried it a few times, but not had satisfactory results. I use mostly R src blocks, so I want to have ESS like functionality. And I really like to be able to execute src blocks with `org-babel-execute-src-block'. Unfortunately, it seems like polymode gets into conflicts with org mode from time to time. My memory is a bit dim on exactly the issues, but I think there were freezes. Maybe turning off all the stops and whistles in org mode (like fontification) would solve this, but I never gave it a go. Having said that, I will say it is easy enough to install and try out. And perhaps your mileage will vary. Best, Chuck
