Carsten Dominik <[email protected]> writes: > On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:59 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: > >> Carsten Dominik <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Nicolas Girard wrote: >>> >>>> 2009/6/18 Carsten Dominik <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Nicolas Girard wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> currently the code in org-exp-blocks is intended for pre-processing >>>> only. >>>> It seems to me like org-mode would gain a very powerful feature, if >>>> blocks could also be previewed in their own buffer, using the same >>>> mechanism as the org-format-latex function. >>>> What do you think ? >>>> >>>> I don't see how this could be done in a general way. I guess you >>>> mean in particular >>>> the graphics blocks like ditaa? >>>> >>>> Yes. For any block type bt, if it makes sense, it would be possible >>>> to write such org-block-<bt>-generate-image(body) that takes the >>>> block as argument and returns the path of the image it produced. >>>> >>>> Then: >>>> - for exporting: the existing org-export-blocks-format-<bt> >>>> functions would simply call their respective >>>> org-block-<bt>-generate- >>>> image and work the same ; >>>> - for previewing a block of type <bt>: if such org-block-<bt>- >>>> generate-image exists, call it and display it the same way org- >>>> format-latex does >>>> >>>> Wouldn't it be great ? >>> >>> Yes, it would be. First you will need to talk Eric Schulte into >>> splitting the image generation functions into separate functions. >>> The I could look into the preview functionality. >>> >> >> I recently sent out an email announcement of development on org-babel >> which should provide a unified backend for evaluating source-code >> contained in org-mode blocks. If org-exp-blocks is using org-babel >> for >> it's source-code evaluation the ability to interactively evaluate >> blocks >> will come for free. This would be my preference rather than >> implementing a new code-evaluation schema for org-exp-blocks. >> >> I suppose that this would assume that org-babel is accepted into the >> core of org-mode (for it to be a requirement of org-exp-blocks which >> is >> now part of the org-mode core). While this would be my preference, it >> is certainly not my decision to make, and I honestly haven't given it >> much thought up until this point. > > From your post yesterday, without looking closer at org-babel, > it sounded to me that it is still under heavy development, > so maybe it is too early for the core at this moment? >
Yes, I am very much in agreement that it is too soon to contemplate moving org-babel into the core. The intended point of my aside above is that I don't plan on adding interactive evaluation directly to org-exp-blocks. Thanks -- Eric > > No principal objections, of course. > > - Carsten _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
