Re: [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Ulf Stegemann <ulf-news@zeitform.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:01:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0F3A5DC4-D191-472D-BCA6-7978CEB308F9@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <zf.upnocy7wpc1.fsf@zeitform.de>

On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:

> Is it worth thinking about an example block that will be exported to a
> "<p><textarea ...>...</textarea></p>" structure in HTML export?
>
> I was recently playing around with org for online documentation. The
> documents contained lots of literal examples that can be directly  
> copied
> and pasted e.g. into a terminal emu. While example- and src blocks  
> work
> fine, I think that putting this kind of information into a textarea
> would be even better.

Hi Ulf, so far I fail to see what the big advantage would be.  Can
you try again to explain?

- Carsten

>
>
> Ideally the cols attribute to textarea could be defined by the user
> after #+begin_textarea (or whatever) with a reasonable default (let's
> say 80). Rows could be calculated depending on the number of lines
> inside the block.
>
> Export to anything else than HTML should treat such a block in much  
> the
> same way as an example block.
>
> I think this really would be a nice feature to have and maybe I'm not
> alone with this opinion?
>
> Ulf
>
>
>
>
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