From: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [babel] Uses for :session buffers
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:44:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF1E793.2080205@cs.tu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7917D5A-F052-4F6A-AD96-41F9299F9689@tsdye.com>
Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> Aloha all,
>
> I'm trying to comprehend the possibilities created by org-babel, and
> would like to draw on the experience of others if I could.
>
> I recently discovered the buffer created by :session. In my case, this
> is an R session that I am building to track the data collection phase of
> a research project. I was delighted to find that it appears to have
> recorded everything my org file had done in that session. I have a
> vague idea that it might be useful to save this as a log to prove that
> all the little source blocks in my org file indeed were called and
> executed successfully.
>
> I'm wondering: do other org-babelers use the :session buffer? How? For
> what purpose?
>
Another advantage: you can set a variable in one source block
and access it in the next one.
Greetings,
Stephan
> Any tips or advice will be appreciated.
>
> All the best,
> Tom
>
> Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 19:24 [babel] Uses for :session buffers Thomas S. Dye
2009-11-04 20:44 ` Stephan Schmitt [this message]
2009-11-04 21:26 ` Thomas S. Dye
2009-11-04 22:02 ` Dan Davison
2009-11-04 23:00 ` Thomas S. Dye
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