From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Eric Schulte <eschulte@cs.unm.edu>
Subject: Re: [BUG] in Release 8.2 - editing code in indirect buffer
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:09:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B85FCE2-E97D-429F-87C2-A553025F1D96@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24n999ytq.fsf@krugs.de>
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On 25.9.2013, at 08:53, Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
> writes:
>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>> On 24.9.2013, at 18:17, Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com> wrote:
>>>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>>> On 23.9.2013, at 09:40, Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When starting to edit a code block via C-c ' everything works as expected
>>>>>> and the code block is highlighted and an indirect buffer is opened.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I click into the highlighted block, I an "send" to the indirect buffer.
>>>>>> This behavior changes, after saving with C-s, even when nothing has been
>>>>>> edited: the area in the original org file looses its magic, and looks normal
>>>>>> again and can also be edited!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The indirect buffer stays functional and, upon close via C-c ' saves the
>>>>>> changes into the original buffer and *overwrites* changes done in this block
>>>>>> in the org document.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a bug which is difficult to fix in all generality. What should really
>>>>> happen is that the text in the original buffer is made read-only. But so far
>>>>> this does not happen in our implementation (due to Dan Davison IIRC). The
>>>>> reason for this is that read-only text properties left by accident in a
>>>>> buffer are difficult to get rid of.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are many things the user could go back and screw up the original.
>>>>> That's why Org choses to protect with highlighting with an overlay. Note that
>>>>> this is not a protection against editing, but it is a visual warning.
>>>>
>>>> I never knew that "your" goal was to make the code block read-only in the Org
>>>> buffer. Note that I would be really opposed to such a change. Editing code in
>>>> the prose would really become a pain to me -- please know that I NEVER use the
>>>> indirect buffer.
>>>
>>> I only mean while there is a special buffer also editing this block!
>>
>> Pfff! I'm relieved -- I should have understood it ;-)
>
> While we are at editing code blocks inline (I also do this quite often).
>
> This might have been asked before, but in code blocks we have
>
> - syntax highlighting
> - indenting using the code block language settings
>
> but would it be possible to have, when the cursor is in a code block,
> the menus and shortcuts for the language mode enabled, i.e. complete
> support for editing the code block language, as in the special buffer,
> but inline in org? Evaluationg single lines of code directly from the
> code block in org would be *brilliant*.
This is very complicated, because such functionality needs
the entire environment of a mode. I think there are some solutions
which allow multiple major modes - but I don't think we will go
there with Org.
However, I think this is really a question to Eric Schulte (in CC).
- Carsten
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Seb
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> --
> Rainer M. Krug
>
> email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-25 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 20:27 Release 8.2 Carsten Dominik
2013-09-20 4:32 ` Mehul Sanghvi
2013-09-20 5:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-20 9:40 ` Alexander Baier
2013-09-20 10:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-20 11:06 ` BUG?: BABEL - " Rainer M Krug
2013-09-20 11:06 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-21 13:54 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-21 15:02 ` BUG?: Org-src " Eric Schulte
2013-09-21 15:25 ` BUG?: BABEL " Ista Zahn
2013-09-20 11:17 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-23 7:40 ` [BUG] in Release 8.2 - editing code in indirect buffer Rainer M Krug
2013-09-24 14:01 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-24 16:02 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-24 16:17 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-24 16:35 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] ` <578DF849-8046-47A6-879C-FC5874BE591B-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-24 16:53 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-25 6:53 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25 7:09 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-09-25 7:38 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25 13:13 ` Eric Schulte
2013-09-25 14:00 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25 19:39 ` Andreas Leha
2013-09-26 8:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25 6:48 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25 7:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25 7:29 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-10-02 22:55 ` Release 8.2 Mike McLean
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