Re: Re: org-babel - utility to ease chopping src chunks into smaller org entries

From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: org-babel - utility to ease chopping src chunks into	smaller org entries
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:58:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9865B2.1040103@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iq20p473.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk>

Hi,

I'm late to this discussion, but just a lateral thought:

Would you consider rewriting this as `org-demarcate-block' or similar, 
to operate on all #+begin_...end blocks, not just src?

If generalized this function could be equally useful for non-src 
blocks as well. Example blocks come immediately to mind, but there are 
non-coding applications too.

For instance, I store many notes with quotes from various texts, 
sometimes in fairly long =#+begin_quote= blocks, which I then need to 
split up when I want to write an extended discussion of a passage, 
quoting a few lines at a time.

For those who use verse blocks (I all too seldom have the need...), it 
may be even more useful.

For personal use, I already have a little org-insert-block utility 
function to insert/wrap [q]uote, [s]rc, e[x]ample, [v]erse or [o]ther 
  blocks at a keystroke. This works for me since I use at least the 
first two more or less equally often. A generalized demarcate-block 
function would be a nice complement.

Yours,
CM

>> I've just added this to the org-mode repo.
>>
>>> Not in the babel key map - in the org key map (I use it most in normal
>>> non src org entries to mark a block of elisp as src for samples/examples).
>>
>> For now it still lives in the babel keymap behind (C-c C-v d) since it
>> is fundamentally code-block related,
>
> For me, "fundamentally code-block related", in the absence of
> execution-related functionality, points to org-src.el rather than
> org-babel, so I suggest naming this function
> org-src-demarcate-block. The babel keymap is still a good place for a
> binding -- I think it's reasonable for the babel keymap to accomodate
> pure code block stuff in addition to execution/tangling stuff.
>
> Dan
>
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