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* suggestion/feature-request for dynamic blocks
@ 2010-09-15 12:47 Inquisitive Scientist
  2010-09-21 15:41 ` Eric Schulte
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Inquisitive Scientist @ 2010-09-15 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear Experts,

I'd like to make a suggestion/feature-request for people who write dynamic
blocks (which are very cool):

 1. It would be really handy to have a parameter of the form :tname <NAME>
which puts a #+TBLNAME: <NAME> into the top of the table created by a
dynamic block. This makes the dynamic table easy to reference from other
things.
 2. It would be even better to also provide a parameter of the form :dtname
<NAME> which puts a #+TBLNAME: <NAME>-<DATE> into the top of the table where
<DATE> is today's date.
 3. It might be handy to have orgmode provide a predefined set of standard
parameters and tools for writing those at the start end of the table so all
dynamic block writers can get the benefit of nifty parameters with minimal
effort.

Thanks again for org-mode,

-I.S.

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• * Re: suggestion/feature-request for dynamic blocks
    2010-09-15 12:47 suggestion/feature-request for dynamic blocks Inquisitive Scientist
  @ 2010-09-21 15:41 ` Eric Schulte
    2010-09-22 12:26   ` I.S.
    0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
  From: Eric Schulte @ 2010-09-21 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Inquisitive Scientist; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
  
  Hi,
  
  Inquisitive Scientist <inquisitive.scientist@gmail.com> writes:
  
  > Dear Experts,
  >
  > I'd like to make a suggestion/feature-request for people who write dynamic
  > blocks (which are very cool):
  >
  >  1. It would be really handy to have a parameter of the form :tname <NAME>
  > which puts a #+TBLNAME: <NAME> into the top of the table created by a
  > dynamic block. This makes the dynamic table easy to reference from other
  > things.
  
  Tables created by named code block are already prefixed with a
  #+results: source-name line.  This allows them to be referenced by other
  code blocks.  Is there some property of #+tblname: lines which is not
  shared by #+results: lines which would make #+tblname: lines preferable?
  
  > 
  >  2. It would be even better to also provide a parameter of the form :dtname
  > <NAME> which puts a #+TBLNAME: <NAME>-<DATE> into the top of the table where
  > <DATE> is today's date.
  
  I would recommend packing this date information into the results line
  (rather into the name).  Can I ask what use-case this would be to
  support?
  
  > 
  >  3. It might be handy to have orgmode provide a predefined set of standard
  > parameters and tools for writing those at the start end of the table so all
  > dynamic block writers can get the benefit of nifty parameters with minimal
  > effort.
  >
  
  I'm not sure what you mean here.  By "dynamic block" do you mean "code
  block" or something more general?
  
  Thanks -- Eric
  
  >
  > Thanks again for org-mode,
  >
  > -I.S.
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• • * Re: suggestion/feature-request for dynamic blocks
      2010-09-21 15:41 ` Eric Schulte
    @ 2010-09-22 12:26   ` I.S.
      0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
    From: I.S. @ 2010-09-22 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Eric Schulte; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
    
      On 9/21/2010 11:41 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
    > Tables created by named code block are already prefixed with a
    > #+results: source-name line.  This allows them to be referenced by other
    > code blocks.  Is there some property of #+tblname: lines which is not
    > shared by #+results: lines which would make #+tblname: lines preferable?
    Sorry for the terminology confusion. I was referring to the dynamic code 
    block features of org-mode such as org-dblock-write:columnview or 
    org-update-dblock. Such functions take a pair of lines like
    
    #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id local :maxlevel 4
    #+END:
    
    and fill them in with information automatically extracted from the 
    org-mode file.
    
    I would like to be able to specify something like
    
    #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id local :maxlevel 4 :dtname
    #+END:
    
    and have a #+TBLNAME get inserted in automatically so that I can then 
    use org-babel to further process the results.
    
    I think things like this would be useful for all the various kinds of 
    org-dblock-write: functions and so suggested a generic library for 
    writers of org-dblock-write: functions to handle things like this.
    
    Thanks,
    -I.S.
    
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