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Subject: Re: [Babel] How to find out export format in a babel plugin
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:17:10 -0500
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To: Jianing Yang <jianingy.yang@gmail.com>
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On 03/24/2011 10:09 PM, Jianing Yang wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I've recently written a babel plugin which does syntax highlighting
> using pygment.
> However, I have to specify a '-f html' option every time I use it. It looks like
>
>
> #+begin_src pygment :cmdline -l bash -O linenos -f html
> exec 3<&0 # copies STDIN, it prevents 'read' stealing STDIN from '$command'
> while read FN; do
>    test -e "$FN" || rm -iv "$FN"<&3
> done<  <(find . $level -type l)
> #+end_src
>
> Therefore, my question is that is there a way that a babel plugin can
> be aware about the export
> format? If there is, not only I can omit the '-f html' but it could
> also support for other export format,
> like latex, transparently.

In git pulls from within the last few weeks, see the variable:
org-export-current-backend

Does your pygment idea have any overlap with:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/28420