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From: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [feature proposal] Export in foreign buffers - ASCII (ox-ascii)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:22:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8422BCDC-5B51-417D-B8DF-9D47BE2896FB@condition-alpha.com> (raw)

Dear Org-Mode Developers,

I was missing convert-region functions in the ox-ascii export back-end
as are provided by the HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, and MarkDown back-ends [1],
and hence crafted my own (copied below) to go into my init file. My use
case is composing emails using notmuch-message-mode.

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Export-in-foreign-buffers.html

I though this feature might be useful to others, too, and would likely
also seem a low hanging fruit to implement? ;-))

It would be awesome to see this new feature in one of the next releases
of ox-ascii.


Many thanks in advance and cheers,

  --alexander

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(defun org-ascii-convert-region-to-ascii ()
  "Assume the current region has org-mode syntax, and convert it to plain ASCII.
This can be used in any buffer.  For example, you could write an
itemized list in org-mode syntax in a Mail buffer and then use
this command to convert it."
  (interactive)
  (let ((my/org-ascii-charset org-ascii-charset))
    (setq org-ascii-charset 'ascii)
    (org-export-replace-region-by 'ascii)
    (setq org-ascii-charset my/org-ascii-charset)))

(defun org-ascii-convert-region-to-utf8 ()
  "Assume the current region has org-mode syntax, and convert it to UTF-8.
This can be used in any buffer.  For example, you could write an
itemized list in org-mode syntax in a Mail buffer and then use
this command to convert it."
  (interactive)
  (let ((my/org-ascii-charset org-ascii-charset))
    (setq org-ascii-charset 'utf-8)
    (org-export-replace-region-by 'ascii)
    (setq org-ascii-charset my/org-ascii-charset)))
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next             reply	other threads:[~2018-10-22 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-22 19:22 Alexander Adolf [this message]
2018-10-24  7:04 ` [feature proposal] Export in foreign buffers - ASCII (ox-ascii) Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-24 17:03   ` Alexander Adolf
2018-10-25 14:56     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-25 15:07       ` Alexander Adolf

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