emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed

From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] [babel] read description lists as lists of lists
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:52:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha02a4qg.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha03qv19.fsf@gmail.com> (Aaron Ecay's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:17:54 -0400")

Hello,

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

> The attached patch makes babel read description lists as lists of the
> following format: (("term" "description") ...).  The present default is
> to simply read in the text of each list item, yielding:
> ("term :: description" ...).

Thank you.

> Of course, it’s possible to interconvert between the two formats, but I
> think the greater structure of this proposal makes things easier for
> babel authors.  (Another way of thinking of the proposal is that it
> treats description lists like two-column tables.)
>
> What do people think?

The problem I see here is that you're introducing yet another internal
representation for lists (along with element's and
org-list-parse-list's). Worse, it can only be discovered when reading
the docstring of a Babel internal function and will only benefit to
Babel.

If this new internal representation is better than current one, by all
means, improve `org-list-parse-list', and document it in

  (info "(org) Radio lists")

This is more work, but, IMO, it is also the only sane way to proceed.

> +THE result is a list of strings \(the list items), unless the

You only need to escape parenthesis at the beginning of a line.

> +	(mapcar (lambda (el)
> +		  (let ((s (split-string el " :: ")))
> +		    (list (nth 0 s) (mapconcat #'identity (cdr s) " :: "))))

This is really awkward. You can use a regexp to extract the tag.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-20 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-19 19:17 [RFC] [PATCH] [babel] read description lists as lists of lists Aaron Ecay
2014-09-20  0:30 ` Charles Berry
2014-09-20 11:52 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2014-09-23  4:02   ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-24 19:56     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-24 22:49       ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-26  9:03         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-28  5:55           ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-28 10:49             ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-28 22:09             ` Nicolas Goaziou

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87ha02a4qg.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr \
    --to=mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).