Re: org-babel: interactive terminal support

From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Benjamin Andresen <benny@in-ulm.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-babel: interactive terminal support
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:02:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbuq631d.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdjabh2w.fsf@in-ulm.de> (Benjamin Andresen's message of "Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:11:35 +0200")

Benjamin Andresen <benny@in-ulm.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> after seeing org-babel I immediately thought of the eev project by
> Eduardo Ochs (http://angg.twu.net/)
>
> Basically I wanted to do what he does in this video:
> http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/anim/channels.anim.html
>
> So I wrote a small org-babel gnu screen interface.
> Eev does the same with "expect" but is very line-centric. And GNU Screen
> can slurp in whole files. (I guess one could support several backends if
> this proves useful)

Hi Benny,

This looks very interesting and I think it's extremely likely that we'll
want to include your code -- thanks very much. Having said that, I'm
being a bit dense: would you mind expanding a bit on what this currently
does, and what it has the potential to do?

Dan

>
> The translated org-babel syntax looks like this:
>
> * Listen on port 1234
>   #+begin_src screen :session receiver :results silent
>     netcat -l -p 1234
>   #+end_src
>
> * Send things to port 1234
>   #+begin_src screen :session sender :results silent
>     {   
>      echo hi
>      sleep 1
>      echo bye 
>      sleep 1
>     } | netcat -c localhost 1234
>   #+end_src
>
> I've put the code on github if anyone is interested in this:
> http://github.com/bandresen/org-babel-screen
>
> A few things are still hardcoded, like the use of /bin/zsh. If you guys
> think this is a worthwhile addition to org-babel, let me know what the
> right parameter would be.
>
> HTH,
> benny
>
>
>
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