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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] in Release 8.2 - editing code in indirect buffer
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:13:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob7huix8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2siwt8i66.fsf@krugs.de

>>> 
>>> While we are at editing code blocks inline (I also do this quite often).
>>> 
>>> This might have been asked before, but in code blocks we have
>>> 
>>> - syntax highlighting
>>> - indenting using the code block language settings
>>> 
>>> but would it be possible to have, when the cursor is in a code block,
>>> the menus and shortcuts for the language mode enabled, i.e. complete
>>> support for editing the code block language, as in the special buffer,
>>> but inline in org? Evaluationg single lines of code directly from the
>>> code block in org would be *brilliant*.
>>
>> This is very complicated, because such functionality needs
>> the entire environment of a mode.  I think there are some solutions
>> which allow multiple major modes - but I don't think we will go
>> there with Org.
>
> This is definitely not an easy task, but which I think would be an very
> useful feature, making the work-flow of using embedded code much faster.
>

I don't think this is an attainable goal.  Major modes assume that they
are the sole owners of the current buffer and of the related state.
Breaking this assumption would open a deep can of major-mode-specific
problems which would each require major-mode-specific solutions.

The only solution I see would be to somehow give each code block it's
own buffer, and then trick Emacs into treating multiple buffers as a
single buffer for purposes of display and cursor movement.  If someone
wanted to develop such functionality I think it would best be done
independent of Org-mode.

Best,

-- 
Eric Schulte
https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
PGP: 0x614CA05D

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-19 20:27 Release 8.2 Carsten Dominik
2013-09-20  4:32 ` Mehul Sanghvi
2013-09-20  5:07   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-20  9:40 ` Alexander Baier
2013-09-20 10:01   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-20 11:06 ` BUG?: BABEL - " Rainer M Krug
2013-09-20 11:06 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-21 13:54   ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-21 15:02     ` BUG?: Org-src " Eric Schulte
2013-09-21 15:25     ` BUG?: BABEL " Ista Zahn
2013-09-20 11:17 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-23  7:40 ` [BUG] in Release 8.2 - editing code in indirect buffer Rainer M Krug
2013-09-24 14:01   ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-24 16:02   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-24 16:17     ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-24 16:35       ` Carsten Dominik
     [not found]         ` <578DF849-8046-47A6-879C-FC5874BE591B-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-24 16:53           ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-25  6:53             ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25  7:09               ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25  7:38                 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25 13:13                   ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2013-09-25 14:00                     ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25 19:39                     ` Andreas Leha
2013-09-26  8:11                       ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25  6:48     ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-25  7:15       ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25  7:29         ` Rainer M Krug
2013-10-02 22:55 ` Release 8.2 Mike McLean

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