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From: Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does org export have something like Lisp quasiquote and unquote?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:45:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA01p3oGt36BVz2LbXkzbWhNreZd7nM_7K87wTq7bxm=NwVrGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh2zf1y0.fsf@gmail.com>

> The following will do what you want.
>
> set the value
> #+begin_src lisp :results silent
> (defvar foo '(defun square (x)  (* x x)))
> #+end_src
>
> #+begin_src lisp :results output pp code
> foo
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> #+BEGIN_SRC lisp
>
> (DEFUN SQUARE (X) (* X X))
> #+END_SRC
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
> PGP: 0x614CA05D

Thanks, Eric,

but this isn't what I had in mind.
I want the org-mode file to remain unchanged while behaving as if it
was changed,
something like C macros: C compiler is not aware of macros and I'm not aware
of the expanded code, but we get along nicely anyway.

First use-case is that I'm writing documentation for a library of
functions, so some of
them are mentioned a few times. I'd like to refer to them not by name, which
can be subjected to change but by a file local variable.
For instance, I've got a link in a table referring to a heading. They
both have the same
name and I'd like to keep them consistent, but I don't want to do it manually.

Second use-case is that I'm generating a HTML block with
`htmlize-buffer' that I want to
include in the document. I'd prefer not to have hundreds of lines of
HTML that correspond
to 3 lines of code that they're supposed to represent. I'd rather
generate this HTML
via this macro mechanism that I hope exists in some form, maybe in
conjunction with a
makefile-like mechanism.

Here's the org file that I'm working on:
https://raw.github.com/abo-abo/lispy/gh-pages/index.org.
As you see a lot of redundancy there and also several huge ugly HTML blocks.
Btw, is there a way to #include HTML blocks?
Here's the export result: http://abo-abo.github.io/lispy/.

regards,
Oleh

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-19 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-19 15:07 Does org export have something like Lisp quasiquote and unquote? Oleh
2014-02-19 17:27 ` Eric Schulte
2014-02-19 18:45   ` Oleh [this message]
2014-02-20 13:36     ` Eric Schulte
2014-02-20 16:56       ` Oleh
2014-02-20 18:13         ` Eric Schulte
2014-02-20 21:48           ` Alan Schmitt

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