You can use cursor-sensor mode for this if you have emacs 26ish. The idea is you set cursor-sensor functions on a region that do something depending on whether you enter or leave the region. Below, I tie into the org font lock mechanisms to add these properties so that when you enter, typo mode gets turned off, and when you leave it gets turned back on. I use a similar approach to put src-block specific key maps on src blocks. There are two examples of functions that are "lightly tested". I can see why you would want this disabled in src blocks, it never puts the right quote in! 

(defvar scimax-src-block-cursor-sensor-functions '()
  "List of functions to run in cursor-sensor mode. .")


(defun scimax-add-cursor-sensor-functions-to-src-blocks (limit)
  "Function used in font-lock to add cursor-sensor functions."
  (let ((case-fold-search t))
    (while (re-search-forward org-babel-src-block-regexp limit t)
      (let* ((beg (match-beginning 0))
    (end (match-end 0))
    (cursor-functions (or
(get-text-property beg 'cursor-sensor-functions)
`())))
(cl-loop for func in scimax-src-block-cursor-sensor-functions do
(when (not (memq func cursor-functions))
  (pushnew func cursor-functions)))
(add-text-properties
beg end `(cursor-sensor-functions ,cursor-functions))))))


(define-minor-mode scimax-cursor-sensor-mode
  "Minor mode to turn on cursor-sensor-mode for org src-blocks."
  :init-value nil
  (if scimax-cursor-sensor-mode
      (progn
(add-hook 'org-font-lock-hook
 #'scimax-add-cursor-sensor-functions-to-src-blocks t)
(add-to-list 'font-lock-extra-managed-props 'cursor-sensor-functions)
(cursor-sensor-mode +1))
    (remove-hook 'org-font-lock-hook
#'scimax-add-cursor-sensor-functions-to-src-blocks)

    (cursor-sensor-mode -1))
  (font-lock-fontify-buffer))

(defun scimax-cs-message-1 (win prev-pos sym)
  (message "%s %s %s"
  win
  prev-pos
  sym))

(defun scimax-src-toggle-typo-mode (win prev-pos sym)
  (if (eq sym 'entered)
      (typo-mode -1)
    (typo-mode +1)))


(add-to-list 'scimax-src-block-cursor-sensor-functions
    'scimax-cs-message-1)

(add-to-list 'scimax-src-block-cursor-sensor-functions
    'scimax-src-toggle-typo-mode)




John

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Professor John Kitchin 
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 8:21 AM <garjola@garjola.net> wrote:
On Mon 02-Sep-2019 at 10:35:02 +02, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I think Eric is correct. There is also another reason. If you edit the
> source blocks with C-', then any escaping needed (such as putting a ','
> before '*') will also be automatically handled, plus of course you get
> all the programing mode goodness.
>
> Fraga, Eric <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Monday,  2 Sep 2019 at 09:01, garjola@garjola.net wrote:
>>> I am using typo-mode (https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/typoel) in my
>>> org buffers (actually with a hook for text-mode), but I would like to
>>> disable it in source code blocks.
>>>
>>> I have been unable to find a hook to do so (I understand that
>>> org-src-mode-hook is used when editing with ‘C-c '’ but not in the org
>>> buffer).
>>
>> I am not entirely sure what you want here.  If it is that you want to
>> turn off typo-mode when point moves into a src block but while still in
>> the whole org buffer, then you cannot do this AFAIK.  The best approach
>> is to always edit src blocks using C-c ' (org-edit-special) and then you
>> can use org-src-mode-hook to do what you want.

Thanks to both of you. I usually edit in the separate buffer, but I
don’t for one liners. It’s a pity that this is not possible, but I can
live with that!

Thanks again!
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