Hi Eric,

Thanks for the background.  It looks like ob-screen may be very limited in
that it doesn't

It seems to me that a decent method would behave similarly to the way to
"M-x compile" works--- another buffer opens in which the compilation
progresses.  Is there any reason why this might not be applicable to the
way babel works?

Erik

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
>
> Currently there is not (to my knowledge) any support for asynchronous
> code block evaluation.  The one possible exception could be ob-screen
> which I mention only because I don't really know anything about it.
>
> This would certainly be a worthwhile feature to add to Org-mode code
> blocks, however a good implementation (easy to use, robust and
> cross-language) will be non-trivial to implement.
>
> Best,
>
> Erik Garrison <erik.garrison@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm just starting to use org-mode and babel to structure exploratory data
> > analysis which I do for my work.
> >
> > One issue that I've run into is that many of the queries I have to issue
> > will take a very long time to complete.
> >
> > Is there any method I could use to execute them in a background process?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Erik
>
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