ah! for some reason capitalizing BEGIN_SRC seems to have been causing
problems.

Thanks for your help!

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Paul <paulburk314@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I write do-files for Stata code in emacs using ESS, which marks up my
> > code and sends it to a comint-mode buffer for evaluation.  I'd like to
> > include some source code in an org file, as in the below examle:
> >
> > #+begin_src -n
> > foreach var of varlist _all{
> >      rename `var' new_`var'
> > }
> > #+end_src
> >
> > I have a couple of questions:
> > How can I use ess fontification in this snippet
>
> #+begin_src stata
>   foreach var of varlist _all{
>     rename `var' new_`var'
>   }
> #+end_src
>
> works for me.
>
> and in the file to
> > which I export?
>
> I think this depends on your export target. It should "just work" for
> html, but pdf will be more work.
>
>   The manual says I "need to specify the name of the
> > major mode," however including "#+begin_src ess -n" results in the
> > following error "org-edit-src-code: No such language mode: nil-mode."
> > I've tried using ess-mode, and anything else I can think of, to no
> > avail.  What should I include?
>
> I think "#+begin_src stata" is correct.
>
> >
> > Also, assuming I'm able to get the fontification to work, is there a
> > way to customize it for exporting?
> >
> > Finally, org-babel looks tremendously useful.  Is there a way to
> > harness it's capabilities for an unsupported language like Stata's?
>
> C-c ' will open a temporary buffer in ess mode so you can edit and run
> the code using ess, and tangling will work as expected. The only thing
> you need babel support for is actually running the code in org-mode
> and inserting the results block.
>
> I've made weak attempts to add stata support to babel, but my
> elisp-foo is not strong enough.
>
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who read this through, and in particular to anyone
> > who can help!
> > Paul
> >
>