Hi

I actually find it annoying in ESS to keep pressing C-c ' each time i want
to eval a single line of code in a code block. if this could work for R
code this would be fantastic for me

thx

Z

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Carlos Henrique Machado S Esteves <
ch.machado.esteves@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Chuck,
>
> Thank you for the feedback.
>
> > You might want to check that point and mark are both inside the src
> block. Otherwise, the results are unpredictable.
> You are right, I've updated the patch.
>
> > ess-mode, python-mode, sh-mode and octave-mode already provide this
> capability (and a lot more) for R, python, shell scripts, octave/matlab and
> some other languages from the edit buffer.
> I understand that. My idea is to avoid the need to C-c ' back and forth.
> Actually that's a problem I have with org-babel; I usually find myself
> coding inside the src block and losing many of the major mode
> functionalities; switching to the edit buffer often seem too much of a
> hassle. Any tips about how to get more major-mode functionalities inside
> the src-block? Or should I develop the muscle memory to switch back and
> forth to the edit buffer all the time?
>
> > `org-babel-demarcate-block' gives the user the ability to break up src
> blocks into smaller pieces so they can be run independently.
> Thanks for pointing that; I didn't know about `org-babel-demarcate-block'.
>
> Best,
>
> Carlos
>
> 2015-11-02 13:19 GMT-05:00 Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu>:
>
>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Carlos Henrique Machado S Esteves wrote:
>>
>> Hello, I find it useful to be able to execute only a region of a source
>>> code block, so I've implemented a new function for that. I've tested it
>>> with MATLAB and Python, but it should work for any mode, since it calls
>>> org-babel-execute-src-block.
>>>
>>>
>> You might want to check that point and mark are both inside the src
>> block. Otherwise, the results are unpredictable.
>>
>> Also note that:
>>
>> ess-mode, python-mode, sh-mode and octave-mode already provide this
>> capability (and a lot more) for R, python, shell scripts, octave/matlab and
>> some other languages from the edit buffer.
>>
>> `org-babel-demarcate-block' gives the user the ability to break up src
>> blocks into smaller pieces so they can be run independently.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>