ahh i see what you mean. thats a cool tip yet i find i have to find/replace also for images, find/replace to change example blocks to R code blocks etc which is quite tedious since i have about 50 of these converted Rmd to org files :) ill keep investigating this and report back thx so much for the tips! :) Z On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Charles C. Berry wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Xebar Saram wrote: > > thx for the tips! >> >> when i try to run the source block : >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results silent >> (replace-regexp "^=[{]r \\([^}]*\\)[}]\\(.*\\)=$" >> "#+name: \\1 >> ,#+begin_src R >> \\2 >> ,#+end_src") >> >> #+END_SRC >> >> i just get a nil in the message area. what am i missing? >> >> > > Nothing! > > The `:results silent' should suppress any output. > > Anyway, what you should see is that the code chunks that pandoc placed > inside equal signs like > > : ={r my-name} code = > > are now in src blocks. > > I think you need to put the src block at the top or add a > > : (goto-char (point-min)) > > as its first line to be sure it converts all the code chunks. > > > Chuck >