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From: Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [ANN] ob-applescript
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:36:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0fup0i3ub.fsf@brautaset.org> (raw)


I've just made `ob-applescript', a backend to execute AppleScript from
Org Babel source code blocks available on Melpa. It's my first attempt
at making a babel backend, so any comments and criticism welcome. Here
are some things it does support though:

- No arguments, no code – just return a string.

    #+BEGIN_SRC applescript
      "Hello World"
    #+END_SRC
    
    #+RESULTS:
    : Hello World

- You can pass variable to a block:

    #+BEGIN_SRC applescript :var subject="World"
      "Hello " & subject
    #+END_SRC
    
    #+RESULTS:
    : Hello World

- You can use either apples or applescript as the language designation,
  to cater for two competing major modes. This example also shows you
  can do interactive stuff.
  
    #+BEGIN_SRC apples
    display alert "Danger! The WHAM is overheating!"
    #+END_SRC
    
    #+RESULTS:
    : button returned:OK
    
- If the result of the evaluation looks like a table, it’ll become a table:

    #+BEGIN_SRC apples
    "fi fo
    1 2
    3 4"
    #+END_SRC
    
    #+RESULTS:
    | fi | fo |
    |  1 |  2 |
    |  3 |  4 |

Hope this is useful to someone!

Stig

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-16  9:36 Stig Brautaset [this message]
2016-09-16 16:00 ` [ANN] ob-applescript Nick Dokos
2016-09-16 16:01 ` Nick Dokos

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